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Naturally, religion and art are inextricably intertwined,
I think you could argue this is not the case
breakthrough challenge to the idea that only biological organisms could evolve.
That's not a new idea
Runian’s face looked like a piece of tinfoil under a shadowless lamp.
WTF does this mean?
What would it feel like for there to be nothing left?”
It wouldn't feel like anything. That's what nothing means
Could it really be that the pain experienced in hell is nothing compared to the pain of the human world?
Maybe the human world is hell
“I never imagined there would be a birdcage here! It is almost like a stand-in for a star. In some ways it is like the source of all illnesses. Now that we have discovered it, we can finally rest easy.”
WTF?
American James Dewey Watson and the Brit Francis Harry Compton Crick; in 1953 Watson and Crick had first proposed the double helix model of DNA,
Nased on Franklin's work
All men are equal in the eyes of disease.
two out of every five babies were lost to
It was clearly as real as Medusa’s hair.
So it's not real at all
Who could have imagined that his maxim would one day come true?
I imagine Nietzsche did
And yet at the age of forty-five, unable to withstand long periods of loneliness and being misunderstood, he had embraced an abused horse on the streets of Turin and died of madness.
Ummm... The end stage syphilis probably had something to do with it too
hereditary genes
Redundant
side effects of the gene therapy, also reported in Medical News, was that because one’s genes were no longer the same,
No shit. That's the fucking point.
injecting foreign normal genes into my defective genes.
Terrible and inaccurate phrasing
by transferring normal genes into germ cells—both sperm cells and egg cells are suitable—
Terrible and inaccurate phrasing
Homosexual tendencies would also be controlled, since in the Age of Medicine, homosexuality is also a major source of malignant diseases. Gene therapy could also be employed to cure addictions to alcohol and drugs.
Wow
genes of famine, fear, and anger,
Not how genes work in the slightest
Its vaccine played a vital role in helping North Vietnam defeat the South and resulted in the complete withdrawal of American troops from the country, changing the course of history.
Except the US withdrew and then the South fell
other patented and confidential materials that they could bring back to their motherland.
Hey. An admission China has been ripping off the West.
They spent all day in this germ-infested environment, constantly in close contact with patients, and yet they never got sick? How was that possible?
Because they take sick leave.
In my pain, I could not help but yearn for death. When would I finally be able to experience it firsthand?
So kill yourself and end this book now.
The world exists only in the eyes of the living.
Sounds like solipsism
Perhaps the research will prove how foolish humankind really
You don't need research to know this.
Whatever the case, once we find ourselves going down a dead-end alley, the status quo always doubles down.
Even though money, like life, is a commodity that will soon be rendered obsolete,
Money is a means of exchange not a commodity
that patients hear all the time,”
Aren't the patients being pessimistic and the hospital is telling them to have faith?
Like a married couple, a doctor and a patient appear harmonious, but underneath that facade lies deep discord.
That's a fucked up view of marriage.
Colleagues would never rape each other. That happens only between doctors and patients.
WTF?
How did primitive people living thousands of years ago survive?
They didn't. Everyone dies eventually.
