It was difficult to watch! an obviously frail President trying not to blow his chances by coming across as lacking the brain cells needed to guide the USA through hard times to come.
He failed!
His face an almost parkie mask, did not help his mission, nor did his word finding difficulties. However, the most troubling of his apparent lack of cognition arose when, in the middle of a paragraph, he forgot what he was talking about!
My conclusion: The president ls a PWP!!
Les anciens knew about it and gave it a name..... (are you ready for it?)....the "!!SOUL" (cue Marvin Gaye). What is "soul"?
Who knows? Is it necessary to describe it? Thinking logically I begin with a Law of Thermodynamics ie; "energy can neither be created nor destroyed". Energy can only change. Our bodies are full of energy.
You guessed it . I call that energy my soul and it is just as important to life as is the heart or brain.
At the start, you drift into unconsciousness.
Your heart has stopped beating; your brain no longer gives a damn and shuts down, and your soul says sayanora.
You are dead!
And what of your energy now? Remember, it can neither be created nor destroyed.
It can change and it has. It is now a part of the energy o f the universe.
Is that just another name for "God"?
Could be.........
boundaries which divide life from death are, at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and where the other begins? (EdgarA Poe)
OK...Your heart stopped beating just before the brain made it official and stopped producing brain waves. The man in the white coat looks at the wall clock and while pulling off one bloodied rubber glove, says
T.O.D 14:34
HUH!!!!
What about the "you know what?"
Nonsense! The surgeon is not a believer and as he turns to wash his hands, the 3rd part of our puzzle leaves the body. The patient is now well and truly dead
I have to go. More to come next entry. In the meantime, have a laugh
Grim reaper says to Saint Peter at the pearly gates, "I'm Death."
Saint Peter responds, "No problem. I can speak louder."
If you consider what I am about to write to be heresy, stop reading! (equivalent to "God is dead"......well.....sort of)
We can agree the most important organs in the body are the brain and the heart. Without either one, we are DOA. So as long as the heart keeps pumping and the brain keeps doing whatever brains do(dwbd), every thing is copacetic.
The brain and heart rely on each other. For example if the brain stops dwbd, the heart will eventually stop doing its job and we are dead. The reverse is true too. We are now just a statistic.
Or are we?
What about people who are revived long after the heart stops and the brain stops dwbd and similar events (in some cases longer than you think*)
No. We are missing something in our death struggles. What is it?
Before going on, let me tell you a story. As a science teacher with a projecting microscope, I recreated an experiment I had read about. I projected on the wall a slide of a dead amoeba and a live amoeba. It was easy to see they were identical in all respects, except one was dead. The question posed was "What is missing in the dead one?
I now put the same question to you. What is missing in a corpse that has something to do with the ability to revive a dead person even after the heart has stopped beating and the brain has stopped dwbd?
Perhaps the question should be, "What remains after the brain and heart jump ship (or either of them)?
Stand by. More to come in future entries.
* in 2019, doctors revived a woman who had been in cardiac arrest for 6 hours. No sign of brain damage (12 April 2023,The Guardian)
a virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked christian (Ben Franklin)
