Religious zealots banned from adopting new opinions?

[Gurm]

It's a different topic, so it's safe, right?

Discuss!

[Umfriend]

Sure, post an opinion first. Otherwise close this or delete it is my suggestion.

[Gurm]

I can't post an opinion - read the title!

[Byock]

Sweet! I have always wanted to be a Zealot! Now if only I had an opinion.

[Jammrock]

I now dub you all HERETICS, so you are welcome to discuss whether zealots are banned from adopting new opinions. Of course, that would make me a zealot and must therefore be banned from this topic.

[Gurm]

See how elegantly simple this all is?

[Marshmallowman]

Is this like some kind of "which came first byock or the egg" thing?

[Gurm]

Clearly since Byock hatched FROM an egg, the egg came before him. Did the egg come before the chicken? This depends on your religious persuasion, since either you believe that God created the universe in 6 days and took Saturday off (damn Christian heretics and their Sunday pagan-sabbath) in which case he clearly created the chicken outright (it says he created the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, NOT the eggs thereof) OR you believe in evolution in which case whatever bird evolved into the chicken would have laid its OWN egg, not a chicken egg, but certainly an egg nonetheless. If one wants to narrow the question to which came first the chicken or the "chicken egg" then clearly no matter WHAT you believe, the chicken definitely came first.

But Byock, despite being a fine specimen of chicken-hood, is clearly not the proto-chicken, as it were.

[KvHagedorn]

If the ancestors of chickens were dinosaurs and dinosaurs laid eggs, clearly the egg came first.

[Byock]

But Byock, despite being a fine specimen of chicken-hood, is clearly not the proto-chicken, as it were.

Tis True, my mother was Dutch.

[Gurm]

If the ancestors of chickens were dinosaurs and dinosaurs laid eggs, clearly the egg came first.

Yes, I covered that. Unless, of course, the question is intended as "which came first, the chicken or the CHICKEN egg?" in which case...

[gt40]

I've never actually seen a chicken hatch from an egg, so without any direct evidence that chickens hatch from eggs, I'd have to say the chicken came first.
And if we talking about chicken pron, then normally the rooster comes first, and than possibly the chicken - after a few more roosters.

[Gurm]

I've never actually seen a chicken hatch from an egg, so without any direct evidence that chickens hatch from eggs, I'd have to say the chicken came first.

I have, you can trust me. I'm a Libertarian. Or maybe a Librarian. Not really sure which.

[KvHagedorn]

Yes, I covered that. Unless, of course, the question is intended as "which came first, the chicken or the CHICKEN egg?" in which case...

Well, at some point, a non-chicken evolved into a chicken, so that non-chicken was the layer of the egg which came before the first chicken.

So, to be a chicken egg, does it have to be layed by a chicken or contain a chicken? Again, we see how reality can be defined by bureaucracy and language.

[Jammrock]

Well, at some point, a non-chicken evolved into a chicken, so that non-chicken was the layer of the egg which came before the first chicken.

So, to be a chicken egg, does it have to be layed by a chicken or contain a chicken? Again, we see how reality can be defined by bureaucracy and language.

pie ... pie is the answer.