Natural selection..

Had a lengthy chat with S this morning. Conversations with him make me feel as if I have walked into a labriynth. He psyches me out with his strange and eerie ideas which am afraid will cling on to me and become mine!! To say the least, he is goddamn convincing though.

Today it started with some allergy he had. I started saying 'oooo so sad' 'why don't u try Homeo,blah blah' in my usual 'I care for you' tone. :). Out suddenly comes an answer 'By natural selection,my grandfather should not have survived'!! How the hell should this make sense ? am standing there feeling like a fool...

Then he explains,how the recessive gene of allergies was now passed on to him from his ancestors. Fair enough! But suddenly he springs and says 'Medical science is responsible for this', and am standing there clueless 'how on earth can medical science' cause his allergies ? If anyone could cure it for him, it would be the doctor...he psyches me out really!!

Coming to how medical science can do otherwise,this is what the-great-guy asks me: 'Take a hypothetical case, you have developed cancer in your eye and the doctor has told you that if you don't remove the tissue,it will spread all over your body,what will you do ?'

Me: 'Of course,get it removed'

S: 'See you are viewing the body as an entity and hence to preserve the entity,you are ok to eliminate a part of it. I'm viewing the entire world as an entity and for this world to have healthier genes in the coming generation,it must be exterminated of the bad genes. Now,people with healthier genes are mating with the non-healthy ones and this has reduced the overall-gene-health of our population, and medical science is keeping people alive when they should have left this world long ago..'
By this time,I had dropped dead.. this man is known for his bizarre thinking I knew but, this was heights!!! Personally, he is humanitarian in nature,but his ideas are ruthlessly barbaric :) I was gladly praying that he did not turn up in some higher office of power...

This kind of conversation sparked a dormant interest in me,of the pure sciences. I was always a big fan of pure science and research in topics like genetics,astrophysics,microbiology and history and I must thank this sweet guy for renewing this interest in me. He is widely read though,this man, no wonder he has some ideas.I came back with a small piece of paper bearing the names of two excellent books on the matter.. More about those after I read them...

S - you rock dude!!!