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Sunday 23rd Dec 2007 00:15:05
 A ball of atoms, but the left side of you is fine (intact). In retrospect, I think we ought to rebuild the asteroid belt and correct some of those planetary orbits (you have a messed up solar system, but I'm loving the gas giants).
I'm sure I had something useful to say, but now all I can think of is the bizarreness of an innate sense of shame - shame about bodily functions. But where does this come from? Would some cultures not have some kind of communal lavatorium (or similar)? And would the use of such facilities therefore not require some kind of unlearning, where shame not an innate quality? Weird. All weird. Naturally, we work around such things and adapt and evolve. A****** uses the potty best when left alone.

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  • Name: Rosie
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  • Comment: some cultures do indeed have communal lavatories but i dont think they use them simultaneously. I wonder if its partly to do with some unconscious hygiene taboo thing - most taboos have a good reason (eg incest/murder etc). or maybe human beings (unlike animals) recognise they are somehow more than just organic eating/sleeping/excreting/procreating machines.

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