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Subject: Re: Re:Meta discussion of  Frozen dead guy days and email to
From: "Fred C. Moulton" <>
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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:43:37 -0500

From: Kennita Watson <>

> The trick is not to set the context -- nobody is interested
> in our context -- but to find the best presentation of our
> product for the context we find ourselves in.

Kennita

I have known you for many years and I think you a fine and wonderful
person and I consider you a good friend but I most strongly disagree
with you.  I think the above quote encapsulates the area of our
disagreement.  The are several contexts involved here (for simplicity
sake):
1. Everything related to cryonics that anyone can think of
2. Things related to Alcor
3. Things related to Frozen Dead Guy Days

It can be argued that 2 and 3 might be subsets of 1 but that is not the
point.  The point is that we must not mix 2 and 3 together.  The minute
that Alcor shows up at Frozen Dead Guy Days you have mixed the context
and Alcor will even further lose control of its PR image.  The more that
Alcor is associated with goofy things like Frozen Dead Guy Days the
harder it will be for Alcor to be accepted by the scientific and medical
communities.  Message control and message presentation are critical.

Fred

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