X-Message-Number: 33465 From: Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 20:07:46 -0500 (EST) Subject: Terasem Martine Rothblatt was kind enough to reply to my questions about Terasem, but the reply was not very responsive or enlightening. I would still like to know how many people are members or actively involved, and what has been the growth rate. I still find it troubling that they repeat the mistakes I made with Man into Superman in 1972. The main lesson is that, by and large, people do not want radical change, especially in themselves. They find a future of radical change to be a threat, not a promise. Martine herself and Terasem promote cryonics, and I believe she has donated generously to Alcor. That's fine, but how much is wasted effort or counterproductive? How much more could be done with a realistic stance? Robert Ettinger Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=33465