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Finally... => General Discussion => Topic started by: Scoops Novel on December 12, 2021, 10:31:09 pm
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The ambulatory throne of hypnotoad, presumably.
... mobile colony of symbiotic reproductive collusion, more accurately.
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A cesspit.
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A flesh mech suit for our brain
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Water, mostly.
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It is not a temple, but it contains a figurative temple...
A body is a machine composed of mutually enslaved cellular organisms dominated by multiple brain systems. The temple is in the gonads (testes or ovaries) and while the embryo is still in development, the primordial germ cells move from the embryo's allantois to the embryo's gonads (the temple) and do their thing, listen to this Radio Lab episode (https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/theprimordialjourney), where the germ cell's journey to the temple is described).
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A tank or other vehicle for our brain.
A flesh mech suit for our brain
While this is accurate, since Mech Suits are not commonly used by most people, it is not a relatable analogy.
A Car is easier to imagine.
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A thing what contains a skeleton?
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Delicious with red wine
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My body is not a temple, but the sum of my body is my soul.
A tank or other vehicle for our brain.
A flesh mech suit for our brain
While this is accurate, since Mech Suits are not commonly used by most people, it is not a relatable analogy.
A Car is easier to imagine.
Research is showing that a surprisingly large amount of our consciousness lies in our stomachs, we simply need the brain to interpret it. Therefore we are more like flesh mech suits for our guts than our brains. Yes, we are all Krang.
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Lotta particles.
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I thought the temples were on the sides of your head.
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What is a body but a miserable pile of secrets? Hmmmm
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A thing in motion or at rest until an outside force acts upon it.
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I'm struggling with the unfounded certainty of the original question. Why do you say the body isn't a temple?
I'd say the human body does seem to fit a substantial part of the "book definition" of temple, assuming you are liberal with "building" and assume that whatever makes a human human is "an object of religious reverence" because the body is generally considered a structure devoted to worship and housing of a human.
a building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence
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Not enough worshipers inside? Makes it closer to a shrine.
It's actually a factory, though, for making shit.
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Water, mostly.
Not necessarily, depending on age and obesity, the percentage can be below 50%: https://www.discovery.com/science/How-Much-of-Your-Body-Is-Water
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A library. Shhhh!
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A library. Shhhh!
Pssh. I'm more cultured than a library. Y'know, because I'm culturing millions of bacteria all over the place.
I'm a right ecology sailing off into the Fell and Terrible Radiation Zone outside my door to drink water that other cultures were farting in.
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Like all matter, it's mostly empty space.
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Not enough worshipers inside? Makes it closer to a shrine.
There's like 30-40 trillion microbiome critters inside any particular human, you could probably default assume them as worshippers... religions definitely don't mind lumping in regionally adjacent nonbelievers if they attend church.
I think the real reason it's not a temple is the other temples would start getting real jealous of our attendance numbers. 24/7 devotion by a population roughly 19-20 thousand times the number of folks that only intermittently or not at all attend the largest religon's services? It's an overwhelming difference!
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I think the real reason it's not a temple is the other temples would start getting real jealous of our attendance numbers. 24/7 devotion by a population roughly 19-20 thousand times the number of folks that only intermittently or not at all attend the largest religon's services? It's an overwhelming difference!
have you seen the 'god' they worship?
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Water, mostly.
Not necessarily, depending on age and obesity, the percentage can be below 50%: https://www.discovery.com/science/How-Much-of-Your-Body-Is-Water
Correction (in the spirit of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy):
Mostly mostly water.
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What if we find a body and open it up to find out what's actually inside?
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The last time someone did that to me, I lost my appendix.
Which is maybe why I now have to rely on footnotes[1]. Although I do at least still have my index fingers[2].
[1] e.g. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toe_tag)
[2] If you don't mind me making these couple of points.