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View Poll Results: Who rules you? Your heart or your head?
Just the facts, ma'am. 3 11.11%
I trust the force. 1 3.70%
It depends, sometimes head, sometimes heart, 50/50. 16 59.26%
Mostly head, rarely gut. 5 18.52%
I have excellent instincts/intuition, I only resort to facts occasionally. 2 7.41%
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Old 04-27-2005, 10:32 AM   #16
jaguar
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anthropomorphism is the word your looking for though symbolic metaphor through anthropomorphisation might be a more complete description. Now i think about it anthropomorphisation of part of a person leads to an intersting kind of meta-anthropomorphisation loop.

I'm going to go lie down now.
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