(September 24, 2013 at 1:05 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: He must have missed mine as well (and I'm almost certain we had a conversation about it not long ago). Twice I have been close to death - bilateral pulmonary embolism in October 2011, and bacterial pneumonia as a complication of influenza in January 2013, both documented in threads here that I wrote from my hospital bed (although there was little said about the most recent, I was too damn sick).
Number of times I prayed: zero.
He'll never admit it, but he is nonetheless quite mistaken.
Queue Drich explaining that I wasn't dying enough in 1..... 2..... 3......
He missed mine, too, but what more can we expect from someone that interprets the facts to fit his beliefs?
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
