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Paradise Lost, Carnivorousness Gained
Mar. 31st, 2007 07:01 amThe T-Rex ate coconuts! That still doesn't explain what tapeworms did back in the pre-Fall times, though.
One thing I kind of have to wonder is, if you take the Garden of Eden story literally (which I obviously don't), why did animals also suffer after the Fall of Man? It wasn't like THEY ate the forbidden fruit, yet many of them also have painful childbirths, and apparently many of them suddenly became prey for others. So what's the deal? Is it a group punishment, like when the teacher makes EVERYBODY stay after class because one kid did something wrong, or the scene in Full Metal Jacket where R. Lee Ermey makes Vincent D'Onofrio eat the doughnut while everyone else does pushups? So when you hear about a tiger mauling a person, is that its way of saying, "Thanks for ruining that whole Eden thing for everyone, you dumbass species!"?
Also, from what I hear, Rush Limbaugh has said that he thinks John Edwards wants to use his wife's cancer to his advantage in his presidential campaign. Even putting aside the total lack of human decency (which goes without saying for Rush), I had to wonder whether anyone ever voted for a presidential candidate because they felt sorry for him. And then I remembered who the current president was.
Now let's take a survey. Or rather, I'LL take a survey, and you can read my answers.
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One thing I kind of have to wonder is, if you take the Garden of Eden story literally (which I obviously don't), why did animals also suffer after the Fall of Man? It wasn't like THEY ate the forbidden fruit, yet many of them also have painful childbirths, and apparently many of them suddenly became prey for others. So what's the deal? Is it a group punishment, like when the teacher makes EVERYBODY stay after class because one kid did something wrong, or the scene in Full Metal Jacket where R. Lee Ermey makes Vincent D'Onofrio eat the doughnut while everyone else does pushups? So when you hear about a tiger mauling a person, is that its way of saying, "Thanks for ruining that whole Eden thing for everyone, you dumbass species!"?
Also, from what I hear, Rush Limbaugh has said that he thinks John Edwards wants to use his wife's cancer to his advantage in his presidential campaign. Even putting aside the total lack of human decency (which goes without saying for Rush), I had to wonder whether anyone ever voted for a presidential candidate because they felt sorry for him. And then I remembered who the current president was.
Now let's take a survey. Or rather, I'LL take a survey, and you can read my answers.
( Read more... )
