On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 3:06 PM, OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson <svj.orionwo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Incidentally, I noticed that when Carl Sagan became acutely aware of > his own approaching mortality, it seemed to me that his willingness to > speculate on topics previously considered taboo became much more > relaxed. When one is no longer concerned about appeasing the > establishment, or securing grant money and what-not...what can they do > to me... kill me? Yeah. You know what they say, "There are no atheists in the foxhole." Sagan fought myelodysplasia for years finally succumbing to pneumonia. I watched his wasting and his change in attitude. Like Mulder's poster said, "I want to believe."
