I have a question to you guys. this analogy occurred to me two days ago and i’ve been contemplating about it ever since. the analogy is this:
what if a cell of our body become aware of its position and role and that how its work is used in maintenance of body. do you think the cell will go self-destructive after knowing this fact (because it will know that it is being controlled)? or will it keep doing its work for body?
i with all heart believe that it will go self-destructive. i have never been able to relate with anybody. i don’t know how i think relative to others. i want to know what you think about this situation. please don’t give theoretical answers. put yourself in place of that cell and tell what would YOU do if you became aware of your position. (this is analogous to our position in society).
its like a cog in machine situation. the cell is programmed to perform a function. it will find that it gets maximum satisfaction  only when it performs its function. but will the idea of doing a predefined task let its mind at peace? who wants to be a slave? and it cannot do otherwise, it doesn’t have power for doing anything else. so it will go self destructive. that’s my idea. that’s what i would do if were in place of it. what do you think?
or can it love the body so much that it will do that function with ever more dedication? can it accept its situation and simply keep doing its work? will it do the work for the sake of survival?
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I think the cell will do it’s functions until it can’t do them anymore. Just can’t fathom a cell self-destructing.
Kind of out there…..but the other day I was thinking about humans as being like cells….shuffling about on Earth. Then thinking how the planets are spread throughout the universe…and how we are a scaled down model of the universe. So many things happening inside our body, all of it is organic and has a time limit. Even though individual cells are theoretically simple, the formation of them that make up the human body is not. When you think about how tremendously complex the earth is and how we are just a small part of that, it’s rather humbling.
Rambling…..tired
You mention love. It would be interesting for the cell to love the human body and that’s where it’s motivation came from. That would be one cell-less cell. Does the body care about the cell? Is it aware of it? No probably not.
There has to be enough truly pleasurable things (you know, those things that don’t come with a regret hangover or backlash) consistently available for the cell to look forward to in order for it to be able to process the bleak/menial things about its existence. Also, if the cell has its basic needs met and several people its close to who care deeply about the cell–self destruction is minimal.
their are some “rebel” cells in our body. We call them cancer cells. We will do everything we can to eliminate them. Now think about prisons,genocide,force suicides(mostly by bullying and alikes). Immune system of our body… Immune system of our society…
When you speak of cells Bruce Lipton, cellular biologist, comes to mind. Check out one of his videos; http://youtu.be/vnNpscyV0KU
exactly. now i understand why i kinda like cancer. i liked it when i first read about it. i absolutely loved the idea of rebellious cells. they deny, they go against, they multiply and spread, and finally.. die with the death of that which they were rebelling against. doomed. futility. its not good. nothing is created or made better. all it did is destruction.
its like the Smith virus.
when i became aware of my position and insignificance in the cosmos, and to a lesser degree, on earth… all i wanted to do was achieve a symbiotic cohabitation with my environment, and enjoy as much of my fleeting time in this state as possible, before maybe it’s over forever, or maybe the conditions change so drastically that this now would be inconceivable to the next.
So no, i didn’t want to generically rebel against everything and just disregard the impacts of my actions on others.
But the established systems through which others humans dominate me and most of the rest of you, really do make me want to just lose it and hinder or degrade that/those, as much as possible, since those systems are what’s actually stopping all of us from achieving a near utopian symbiosis.
Read up about apoptosis. If ibremember correctly it is the act of cellular suicide. Cancer spreads because it is somehow able to disable this process. It’s a very important process, almost like an integrated qa/qc that prevents defective cells from proliferating.
that’s a wonderful process. i didn’t know about it. maybe i belong to apoptosis cells. i have no inclination to work towards bettering society (used to have, but not now). i have too much hate for it. i will die before becoming cancerous. all i want to do is better myself, but that cannot happen as long as i remain with society. within it i can only become self-destructive.
i wonder what happens to those imaginal cells when its not yet the final time and everything is going normal.
so it seems that’s only my opinion, not a universal thing. hmmm. i never wanted symbiosis. maybe i am extremist.
Hey Quaero, how in the hell do you know you won’t die of a cancerous ailment? That shit creeps up on you, look at Hillary Brooke.