From: the animated silicon love doll (cheshire@velvet.net)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 02:40:36 MDT
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Wednesday, July 10, 2002, 9:48:52 PM, you wrote:
> If we lived in a society (and most human societies seem to have been like
> this) where you took it for granted that sickness was due to sorcery--to
> deliberate malignant intentions directed at you by your enemies--then
> taking antibiotics and washing your hands carefully would seem ridiculous,
> beside the point, and perhaps impious.
Unless you told them that these antibiotics and other drugs (wouldn't
work so well for washing hands) were talismans created by good
sorcerors?
> The LifeLong program. Cryonics would not be `freezing the dead' but
> `LifeLong care'. Maybe.
I like it!
cheshire morgan. "Beer wants to be free."
-Bruce Sterling
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