ate of mind are a guide to whether I'm rational or not. And he imagines tha t he's some kind of judge about of might be rational.
It's exactly what you are doing here.
It's not running down all that fast. On a statistical basis as a regular Au stralian amle I could expect to live for another ten years and four months. This doesn't include the advantage I've got in having completed a Ph.D. wh ich seems to add another five years.
Cursitor Doom telling anybody else to think about something is a trifle a c omical. It's not as if Cursitor Doom appears to think about any of the subj ects he pontificates about.