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Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 20:52:52 EST
Subject: Southeast Cryofeast Announcement! Etc.

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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

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