If there was no Immortality Institute, someone else would create some group with Immortality in the name. We would end up with some boring vanilla name that sounds like hundreds of other life extension, lifespan, health, or anti-aging organizations or websites.
Some people created The Fuck Death Foundation:
http://www.fuckdeath.org/ ... very similar to imminst. Good for a gang of online teenage bikers, not to convey the cause in large
Do a search for Immortality on the web and what do you find - Imminst
Do a search for words in political discussions and what don't you find - Immortality. Immortality is good for a gang of online teenage bikers, not to convey the cause in large. Take any mainstream name, you'll find it on the web very soon and it'll appear more greatly in the media
There is no such thing as immortality just as there is no such thing as infinity. (...) It defines a boundary or limit. It is useful.
It defines utopia and indicates lack of realism: it is counterproductive to convey the cause to serious decisions
The fact is, you are here because of the name.
Wrong! Not me, and not other people with whom I have discussed about it. I am here because I am interested in life extension, because I think it is realistic to think that we can influence how long we and our children will live. Such a name is clearly incoherent with this point of view and a barrier to convey the message in large.
I am here because that's currently probably the best place online to discuss about life extension. The internet grows as an attachment process: high traffic forums tend to become even bigger and to 'eat' small forums. Because of this, but also due to the absolutely great activity of people here, this forum has grown.
Everyone that participates here has some affection for the name
mixed with a high repulsion due to the barrier it is to convey the cause in large
Imminst has been around 8 years and is now growing faster than ever before
because internet is an attachment process, and because the community here is greatly active
Not sure why we would want to turn around now.
we don't want to turn around, we want to go further. To convey imminst's mission in large. To indicate that it's not only a gang of online teenage bikers
What makes an organization, any organization, work is the zeal and effectiveness of its members, not the name.
Quite true. And a name change won't kill the organization. The two domain names can be maintained, the new name should allow to spread the world more in large.
Edited by AgeVivo, 25 March 2010 - 09:13 PM.