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Fetus yeetus
fetuchet? i don't speek franch is that a word?
It sounds like something you might hear in a 19th century French bordel, and not necessarily in a good way.
How can you just assert that seeds are not anologous to sperm? You don't get to dismiss someone else's apology because your perspective has less layers of abstraction and is therefore more accurate.
The entire concept of analogy requires abstraction. Any analogy can be torn down by pointing out some inaccuracy in the comparison. If there weren't any inaccuracies then it would be two thing anologous to each other it would just be two examples of one thing.
Sperm is absolutely anologous to seeds. That's why we call it sperm.
...from Late Latin sperma "seed, semen," from Greek sperma "the seed of plants, also of animals," literally "that which is sown," from speirein "to sow, scatter" (from PIE *sper-mn-, from root *sper- "to spread, to sow,"...
And then there's also literal ginkgo tree sperm
You're confusing the metaphorical sort of "analogous" with the term "analogous" used in evolutionary biology.
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When I met the woman who would become my wife, I knew nothing of biology. She wasn't a biologist but was far more knowledgeable on the subject than I. (Side note: this is still true.)
She told me that fruit is an "interkingdom, interspecies orgy" since it involved multiple partners and participants of both flora and fauna varieties.
Fascinated by that, I posted the message on my Facebook (it was a long time ago and I didn't know they were evil). Suddenly, all my friends thought I was weird.
“Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.” -Terence McKenna
I like the quote, but what does "yang" mean in this context? Thanks in advance.
McKenna just uses a lot of terms from different philosophies and cultures, most often leaning to Eastern philosophies though.
Here it's what you probably thought of, the yang in "to yin and yang". So if you're into Chinese creative theory... (but if you're not you can just tldr; an "active"/"masculine" solution, but I realise those don't properly translate the concept and simplify it a tad too much)
In Chinese creative theory, the universe develops out of a primary chaos of primordial qi or material energy, organized into the cycles of yin and yang, force and motion leading to form and matter. "Yin" is retractive, passive, contractive and receptive in nature in a contrasting relationship to "yang" is repelling, active, expansive and repulsive in principle; this dichotomy in some form, is seen in all things in nature and their patterns of change, difference and transformations. For example, biological, psychological and cosmological seasonal cycles, the historical evolution of landscapes over days, weeks, years to eons. The original meaning of yin was depicted as the northerly shaded side of a hill and yang being the bright southerly aspect. When pertaining to human gender Yin is associated to more rounded feminine characteristics and Yang as sharp and masculine traits.
That is indeed what I thought of, but I wasn't sure whether to believe it since I've never heard it used in isolation. Again, I appreciate the answer.
Your wife sounds awesome. If your friends thought your weirdness was awesome, then they're rad. If not, they are less awesome than your wife.
My wife is awesome! Thank you for noticing.
My friends were a mixed bag in terms of how they reacted. However, I don't think I would marry any of them, so I'll have to agree that few are as rad as my wife.
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