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

[Paul Mackin]

On 6/25/2012 3:49 AM, Prashant Kumar wrote:
> I heard on Oprah that we're 99% bacteria. The other 1% is belly-button 
> lint.

I imagine the measure is not by weight.   Do bacteria weigh anything?

I believe that by weight we're 75 percent water, which would of course 
include the water, if any, that the bacteria contain.

I follow Ian's philosophy about not treating minor wounds and Michael's 
vis a vis wipes.

Better to 'friend' as many germs as possible is the way I was raised.

All signals are off when it comes to staph infections in hospitals.

P




>
> On 25 June 2012 17:27, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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?
>
>
>
>
>     -- 
>     "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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