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1001 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU'RE DEAD, FREE ADVICE, INSIDE THE BOOK, READING MATTER

CUTENESS

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“…you may be thinking that you don’t really have any identity or personality without having a body. How will anyone recognize you without your body? Fortunately, bodies are a nickel a million. Five babies are born every second.  So, should you succumb to the ungodly urge to get a new baby body in order to feel a sense of personal identity, you will need to practice being cute.

The only reason people have babies – and keep them – is because they think babies are cute. The same principle applies to all living creatures. So, brush up on looking cute, making cute sounds, doing cute mannerisms, cute smiles, cute laughs, etc..  You’ll need to have your cute skills in top form when and if you get a new body.”

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— Excerpt from the book, 1001 THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU’RE DEAD, by Lawrence R. Spencer

 

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TEMPTATION REMEMBERED

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TEMPTING RESISTENCE

DEFINITION OF “RESISTANCE”

1. A force that tends to oppose or retard motion.

DEFINITION OF “TEMPTATION”

Synonyms:
allure, charm, entice, influence, invite, lure

Often used in the same context:
allure, contempt, dreamt, entice, exempt, infatuation, lure, seduce, temp, temptation, tempted, tempting

More general:
appeal, arouse, attract, bid, excite, invite, persuade, provoke, sex, shake, shake up, stimulate, stir, turn on, wind up

More specific:
bait, bewitch, call, decoy, lead on, magnetize, mesmerize, spellbind, stool, tweedle

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ORIGIN OF LIFE

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protoplasmic pulsationThe word “protoplasm” comes from the Greek protos for first, and plasma for “thing formed”.

It was first used in 1846 by Hugo von Mohl to describe the “tough, slimy, granular, semi-fluid” substance within plant cells, to distinguish this from the cell wall, cell nucleus and the cell sap within the vacuole. Later, J. E. Purkinje coined the term for cytoplasm and nucleoplasm in animal cell. Thomas Huxley later referred to it as the “physical basis of life” and considered that the property of life resulted from the distribution of molecules within this substance. Its composition, however, was mysterious and there was much controversy over what sort of substance it was. By the time Huxley wrote, a long-standing debate was largely settled over the fundamental unit of life: was it the cell or was it protoplasm?

By the late 1860s, the debate was largely settled in favor of protoplasm. The cell was a container for protoplasm, the fundamental and universal material substance of life. Huxley’s principal contribution was to establish protoplasm as incompatible with a vitalistic theory of life.

Attempts to investigate the origin of life through the creation of synthetic “protoplasm” in the laboratory were not successful.

(Source:  Wikipedia.org)