X-Message-Number: 28264 From: Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:06:27 EDT Subject: Alcor Conference going to be a winner! (Rant on why you should be there!) In a message dated 7/27/2006 5:00:40 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, writes: Message #28263 From: "Jennifer Chapman" <> Subject: Alcor Conference Rates Increase August 1st Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 17:20:06 -0700 Alcor Conference Rates Increase August 1st The 6th Alcor Conference: An Inside Look at the Science and Medicine of Tomorrow REGISTER NOW: http://www.alcor.org/conferences/2006/index.html Held at the Scottsdale Marriott in Scottsdale, Arizona, the Alcor Life Extension Foundation's 6th Conference from October 6-8, 2006, will explore anti-aging research, life extension, nanomedicine and nanotechnology, whole body cryopreservation, cryonic revival and more. Don't miss this opportunity to hear the most up-to-date information about the cryonics experiment being conducted at the Alcor Foundation, as well as possibilities of other life-extending sciences. It also offers a rare opportunity to meet many members and supporters of Alcor and visit the Alcor Foundation. Early rate of $295 available until Tuesday, August 1st! Fill out your registration form now: http://www.alcor.org/conferences/2006/Alcor2006ConferenceBrochure.pdf Jennifer Chapman Marketing Director ALCOR FOUNDATION 877-462-5267 x 113 or 480-905-1906 Subscribe to our free electronic newsletter today: www.alcornews.org (end copying of Jennifer post) This is Rudi... I sent my registration in yesterday for this conference. It has been my privilege to attend the previous five Alcor conferences, and each one has been tremendous. I also spoke at several, and may be on panel at this one...but I will be there. The purpose of this email is to encourage you to get to this conference if you possibly can. Yes, I am actually asking you, the conscienceness behind the entity magically reading these lines on a monitor. You, the person who thinks, "I can't do it because... (my wife wouldn't understand, my anniversary is that weekend, I can't afford it, I don't like conferences, I don't like people, I am signed with CI not ALCOR, I am not signed up yet, I have been signed up for cryonics for thirty years and I know everything there is to know, cryonics is only for "Transhumanists nutjobs", place your excuse here.) As I look back on my relationship with cryonics, extropianism, nanotech, transhumanism, philosophy, politics, and general "way of being." there is a pattern which emerges. While books, tapes, downloads to MP3 players can be powerful self-development tools, there is something about FACE TO FACE meetings in old fashioned "meatspace" that remains irreplaceable. Having a beer with some of the most original thinkers on the planet, some of the people at the forefront of some of the most revolutionary ideas of our time, is just a magical and uplifting experience. Some of the relationships and friendships I have developed at conferences have lasted decades. The expansion of my thinking that some presenters have enabled has dramatically improved my life and business. More importantly to you, it will improve yours. In short, there is a psychological, emotional, social bonding that occurs at "events" that all of us as human beings need. (OK...so there may be some EXTREME libertarian types who claim they don't need this...but my guess is they don't have much influence with many people.) That's why business leaders, political leaders, religious leaders, cult leaders, military leaders, science leaders...leaders of all stripes build the powerful structures they do, building from "EVENT to EVENT." Some of you long term readers of cryonet may recall how I "overpromoted" the Immortality Institute Conference in Atlanta. I told you it was going to be "better than sex!" "Better than recreational drugs!" and maybe even "Better than sex while ON recreational drugs!" The point being that conference WAS fantastic. I did not steer you wrong. The relationships and progress toward Artificial General Intelligence, Reversible Biostasis, and Healthspan Extension...Human/cyborg interface, robotics...nutritional science...ideas that MATTER to the world and to you individually... are still reverberating in the "memosphere." (Boy, my spell check choked on that last paragraph!) Anyway, I believe the next ALCOR conference will be an enabler for the next generation of these ideas. And the next generation of leaders for these ideas. Your mind will be stretched, your ability to talk to people intelligently on ideas that may save your life and theirs will be dramatically enhanced. Some of us...er...you hard core libertarian types may even learn to stop being such extremist buttholes and learn to get along with real humans. You will learn and grow and eat great food and stay up too late partying with the amazingly fun community of cryonicists. You will develop relationships that can last a lifetime. And perhaps even develop relationships and learn things that will save YOUR life. Having just returned from a tremendous training class put on by the Alcor Readiness Team, I can tell you honestly, "These people do things right!" (More on the training later, my man Flav will call me on it if I don't do a better report.) Given the attendence fee, airline tickets, hotel room costs, being away from your business, etc., no one is saying the costs or inconvenience of coming to the Phoenix ALCOR conference is non-trivial. I am just putting my credibility on the line to tell you that it WILL be well worth it. So, pony up those magic plastic cards, get on the ALCOR website, and let's make this the BEST conference in the remarkable history of this exciting and life saving science! I look forward to seeing many of you there. Respectfully Submitted, Rudi Rudi Richard Hoffman CFP CLU ChFC Board Member Financial Planning Association fpafla.org Board Member Salvation Army salvationarmy.org Member Alcor Life Extension Foundation alcor.org Certified Financial Planner(TM) CFP Board of Standards Member Libertarian Party libertarianparty.org Member National Rifle Association nra.org Member World Transhumanist Association http://transhumanism.org/ World's Leading Cryonics Insurance Provider rudihoffman.com Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=28264