X-Message-Number: 31441
From: 
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:42:00 EST
Subject: re: religion

In a message dated 3/5/09 2:00:38 AM,  writes:

dss says:
> 
> From the marketing or organizational standpoint, this doesn't seem to 
> have had much effect.
> 
I will make this brief as I've posted it before.    But... almost everyone on 
this group seems to be accepting without examination the basic assumption 
that everyone wants to live forever.   A reasonable assumption to make about a 
cryonocist- but not necessarily for the entire human race.   If you check your 
assumptions for facts you will realize that many in fact most people do not 

want to live forever.    The majority aren't smart enough, interested enough in

life, joyful enough, or free enough from dogma or mental illness to embrace the
possibility of open ended life spans.   

Observing people's behavior will inform you that most are incapable of or 

unwilling to pay the emotional price or to do the work to improve themselves and
deal with their deficits in hopes of a better tomorrow.

So if you want to find people to sign up for cryonics, find people who are 

immortalists at heart.   These people seem to be born with that mindset.   This
mindset doesn't seem to be heavily influenced by environmental factors, except 
possibly negatively by an entrenched, death-expectancy based civilization. 

Religion in its myriad forms is irrelevant in the face of the overwhelming 
fact that most people are not immortalists.

Mike D Los Angeles 





**************
Worried about job security? Check out the 5 safest jobs in a 
recession. 
(http://jobs.aol.com/gallery/growing-job-industries?ncid=emlcntuscare00000002)


 Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1"

[ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] 

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=31441