X-Message-Number: 17322 From: "Reason" <> Subject: [Longevity Meme] life extension community building and activism; volunteers sought Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 13:45:08 -0700 [Although strictly a life extension topic, this should be of interest to cryonet posters]. The Longevity Meme website has reached a point at which I can officially launch the first Project and solicit comments, help and participation from those who are interested. (Which from my point of view should be all of you, but I'm admittedly biased on this issue :) --------------------------------------- http://www.longevitymeme.org "The Longevity Meme is a California-based non-profit organisation, founded in mid-2001. Our goal is to encourage achievable technologies, lifestyles and other means that will help people live comfortably, healthily and capably for as long as they desire, well beyond the current limits of mortality. We aim to ensure that the means and potentials of life extension become commonly accepted throughout the world. Aging is an enemy to all of us, but a lack of information, advocacy and awareness of life extension is worse yet. Much of the general public thinks of aging as inevitable and natural. Until life extension movements become more mainstream, progress in defeating aging will continue to be frustratingly slow. The Longevity Meme is also an idea; a way in which we can all help ourselves and others to live healthily and live longer. How much longer? It is up to all of us, as individuals and as a society, to see what can be achieved when we all work together." http://www.longevitymeme.org/project-1-site.cfm "Longevity Meme Projects are comprised of activities and group efforts intended to promote awareness and serious discussion of life extension in the mainstream media and society at large. We believe that fostering a greater consideration of life extension and its potentials is a vital part of the fight against aging. Our first Longevity Meme Project is a little less directly focused on awareness than future Projects will be. Before we can act as a community resource and center for coordination, we must build the core components of this website, write the initial content and form the seed community. This Project is underway: join in!" --------------------------------------- The current modest aim is to make the life extension community aware of the existence of the Longevity Meme and thereby gather a core or seed community of interested helpers to move our first project to completion. At the same time, we can discuss and then begin the task of evangelizing the Longevity Meme and life extension in general to the general public through future projects and activism. Please visit the Longevity Meme site and our first project pages, where you will find a list of suggestions on how any one of you could help the Longevity Meme in ways both large and small. It can be as simple as linking to us, telling a friend, or offering us suggestions -- and by helping us now, you help yourself in the long term. I would appreciate any constructive commentary on this post or any aspects of the Longevity Meme being posted to the Longevity Meme Forum: http://www.longevitymeme.org/forum/. The simple act of joining the forum and posting an opinion helps the Longevity Meme immensely in this early stage of building a community. I hope to see some of you over there. Reason President, Longevity Meme Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17322