X-Message-Number: 29145 From: Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:44:13 EST Subject: Re: Unperson's religious approach to cryonics But WE try at least to be both honest and rational and not make promises we cannot back up. We point out that cryonics is a rational idea which seems possible but which may not work, at least may not work in the way we are currently doing it. We could guarantee that cryonics would work; but few of us would want to be members of an organization that did so. LOTS of shady people outside of religion make millions for making promises they have no intention of delivering on. Many people make lots of money by believing in their own promises but never being required to deliver on them (like religion). Yes, we could act like a religion and pull in the bucks; but my friends in cryonics and I would vomit and leave. Besides, the Christians *have* their person they say was revived from a death-like state. They got a lot of mileage out of that one. We don't even have ONE. It's pretty weak marketing material. Steve Bridge Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=29145