The Human Reliance Of Toilet Paper
You know, there are times when I’m about to publish something on this here blog and I start to think of all the different types of people that read it. The pastors, the parents, the impressionable teenagers, the business men, and the artists. And that starts to freak me out a little when what I am publishing is ‘questionable’ or something that’s most likely only going to be funny to me and maybe three other people on the planet. This may be one of those posts, but here goes anyway.
Now, I know there are also several different ‘beliefs’ reading this blog. Whether it’s Christian believing that we were created by a maker, to the evolutionist believing that we evolved from slime, or even to the folks who don’t really care where we came from or where we are going. They are all here, and I respect that. But allow me to throw out a question that I was thinking the other day when I, you know… had some time to slow down and think.
How is it that we were created, or have evolved into (depending on your current belief) being reliant on something like toilet paper? Now I say ‘something like toilet paper’ because I know that back in the day something different was probably used. Maybe it was leaves. Maybe it was cloth. Maybe it was a good old fashioned swim in the river, but to some level a reliance on “something else” to remain clean was formed. This concerns me.
It seems that our bodies at the very root of existence should be fully capable to function without a reliance on any man made thing right? I mean, animals don’t need toilet paper. Why do we? Maybe the food has changed. Maybe there was a shift in consumption as humans where we all the sudden became… messier? Who knows. And I don’t know if I should really be thinking this heavily on it, but it was something that hit me the other day.
So what do we think? Am I on crack? Is this one of those times that I should have opted out of pushing ‘Publish’? Or am I on to something?
You are cracking ME up! I think you may have just had a little too much time to “think.”
When it comes to me and toilet paper the only thing I end up wondering is… “Who didn’t replace the roll!!!!”
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probably the food change you mention… plus a lot more food being processed vs hunting and gathering days… and a lot higher body fat than ancestors adding more rounding and flesh around the area to get dirty.
I don’t know about the “animals don’t need toilet paper” part because there have been times that we have had to use baby wipes on our dog.
yea i have dogs that need toilet paper every now and then. furry pomeranians!
the difference in them and us is that they don’t care that they have crap all over themselves. I like to clean mine off.
Okay, this whole ‘wiping a dogs butt’ thing is making me sort of want to throw up…
Ok… not gonna lie. I was thinking about tp the other day as well.
Like, why do we even need to poop at all? Maybe GOD could have made us to not need to poop, or maybe all the waste or whatever could have escaped through our pores as sweat or gas or something.
Just saying. It would make things easier.
LOL Brody! Believe me, its not near as bad as some baby diapers can be.
Yes, I think the smokey bars have gotten to your brain cells!
But, I do think if my family used a squirt bottle to clean up, I’d save a ton of mula!!!!!
Yes, definitely on crack…that, combined with the current topic, forced coffee out of my nostrils! Thanks!!
Well “on crack” was definitely the best pun I have ever heard… thanks for throwing that out there! But! …on another note, I personally think you threw this blog up just to have a good excuse to put a picture of toilet paper on your blog. Good thinking for sure.
I vote you are on crack!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!! This made me laugh, though!
I tried to comment last night from my smartphone, but it did something funky & cleared it before I could hit submit. Oh, well.
I vote that you are on crack. I think every so often how lucky I am to have toilet paper. I can’t imagine using leaves or bark! Yuck. Almost as bad as the doggie stories. Yuck.
Just keep “publishing” those random thoughts. I mean your blog is called “in case you were wondering” after all! I do wonder about your sanity sometimes! Too much cigarette smoke is my guess.
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Greetings Brody,
Animals scrape poop off themselves when out by a bark, jump into water or clean off on leaves and perhaps have insects or mate help by licking the waste off! It is one of the quickest ways to get rid of solid waste instead of ongoing oozing via pores—sweats, etc are enough! I’m sure some animals would have stunk if brought in from outdoors…however, we now have house animals getting baths, etc, so that helps a lot. For humans, there are changes in most areas that range from using clothstree leavespaper (these can hurt the tender areas)toilet rolls which are softer depending on brand.
Interesting topic and I do not think you are on something but simply wondering – God bless you and fam! +
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2 cents:
cent #1 – the need for toilet paper is a result of the corruption that came after Adam and Eve’s sin in the garden of eden. God didn’t intend waste or filth in His creation, we brought it in…and now, sadly, we have to live with it.
cent #2 – as some other folks have mentioned, most animals either A) walk around with their feces in their fur, B) rub their rumps on trees/rocks/other non-smooth things, or, C) we could be like cats and lick that area clean.
the. worst.
if you eat all-natural and really healthy, you will find that you don’t really need much tp. if you eat s every day…you will need a lot. whole point = eat healthy. it’s easier that way. but either way, wipe your a!
Well, I think it is a great question, Brody. And although I think gene answered it with cent #1, I sometimes have similar thoughts that I ponder. Since I studied science in college, I heard a lot about evolution and adaptations and survival of the fittest. I think some of these concepts do exist in nature because God made nature to function that way. The questions are fun to ponder. You know, those things that you might want to ask God when you get to heaven? ha ha!
I like these posts. Keep’em coming.
ON top of the other fine answers above, we also wear clothes, which increases the urgency with which we need to clean off any, er, residue.
I defecate clean. I don’t use or need toilet paper or water to clean myself. How?
I eat only what I can gather with my bare hands.
I know I can kill a pig, a lamb, a chicken, a turkey, etc…with my bare hands. I can’t kill a cow with my bare hands, so I don’t eat beef. Cows milk is for the baby cows(Calves); not for humans.
I eat every vegetable and fruit. I don’t drink processed juices because they contain refined sugar. Refined sugar damages the internal organs.
Its simple, if you can kill it/gather it with only your hands, its meant to be eaten. Chicken eggs don’t count, its stealing from the chickens!