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Your pal, Jess
Ladies- I'm a single, straight, virgo/boar INTJ (age 51) who enjoys books, getting out into nature, music, and daily exercise.

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Here's a quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky to start things off right: Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

Saturday, May 22, 2010

God's Two Favorite Christian Bible Quotes

John 3:16 and Philippians 4:6-7

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16

Do not worry about anything, But pray and ask God for everything you need, always giving thanks, and God's peace, which is so great we cannot understand it, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
-Philippians 4:6-7

commentary
re: John, somewhere else it says to believe in his name, as if it were a mystical word, and you didn't have to believe in anything else, like his preachings (although Jesus does mean 'God saves'). It's still not clear what "believe in him" means. In? And also, I thought the 'everlasting life' might have been a trick statement, as if HELL could sneak in there, under the radar. But in light of Philippians, i guess that's nothing to worry about. Personally, I believe everyone has everlasting life, regardless of whether they believe in Jesus, because everything is equally alive (or dead, if you want to look at it that way; we're all just things).

re:Philippians, I suspect that 'God's peace' is the oblivion of death. Death and Jesus are both 2, in english, according to that wacky numerology I find myself doing. We cannot understand death because we are all alive. But maybe by clearing our heads of all the subconscious noise and external distractions, we approach the calmness of death, which should be how meet our deaths; i.e. calmly.

Life After Death

Decomposition

Autolysis is when the body's cells consume themselves, through the action of the digestive enzymes released by the lysosomes into the cell's cytoplasm. Enzymes, however, are not alive. Autolysis is aseptic (free of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites- which ARE alive).

oops. later date insertion here: "Is a virus a living thing?
Not really. A living thing has seven features of life. These are feeding, respiring, excreting, growing, moving, breeding and responding to changes in the surroundings. When a virus is outside the body it does none of these things. In fact viruses can be stored in jars just like crystals of salt or sugar. When the virus is in the body it only breeds and this is just a process in which the DNA is copied. It does not even grow its case. The cell makes that for it. "

The party starts -your "life after death"- when, after autolysis creates an anaerobic (oxygen-free) environment, your body's normal bacteria consume the body's carbs, proteins, and lipids. Bacteria are life-forms. (Btw, A "synthetic" bacterial life-form, whose parents were a "computer", was just created by Craig Venter (in wikinews).) It is estimated that there are 500-1000 species of microbiota in the human gut, and the same on the skin. Bacterial consumption of a corpse is called putrefaction.

If the body is outside,
Flys, especially blowflies, lay their eggs on the body so the young can consume the rotting flesh, to get a proper start on life.

Scavengers: Coyotes, dogs, wolves, foxes, crows, rats, and vultures all eat carrion.

And if the body is on the ground or in the soil, there is considerable activity by:
arthropods ("joint-legged" with exoskelotons, such as insects, spiders, etc. -over 1,170,000 described species; a study says there may be up to 5-10 million extant species) join in.

-Sarcophagidae ("flesh-flies") lay eggs, larvae, which are maggots that live 5-10 days.
-Formicidae (ants),
-Muscidae (house-flies),
-Sphaeroceridae (dung-flies/lesser corpse flies) of which there are over 1,3oo species, all in the section schizophora.
-Silphidae (known commonly as carrion or burying beetles)
-Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies; more than 180,000 species)
-Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants, sawflies)
-Histeridae (clown-beetles; 3900 species)
-Staphylinidae (rove beetles; 46,000)
-Piophilidae (cheese flies; they do not take residence in a human corpse until 3-6 months after death)
-Araneae (spiders; 40k species)
-Sepsidae (black scavenger flies/ensign flies; 250 species)

and after bloating comes the 'black stage' of putrefaction, which has:
-Gamasid mites (most mites are microscopic; 48,200 species are described (an estimated 5% of the total)
-Ptomaphila
-Trichopterygidae (aka ptiliidae; 630+ species, found in rotting organic material)
-Dermestes (feed on dry dead animals and vegetable material)
-Tyroglyphid mites (mold mites)
-Tineid larvae (clothes moths)
-and Diptera larvae "in almost all cases" ("True" flies, with only 1 pair of wings; a large order, containing 240,000 species of flies, mosquitoes, midges, and gnats)

Wikipedia's article on decomposition also details all the types of life that can be found around or near a corpse on the ground, as well.

Fungi, too, get some action.

That's a whole lotta Life After Death! A regular city, I should say.
which sheds new light on the expression "are survived by," lol.

Monday, May 17, 2010

The Chemistry and Physics of God

Oxytocin and the Higgs Boson

Now you know.
-Oxytocin is the chemical that washes your brain after sex, and is responsible for bonding with your partner. God is love, and love is oxytocin (?)

-The Higgs Boson is, well, I dunno exactly. Look it up. It's nicknamed "the God particle."
I don't know why. The folks at the lhc (large hadron collider) are hoping to find evidence for it soon, when the machine is up and running.