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From: Kennita Watson <>
Subject: Re: Alien Nation
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:27:39 -0800

un person wrote:

> The joke is on Caplan. People who sign up cryonics, at least so  
> far, are already fairly alienated from this society. This is  
> probably the biggest reason why they sign up. So, I doubt it will  
> be that big a step for us to go into a future as almost an alien  
> being. Many of us cryonicists are, in some respects, already aliens  
> in our own time and place today.
>
> Most of us already long for some other place. We lack sufficient  
> connections to this society to keep us here. And some of us feel  
> cheated by our inability to fit in, to adapt to this current  
> society. I guess a lot of us want another chance.
>
> Most people cannot bear to leave this present for an unknown  
> because they have so tightly integrated this present into their own  
> being that they cannot conceive of giving it up.
>
> But we cryonicists, in large part, I suspect, would welcome leaving  
> this society. The bonds are already so weak that most of us will  
> never miss them, or at least that is the way we feel now.

What "we", Kimosabe?  Speak for yourself!
I, for one, love it here, and I don't relish
the thought of being suspended and missing a
lot; it's just better than dying and missing
it all.

I don't fit in with a lot of people, but I
just don't hang out with those people.  At
least for the people in what I consider "my"
segment of society, I hope I'd be considered
someone to come back to, not just someone to
leave.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

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