[FRIAM] Autophagy (was Re: Unmediated perception - sheldrake)

[Steven A Smith]

And at their retail/service storefront, you are greeted with "Donner,
party of two?" and a toothy grin?


On 9/17/19 12:43 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:
> Because I'm a fan of all things fake (fake news, homeopathy, numerology, speculations about consciousness, etc.), I can't help but be interested in fad diets and pop culture ideas about eating and weight loss. One of the things I learned from my lymphoma, consisting of "immortal" lymphocytes, is that it's *normal* for us to eat ourselves ... which is why diets like "keto" and "intermittent fasting" are so rhetorically successful.
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> By which I mean to introduce my name for such a company: Phagocytes Inc. -- We eat you so you don't have to eat yourself.
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> On 9/17/19 11:32 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
>> A rhetor is just a teacher of writing, right?  But I want to pursue this idea of a Rhetor as villain.  I think it has legs.  So, suppose I start a company whose job is to go into companies and identify and fire all the people who are picky about writing.  What would we name such a company?  
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>> I have idea, in case somebody else doesn’t think of it.