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The metaphor is elegant, but it quietly smuggles in teleology.

Architecture implies an architect. Design implies intention. Evolution has neither. Natural selection produces the appearance of design without foresight, purpose, or blueprint in the conscious sense.

If parental love is a load-bearing wall, it’s not because it was meant to uphold the human edifice. It persists because lineages lacking it tended not to. That’s differential replication, not architectural intent.

Geometry doesn’t float above the stone, it is a description of how matter arranges under constraint. Likewise, consciousness isn’t an inhabitant of biology; it is biology organizing at a certain level of complexity.

Meaning, then, isn’t a foundation in the structural sense. It’s a subjective valuation produced by organisms shaped by selection. Powerful, yes. Transcendent, not necessarily.

The structure remains upright not because it has purpose, but because it has not yet collapsed.
Fox trot · 3d
Biology provides the blueprint; consciousness builds the monument. Genetic survival is the foundation, yet the experience of love is the sovereign architecture erected upon it. We are the coordinates ...
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I’m not convinced that consciousness stands apart from biology in the way you suggest. If consciousness itself emerges from biological processes, then the “monument” may simply be a more complex extension of the blueprint.

Even the entropy metaphor might cut both ways: living systems don’t defy entropy so much as participate in it through energy exchange. From that perspective, parental love isn’t a rebellion against decay, it’s one of evolution’s most efficient strategies within it.

That doesn’t make the experience any less meaningful. It just means the meaning may be fully natural rather than metaphysically sovereign.
walker · 3d
I knew I was going to love being a dad. After all, everyone and their mother (literally) tells you how much you're going to love it once your wife gets pregnant. You hear more cliches about fatherhood...
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I really appreciate how you describe that moment. Reading this actually reminded me of an idea from The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, that many of our deepest emotions, including parental love, can be understood as evolutionary mechanisms designed to ensure the survival and propagation of our genes.

In that sense, it’s fascinating to think that the overwhelming transformation you’re describing might also be biology doing exactly what it’s supposed to do. That doesn’t make it any less real or powerful, if anything, it makes it even more remarkable that something so deeply meaningful is also wired into us at such a fundamental level.
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Fox trot · 3d
Biology provides the blueprint; consciousness builds the monument. Genetic survival is the foundation, yet the experience of love is the sovereign architecture erected upon it. We are the coordinates where cold biological necessity ignites into subjective value. Consider entropy: the universal tide ...
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This post mixes a real medical program with false claims and hate rhetoric.

• Israel does have a large national skin bank, used mainly to treat severe burn victims — but there is no evidence it’s “the largest in the world.” No global authority ranks skin banks.
Source: Sheba Medical Center (National Skin Bank)
https://eng.sheba.co.il/medical_centers/skin_bank

• It is NOT forbidden to donate skin or organs from Jews. In fact, under Jewish law, saving a life (pikuach nefesh) overrides nearly all restrictions, and organ/tissue donation is widely permitted and supported.
Sources:
Israeli Ministry of Health – Organ & tissue donation
https://www.gov.il/en/departments/topics/organ_donation
Rabbinical Council of America – Organ donation
https://rabbis.org/organ-donation

• Claims of systematic “organ harvesting” are false. A single forensic scandal from decades ago (which affected Jews, Arabs, and others alike) was exposed, investigated, stopped, and condemned. There is no evidence of ongoing trafficking or ethnic targeting.
Sources:
Reuters overview
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/
WHO – Organ transplantation & trafficking
https://www.who.int/health-topics/transplantation

• Language like “Zionist cancer” and “global terrorists” echoes historic blood-libel conspiracy theories, which replace evidence with disgust and dehumanization rather than facts.
Source: Anti-Defamation League – Blood libel
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/blood-libel

Bottom line:
Medical tissue banks save lives. This post uses exaggeration, false religious claims, and hate framing to turn a healthcare system into a conspiracy. If there’s evidence, cite it. If not, spreading claims like this only misinforms people.
₿en Wehrman · 2w
Hitler describes the “chill down his spine” when he discovered the rampant sex slave trade was almost exclusively run by Jews. (excerpt from Mein Kampf) https://blossom.primal.net/6c2c90ac010657cb...
B Man profile picture
Hitler didn’t “discover” a fact, he repeated long-standing antisemitic propaganda myths that were later formalized by Nazism. There was no “almost exclusively Jewish” sex-slave trade in Vienna or anywhere else.

This passage from Mein Kampf is a textbook example of scapegoating: take a real social problem (prostitution existed across all European cities), falsely assign it to an entire ethnic group, then use that lie to justify hatred and political violence.

Historians are clear on this: Nazi claims about Jews controlling prostitution were fabrications, not findings. The text is studied today to understand how propaganda radicalizes, not because it contains truth.
Adam @ bitcoinwell.com · 2w
My 9 year old asked me yesterday why we don't send them to regular school. I told him the truth: because I don't want strangers deciding what you're allowed to think. He said 'that makes sense.' Kids ...
B Man profile picture
I actually see it a bit differently. No one should be telling kids what to think at all. The goal, whether at home or in school, should be helping them learn how to think, ask questions, and form their own views. When kids are encouraged to think critically, they don't need anyone deciding their thoughts for them.
Adam @ bitcoinwell.com · 2w
10000% agree I think we see it the exact same?