He makes an excellent point about our inability to give them humane lives. I think, however, that this system is too labor-intensive to be practical. Each chicken would require individual treatment to have the brainstem severed, tubes inserted, and body hung. There's the question of pressure sores and infection and…

I like this and could listen to it for ages.

Perfectly good reasoning. My one personal caveat is that I don't limit what I'll learn from to just one book or philosophy.

I agree that the basics of Christianity are probably original (at least in the sense that they weren't straight copies from some other religion), but a lot of the extras are definitely later ad-ons. The virginity of his mother definitely bears resemblance to other virgin-worshiping cults of the time and, given the…

Oh wow. Thank you for posting this. I've got a real interest in ancient religions, and reading both this and getting a link to an article like that is awesome.

Oh google and deviantart, thou art able to find me an image for *every* conversation.

'cause men are just complete robots when it comes to war. Yeah, no emotions there at all, those stoic, strong, silent guys...

You forgot we're needed to pose in pointy bras and boyshort underwear whilst wearing lipstick and high heels, so the men can paint us on the side of their fighter bombers.

redacted because I'm a complete spaz right now and couldn't figure out a way to finish my thought, which went something like "train the guys to look at women as combatants from the start by having women in combat roles on our side, so they can cope better when the enemy combatants are women."

self-redacted. Because I don't want to advocate violence against a presidential candidate. Even one as delusional as this guy.

I use the "fear is the mid-killer" chant to calm down when I have to do something like walk on a bouncy suspension bridge 100 feet up in the air. It works enough to keep me moving instead of letting me vaporlock.

heh....

It's an interesting topic. The concept of the soul as a determiner for personhood is an old one, but has no basis in scientific reality, since - despite some interesting efforts - no evidence of a metaphysical world has ever been found. So for us, it's completely academic as to weather a soul exists or not, hence the…

Eh. Nobody thought to check about fetus souls when there was magic??? Drat.

This is the major issue with abortion: does a smudge of cells have a soul? In the Buffyverse, in the past it was possible to tell if something had a soul or not - a thing could be determined to be ensouled or not. So, determine when "soul" appears in measurable amounts and hey presto, controversy can be put to rest...

Black female protagonist wearing decent-looking clothing.

Taboo about sex = just barely enough to prevent public intercourse. No taboo has ever managed to override the possibility of getting some nookie, even when said nookie will literally kill you.

It's how carefully styled it looks that kills it. That does not look like smartassed nerdboy hair, that looks like punk rocker wannabe hair.

Reminds me a lot of a turtle I once saw in Georgia trailing a massive string of algae after it. Except, turtles and algae probably don't do so well in icy waters like this. But something that normally swims in these waters dragging something that it's been caught on, perhaps?