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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:26:00 -0500
Subject: "Vicious" Attacks on Alcor??

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While I lack the time or interest to read every post on the Cold Filter
(http://www.network54.com/Forum/291677/) I must say that I've not run
across any that could be described as "vicious" against Alcor, or SA, or
their procedures or their standby services.

There are a handful of threads that include some recent namecalling and
such between a former SA employee and an SA apologist, plus about two
other people who seem to side with the former employee.  These have to do
with personnel issues and disagreements about SA perfusion procedures. 
They have nothing even remotely to do with Alcor.  And they are not the
typical thing I've usually seen on Cold Filter -- they will pass as other
such discussions have done.

On the other hand, there have always been questions raised there about
what is going on inside all the cryonics organizations.  Most of the ones
I've seen have been fair questions -- such as with Alcor:  What is their
current standby readiness capability?  Why is their executive board
self-elected and thereby self-perpetuating?  I suppose it could be
stretched to consider such questions "attacks" on Alcor's status quo, but
I would think that anyone who does that suffers from a religiously
analogous problem of a different sort from that which Un Person mentions
-- namely, that of being "the true believer".  Read the book, Un:

http://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Movements-Perennial/dp/0060505915/

Alcor is not that which if you blindly defend, it will answer all your
questions and problems.  It is just a cryonics organization that will
perfuse and freeze you and your hope.  Get real and deal with the lack of
answers for things that have none, lest you fall deeper into the trap
like "Phil" and his devotion to "Classical Future Humanism".

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