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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2514133, member: 19463"]Dictionaries will tell you that a disease is an abnormal condition that affects the normal function of all or part of an organism. Substitute 'coin' for 'organism'. In truth disease is not abnormal but part of the very normal process of brogression between birth and death or mining and return to a pile of powder. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. It is rather like the word 'weed' which is best defined as a plant growing somewhere you don't want it to grow. Soybeans are weeds in corn fields and visa-versa. Chemists who deny BD its status are making up their own definition. Mine is 'something that makes you sick'. BD makes me sick just thinking about it, ergo...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2514133, member: 19463"]Dictionaries will tell you that a disease is an abnormal condition that affects the normal function of all or part of an organism. Substitute 'coin' for 'organism'. In truth disease is not abnormal but part of the very normal process of brogression between birth and death or mining and return to a pile of powder. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. It is rather like the word 'weed' which is best defined as a plant growing somewhere you don't want it to grow. Soybeans are weeds in corn fields and visa-versa. Chemists who deny BD its status are making up their own definition. Mine is 'something that makes you sick'. BD makes me sick just thinking about it, ergo...[/QUOTE]
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