on my mind today...

[scottobear]

ever wonder what you were, before you were you?

here's the thing... matter is never created nor destroyed, only transformed... (mostly, according to comtemporary physics...)

I would love to trace back to my inorganic origins, and find where they were, before comprising my body....

How much of my body was a chunk of a dinosaur, before feeding plants, animals, and so on, before being integrated into my system?

What protien was my father's sperm, before it was sperm? a donut? a steak?

how many other human bodies are actually *part* of my body? these atoms have been around... the skin cells in my little finger possibly were part of a meteroite that hit earth years ago...

Where will my pieces go, or for that matter have gone? dust mites are chewing on us all, flaking little bits off all the time... I'm sure Newt has some of what was once my skin in his system, now, as I'd wager I have his.

ink from old tattoos, bits of glass, redwood tree, a scrap of an ancient chastity belt, a shard from a tiger's tooth, ... who knows where these pieces were...

If you follow the big bang theory, or any idea that all comes from the same place, be it by design, accident or somewhere in between it still means the same to me... we're all made of the same stuff. I love that idea.

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[ldy.livejournal.com]

We are stardust, we are golden
We are 2 billion year old carbon...

I am you and you are me
and we are all together...

:)

[papoose.livejournal.com]

and we've got to get ourselves
back to the garden

Amen

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

spot on, ldy. :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

what a bunch of hippies I know. :)

*hug*

[billijean.livejournal.com]

Yes, we are the universe :) My son has a book on this theme called "All I see is part of me". It is really beautiful. There is also a David Suzuki science book for kids called "You Are the Earth: From Dinosaur Breath to Pizza from Dirt" (http://indigo.ca/cgi-bin/bookrec.cgi?bn=1550547518).
Once again, you have touched on something I think about all the time :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

ooh, I'll be sure to check those books out!

glad to be in the company of a thinker such as yourself... :)

another fun thought

[i.livejournal.com]

i wish i could remember the precise figure, but every atom is in motion, and in some extraordinarily finite period of time, every atom in your body has been cycled through, and you are a completely "new" person. as i recall it was a matter of days.

[nomi.livejournal.com]

Hey, that book was written by a friend of my family (http://www.illumin.com/html/chara.html). "No One Walks on My FatherHey, that book was written by a friend of my family (http://www.illumin.com/html/chara.html). "No One Walks on My Father’s Moon" is also excellent and illustrated by a local artist.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

tres nifty!

I'm really looking forward to scoping allof them out!

Re: another fun thought

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I'd heard something about that, along the lines of 7 years for the whole body... not sure how apocryphal it is, though...