how inefficient is the human body? we have to feed it all the time, but only with the right foods, too many of the bad ones aren't good for the body. too many bad ones will make you fat, give you heart disease, etc. need to feed the body the correct amount and type of liquids, got to watch out for nasty dehydration and drunkeness. need to prepare the body for cold temperatures and for when it gets hot outside. need to clean the body all the time, with showers and baths a daily chore. need to set aside all these hours every day so the body can sleep. then the body gets sick, and special drugs and care are needed. need to exercise the body to keep it in shape and healthy. need to brush the body's teeth, take care of poor eyesight, use chemicals to eliminate the bad smell of the body. need to give the body all kinds of daily doses of emptying out waste products. then, if the body gets injured....

kurt vonegutt wrote this story about these people who had learned to free their spirits from their body's, which were they kept in store houses for the purposes of parades and such. bodies got to be a nuisance and a hindurance, so someone used the mind to free the spirit, so to speak. genious fucking story. this all begs the question, how closely are body and spirit related? can they be separated, does one cause another, or is one dependent on another?