X-Message-Number: 25148 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 07:39:16 -0500 From: "Jonathan Hinek" <> Subject: Re: Mormons are not a sect, and we could use a Henry Eyring References: <> Dan Hitt wrote on 11/23/2004, 11:48 AM: > Hi Jonathan, > > Thanks for posting message 25131, about the inadvisability of > cryonicists being labelled as a sect: > > > I beg of you: please don't. The last thing I want is cryonicists to > > be lumped in with Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. If you go that > > route, you might as well start handing out Kool-aid, Nikes, and > > black shrouds. > > While i agree that it may not be desirable to be in a sect, we could > do a lot worse than the industrious Mormons, who are an immense plus > to any area they are in (even if i think they may be on the wrong side > of the culture wars sometimes). Point taken. What I meant was that I don't like the idea of us being seen as proselytizers or door-to-door salesmen for JEE-sus, or any other dogmatic figure or cause. The Mormons were an unfortunate choice of exemplar on my part. -- Jonathan Hinek Eschaton Outlook http://tinyurl.com/6gmq2 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25148