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2009-11-30
The idea of the heart being the seat of consciousness has existed for thousands of years, but science shows us that it is the brain that accomplishes all of our thoughts and feelings. However, the idea of the heart having special powers beyond blood pumping still exists as an artifact of backwards thinking. Saying, "I love you with all my heart," is a beautiful sentiment, but anatomically incorrect. We love people with our brains. Likewise, we don't memorize something, "by heart," we memorize it with our brains.
Genesis 6:5 also shows us the extent of God's control issues. Not only does he demand purity of actions, but he demands purity of imagination as well. In a proper God-centric world, we're not even allowed to have dirty thoughts. This is the kind of mixed-message we see from Christians. Yes, you are given freewill by God, but if you exercise that freewill, even to the point of merely thinking about doing something wrong, you're considered evil, and must be punished.
The heart image is the work of Wapcaplet. |
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Uncle Jellyfish writes:
| Though I do enjoy your wonderful rant below the comic, I am getting a big fat red X mark, so I can't see the comic at all. =/ |
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Pubuman writes:
| Yep, I can't see the comic either... it appears there is some error. |
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dahle writes:
| Yeah broken little page for a comic... no fun that rant was pretty good. |
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TheAlmightyGuru writes:
| Sorry guys, I could have sworn I uploaded the comic last week. I guess the Thanksgiving holiday fried my brain or something! |
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Uncle Jellyfish writes:
| Apparently, God is a heartless bastard. It has no heart and no father...=/ |
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Ray writes:
| Silly God. People don't love each other with their hearts, they love each other with their brains. And they MAKE love with their genitals! |
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TheAlmightyGuru writes:
| Although, sometimes our genitals have a mind of their own! ;-) |
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Laura writes:
| Is it really backwards to think that the heart has more to do with the body than just the function it serves, I think the gesture of reffering to your heart as something other than what it is a beautiful concept that makes a person think more of the simple muscle that pumps away within all of us. Funny how God demands so much of one yet says it's ok to not, no wonder people fracture within. |
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tmowlee writes:
| How dare that crooked and twisted evil heart pump blood. Shame on it. |
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Baughbe writes:
| A lot of that concept probably comes from emotional stress often manifesting as an ache in the chest region. As someone who has been 'brokenhearted' can attest it sure wasn't my head that hurt worst. |
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the person over there writes:
| @Baughe: I think part of the point is that, as an all knowing god that created everything, and this being its word to humankind, the writers' should have known that the heart pumps blood, not emotions, which would have helped a lot when people figured that leeching and fixing the humors were good medical practices. |
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Sewerrat writes:
| I think leeching and fixing humors is a much better medical practice than slicing out nerves and cutting out good manners like hannibal lecter.
Modern research has shown that leeching actually works |
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kris writes:
| maybe we can also love with our belly brains?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric_nervous_system |
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Chris writes:
| note on the rant: "consciousness has exists for"
should be "has existed" |
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Katy writes:
| #1: Say what you will, Hannibal Lecter has style and class. He's the bomb.
#2: Yahweh has a lot of nerve calling people to task for their "evil imaginations" after what he created down here - the twisted and evil things he has done to people, the way he made the world ... then to accuse HUMANS of evil imagination ... well, who CREATED evil, hmmmm??? Seems to me that he who smelt it dealt it ...
#3: Wow, I'm in a weird mood this morning ... |
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