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The Diagnosis

continuation of Placebos and Nocebos

N. E. Fradkin

Friend: Howdy, Neighbor. How are you?
Neighbor: I'm not feeling well today, my friend.
Friend: How is that?
Neighbor: I came down with a diagnosis.
Friend: What is your diagnosis?
Neighbor: I was told something, but I don't really know what it means and I don't think the doctor does
either. I guess that's why they call it a di-agnosis; di means two and agnosis means we don't
Friend: know. If we knew, it would probably be called a di-gnosis; gnosis means we know.
Neighbor:
Friend: The cause of any condition is usually just a matter of opinion, so who really knows?
Neighbor: That's beginning to make sense.
Friend: Who did you catch the diagnosis from anyway?
Neighbor: It was given to me by the specialist my doctor referred me to.
Friend: Maybe he's wrong and you should get a second opinion.
Neighbor: I didn't think I needed it because I believed him; he's a well known authority.
Friend: How can you believe in something you don't know?
Neighbor: I may have been gullible to do so.
Friend: So don't be.
I got it. I feel better already. Thank you, Friend.
What are friends for?

TWO WORLDS - PART I

guy came along and looked over on him and said, well, that guy looks like he’s not feeling too good. So he went
over and did a little work on him, he had some wine with him, he had some olive oil, so he had nothing else, he
used that for medication, poured it in the guy’s wounds and he got him up and got him into town and put him in a
hotel and paid the bill for a few days. And so that man was called a neighbor, to the man who was in the ditch.
Because he did something about it. He didn’t come to see if he was bad or ugly or abnormal or out, he just saw
the old boy was hurt a little bit. And somebody said that that was his neighbor. Now that’s the only neighbor he
had, was the guy that got him up and got him into town. Nobody else was his neighbor, especially all those guys
that left him there, and certainly not the guys that put him there. You could hardly call them neighbors, you know.

continued at http://sanityisland.com/2worldsB.htm

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The nebula called the ``Red Rectangle,'' one of the most unusual
celestial bodies in the galaxy, is shown in this image created from
observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope taken on
March 17-18,1999, and released Tuesday, May 11, 2004. The
detail from the Hubble image shows the twin stars at the nebula's
core ejecting cone-like streams of gas and dust outward in
opposing directions, producing a distinctive rung-like pattern.
Astronomers know of no other nebula like it in the universe.

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