Im wondering what members who gave money to imminst think of imminst giving such a large percent of the budget to an individual cryonics fund.
I cannot imagine future potential contributors thinking about giving say, $25,000 to imminst. I cant imagine why they wouldnt decide against it because they are skeptical about whether or not the institute will give it out to things like private cryonics funds. I know this is considered a "one time thing", but how is that going to weigh in the talk and rumors about this on the minds of those future contributors? If youve given then please weigh in. The fairly small $500.00 that I gave for life time membership, I gave in confidence that it would be going towards the war efforts. I wouldnt have given if I had thought that we would be doing things like taking 1/5th of the fund and putting it towards one sick worker helping build the d day ships at the harbors.
If I wanted to give to that I would have given directly to it, as I have here in this fund. Please donate money to this cryonics fund so we can help this member with out having to put a dent in the war chest.
Somebody mentioned that imminsts budget is just sitting around. There are plenty of projects that need that money. It could go to mfuri, mf, imminst forum upgrades, advertising, could by a bunch of copies of ending aging, put out another book, another documentary, a potential agi uri, or any of the dozens of projects that have been collected from members around imminst and compiled here:
http://docs.google.c...evision=_latest We arent going to just rush projects half thought out into development, especially with limited help, they are coming, soon, me and the handful of life extensionists that are working on it are getting it going.
That fund is going to be gone in no time and we are going to need more to get more science going and to get more exposure out. That $8,000 can help save the world. If I would have known that 99% of members dont want to spend even 20 minutes a week responding to action topics, as evidenced by the lack of them in the active topics section, and that even less would want to put in one hour per week to help with simple projects, then I would have taken the $500.00 I gave and, put it towards my cyonics fund, and got on with my life, went to school to play football and studied philosophy.
But I didnt, I invested it all in exposure for this cause and I got a job that would give me the most time to work on it. Now I find as it stands if even just 1,000 out of the 8,000 members worked 60 hours a week with 2 hours of free time per day and 8 hours of sleep per night that we would have 58,000 hours available for help working with imminst. We dont even need that many, if we could get just 1% of that we would have 580 hours put in per week for the cause and be well off and well on our way to helping gain the exposure this cause needs. But, we cant even get that, and members are voting away the war chest of funds that they desperately need for exposure projects and science.
Dont get me wrong, a lot of people do stuff around here and you know who you are, but for the rest of you, we, need, you, and we need this money. Im almost at a loss as to how we all can help fully right this boat, but I think we can. We can start by voting no on using $8,000 of imminst war chest funds, and by contributing instead to this Imminst members cryonics fund raiser that we established in face book and linked here. We can also help right that boat by getting in on the action flying all around the forums that goes largely unsupported.