Body-worlds

FEJ · 01-16-2005, 11:20 AM

I understand what your saying iSm, and I do like the term S.A.M.P., but I disagree. (And I am not trying to invalidate your thoughts or feelings, just show mine also)
I thought it was amazing that they could show all of those things. I thought it was facinating to see what a hemmorage looked like in cross section or an actual anurysm. Also the whole exhibit on the embryo to child, especially the mother was really informative. things that pictures and video do not do justice.

For me, The body is just the vessel in this part of the journey......

or not.

Either way , I am amazed at the wonders of the human body. If I sit and worry about what can co wrong, and nothing does, thats not really living, is it.

I remember an old addage, eat healty, exercise, die anyway...
Might as well enjoy what I can, do what I can, and not worry about whats out of my control.

I get more scared of the "self" part in the S.A.M.P., that is, worry more about others harming me than my own body failing.

I think the body is a wonderful mechanism, inside and out.

innerSpaceman · 01-16-2005, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by ubergeek42

Either way , I am amazed at the wonders of the human body. If I sit and worry about what can co wrong, and nothing does, thats not really living, is it.

Oh, hehe, don't get me wrong. The exhibit was fascinating above all else, and I certainly don't (and don't intend to) go around worrying about potential illness or fatality.

I was just posting my rather visceral reactions to the knowledge which I already had being exhibited so strikingly. I've studied anatomy and biology quite extensively, but I've never seen dissected human cadavers before. I am certainly left with a palpable sense of my mechanics and inner biosphere, which may last a week or a day or the rest of my life for all I know. But I am now uber-conscious of the "me" housed inside this shell of amazing functionality. A functionality that is somehow even more mysterious to me having seen it laid out so tangibly last night.

I am having renewed ponderings on whether my fervent belief that we are beings of energy inhabiting a body is really the certainty I feel it to be ... or whether we are, in fact, all inside here - - a consciousness produced by this baseball sized brain.

In other words: Which kind of S.A.M.P. are we? The self-animated meat puppet, or the soul-animated meat puppet? It's going to be the stuff of my ruminations for a little while.

FEJ · 01-16-2005, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

....or the soul-animated meat puppet? It's going to be the stuff of my ruminations for a little while.

it is my daily rumination, kind of keeps me in check..

01-16-2005, 11:20 AM	#1
FEJ Living Now Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 563	I understand what your saying iSm, and I do like the term S.A.M.P., but I disagree. (And I am not trying to invalidate your thoughts or feelings, just show mine also) I thought it was amazing that they could show all of those things. I thought it was facinating to see what a hemmorage looked like in cross section or an actual anurysm. Also the whole exhibit on the embryo to child, especially the mother was really informative. things that pictures and video do not do justice. For me, The body is just the vessel in this part of the journey...... or not. Either way , I am amazed at the wonders of the human body. If I sit and worry about what can co wrong, and nothing does, thats not really living, is it. I remember an old addage, eat healty, exercise, die anyway... Might as well enjoy what I can, do what I can, and not worry about whats out of my control. I get more scared of the "self" part in the S.A.M.P., that is, worry more about others harming me than my own body failing. I think the body is a wonderful mechanism, inside and out.
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