X-Message-Number: 18315 From: Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:52:52 EST Subject: Southeast Cryofeast Announcement! Etc. --part1_c3.1bf1e740.296baaf4_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello to all, dear Cryoneters! This is Rudi Hoffman writing from Daytona. I have enjoyed Cryonet especially well recently. The quality of verbiage and prose by Platt and Badger and Harris and others is a testament to the quality of the "beautiful minds" who are attracted to cryonics. I like to think I write and think pretty well, but you guys are truly great. And I appreciate each poster, as we know how difficult it can be to be precise, accurate and meaningful. Much less the step up the ladder to something close to profundity about the human condition, which I see in the Harris post and others. So how come you boys ain't signing more folks up? I surely can't wait to do the life insurance funding to show'em how affordable and easy this thing can be. I intend to write one hundred cryonics policies in 2002. I currently have about 120 cryonics policies on the books over the last several years, so this is would be a substantial (read HUGE) increase in monthly volume. Every policy is different, each case a joyous challenge. I humbly ask for help in this, if you know of someone who is thinking of cryonics, I will be happy to call them or email them with some great quotes. This volume will also enable me to make further donations to ALCOR and CI marketing/research efforts. This is my public commitment of personal, real world, nitty gritty, roll up the sleeves, get on the phone, spend lots of overnight costs, email till my eyes burn, "balls to the wall" cryonics marketing. Now, to get to the advertised ANNOUNCEMENT! Dr. Jerry Lemler, the President and CEO of ALCOR, will be joining us at the SOUTHEAST CRYOFEAST PARTY in Orlando, FL on February 10, 2002! We currently have about 8 outstanding people committed to coming, and would love to have more. Here is my suggestion. Why don't you consider the possibility of growing a wild hair up your collective butts and find a way to come to Orlando so you can make this really cool event? If it helps you to make your decision, you can stay at my house or in my RV. I live about 45 minutes from Home, where we will be meeting at Dr. Shimon Horowitz's home. I will feed you sandwiches. I have juice and soda and wine and beer by the case waiting for you. I will cart you around and pick you up from the airport if you fly into Daytona. There is a ZERO cost for the gathering. This is a cheap and great way to meet your fellow travelers into the future. I have attended all four ALCOR conferences (and the last EXTRO conference in San Jose). Every one cost me quite a bit of money and time, and for every conference I had to fight with my wife and "cost justify" the expense and time involved. All you smart folks think the Universe doesn't care? Wrong! It actively and perversely arranges stuff you want and need to do at the EXACT SAME TIME as other stuff you desperately want and need to do! Guess what? This February 10 will probably be no different. There are a million reasons you can come up with about why you can't make the riffle on February 10. If you are looking for reasons you can't do this, you can come up with a lot more than you need. But I can honestly tell you that meeting my fellow cryonicists in person was MORE than worthwhile. It is so CONFIRMING and EXCITING to meet the rational, scientific, creative, reasonable, fun loving, iconoclasts that choose cryonics! If you are really lucky, we might even have a few wonderful, wacky, maladjusted weirdoes. You are gonna love all these folks. They have read Drexler and Kurzweil and Sagan, and the other books that have changed your life and thinking as well as theirs. These folks UNDERSTAND. But, if you look for ways to make it happen, you will find these reasons as well. You have been wanting a short vacation in glorious Orlando, FL for a long time. Well, haven't you? Mickey Mouse is calling you, the theme park capital of the Universe, America's playground, beckons. Airline tickets have been slashed and reduced in price, and gas is cheaper than it has been in a long while. My wife and I have annual passes to the Disney parks, and we love 'em. I suspect you techno-optimists will as well. In short, I am making an appeal for you, dear reader, to take action NOW, and email me and tell me you are making the Southeast Cryofeast Party on February 10. Get on the net and check out ticket prices. Call your buddies about a car pool. Stick out your thumb, or charter a jet. Be BIGGER than the issues that say you can't go. Handle it. I am getting on the phone to call up some of you and see if you can make it. Please let me know, even if you are still unsure. You can email me at or call at 800-749-3773. If I sound like I am trying to have you make a decision, it is because I am. It is because I am closing you on the value and quality of your life. What is more valuable than friends who may be involved with saving your life? Friends whom you may have for centuries. Friends who genuinely love you and bring out the very best within you. Hope to hear from you. Warmly and Professionally Yours, Rudi Hoffman Rudi Hoffman Member Financial Planner's Association, Certified Planner Member ALCOR Life Extension Foundation Member Libertarian Party Member National Rifle Association Member Extropy Foundation Board Member Port Orange Chamber of Commerce Board Member Daytona Salvation Army --part1_c3.1bf1e740.296baaf4_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18315