X-Message-Number: 31535
From: "Kennita (Go Cryo!)" <>
Subject: Re: the immortalist Bible and cryonics
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:02:31 -0700
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I think it's a bad idea to put cryonics in
the same bin with resurrection and immortality.
It seems disingenuous, because cryonicists
don't see themselves as dead in the same sense,
resurrection as the blissful reward in the same
sense, or immortality as necessarily eternal in
the same sense, that Christians generally mean.
To claim we do can label us as liars and
charlatans, or as dupes and victims, depending
on how charitable the particular Christian is
feeling.

Best to play it straight, presenting cryonics
as a speculative medical procedure whose desired
(*not* guaranteed!) end is to be resuscitated,
cured of whatever disease or trauma incapacitated
them, and rejuvenated, hopefully into a world
where rejuvenation and freedom from diseases,
including the disease(s) of aging, is commonplace.
That may be too complicated, or too uncertain, for
many people to deal with.  But in trying to appeal
to everyone, we may both appeal to fewer of those
inclined to listen and spread ourselves too thin
to be effective.

Live long and prosper,
Kennita

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