Theos-Talk Archives (May 2000 Message tt00348)

	Don't worry. If the word "broccoli" were used for life, you would find
some obscure significance to something else by dissection.

	Bart Lidofsky

Spencer wrote:
> 
> Peter Merriott wrote:
> some similarity.  A stretch to be sure.  But consider this:
> 
> Life = (Li) + (Fe)
> 
> In the Encyclopedia of Physics  one finds that Lithium (Li) is sometimes used
> as a cooling agent in nuclear reactors.  Attachment occurs when iron (Fe) comes
> in contact with a magnet.  Magnets have to do with attraction, attraction with
> desire.  So one asks the question, "Why the word 'life' to describe the process
> we call life?"  Why wasn't it called broccoli or something?

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