X-Message-Number: 20339 Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 09:00:25 -0500 From: "Kansas City Homes - " <> Subject: A Creekside Preserve/Ventureville - cooping of cryonicisists References: <> I was wondering if you have used the combine talents and resources available from cryonicists to save money? E.g. I am sure there are cryonicists who are computer/networking people who can do the wiring, computer set up, etc. for your Preserve for free in labor or provide "computer guts" at cost, perhaps, builders/developers, truck drivers, retiring nurse/doctor to be on call on site, a nursery owner who can give you those trees at cost, a grocery store owner who can get you jump started with excellent pricing on food, a local office supply store owner/manager, etc. This happens a lot at churches when the parishioners participate - from what I see this works not too bad for them. They are also tax exempt :o) What is Creekside Preserve tax status? Is there a way to know of what cryonicists actually do for living and what kind of assistance they can provide? Cryonics being so private, I am not sure if there is too much information available. I guess what I am driving at - "a penny saved is a penny earned?" and everyone needs a "penny" :o) Sincerely, IGGY Dybal Your Real Estate Consultant - Kansas City - RE/MAX Best E-mail: mailto: Web site: http://www.iggy.net Office: 913-894-4024 Toll-free: 877-550-IGGY/4449 " and "soul" and "supreme being" and all :o) This is highly debatable and is a totally different topic all by itself. We all operate under assumption it will work based on the scientific facts available and our interpretation of them, however, how about "Plan BE" - what if it doesn't work? What if, let's just think of it, what if, it's impossible to revive you after death? Ever??? :o( I strongly hope we all will see each other in about 5,000 years, but have you considered the possibility of "Plan B"? :o) What if it's impossible to revive you in the current state of cryonics, and you are just a "frozen meat" :o) but future generations will find another way of preserving you as an individual - e.g. memory upload which will totally negate cryonics. The same thing - your mind is safe, no chill though :o) Would this mean that "cryonics" as we know it has not contributed to that? Sometimes, ideas are totally abandoned and things are happening the way we never thought of before. I hope you'll agree with me on that. I agree with your eagerness to see the progress, but as I read your statement, the same you are saying can be applied to the *past*achievements that were at one point "enslavement" of nature - plague, small pox, tuberculoses, no running water, etc. Everything we have now *is* a product and extension of what we have had before - letters in your mailbox/e-mail - extension of cave paintings, the latest HIV drugs - herbal remedies that first people were using, car/airplane/shuttle/time machine - are followers of just walking, running, riding a horse, cryonics - mummification/religion combined with the awesome power of science. You get the idea. We expand on the past, you appreciate it, you learn from it in the present and transpond into the future. In my opinion, it's the only way to treat life. Hope I am making sense? The most interesting thing is that no matter what you and I think about it, neither you or I will *personally* be able to change the course of events or history. It's the market and a *collective* actions of people (read masses, consumers) that will drive it and unless the market is "shown the money" :o) cryonics will remain in the same state it's now - oddity, calculated facts and possibilities of an elite few thousands of percentage of population. It may reach the status of mummification in Ancient Egypt or I can even see it reaching the status and level of religion. But then we will all go back in circles - an idea that has not been proven although accepted by a majority of the humanity. What gives then? I am sure than when "cryonics thinkers " like Robert Ettinger or Jerry B. Lemler and many others die, what do you think will be the last thing they'll think of? Family, close ones, "how great it was to try?" or "man, there is no end to the nature's enslavement?" :o) I think that this is all we can ask of ourselves - "to try." Nothing more, nothing less :o) Life is fun! You never know what will happen and this is the fun part! Keep thinking and challenging each other - not "enslaving" yourself in one or two ideas :o) Sincerely, IGGY Dybal Your Real Estate Consultant - Kansas City - RE/MAX Best E-mail: mailto: Web site: http://www.iggy.net Office: 913-894-4024 Toll-free: 877-550-IGGY/4449 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20339