X-Message-Number: 15363
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 07:01:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Driven FromThePack <>
Subject: Gene cries "Troll!"

> 
> Message #15354
> Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:22:13 +0100
> From: 
> Subject: Re: CryoNet #15342 - #15353
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> 
> Congratulations, and hope you all have fun wading in
> the vitriol.
> 
> Robert Ettinger, you might have been a founding
> father, but it's
> time for a little fratricide. You've long ago
> mutated into a
> vicious warty troll, but are obviously too far gone
> into senility 
> too realize what has happened. If it was less
> pathetic, it would 
> be actually funny. Sadly, it is not.
> 

Really, Eugene! 

I am not a big fan of CI and Ettinger, and although I
would only join CI if I had to, it is better than
nothing, certainly. I hope it's there for me if I ever
need it.

Furthermore, I didn't think much of Ettinger's
comments at the very beginning of this thread. I
thought he was at once trying to associate CI with
vitrification (rather farfetched, as far as I can
tell), and at the same time deprecating Alcor (which I
suppose is a reasonable thing to do, if they deserve
it).

And I truly appreciate your work for 21CM.

But Mr Ettinger is not a troll.
A troll comes onto a list and makes comments like
this:

"Cryonicists suck! You're all gonna die! You are just
afraid of death."

Please don't "cry troll". No one will believe you when
there really is one.

Nor is he as far as I can tell, senile. He writes far
too well--and even elegantly--to be that. And he is a
clever debater. In fact, I think he has in some
respects gotten the better of Platt and Wakfer,
despite the fact that I think the basis of CI's
philosophy and operation is fundamentally flawed
compared to CryoCare & Alcor.
 

Regardless,  real research is the only way to go, and
CI is just not there in any respect, other than in a
lip-service fashion, as far as I can tell.

You have been reading too much Slashdot, I think. That
overblown, bombastic, attacking style is wearing off
on you. Mellow out.



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