I am a sleepy beast. I've felt fatigued since that moment at the gym, like... not take a nap tired, but I had a fight with an energy vampire and lost kind of tired.

@NiveusLepus

if your body were a horse you're riding, and it looked at you like you feel, wouldn't you give it a rest and take care of it with food and water?

i am bothered by the metaphor of the body as a "meat sack" that is somehow to blame for whatever.

our bodies are living creatures with needs, sentient beings.

the taoist image of riding a large bovine doesn't suggest beating it to make it obey.

discipline is important, but body is not our enemy: a bad religious trope needs to go.

I prefer the metaphor of "We are but a brain, a control center piloting a bone mecha covered in meat and flesh armor.

Sounds more macabre and kinda anime. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@holon42 @NiveusLepus

@Heucuva8 @holon42 @NiveusLepus

I like to say that I am a spirit, and I just _wear_ a body.

@AskTheDevil @Heucuva8 @holon42 @NiveusLepus

I've never thought of my body as separate from my self. Any more than I think of a part of my body as separate from the whole of it. My eye is part of my body as my body is part of my self.

My consciousness, my spirit, are informed and shaped by my physical reality. Thoughts and feelings occur in the matrix of my cells.

Water is hydrogen and oxygen; if you divide the elements, the water disappears. So too with mind/body/spirit.

@tyghebright @Heucuva8 @holon42 @NiveusLepus

I might feel more that way if I didn't go through bodies like popcorn.

; )

@AskTheDevil @tyghebright @Heucuva8 @holon42

I can imagine that, against the scope of a wider eternity, a 100 years is akin to changing pants.

@NiveusLepus @tyghebright @Heucuva8 @holon42 I rarely make it anywhere close to 100 years!

But yes. To a great degree. If the pants came with connections, loved ones, projects, and other stuff that is really sad when you have to leave them behind, of course.

But after 30-100 years, change is nice, too.

@AskTheDevil @tyghebright @Heucuva8 @holon42 Have you ever encountered old friends in new threads, so to say?

@NiveusLepus @AskTheDevil @tyghebright @Heucuva8

Merleau-Ponty's concept of "flesh" (chair):

"the mysterious tissue or matrix that underlies and gives rise to both the perceiver and the perceived

as interdependent aspects of its spontaneous activity",

and he identifies this elemental matrix with the interdependent web of earthly life."