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Steven M
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 Posted: Jul 21, 2009 10:25 pm Post subject: Why did the chicken cross the road? |
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The question "Why did the chicken cross the road" is invalid. It is invalid because "why" assumes that the chicken had some reason for taking the action "cross the road". This, in turn, assumes that the chicken has the concept of "road"; after all, if the chicken doesn't know that the road is there, then the chicken did not - from the chickens point of view - cross the road, and consequently it is meaningless to ask for its motivations for doing so.
Since chicken is an animal, it is unlikely that it has the concept of road in the same sense than humans do; since it is a bird, whose ancestors were propably capable of flight in the near past, it is unlikely to have the concept of road in any sense - why would a flying bird need roads?
Therefore, the chicken can never have any motivation for crossing the road, since from the chickens point of view, it never does any such thing. It simply moves from one point to another, and these points happen to be on the opposite side of a flat area of ground. No road-crossing has happened.
Think of it this way: if you walk over a scent trail left by some animal, and you don't know that the trail is there, it is foolish to ask your motives of crossing that trail. One can ask your motives for walking in the first place, but the crossing was pure coincidence and not something you chose.
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EJazzle
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| Posted: Jul 21, 2009 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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jboss, hahaha you beat me to it!!
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jboss, LMFAO YOU MADE MY MORNING  |
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taku
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| Posted: Jul 22, 2009 9:10 am Post subject: |
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chickens can fly?
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Steven M
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| Posted: Jul 22, 2009 10:02 am Post subject: |
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-=AlexXx=-, nice find... didn't realize the dudes behind that site wakeskate too. Must have seen my thread or something. 
jboss, can I have 4 mins of my morning back?
taku, I don't know if they can fly persay... but they do fall with amazing style under the right circumstances.
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jboss, haha, i have 1 and 2 on my ipod.  |
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| Posted: Jul 25, 2009 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| taku wrote: | | chickens can fly? |
who ever said that they did?
"since it is a bird, whose ancestors were propably capable of flight in the near past"
and alexx, what was the point of your post? a lame attempt to call steven m out? |
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taku
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| Posted: Jul 25, 2009 11:43 am Post subject: |
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| dylo wrote: | | taku wrote: | | chickens can fly? |
who ever said that they did?
"since it is a bird, whose ancestors were propably capable of flight in the near past" |
Sure, taken out of context like you quoted, it sounds like no one said chickens can fly. But read the entire sentence he posted:
whose ancestors were propably capable of flight in the near past, it is unlikely to have the concept of road in any sense - why would a flying bird need roads?
The whole "debate" about why the chicken didn't cross the road is not very fluid, but he's trying to make the point that the chicken didn't cross the road, at least in the chickens mind. And "why would a flying bird need roads" backs up the statement I made, that you tried to call me out on.
Besides, everyone knows the reasoning behind the chickens decision --- "A road unexamined is not worth crossing."
duh
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| Posted: Jul 25, 2009 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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dylo, alexx and steven are good friends
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my bad i sound like the biggest vag in that last post, wait make that every post on here  |
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| Posted: Jul 26, 2009 11:27 am Post subject: |
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dylo, <3
Steven M, <3 |
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Steven M
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| Posted: Jul 27, 2009 9:56 am Post subject: |
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EJazzle, lies.
-=AlexXx=-, homo.
/sarcasm !!1!!1!1!1
but really.. alexxx you homo.
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| Steven M, come visit with chris u gay. |
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