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[thefirstimmortal]

But don't let indecision paralyze you. It is sometimes more important to be
decisive than to be "right." After all, if you join one organization and
later decide you made a mistake, it's probably not a big deal. You don't tie
up a lot of money by joining. Delay can cost you everything--and has done so
in the past for many people.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society

[thefirstimmortal]

**** What is the point of life if it ends in death? ****

[thefirstimmortal]

Our life extension depends upon that we respect universal unalienable
rights like the right to individual autonomy, the right to entrepreneurial
liberty and the right to full control of such property as one has aquired by
rights respecting means.
Trygve Bauge


A government that does not respect the
rights of the living is not likely to protect the dead either.
Trygve Bauge


Rights are universal and unalienable and not just privileges granted to citizens at the whim of their government.
Trygve Bauge

[thefirstimmortal]

Investigate to your heart's content, but at some point this side of eternity
make a decision.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute

[thefirstimmortal]

"the majority is always wrong" and "that
person is most often right, who stands the most alone".
Ibsen:

[thefirstimmortal]

I might be out of sync with the majority, but I am not out of sync
with reality.

Trygve Bauge

[thefirstimmortal]

X-Message-Number: 4131
From: Ettinger@aol.com
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 13:18:34 -0400
Subject: SCI. CRYONICS Liar

Peter Merel (#4119) implies that my (and Aristotle's) debunking of the Liar
"paradox" must be wrong because Bertrand Russell was smarter than I am, and
he took it seriously. Certainly Russell was smarter than I am; I'm not sure
if he was smarter than Aristotle. But smart is one thing; right is another.

[thefirstimmortal]

I don't give a hoot about "respectability", except to the extent that I believe it will help me to survive. I don't know anyone in cryonics who is more interested in respectability than survival. Does anyone?

Saul Kent

[thefirstimmortal]

It's true that my genes think the only thing I'm good for is to
help them reproduce and that is why they produced me, but now
that I'm here I'm under no obligation to agree with them, and in
fact, I don't. I have my own opinion about what is important and
what is meaningful and what is fun, if my genes don't agree me
that's just too bad for them.

[thefirstimmortal]

Imagine for a movement that religious people are correct and a
Christian God does exist. Here we have an all powerful demon
addicted to flattery who can read your every thought and will
torture you, not for a billion years, but for ETERNITY if you
take one step out of line or break one of his many rules, and
that includes thought crimes. To make maters worse you are not
even sure exactly what all his rules are so you never know if you
are going to be tortured. Now that is depressing! I'll take an
indifferent universe over a sadistic one any day.

[thefirstimmortal]

Human stupidity is formidable but not invincible.
Robert Ettinger

[thefirstimmortal]

I am not a short term optimist, as I have often repeated. I remember all too
well the failed predictions of the past--including suspended animation being
"just around the corner" every ten years or so. Keep your guard up, circle
the wagons, save your money, support your organization and its research--do
as much as you can to shift the odds in our favor, until you reach the point
where you think you are sacrificing too much for an uncertain future at the
expense of life in the present. But if you have to choose between the
cyclical view of history and the millennial, the former choice is both wrong
and counterproductive.

Robert Ettinger
Cryonics Institute
Immortalist Society

[thefirstimmortal]

I'm much more interested in what's being *done* than
what's being *said*, unless you're talking about what you've done!

---Saul Kent

[thefirstimmortal]

"Cheat Death Now, Ask Me How"

[thefirstimmortal]

NINE REASONS WHY GOD NEVER RECEIVED TENURE AT A UNIVERSITY

1) He had only one major publication.

2) And it had no references.

3) And it was not published in a refereed journal.

4) He created the world, but what has He done since then?

5) The scientific community has not been able to replicate his results.

6) He never applied to an Ethics Board for permission to use human subjects.

7) When subjects did not behave as predicted, he punished them
or deleted them from his sample.

8) He rarely came to class: He just told students to read the Book.

9) He expelled his first two students for learning too much.