11 nov 2004
Sleep is such a lie.
There are many arguments for evolution, other than the quite obvious one that it is fact. But if you know nothing of science, let me tell you how i came to the conclusion that we evolved rather than were created by an all knowing superbeing who happened to be perfect: our bodies suck. They suck so much, they're practically unusable. They get old and die and refuse to sleep the night before a qualitative exam that i actually want to do good on, they turn red and flaky in too much sun and pasty opaque in too little and many of them lack fun things like eyes. The most especially sucky thing about them is they are not especially efficient, which as humans currently think effieciency is neat-o i would expect that any god that invented us in his own image would have at least done that for us. I mean, made us efficient.
Wouldn't it be more effiecient to be able to store sleep like we store fat? I could spend all of June and January each year sleeping, and then only have to sleep maybe once a week during school & work.
Well anyway, i came up with that a few weeks ago and have long thought i ought to share it with my adoring public. I have many more gross examples of why human bodies suck, but i'm sure you'd like to eat in the next few days. But to finish the argument, our evolutionary history makes perfect sense. The line that recently rose to us was very fortuitous and overall quite ugly, but they survived and give us many exciting things like the phantom pouch right above the uterus. Ha! Bet you didn't know you looked just like a kangaroo on the inside!
i really wish i hadn't said that, as now i have images of fetal kangaroos being really confused, and some Jim Carey scene in my head. I'll go listen to Modest Mouse now and woe myself to sleep.
Protomammals-->monotremata-->marsupials-->placentals! ¶ 23:05
There are many arguments for evolution, other than the quite obvious one that it is fact. But if you know nothing of science, let me tell you how i came to the conclusion that we evolved rather than were created by an all knowing superbeing who happened to be perfect: our bodies suck. They suck so much, they're practically unusable. They get old and die and refuse to sleep the night before a qualitative exam that i actually want to do good on, they turn red and flaky in too much sun and pasty opaque in too little and many of them lack fun things like eyes. The most especially sucky thing about them is they are not especially efficient, which as humans currently think effieciency is neat-o i would expect that any god that invented us in his own image would have at least done that for us. I mean, made us efficient.
Wouldn't it be more effiecient to be able to store sleep like we store fat? I could spend all of June and January each year sleeping, and then only have to sleep maybe once a week during school & work.
Well anyway, i came up with that a few weeks ago and have long thought i ought to share it with my adoring public. I have many more gross examples of why human bodies suck, but i'm sure you'd like to eat in the next few days. But to finish the argument, our evolutionary history makes perfect sense. The line that recently rose to us was very fortuitous and overall quite ugly, but they survived and give us many exciting things like the phantom pouch right above the uterus. Ha! Bet you didn't know you looked just like a kangaroo on the inside!
i really wish i hadn't said that, as now i have images of fetal kangaroos being really confused, and some Jim Carey scene in my head. I'll go listen to Modest Mouse now and woe myself to sleep.
Protomammals-->monotremata-->marsupials-->placentals! ¶ 23:05
