X-Message-Number: 19375 Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 01:38:00 -0500 Subject: Re: Pledge of Allegiance Controversy From: Brian A Stewart <> >Similarly, arguments about the correct interpretation of religious >documents are resistant to resolution. Unless one side can say, "Their >worldview is really just a subset of ours," which is an incorporation >strategy for resolving cultural conflict (or use one of the other >mechanisms of this type, such as denigration), then the argument is >endless. Hey, hold up a moment! Could it be shown that religion could be viewed as a subset of cyonics, or cyronics a subset of religion? Rather than trying to convince people to change their worldview, show them that cyronics already fits in somehow? This strikes me as a much easier, possibly more workable approach. The trick would be overcoming the initial revulsion (like I got recently from my supposedly open minded dad when he realized I was serious about cryonics-- he called it a "scam" and used a comparison to the lottery for the odds. [I could go on for quite a while about my relationship with my dad {and did before I snipped it}, but I think I will save it for my psychiatrist.] Brian Brian A. Stewart-- Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19375