Honestly! 12 or so views on the last one. It makes me wonder who even bothers to listen to ramblings; I guess 12 people. =3
Anyway, onto the actual entry. I was just thinking (earlier and recently) without a beating heart, we're all just hunks of meat, right? Smack the chest of someone and it sounds solid. Smack the chest of someone who's not living anymore, and it's a different kind of solid. "Thicker" I guess. The only way I can really describe it is "like a hunk of meat".
This doesn't go for humans only either. Animals too, like dogs. We're all living and breathing, but take away the heart's continuous rhythm and you've got something that could easily be cut up, cooked, and served as dinner. Oh the pig you raised up from a piglet into a fine young swine? That means bacon for breakfast, just listen to that meaty thump when you smack it's rib cage!
Is this how a hunter feels when they kill a deer or some other small-to-large sized game? Bodies always seem to be heavier when they're corpses. Or sleeping but that's not the point I'm going for here. Is there no life to sustain the "lighter" feeling of a living body? Or is it the more logical and scientifically proved reasoning, that the body is dead therefore it doesn't matter if there's air in the lungs or if the muscles have to stay taut and suspend the bones in certain places used for movement or some other important function?
Maybe the solidness is due to the collapse of the body cavity, as mentioned in the previous section, and there's no room for the sound to echo around so the sound waves pass slowly. Like a bullet through a few solid planks of wood put together instead of a few of those planks placed just a few inches away from each other, all standing up in a line of course. It's easier to do the latter than the former. Or maybe if one was through sheet metal and the other wood planks.
Maybe, maybe. I could use that word constantly and never get my point across. I say it may be due to souls or something. There's many useless things in a body. Such as the appendix and "fake genes". I forgot the proper term. Scientists, or rather biologists, don't know why they're there or what purpose they serve. Maybe it's connected to souls and keep us living.
Well, that's just an inkling of course. Not really what I say. So, until later hunks of meat! =3
--Ty
 Ty Gwynnia · Fri Jun 10, 2011 @ 06:48am · 5 Comments |
