I don't suppose this relates much to anything we have been talking
about and it is unlikely that any of you care, but there is some turmoil
going on here. My next door neighbor has been suffering from dementia
and lack of mobility for some time now and he seems to have just taken a
turn for the worse, a severe turn for the worse. Hospice was contacted
about him just a couple of days ago and they did send someone out with a
morphine shot today. But just now his wife called his nurse and the
nurse is on the way out here, but she said over the phone that this is
probably the end.
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Isaac Asimov
“Don't you believe in flying saucers, they ask me? Don't you believe in
telepathy? — in ancient astronauts? — in the Bermuda triangle? — in life after
death?
No, I reply. No, no, no, no, and again no.
One person recently, goaded into desperation by the litany of unrelieved negation, burst
out "Don't you believe in anything?"
Yes", I said. "I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement,
and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how
wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous
something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.”
― Isaac Asimov
