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Improved title: "Whose skeleton was buried by a secret society under this Baltimore bar?"

• qup 2y ago
  In the new title, the skeleton has gone from person to property.
  • LoganDark 2y ago
    I would say the skeleton is a property of the body. I wouldn't say I'm my skeleton - I'm just a flesh automaton animated by neurotransmitters...
    • cameroncooper 2y ago
      "flesh automaton" reminds me of this great short story by Terry Bisson I came across in an issue of MIT's Twelve Tomorrows https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
    • cheeseomlit 2y ago
      Time to go back to the archon grid for that sweet divine light
  • Strang 2y ago
    Grammatical possession does not imply property. "My grandmother," "my hometown," "my skeleton," etc.
    • drhagen 2y ago
      In Chapter 21 of the Screwtape Letters, CS Lewis discusses the dangers of interchanging of the various flavors of "my". (Well, a fictional demon monologues about the utility of confusing "my" in the mind of humans, but that's the Screwtape Letters for you.)
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  • fluoridation 2y ago
    No skeleton has ever been a person.
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