(...) cryonics [the currently irreversible cryogenic preservation of a living being] can only be legally performed on humans after they have been pronounced legally dead as otherwise it would count as murder or assisted suicide.
It's odd that Christians tell their children that Santa is watching them and will reward them if they are good and punish them if they are bad, only to have the child inevitably find out that Santa...
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"It doesn't matter what you believe in, as long as you believe in something" is one of the most terrifically asinine series of words to ever be strung together.
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The traditional understanding of Galileo's hardship is that the Christians killed him dead for doing science. This is pretty far removed from actual events.
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