I always assumed that the less intelligent animals had less of a, oh call it life force, than the more intelligent animals, I always assumed that there was kind of a gradient with us at the top and the paramecium way down at less than toe level, Of course it's all speculation. One rather suspects that outside of some apes and maybe some dolphins and I've heard there are some pretty smart birds, that most of them lead the unexamined life. One wonders when the first proto human paused in his hunting, or in her gathering, and wondered what is this all about, all this eating and fighting and sexing, what is the purpose of it all? But probably they were immediately distracted by something that might eat them or something that they might eat, and that whole thing didn't really get started until we figured out agriculture and the guys on top. who didn't have to slave in the fields all day, got to thinking about things.
It's a story Beagles, of course feeding and sheltering animals wouldn't make them smart or else our pets would be ruling us, well they sort of do, but outside of feeding them and cleaning their litter box, and pausing to rub their bellies when our heads are full of important ideas that we want to share with our fellow deep thinkers, they pretty much let us do whatever we want. The guy had been a real human, but after he died they collected all the data about him and put it in some smart computer so that it kind of made a replica of him, the way they do in a lot of science fiction stories.
I was putting you on about the saltpeter. It was a rumor alive and well, though few of us actually believed it, when I went to college, and I am sure it is still around today. I don't know why saltpeter of all chemicals got the rep, but it doesn't do that, and neither do they, put it in the mashed potatoes.
I was wrong about one thing about those freedom of religion laws, I just read last night that both Cruz and Huckabee have come out against being against them, and saying basically that the good thing about them is that they keep godly bakers from having to bake gay wedding cakes. I assume that those laws would also make it okay for women to pose for their drivers license photos in their burkas, but this is not something they are talking about. If they were to extrapolate I am sure that they would say something along the lines that this is a Christian nation, so Christianity, and only their particular fundamentalist brand, not that liberal Christian clap trap, is the only religion that should be defended.
Well anyway, as I'm sure you've read, these kind of laws first started in 1993 when the gov wanted to protect peyote eating Indians. And not all these kind of laws are the same, they have different variants on who can sue of their rights are validated, people, corporations, etc?
And it's kind of an amorphous thing because how do you define religion and what is a reasonable accommodation? We can probably let Sikhs grow beards, but probably not let Rastafarians smoke pot. But of course what it is really about, in the here and now, is baking cakes for gay weddings.
That abortion thing, they are doing that all over the red states, making laws where clinics have to have this and that and the doctors have to do this and that, so that basically no clinic can conform to that, so that even though the Roe vs Wade has never been overturned, most people in a red state can't get an abortion without driving hundreds of miles.
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