X-Message-Number: 31530
From: David Stodolsky <>
Subject: Re: the immortalist Bible and cryonics
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:25:35 +0100
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On 21 Mar 2009, at 10:00 AM, CryoNet wrote:
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>    #31525: re: the immortalist Bible and cryonics [John de Rivaz]

Anyone wasting their time trying to figure out how to interest  
religious organizations in cryonics should read:

Norenzayan, A. et al. (2009). Mortality salience and religion.... Eur.  
J. of Soc. Psychol. 39, 101-113.

The last line of the abstract:
"These results suggest that a religious stance among believers plays a  
defensive role against the awareness of death."

In other words, there will be a Personal Emotional Reaction (Kogan et  
al., 2007). That is, thoughts of death will be suppressed from  
awareness. This is a way of not dealing with the issue at all. This  
Personal Emotional Reaction will stop all, except atheists/agnostics,  
from making any kind of rational decision. See Message #30495


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David Stodolsky
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