Comments on: Thus Spake Curtis Henderson, Part 1 http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/02/07/thus-spake-curtis-henderson/ A revolution in time. Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: admin http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/02/07/thus-spake-curtis-henderson/#comment-6 admin Tue, 08 Feb 2011 03:31:06 +0000 http://chronopause.com/?p=57#comment-6 To the best of my knowledge, Charles Platt is not a cryonicist. Charles authored the introduction and, since he was generous enough to provide me with the typescript & intro, I did not feel I could (or should) change it. I should also point out that Charles wrote this in 1992, for a popular book on cryonics to be published from the perspective of a reporter, as I note in my introduction.

Beyond these observations, I agree with you, and I agree with what I presume is your underlying point; namely that words matter – a lot. To get a feel for how deeply (and counter productively) we have been programmed by this diseased culture, it is only necessary to try to start using the correct words and phrases in daily life. That’s surprisingly hard to do – and I’ve been trying for onto 40 years now!

]]> By: Mark Plus http://chronopause.com/index.php/2011/02/07/thus-spake-curtis-henderson/#comment-5 Mark Plus Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:24:48 +0000 http://chronopause.com/?p=57#comment-5 “For almost thirty years now, Curtis Henderson has been trying to cheat death.”

I wish cryonicists would stop using the phrase “cheating death.” One, it projects the theory of mind to where it doesn’t belong. (Just replace “death” with “god,” for example.) And two, it frames cryonics as an inherently immoral activity. No such anthropomorphism called “death” exists out there for us to “cheat.”

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