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Another brilliant one from SMBC
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When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
  Sooooo True!! "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
To a physicist, about 98% of the total atoms in one's body are replaced within one year's time. Accounting for the spaces between those atoms and their nucleus's and respective electrons, nearly 100% of the human body is mostly empty space.
To a biologist, we're just a biological self-replicating sequence, an arrangement. Our bodies have totally new cells in them than from seven years ago. 90% of the cells inside and outside our bodies are actually microbes. We're a bag of micro-organisms, parasites and pathogens. To a chemist, our cells consist anywhere between 65–90% water. Therefore oxygen has the vast majority of our bodies' total mass, then followed by carbon and the rest. We're chiefly made up of six elements oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, calcium, and phosphorus. "I" is an illusion.
And yet we can think about ourselves in those numbers. Pretty fantastic, isn't it?
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
WE are the borg?
Were we to abduct cells and inculcate them against their "will" into our collective, then yes.
Since cells don't have "will" and we don't integrate random cells into our whole, then no. Slave to the Patriarchy no more
We probably don't have a will either. "Will" is just a well orchestrated illusion perpetrated by a collection of cells. So, each individual cell has a potential for many different kinds of existences and we are bending their existence to our "will" so the net effect is an opportunity cost of that cell doing something else. If I was a cell I would want to be a penis nerve cell that never encountered VD.
 Or maybe a brain cell in the pleasure center of the brain. Imagine being forced to be a skin or fingernail cell! The humanity!
Oh, I've found out about it a while ago, it just doesn't bother me
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura
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