(November 17, 2013 at 4:10 am)Ryantology Wrote: What is medicine but our attempt to put off death as long as possible?
I get your point but mostly it's an attempt to recapture positive health more than stave off death. If you have some kind of infection, the risk of dying is generally vanishingly low but the medication helps your own immune system do what it would do anyway and make you feel better. Similarly with my depression/anxiety meds. I'm not going to die as a direct consequence of not taking them, necessarily.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
