For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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      You can kind of visualize it as wire EDM manufacturing. Although not a fully accurate depiction, but it fractures the connection between the two sides.

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        That analogy relies on the reader having any idea what wire EDM manufacturing is. ;) Not exactly an everyday topic.

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      The apple was never whole… it was simply tightly grouped and a subgroup has been severed from another

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        And it was severed by a thin slice of atoms that used their force field as a wedge to force them apart.