I shall start keeping a record of all the amazing one-liners that come to me always after the conversation is over:
SK: I took time off to spend with my mum, because she is getting old, and I want to travel with her.
Me: Oh is she well?
SK: Yes but she has this genetic disease where she is slowly going blind.
Me: Oh that's great that you are taking time off to spend with her. It's good.
What I should have said: Oh, you are a very filial son. I can see that. It's great that you are taking time off to spend with her while she is still alive. But what is even more important, is, where she is going after she dies. Do you know much about Christianity?
At SCIC dialogue, talking to a sweet old man who is a researcher in a Centre of Excellence. We were both big fans of nature, biomimicry, and raving about the immune system and his research thesis was on enzymes vs catalysts. I wanted to tell him, it's so marvellous, isn't it evidence of a Creator? How can any of this come from chance? But before I could do that, he said "But nature had millions of years! And we humans have only had a few thousands of years." I was tongue-tied and realised he was an evolutionist. What I should have said was, "Ah, but do you know the 2nd law of thermodynamics? How can this be true, that random motion produces greater and greater order - it would violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics!" I should also point him towards pregnancy, and delivery and even abortion.
