Way-out, Saturday party-time, plist-type open-ended question....grounded in Puritanism maybe?

[Prashant Kumar]

I heard on Oprah that we're 99% bacteria. The other 1% is belly-button lint.

On 25 June 2012 17:27, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:

> I heard we're something on the order of 90 percent bacteria and 10 percent
> human. I've also heard that people who drink only purified water have less
> resistance to bacteria in untreated water. I've always been a proponent of
> leaving my small wounds open to heal on the belief that many small
> infections boost resistance against the advent of staving off bacterial
> infections in larger wounds. Whether or not it works, I don't know, but I
> can drink the water most anywhere I go without any problems, and I have a
> nice collection of scars untouched by physicians.
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Michael Bailey <
> michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> first of all...please post plaintext...my reply would've gone out in
>> the evil html-cruft mode of your post, but I manually changed it back
>> to plaintext...
>>
>> anyway, a friend of ours from church perhaps encountered this with her
>> daughter, she (the mother) is a neat freak and always using those
>> sterile wipes and so forth, (those things sort of give me the creeps
>> although I can handle it...) anyway the daughter came down with this
>> weird immune-based failure to thrive -- but eventually recovered...not
>> sure if the therapy involved getting down and dirty or not
>>
>> however, didn't I read somewhere how the human body's mass is like 70%
>> germs anyway?
>>
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> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
> the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
> reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
> groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
> urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
>
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