Mind you, I wasn’t possessed, as far as I knew.

There was a new shop near where I was living at the time: magazines, records, T-shirts, various other kni.cknacks. I stopped in. There were three young men there, who evidently worked there, and we got to chatting. In the course of which, I bought a copy of Rolling Stone. I was a bit of a metalhead, since there wasn’t much else out there that looked interesting (late 80’s, early 90’s). I was a great deal more into the Illuminati/Discordia/Thelemic vibe than I am now, and they took this to be their cue to start evangelizing. Big mistake.

They had their Youth Group Witnessing kit. I had at least fifteen years on them, and arguments from some of the best skeptics of the past 150 years, including one superstar of philosophy and logic, two of the wittiest men since Voltaire, Voltaire himself, and some modest religious experience myself. Also, I tend not to take fools gladly.

Ten minutes of theological debate ensued. I owned

An aspect of one's blood serum.

The non-protein nitrogenous constituents consist of the following: ammonia as carbonate or carbamate (0.2 to 0.6%), urea (0.02 to 0.05%), creatine, creatinine, uric acid, xanthine, hypoxanthine and occasionally hippuric acid. Three ferments are also described as being present: (1) a glycolytic ferment exerting an action upon dextrose; (2) a lipase or fat-splitting ferment; and (3) a diastase

Responses to some FAQs i've been asked…

"…I want you out of bed and walking, walking, walking immediately after surgery. Your sternal wires really should make that incision stable, and if they’re not, the patient needs to say something and the physicians need to do something." ¹
—Dr. Steve Bolling (Heart Surgeon)

Whilt the quoation above is not from one of my doctors, it is certainly true that the