The Mouse’s Five Smooth Theories
First, about why “five?” why “smooth?” Two questions, one answer: First Samuel, 17:40: “And he [David] took his staff in his hand, and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook . . . and he drew near to the Philistine.”
Now a word about why theories instead of stones. The Philistines are two numerous, “David’s” aim too unsure, and the use of slings and stones is against the law, even if you miss.
About 40 years ago the Mouse saw that the world was in need of amusement. So he laid aside his staff – for a moment – and chose five smooth theories out of his fervid mind. The five were all of a scientific nature, since only by solving the Sphinx’s riddles could the Mouse find amusement for himself, and ultimately for the world.
The Mouse first lifted his eyes toward the heavens, meaning to count the stars. But it came to him in the starlight – here is theory #1 – that the number of stars is less than what it appears to be. Sir Arthur Eddington’s proof of Einstein’s theory of general relativity had revealed to the Mouse that light rays are themselves subject to gravitational effects. They are bent. So the Mouse reasoned that the light from stars far more distant than the planet Mercury – whose rising Eddington had observed – is bent so severely that the same star appears to us from more than one direction. A recent picture in Scientific American has confirmed the Mouse’s theory. The same quasar-like body appears more than once in a narrow range of view. Score one for the Mouse.
Next, the Mouse read somewhere that if a cancer were supplied with nutrients it would never die. From other sources he learned that the distinctive thing about the growth of cancers, and what gives them their deadly nature, is that they obey no morphological law. They grow in all directions, more or less randomly. From those two observations it was simple for the Mouse to conclude that (#2) when we finally learn the true nature of cancers, we will find a direct connection between their lack of morphological direction and their immortality. This means, in short, that when living things took on form, they lost their individual immortality. Candice Pert, in her book Molecules of Emotion, reports that she and her colleagues at the NIH discovered that cancer cells lacked a small appendage which had previously been associated with the cell’s morphological “knowledge.” Normal cells know what to be – fingernail or kidney – partly because of this appendage and cancer cells did not have it. Mouse two, Philistines zero.
A further word about those immortal cancer cells: I quickly passed over the words, “if a cancer were supplied with nutrients.” But given an adequate supply of food, the cancer would continue to grow. Consequently, in order to survive it would require more and more food. Miss Pert also entertains the notion that cancers are macrophages. This characteristic usually refers to cells that consume foreign particles, but if we assume that to the body in which cancers reside, and upon which they feed, the cancer itself might be taken as a foreign particle, then as their food supply becomes more difficult to obtain they might begin to consume themselves. I have no illusions that this view of the matter has not been seen by cancer researchers, and I assume they are working on the possibility that a cure might lie in that direction. But the analogy between the cancer’s dilemma and the problems facing all living beings has not passed the Mouse’s notice. Because sexual reproduction theoretically can lead to species immortality and to unlimited growth, we and the lemmings face the certainty that we shall either control our growth in numbers, or we shall become macrophages consuming “foreign particles.” The rest I leave to the imagination.
Well, this has gotten a bit longer than I thought it might. There are three more theories, one of which I have (as of this moment) forgotten. Of the other two, a proof of one was suggested by the return of rocks from the moon. The second had to do with explaining déjà vu, a theory that cannot be proven at the current state of neural science. I’ll just stop here, and if I am lucky, I shall recall the fifth theory. If so, I will detail all three at a later date.
Now a word about why theories instead of stones. The Philistines are two numerous, “David’s” aim too unsure, and the use of slings and stones is against the law, even if you miss.
About 40 years ago the Mouse saw that the world was in need of amusement. So he laid aside his staff – for a moment – and chose five smooth theories out of his fervid mind. The five were all of a scientific nature, since only by solving the Sphinx’s riddles could the Mouse find amusement for himself, and ultimately for the world.
The Mouse first lifted his eyes toward the heavens, meaning to count the stars. But it came to him in the starlight – here is theory #1 – that the number of stars is less than what it appears to be. Sir Arthur Eddington’s proof of Einstein’s theory of general relativity had revealed to the Mouse that light rays are themselves subject to gravitational effects. They are bent. So the Mouse reasoned that the light from stars far more distant than the planet Mercury – whose rising Eddington had observed – is bent so severely that the same star appears to us from more than one direction. A recent picture in Scientific American has confirmed the Mouse’s theory. The same quasar-like body appears more than once in a narrow range of view. Score one for the Mouse.
Next, the Mouse read somewhere that if a cancer were supplied with nutrients it would never die. From other sources he learned that the distinctive thing about the growth of cancers, and what gives them their deadly nature, is that they obey no morphological law. They grow in all directions, more or less randomly. From those two observations it was simple for the Mouse to conclude that (#2) when we finally learn the true nature of cancers, we will find a direct connection between their lack of morphological direction and their immortality. This means, in short, that when living things took on form, they lost their individual immortality. Candice Pert, in her book Molecules of Emotion, reports that she and her colleagues at the NIH discovered that cancer cells lacked a small appendage which had previously been associated with the cell’s morphological “knowledge.” Normal cells know what to be – fingernail or kidney – partly because of this appendage and cancer cells did not have it. Mouse two, Philistines zero.
A further word about those immortal cancer cells: I quickly passed over the words, “if a cancer were supplied with nutrients.” But given an adequate supply of food, the cancer would continue to grow. Consequently, in order to survive it would require more and more food. Miss Pert also entertains the notion that cancers are macrophages. This characteristic usually refers to cells that consume foreign particles, but if we assume that to the body in which cancers reside, and upon which they feed, the cancer itself might be taken as a foreign particle, then as their food supply becomes more difficult to obtain they might begin to consume themselves. I have no illusions that this view of the matter has not been seen by cancer researchers, and I assume they are working on the possibility that a cure might lie in that direction. But the analogy between the cancer’s dilemma and the problems facing all living beings has not passed the Mouse’s notice. Because sexual reproduction theoretically can lead to species immortality and to unlimited growth, we and the lemmings face the certainty that we shall either control our growth in numbers, or we shall become macrophages consuming “foreign particles.” The rest I leave to the imagination.
Well, this has gotten a bit longer than I thought it might. There are three more theories, one of which I have (as of this moment) forgotten. Of the other two, a proof of one was suggested by the return of rocks from the moon. The second had to do with explaining déjà vu, a theory that cannot be proven at the current state of neural science. I’ll just stop here, and if I am lucky, I shall recall the fifth theory. If so, I will detail all three at a later date.
posted by Benedict S. at 11:05 AM
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29: A ”Ice Man” was found in a north of Sweden by a young couple who had decided to greet an annual return of a Ozone Hole by lying face-up, spread eagle, buck naked on a tundra. This practice was started as a earth entered a positive photon belt in a early part of a 22nd century. It was believed that a positive energy, of a universe, could be maximized by this practice. This experience, of a positive nature and energy, of a universe, led to a great social upheaval known as a ”Second Becoming” along with a firm belief that skin cancer was a spiritual evolvement at a cellular level. It lasted for over a thousand years and a trillion mutations. Although a ”Ice Man” dates to this period, it is not known if he was originating or following this practice. Certain notes and fragments on a disk, ”Wild Hairs”, combined with his position at a time of death, lying face up, buck naked with outstretched arms and legs, would suggest that he was. Note number 29 extracted from a disk "Wild Hairs".
I like john sweden's imagery ("buck nekkid on a tundra")...kinda like my granddaddy on his knees in a hurricane. But spiritual evolvement at a cellular level is beyond me. In fact, "Wild Hairs, at least the excerpts to which I have been exposed, is beyond me too, maybe because I wasn't stoned at the time.
The mouse's diagnosis of cancer and its cure is a little "out there," but I like the part about returning the moon rocks.
In the meantime, let's all get on our knees, but just don't tell the Big Guy who we are.
See "Finding Fair Hope" today (Comments section) for an explication.
Well, yes, John, but I don't think it's quite that simple.
Medical scientist Candace Pert has done some fascinating work that seems to suggest that memory is chemically stored in every cell of the body.
Bernie Siegel suggests is that disease often manifests where (bad, hurtful) memories choose to reside. These molecules of emotions are peptides that carry information to areas of the body. This information is emotion, and if the release or discharge of emotion happens when releasing a memory,it may be that the peptides no longer carry the negative emotion.
Cancer cells are surrounded by these peptides in great numbers. There
is the curiosity.
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