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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi Kevin,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Other” means anything that is not accepted as the norm for a group. For example, for most Westerners, “other” is the cyborg, homosexual, feminist, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For me, it means that I am outside the realms of any political hegemony and my personal ideology is to support person’s rights, choice and freedom as it relates to a transhumanist scope that is about the future, life extension, empathy, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Natasha<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Natasha Vita-More</span></a>, PhD<br><br></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=52 height=21 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CD7476.0DA17360" alt="Description: esDESiGN__1"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Chairman, <a href="http://www.humanityplus.org/"><span style='color:windowtext'>Humanity+</span></a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Editor, <i>The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and ContemporaryEssays on the Science, <br>Technology and Philosophy of the Human Future<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>"The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. Oscar Wilde<br><i> (But is this true then?)<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kevin G Haskell<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, August 07, 2012 4:03 AM<br><b>To:</b> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Re Atten: For any extropy libertarians<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 8/1/12, Natasha Vita-More wrote:<br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222;background:white'>>>Interestingly enough I was asked to be involved with a political group out</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#222222'><br><span style='background:white'>of Russia and Israel. I'm considering it. It is nonpartisan and on the</span><br><span style='background:white'>platform of radical life extension. There is another competing group and it</span><br><span style='background:white'>will be very interesting to see how this all plays out.</span><br><br><br><br><span style='background:white'>Nevertheless, I respect what Kevin is doing and I am confident I will be</span><br><span style='background:white'>>>involved as an "other".</span></span> <br><br>I meant to thank your for your kind support, Natasha. <br><br>Also, I was just was wondering what you meant by "other"?<br><br>Thanks, again.. <br><br>Best,<br>Kevin<br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>-- <br> <i> Tweet me on Twitter! - @</i>KevinGHaskell<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>