The Babes and the Wolf

Killed It. Ate it. And Blew That F***er Down.

Sooo... I missed a few days - for which I ask no exemption and intend to bring myself to current by Sunday (even if it doesn't technically count - I'm actually not clear how that works exactly). However, out of those days came some good things. Then there was yesterday, which I spent curled up in a ball of pain and nausea after accidentally taking 3x my normal dose of nerve pain/anxiety medication (the dose was raised but the new, higher dose tablets look almost identical and, well... that was a learning experience from which I have only today mostly recovered! Otherwise:

Tuesday I got caught up blazer shopping / dinner with my aunt and kids. Got home late.

Wednesday, I killed it at the interview (re: blazer) for my first choice MSW field placement. I start in two Mondays. Then I spent the evening wallowing in errand and pain medication induced exhaustion, put my kids to sleep and fell out. Yet somehow I managed to keep myself awake long enough to practice - head draped over guitar, bleary eyes burning - for (I think?) ten minutes.

Thursday... You know:

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And onward to today's:

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30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS  (13+) WDC's Longest Running Blog Competition - Hiatus #1786069 by Fivesixer

Fun Fact Friday! On this day in 1998, 19 European nations agreed to prohibit human cloning. What are your thoughts on cloning? Would you consider doing it, if you were guaranteed the results would be used for ethical purposes? Or would you and your clone decide a life of shenanigans was more fun?


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I've had a roughly lifelong fear of body doubles and I'm pretty sure this movie has enough - if not everything - to do with it. I don't even remember the movie per se, I was so young when I saw it. But I distinctly remember it leaving a clear impression that if I ever discovered that I have a doppelgänger or body double of any kind (including clones), I would promptly dispatch it.

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And then there was this damn movie, which I also saw as a kid, probably compliments of the SciFi (not "SyFy") channel.

Long story short, I'm not a fan of body doubles or whole-person cloning. I wouldn't go so far as to say that it should be all-out illegal. There are some legit medical applications for it. But there need to be some serious stipulations on it as well.

1) For one, non-consensual cloning (without first-person consent from the genetic donor) should be all out illegal.

2) Full-person clones should be considered 100% fully autonomous people with all of the rights, privileges, and responsibilities entitled to any other person, not property (because that would make them a whole person and we have a name for non-consensual [i.e. not the sexy kind] bondage of whole people. Its called slavery. And NO!).

3) Full person cloning for medical (organ donation) should be illegal. I'm not opposed to selective organ cloning but if that organ is being stolen from a living, breathing, (most importantly) thinking entity then NO! (and none of these underhanded, contrived, finagling arguments about "what constitutes thinking?" bullshit people have been using to discriminate against neuro-atypical people for the last hundred years).

Other than that I'm totally fine with it... I think. I think I might engineer new body parts for myself. Or a new body. Maybe a chimera body with a few chromosomal changes into which to transfer my consciousness. Yeeeees, excelllent... But would I give up my family for that?

[Insert existential crisis here]

And I don't suppose I'd opt for a life of "fun" "shenanigans" with my clone for obvious reasons, plus the fact that I'm... not into myself sexually... and therefore see no other legit reason for full-body cloning myself.

(Though, if that's your bag, have at it Baby, yeah!)

***Wink***

[Post edit: Wait a minute. Don't we already have enough issues with over population as as? No, screw full person cloning!]

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Soundtracks of Our Lives  (E) Sharing the music that makes us original... #2144947 by Lyn's a Witchy Woman

My Soundtrack selection for tonight is NSFK (kids).

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This song picks me up, cheers me up, and keeps me going.