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The body and the mind, (or, for a Reader of a gentler disposition, the Soul), are neither a partnership nor a symbiotic arrangement of earth and sky.
The mind and the body is a competition between athletes of two distinctly unlike sports that have been deceived, (tricked, if you insist, Gentle Reader), and always to the Death.
While the history of Man is scarred by games and teams, wars and nationalities, the one difference is always the external. Flags and uniforms. Religious expression and rational philosophies.
“I mean it. No matter how good it tastes.”
If the Creator had been truly Wise, (good intentions counted no more at the beginning of time than at the end), Choice, arguably, (and ironically), the one quality to distinguish Man from animal, would not have been included in the newest of realities. The urge to live and the desire for pleasure are the Divine and the Profane rolled into one delicious, portable meal.
“No!”
Two letters combined, which if simplicity were the true mark of God, would trump its fallen twin, ‘Yes’. No is surely the second-most powerful word in any language. And it remains so from the day it was not given precedence to today, when it is a horserace for all well-meaning humans.
“Yes, the heck with my diet! We only live once and today is Friday. Gimme the Family-sized!”