Like I should be talking about non sequiturs

[lykaios]

I try not to be too sanctimonious a vegetarian, but if you want to piss me off really quickly, tell me that God created chickens. I had this conversation at work earlier today. One of my coworkers said, "Well, God created chickens, and that's all I have to say about that!" (Though if she had had more to say about that, it might have been something

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[ninjajab]

AHAHA! This shit happens to me all the time.

[lykaios]

And then they moan orgasmically over their hamburgers just 'cos. (And I understand because I think they are tasty too.)

Okay, lemme tell you something awesome. Firefox doesn't think "orgasmically" is a word, but it did suggest "orgasmic ally." And I'm like. Is there any other kind?

Another favorite is "What about vegetable murder?!"

[happysponge]

But uh, God also created humans. So if chickens ate us, that would be okay too? Hell, trees could eat us if they wanted to.

So did the conversation go anywhere? Did this woman prove capable of logical thought?

Re: Another favorite is "What about vegetable murder?!"

[lykaios]

You, my ignorant friend, have never heard of the food chain!!! Also sanctioned by God.

After my comment she told myself and another girl (vegetarian) that we were limiting ourselves. I said I didn't feel limited and left it at that.

You're a vegan, aren't you? That's what started the whole conversation this morning. One of the women brought in banana bread she'd made with all these low fat ingredients blah blah blah, and I told them about some vegan doughnut holes I'd made at my friends house. And this same woman said, You know, until you two came to work here I'd never even HEARD of a vegan.

[happysponge]

Well, The Lion King taught me that lions are at the top of the food chain. Who am i to believe, Disney or God? I can't tell who is the higher power.

I was vegan for a long time and have recently gotten lazy in that sometimes i don't check ingredients and have accidents like not knowing gorgonzola is a cheese. Real vegans get livid about this sort of thing, so i don't use the word much. Also, it makes me sound overly pretentious (and really, i might be).

Tell me more about this woman, so i can feel justified in making fun of her. Is she at least nice, maybe?

[lykaios]

Disney makes a loooot more money and we won't even discuss how many more kids they win over.

I thought Gorgonzola was like some Greek goddess. Yeah. Not really, but you can see it, can't you? And don't worry. I would think you're pretentious in exactly the right way.

This woman...has bright red hair, fusses over her weight, gushes about her daughters all the time, loves all 80s music and movies, has a couple of truly atrocious lapses in grammar, and is always giving her leftover coffee to me and bringing us muffins. And she watches Gray's Anatomy. That is the best description I can give of her. She is actually a very nice lady and I like her a lot almost all the time. But then she has a couple little comments sometimes...

[lykaios]

a) Jah, began recently after several years of meat-eating, which were preceded by a year or two of half-assed vegetarianism...and before that more meat. And then that whole spiritual limbo thing.

b) I love hamburgers.

I don't know about you but when I go to hell, I'm blaming Richard Dawkins.

[relke]

God also created dinosaurs for us to ride! As the Flintstones said!

[relke]

Yeah. I hate it when people invoke God at key points (ahem, Descartes) to win an argument.

[lykaios]

You mean you don't have the image of a perfect being planted in your mind?
I won't follow this to its logical conclusion because I might accidentally talk you out of existence.

[relke]

I suggest the codependent arising of consciousness & object.

[lykaios]

However, God's sense of universal justice might be tickled if we DID eat Jeffrey Dahmer.