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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 22:32:24 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: without really trying

Want to live forever without really trying?
 
Some religions teach/preach that everyone will live forever, although some  
may not like their destination, even though it's a dry heat. A pretty good 
deal  for some, in some ways--immortality regardless of what you do or don't 
do. And  Blaise Pascal said faith is a shrewd bet.
 
Then there are the omega pointers who believe more or less the same thing,  
but without the hot place. Everybody goes to Heaven, regardless, by 

ultimate  uploading near the end of time. (Giving them their due, some of the 
omega 
 pointers recommend cryonics for life insurance, just in case.) 
 
On the other hand, Robert Heinlein said TANSTAAFL--there aint no such thing 
 as a free lunch. On the third hand, Heinlein believed in reincarnation, 
which is  surely in the running for one of the dumbest ideas of all time.
 
And Phineas Taylor Barnum said there's a sucker  born every  minute.
 
On the fourth hand, experience teaches us, or tries to teach us, that few  
exceptional rewards are received by those who don't work for them. Too many  
cryonicists see themselves just as customers rather than partners or  
family. It's a rare individual who is actually doing all he can and should  do.
 
Robert Ettinger 

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