DOCTORS Doctors are the new high priests and medicine is the new religion they represent. But have you ever thought about the possible evil that doctors do? I can't help but wonder if doctors are interfering with the natural course of evolution by helping people reproduce who in more natural circumstances would not be able to do so. I thought evolution was all about the survival of the fittest. If doctors save someone who is not naturally fit to survive, that person may live to reproduce and thus pass on their "weakness" to future generations. I am a prime example. When I was four years old my appendix burst and I was taken to the hospital for the necessary surgery. I survived to reproduce. Is this a good thing? I don't know. It feels good to me, but that is of course a purely subjective feeling. I also don't like this business of doctors keeping people alive when it is clearly time for them to die. I have also had a personal experience with this. My stepfather lived for perhaps two years longer than he would have if not for the meddling of doctors. It would be one thing if those two years had been filled with life-enhancing activity, but they weren't. They were two years that literally dragged on and on, putting my mother and siblings (who still lived near him) through a virtual nightmare. He was bedridden the whole time, unable to walk and so on. It was actually evil. Personally, I think that doctors should be used for crisis only. If it ain't broke don't fix it. If you break a bone, go to a doctor. If your appendix burst, go to the emergency room. If you're walking down the street and someone drives by and shoots you, get to a doctor asap. Doctors are like car mechanics (excuse me, technicians). But to go to the doctor with chest pains, or a pimple on your butt? I don't know about that. I think I'm going with the Bible on that one:
It is he that hath made us and not we ourselves. (Psalms 100:3)
If God made us to last 70 years, so be it. If he made us to last 50 years, so be it. He's the Maker, not us. It's His call. As long as we're not doing something stupid, like smoking two packs of cigarettes a day or chugging pint after pint of beer while watching ten hours of television seven days a week, I figure it's part of His management plan if we leave early. Maybe He's going to relieve us of the grief of having to live in a world where a moron like George W. Bush can get elected to the highest office in the world. What the hell do I know? Most likely, nothing. But I strongly suspect something. When doctors are not involved in the praiseworthy activity of being body technicians, they are busy serving the real drug lords, the business types who run the pharmaceutical industry and pay for all the research to create new drugs to poison us with, all the while claiming that they're really trying to help us. Having said all that, let me share my universal prescription with you. Next time you're sick try this: Go home, drink a ton of water, shit like a king, take two aspirin and call me in the morning.
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