Post Praetorian said:
Possessed said:
Do chickens have personalities? If so, should we be eating them?
Is not personality synonymous with flavor?
Not necessarily. Everybody always wants the fattest cows, pigs, and chickens for their food, and being more fat would probably make them sluggish, therefor decreasing personality but increasing taste, so by this train of thought personality is inversely proportional to flavor.
Possessed said:
Post Praetorian said:
Possessed said:
Do chickens have personalities? If so, should we be eating them?
Is not personality synonymous with flavor?
Not necessarily. Everybody always wants the fattest cows, pigs, and chickens for their food, and being more fat would probably make them sluggish, therefor decreasing personality but increasing taste, so by this train of thought personality is inversely proportional to flavor.
Ah, very good! This is acceptable: personality may yet be equated with flavor, but perhaps now in a negative sense...
I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton
“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”
Where are my serious philosophical questions? Am I not waiting patiently enough?
I have condescended to adjust the topic heading to clarify several positions whilst confusing a myriad others. It was the least I could do...so, naturally, I did it.
I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton
“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”
I'd like to ask serious philosophical questions, but my absurdism gets in the way.
DuracellEnergizer said:
I'd like to ask serious philosophical questions, but my absurdism gets in the way.
Then you are most absurdedly in the right place...ask away and we shall peel the onion together, eh?
I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton
“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”
Possessed said:
Post Praetorian said:
Possessed said:
Do chickens have personalities? If so, should we be eating them?
Is not personality synonymous with flavor?
Not necessarily. Everybody always wants the fattest cows, pigs, and chickens for their food, and being more fat would probably make them sluggish, therefor decreasing personality but increasing taste, so by this train of thought personality is inversely proportional to flavor.
VINCENT
(to Jules, who's
nursing his coffee)
Want a sausage?
JULES
Naw, I don't eat pork.
VINCENT
Are you Jewish?
JULES
I ain't Jewish man, I just don't dig
on swine.
VINCENT
Why not?
JULES
They're filthy animals. I don't eat
filthy animals.
VINCENT
Sausages taste good. Pork chops taste
good.
JULES
A sewer rat may taste like pumpkin
pie. I'll never know 'cause even if
it did, I wouldn't eat the filthy
motherfucker. Pigs sleep and root in
shit. That's a filthy animal. I don't
wanna eat nothin' that ain't got
enough sense to disregard its own
feces.
VINCENT
How about dogs? Dogs eat their own
feces.
JULES
I don't eat dog either.
VINCENT
Yes, but do you consider a dog to be
a filthy animal?
JULES
I wouldn't go so far as to call a
dog filthy, but they're definitely
dirty. But a dog's got personality.
And personality goes a long way.
VINCENT
So by that rationale, if a pig had a
better personality, he's cease to be
a filthy animal?
JULES
We'd have to be talkin' 'bout one
motherfuckin' charmin' pig. It'd
have to be the Cary Grant of pigs.
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SPOCK
Fascinating.
I'd like to ask a serious question - why the thread title change?
There may be a good answer for this...but, then again, there "may" not...
I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton
“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”
Without the quotes, people may think that they're only supposed to post here during the month of May.
Star Wars Episode XXX: Erica Strikes Back
If you want Nice, go to France
Davnes007 said:
Without the quotes, people may think that they're only supposed to post here during the month of May.
My "fear" precisely!
I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton
“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”
"Interesting."
"Quotes"
Star Wars Episode XXX: Erica Strikes Back
If you want Nice, go to France
"Thank you!"
I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton
“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”
If mankind were on the brink of discovering time travel, would it be better that the knowledge be shared universally or banned outright?
I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton
“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”
Let's go forward in time and find out.
Post Praetorian said:
If mankind were on the brink of discovering time travel, would it be better that the knowledge be shared universally or banned outright?
That would be dependent on what the expected effects of time travel would be. Would it be possible to alter the present, or would the present have already been affected by a past time travel? Or would it simply start a new timeline? Would it be possible for a time traveler to return to the same time he had come from, or would he be stuck in the alternate timeline he had created?
Let us assume, for the sake of laziness, that any changes in the past would alter the present without an alternate timeline.
I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton
“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”
. . . or what if it was never possible to alter history, and whatever you ended up doing made the future turn out the way it always had?
If such might be the case it would seem unnecessary to ban the practice...but then how might one be certain of such a thing?
I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton
“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”
Post Praetorian said:
Let us assume, for the sake of laziness, that any changes in the past would alter the present without an alternate timeline.
That way lies paradoxical madness.
...and laziness...
I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton
“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”
On Sunday, 2.5 of the greatest minutes ever were broadcast on Irish Televison...
Stephen Fry on God / The Meaning Of Life / RTÉ One
The slightly horrified looks on the interviewer's (Gay Byrne) face make it all the better.
To borrow the title from Oolon Colluphid's 4th book "Well, That About Wraps It Up For God" ;-)
VIZ TOP TIPS! - PARENTS. Impress your children by showing them a floppy disk and telling them it’s a 3D model of a save icon.
Thank you for that...though I am not sure what the interviewer was expecting, I think the rest of us knew what was coming...
I was once…but now I’m not… Further: zyzzogeton
“It wasn’t the flood that destroyed the pantry…”
Ryan McAvoy said:
On Sunday, 2.5 of the greatest minutes ever were broadcast on Irish Televison...
Stephen Fry on God / The Meaning Of Life / RTÉ One
The slightly horrified looks on the interviewer's (Gay Byrne) face make it all the better.
To borrow the title from Oolon Colluphid's 4th book "Well, That About Wraps It Up For God" ;-)
Four words: blue and orange morality.