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Have you ever wondered why our bodies operate at 98.6 degrees F?

I have. I do. Often. I blame god for a lot of things. I’m not sure there is a god, I’m an agnostic type as near as I can tell. There may well be a god. God might look exactly like the god of the Christian bible, or might be an alien with 6 legs and half a brain – and not the logical half either. Whatever started it all – I call god.

I found myself thinking about this question early this morning as I lay in on the floor where I sleep. Living in Thailand acclimates one to weird stuff. I can sleep soundly on a concrete floor – AND my back feels great I don’t need to tell you. Hard beds do wonders for a bad back, it’s not an exaggeration.

I was in that hazy hardly know my name state of mind somewhere between sleep and realizing that in 5 minutes this mass of tissue must get up to face another (god-given? god-imposed?) catastrophe day.

Sometimes Often when I’m in this state I think about how god screwed us (mankind) from the very beginning. The rules that govern all that humans are, and do – as a species. Within the realm of possibility – have already been “given”.

We started this game with certain things predetermined you know?

Environment that we grow up in (luck of the draw with the parents we end up with) and choices we’ll make about what we do with our lives don’t come until much later. There are already many facets of the game that have been layed out for us… the rule book written from beginning to end. We don’t do anything outside of the possibilities that were already given us by whatever creator (god, or whatever you choose to call it) started this game.

Part of the rule book god made states that… besides being at odds with every human being on the planet because of the pain-pleasure principle which I’ll talk about in future blog posts,

“Man will be at odds with his environment.”

There are many examples of this, and I’ll talk more about the other ways in future articles. Today I’ll focus on our body temperature being at odds with the environment of the earth. It’s a stress on the body from the time we pop out to face the cruel world.

I’m angry at god a lot of times. I think the game we’re all playing here wasn’t set up in a way that makes life nice for us… it wasn’t made for our pleasure… that much is without argument. Sure, some things are nice. But, if you added it all up – pluses and minuses, there is a whole lot of suck to account for in the world that isn’t glossed over by the happy. The environment we face is AGAINST us… we’re at odds with environment, life requirements, and in general with most of the rules of the game.

A human’s body temperature, for it to remain healthy, comfortable, and at ease in the world, needs to be very close to the 98.6 F mark of the thermometer.  It doesn’t take an Einstein to figure out that the body and or the mind is constantly stressed by this ideal that MUST be met over the course of our entire lives.

The earth expresses a wide range of temperatures across it’s surface.  At the extremes of the poles the temperature is very cold – probably averaging around 0 F.  At the other extremes are locations within the tropics around the equator where the average temperatures are over 80 F.

There is no ideal temperature in which the body is at a homeostasis or balanced state. Take a look…

You might think, but only for a second, that the body when it’s in an environment where the temperature is at 98.6 F is in the perfect environment.  But then you’d realize that at that temperature the body is trying furiously to cool down.

WHY is that?

For some reason, and this is another rule God made… Human beings, and those that are “warm blooded” mammals like humans, create warmth as the cells of their bodies go about their normal routine.  So, if you are sitting in a 98.6 F degree environment your body is also producing a lot of heat on top of that – regardless if you’re doing anything, you can be sleeping and your body is still producing a lot of heat. Since damage occurs to brain cells and other cells at higher than 102 degrees the body must self regulate through sweating and other means.  So, in reality, at 98.6 degrees F your body is struggling to keep you cool and your mind is stressed out because you’re “too hot”. It’s not a comfortable state for the body or the mind.

Let’s look at another situation…

You’re sitting at home in your yard on a straw mat, or maybe at the beach. The temperature today is one of those 73 F degree days that feels just perfect. There is little humidity and you usually have about 40 of these ideal days out of 365 per year. No mental stress. No body stress that you notice… but, inside the body the cells are still producing heat. They’re working to keep the body warm because the cells of the body must not dip down much from 98.6 F degrees. Nearly every cell in the body must be producing heat to contribute to the 98.6 F ideal.  The body is not at peace.

In fact, the body is NEVER at rest in the ideal temperature range – it’s always working towards the ideal. The ideal MUST be reached each and every day, hour, and minute. It’s not OK if the body hits the ideal 95% of the day. It requires close to 100%. Did you ever hear of shock? Bodies go into shock when the core temperature either drops or raises and cannot be controlled.

Oh, I almost forgot… there are physical factors in the world that are changing and that are constantly affecting mankind…

The temperature is one of those factors.  The temperature is constantly changing here on earth. Not just between latitudes and types of terrain (desert, forest, valley) but from day to day, hour to hour outside versus inside, versus moving or sitting still…

Here in Thailand we have nights that are around 65 F degrees. During the day it might shoot up to 95 F.  If it rains in the middle of the day the temperature might dip to 70 F.  Temperatures are changing all over the world, all the time.  So, even if you were able to sit in the perfect 73 degree environment where the ambient temperature was a good match for the internal cellular heat production for a day or so… or a month – eventually it changes. Bang, again your mind as well as your body is at odds with the environment, with the game of life.

How many people do you think live in a 73 degree environment constantly? I don’t think so either.

What about the humidity?  Humidity, the wetness of the air, has an effect on whether we feel warmer or cooler as well as affecting the body’s ability to regulate it’s temperature. Rain? Snow?

Wind?  The “wind-chill” factor is something that profoundly affects us.

Sun versus clouds?  We feel the sun’s heat through a process of radiation. When the clouds block the sun for an instant the body must change because it no longer feels that heat.

The body is constantly making changes to regulate the body temperature to be as close to 98.6 F degrees as possible.  It’s constantly at odds with the environment.

It’s odd that god did this, putting us in direct conflict with our environment since reptiles and other cold-blooded animals like fishes don’t have the same problem. They are at home in their environment. They still need a range of temperatures in which they can operate as ‘living’, but they have a much greater tolerance for different temperatures. They are not at odds with the environment from day 1, they are more in tune with it – having little stress over it.  But, when they exert themselves their cells also produce some heat, as evidenced by snakes constantly flexing their muscles to create heat as they incubate their eggs.

Since probably only adults are reading this blog I’m safe in saying that we all pretty much overlook the problem of being at odds with our environment all the time.  There are times we’re cold or too hot and those are the times that we give it a little thought. How many times did you question god’s intention for creating the human body like it is?

I need to ask – for me, for you, for all of us…

WHY GOD?  What the hell is the purpose of this, and every other rule in your stupid game? What is the point of making mankind suffer physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually every single day of living on this planet and playing your stupid game?

WHAT is the purpose?

And what?

Silence, of course…

The first book of the bible is Genesis. I read a translation of it online. Here is the part about god creating everything in six days and my response to it. The bible is so filled with generalities that it appears to be wide open to interpretation of every sort. This is only the 1st book! I’m already lost!

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

Genesis was written by who? Already it’s 2nd hand. It doesn’t say, I created the heaven and earth. The earth was without form and void – but the spirit of god moved upon the face of the waters. What waters? So, the earth already existed I guess. With water. Pooled water if he moved upon the face of it.

God made light. He saw the light, that it was good? Good how? Morally good? Isn’t that the way the bible talks about the word good – as morally good, righteous? How can light be righteous?

God divided the light from the darkness… he made them a dichotomy. The evening and the morning were the first day. So, the day starts at 6pm – the start of evening, and the end of the day is the morning? Or, afternoon?

There are so many thngs open to interpretation here that it’s like a child’s story. Factually it’s saying almost nothing, leaving the “how”, the physical or magical ‘how’ up to anyone’s imagination.

Moving on.

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Huh? He made heaven in the midst of the waters. It divided the waters from the waters? Land I guess is firmament then, yes? Wait a second, no, the firmament is heaven. Heaven at first divided the waters – it was solid? Then it changed into something that exists above the waters. It is only above the water? Or, the land of the earth too?

And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

This is interesting. It says god LET the waters under the heaven gather together in one place. Let – meaning, it was something that was already a potential, he just removed whatever block there was to it happening on it’s own anyway. Like, letting evolution or some other process go forward as it would have anyway.

He says here LET the dry land appear. Appear visually or materially? I think from the first section where the writers says the earth was void and without form – that it already existed. Or, what is the earth then? It’s material. Rocks? Dirt? Something. But here he says LET it appear… so maybe it’s coming up over the top of the water. Origianlly the earth was a ball of water with a solid core? Who knows, and up to your interpretation.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Again – LET the earth bring forth grass. As if it was already in the process… or events had occurred that set the process in motion already… and he was undoing some block.

God saw the seeds that made plants were good. Good how? Good to die to feed other living things that will come later? Good to smell? Good to taste? Good visually to look at? Good how?

And the evening and the morning were the third day.

And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

HUH? He already made light. In fact, there was already an evening and a morning which he called the first through third days. This is so screwed up already that a child could question it. What is evening and morning if it isn’t in reference to the sun? What is it? The sun must have existed from day 1. Here the writer is talking about it being created on the fourth day!

God made two great lights? One to rule the day, the lesser one to rule the night? Darkness rules the night on this earth. There is no lesser light. Unless it’s referring to the moon – which is there sometimes, absent other nights. The moon is not another light either – it’s just a reflection of the first light – that is there all the time – the sun.

And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.

And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.

So the birds can fly into heaven? So the heaven is nothing more than the air above the water. It is not outside our atmosphere. It is the air.

God saw that the whales and every living thing that moves in the water was GOOD. Good how? Is it good when a whale eats thousands of fish in a gulp, digesting them with it’s stomach acid as they slowly die? Is it good when the barracuda eats the octopus – tearing it apart with vicious tears of it’s razor sharp teeth? Is it good that the only way the living things in the ocean survive is through eating other living or dead things in that ocean? What is GOOD? Good how? Nice to look at? Fun to look at?

And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Again, in creating the creatures of the land – what is good about it? They fight with each other over territory, food, sex partners. They tear each other up with teeth. Snakes swallow baby birds, lizards, bugs of every sort, frogs, salamanders, other snakes, and people to stay alive themselves. Is that good? What’s good about it? Good how?

God is male and female – not just man. Not just woman. In the image of himself, male and female. God is a hermaphrodite. Pity those that discrimate in look or action on hermaphrodites.

God said, “replenish the earth”? Was it once inhabited before? RE-plenish means to fill ‘again’. Implying it was filled with people once before. Or animals? Dinosaurs?

God sets up this outrageous power structure – saying – subdue the earth! Have dominion over every living thing that moves over it! Jesus. I noticed that the author didn’t say that this was good. Nobody could agree that power differentials between living things is a good thing as it causes much pain for those that are lower on the chain. In setting up differences in power between man and animal, it carries over to man vs. man. Man continually subjugates other men beneath him and uses for his own selfishness.

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

It’s as if the author was saying that god meant only the green plants to be eaten. Uhm, somebody better tell the animals as they’re eating each other. Humans saw that and decided – ah, we have dominion over everything that’s living so can eat it too?

This entire story is bizarre. It’s incomplete. It’s general enough that a kid with an 80 IQ could have written it. It’s ridiculous to think even for a second that the author had any kind of insight as to what a creator of all this was doing if this is all he/she came up with. What of gravity? Radiation? Selfishness? Psychology? Pain-pleasure paradigm? Dinosaurs? A whale was nothing compared to a brontosaurus. We have skeletons – we know they existed – why not mention dinosaurs?

And, why does the author begin many sentences with the word and ?