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[andrewducker]

People are not robots.

People are not perfect.

Bodies are made of flesh.

Flesh is no perfection, but just good enough

It is not steel or marble, cast and carved into shape, but grown through experience and infection and bruising and hard work and every experience you ever had.

You will never look like the photographs you see of the beautiful people because the beautiful people themselves do not look like that.

Accept that you are who you are, imperfections and all.

If you do not, who will?

Comments

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

Personally, I've always found the perfection marble and steel as against squishy stuff, or of the perfection of the robot over the organic form, to be a somewhat backwards metaphor: Robots may be clean of line and pleasing to the aesthetic sense, but look how grossly limited even the most sophisticated of our current creations are, and look how we have only gotten them to be as sophisticated as that by modeling them on flesh! Squishy stuff is not to be reviled: it is to be celebrated, imperfections and evolutionary hangers-on and all.

[ex-aphonia179.livejournal.com]

/hug/

Thanks, Andy.

A.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Flesh heals and stone and steel do not, which is definitely a major plus for flesh, as is the fact that flesh can also feel. I could really get behind the idea of a seriously tinkered with and improved flesh body, with a few discreet and carefully made electronic add ons (a digital memory-backup comes to mind). Then again, I'm a weird transhumanist who thinks of human bodies as barely adequate residences that last far too short a time and lack many features that I want.