X-Message-Number: 23341 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:08:43 -0500 From: "Jonathan Hinek" <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #23312 - #23321 References: <> James Swayze <> wrote on 1/26/2004, 5:00 AM: > >From: =?big5?q?kurt2100kimo?= <> > >I think the problem with people like Leon Kass is that > >they never lived the free and open life that came into > >vogue starting the early 70's. They never lived in a > >hippy commune in India or the surfer culture of SoCal. > >They never did a software start-up in Silicon Valley > >or hiked in Nepal. Leon kass and Co. are fuddy-duddies > >who live the traditional 50's life; where you get > >married, buy the house, have the 2.1 kids, grow old > >and die. They lack the imagination to understand the > >open, bohemian life that we expect to live in the > >future. No wonder they think that an indefinitely-open > >life would be "without purpose". Kurt, Do you think the view you expressed is representative of how the majority of cryonicists feel? I tend to agree with Paul Wakfer, and others, who said that it's a mistake to assume that cryonicists have anything in common other than their desire for survival. I, for one, see nothing wrong with being married, having children, or partaking in a relatively conservative lifestyle. I just have a problem with death and dying. I'd like to spend eternity (or as much time as I possibly can) with my loved-ones, and that's about as radical as I get. > This is the lifestyle I look forward to in part a t least for a while, > probably not forever surely, at some point I hope to begin great > adventures but will likely act quite freely throughout them. If Kass and > Co. don't like it they can die and not do it but they should shut up > about whether I/we can or should. Kass is neither my brother nor my > keeper. > > James Yes, I certainly agree with that sentiment, Kass should butt out. -- Jonathan -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SpiritualAgnostics/ -- "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." --Dr. M.L. King, Jr. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=23341