Comments on: Exceptionalism, the stupidity of http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/ I might have been born yesterday, sir, but I stayed up all night. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:42:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Steve http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-48 Steve Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:32:20 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-48 Nothing has a soul, not even your dog. Your consciousness is an emergent property of the electric meat in your head. There is no ghost, only machine! I find the idea of gods and religion to be an insufficiently tiny lens through which to perceive such a vast and wonderful planet (let alone universe). Nothing has a soul, not even your dog. Your consciousness is an emergent property of the electric meat in your head.

There is no ghost, only machine!

I find the idea of gods and religion to be an insufficiently tiny lens through which to perceive such a vast and wonderful planet (let alone universe).

]]> By: Nicole http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-47 Nicole Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:33:43 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-47 did you know that if you stretched out a human cerebral cortex it would be about the size of a classroom? did you know that if you stretched out a human cerebral cortex it would be about the size of a classroom?

]]> By: Tom http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-46 Tom Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:10:43 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-46 James Brown has soul. I'll bet he's delicious. James Brown has soul. I’ll bet he’s delicious.

]]> By: Ananth http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-45 Ananth Mon, 27 Mar 2006 16:05:55 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-45 Just because something has a soul, doesn't it don't taste good... Just because something has a soul, doesn’t it don’t taste good…

]]> By: Tom http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-44 Tom Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:06:54 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-44 Only people have souls, I have a soul, ME ME ME!! Whales don't! Whales are meat! MEAT MEAT MEAT!!! Yummmmmm.... And, "soul" is the name I give to my hearty layer of cerebral cortex that allows me to engage in abstract thought, and call you a whalefucker. whalefucker. I had no problem with your soul-business, actually, I was annoyed at the insinuation of how everything will be grand once people are gone and the animals rule. That won't be grand. That'll suck, because we'll be dead. Only people have souls, I have a soul, ME ME ME!! Whales don’t! Whales are meat! MEAT MEAT MEAT!!! Yummmmmm….

And, “soul” is the name I give to my hearty layer of cerebral cortex that allows me to engage in abstract thought, and call you a whalefucker. whalefucker.

I had no problem with your soul-business, actually, I was annoyed at the insinuation of how everything will be grand once people are gone and the animals rule. That won’t be grand. That’ll suck, because we’ll be dead.

]]> By: Ananth http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-43 Ananth Mon, 27 Mar 2006 06:05:47 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-43 Why can't whales have souls? I for one am pretty sure my dog has a soul, so I would think whales do too. Also, you shouldn't confuse god's self appointed interpertors statements as being the word of the big guy(s) or girl(s). Just because the catholic church doesn't think that animals go to heaven, doesn't mean they are right, know what I mean? Why can’t whales have souls? I for one am pretty sure my dog has a soul, so I would think whales do too. Also, you shouldn’t confuse god’s self appointed interpertors statements as being the word of the big guy(s) or girl(s). Just because the catholic church doesn’t think that animals go to heaven, doesn’t mean they are right, know what I mean?

]]> By: Steve http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-42 Steve Mon, 27 Mar 2006 05:44:05 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-42 That is exactly the opposite of the point I was trying to make. It's not that whales have souls, it's that we don't. We're just chimps, and we're not as starkly different from the rest of the animals as we'd like to think. That is exactly the opposite of the point I was trying to make. It’s not that whales have souls, it’s that we don’t. We’re just chimps, and we’re not as starkly different from the rest of the animals as we’d like to think.

]]> By: Tom http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-41 Tom Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:21:03 +0000 http://stevesiwy.com/blog/2006/03/25/exceptionalism-the-stupidity-of/#comment-41 You're such a dirty hippie Steve. If you go vegetarian on me we're not friends anymore; that, and I'm going to dance on your nutsack. Do you honestly believe that people kill more indiscrimately than animals (with the obvious exception of Mogadishu) or have something to learn from animals? In your magnificent wilderness your mother would have eaten you, what's so magnificent about that? Mourn our dead? Check. Depressed in captivity? Cubicle. Check. Dance out maps? All the fucking time. Why, just this morning I had to rearrange the furniture so I could properly tell Megan how to get to Staples. Whales have souls my ass. Shouldn't those whales be out spying on submarines for us or something? Whoever has the thickest cerebral cortex gets to eat the species with the thinner or non-existent cerebral cortexes. That's the way it works. You whalefucker. You’re such a dirty hippie Steve. If you go vegetarian on me we’re not friends anymore; that, and I’m going to dance on your nutsack.

Do you honestly believe that people kill more indiscrimately than animals (with the obvious exception of Mogadishu) or have something to learn from animals? In your magnificent wilderness your mother would have eaten you, what’s so magnificent about that?

Mourn our dead? Check.
Depressed in captivity? Cubicle. Check.
Dance out maps? All the fucking time. Why, just this morning I had to rearrange the furniture so I could properly tell Megan how to get to Staples.

Whales have souls my ass. Shouldn’t those whales be out spying on submarines for us or something? Whoever has the thickest cerebral cortex gets to eat the species with the thinner or non-existent cerebral cortexes. That’s the way it works.

You whalefucker.

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