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A person has two kidneys; one advises him to do good and one advises him to do evil. And it stands to reason that the one advising him to do good is to his right and the one that advises him to do evil is to his left.

\u2014 Talmud (Berakhot 61a)

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As I left the Uber, I saw with horror the growing wet spot around my crotch. \u201cIt\u2019s not urine!\u201d, I almost blurted to the driver, before considering that 1) this would just call attention to it and 2) it was urine. \u201cIt\u2019s not my urine,\u201d was my brain\u2019s next proposal - but no, that was also false. \u201cIt is urine, and it is mine, but just because it\u2019s pooling around my crotch doesn\u2019t mean I peed myself; that\u2019s just a coincidence!\u201d That one would have been true, but by the time I thought of it he had driven away.

Like most such situations, it began with a Vox article.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/my-left-kidney

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