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Post by Imperator Severn » Wed Apr 21, 2004 1:32 pm

Life is a virus.
Are viruses* alive?


Leopard is right; it's obviously a nonpolar substance (why it isn't "wet." Gasoline isn't wet, either.) although I think it might share more than a few physical properties with water.

That, or it's really no big deal and the whole thing's just a publicity stunt.

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Post by StruckingFuggle » Wed Apr 21, 2004 8:40 pm

re humanity as a virus: The difference between humanity and, say, rabbits, Sev who says all life is (and you're right) is we have the capacity for intelligence and education such that we can turn away from viral impulses and, say, control breeding so such doesn't happen (though in an uneducated place such natural viral order will reassert itself)
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Post by Zero_Point » Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:16 pm

[quote="StruckingFuggle";p="323735"]we have the capacity for intelligence and education such that we can turn away from viral impulses and, say, control breeding so such doesn't happen (though in an uneducated place such natural viral order will reassert itself)[/quote]



I take it that there aren't any places that are educated? Control it as we might, we still fuck like rabbits.
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Post by StruckingFuggle » Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:25 pm

I take it that there aren't any places that are educated? Control it as we might, we still fuck like rabbits.
Note: Fucking like rabbits isn't a bad thing. Fucking like rabbits with no protection and contraception, is.
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