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Saturday, July 20, 2002 - 7:32pmSanction this postReply
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save the chickens!

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Sunday, December 22, 2002 - 9:52pmSanction this postReply
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absolutely delightful -very witty. You certainly know your Rand writings well to do such a perfect p*take!! Thanks for the laugh
Cassandra

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Wednesday, January 29, 2003 - 6:22amSanction this postReply
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I don't know how much time Rand spends thinking about the symbolic innocence of chickens…it may border on somewhat odd. But hey if you've got the time to think about why the chicken crossed the road....go for it. Great humor, satire and usage of tone....Bawk!

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Sunday, February 9, 2003 - 11:37amSanction this postReply
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The eggcell-ent piece on the chicken crossing the road makes some very valid points but seems to be incomplete because it doesn’t follow through with resolving the equally age-old problem of “Which came first — the chicken or the egg?”

I submit that we must have an eggocentric view in solving the problem. This is consistent with the way the problem is formulated, i.e. THE egg, and THE chicken. It doesn’t say. “Which came first — chickens or eggs?” I think the problem must have been originally stated by an Objectivist (i.e. an eggoist) and certainly not by a Socialist.

Paul Hibbert

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Monday, February 24, 2003 - 4:38pmSanction this postReply
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LOL, I bet even Rand would have found that funny.

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Thursday, June 5, 2003 - 10:10amSanction this postReply
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Quite amusing. Did Ayn actually spell badly? There are four such in the short piece.

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Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 8:42amSanction this postReply
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I praise the heroism of those chickens who have bypassed the Semis and left the Butchers behind, by rising to the challenges of life and achieving their rationally selected goals.

To those chickens who got to the other side, I salute you!

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 12:56amSanction this postReply
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Why did the chicken cross the road?

Descartes: Since the chicken does not really exist it was only an illusion that the chicken crossed the road. This illusion was only in my mind. Therefore I created the chicken that crossed the road.

Steve Jobs: Because of the brand-new iChicken- a portable device that crosses roads, lays eggs, gives wakeup calls and provides dinner, automatically. This amazing device can simply plug in to the $4000 iCoop to produce additional iChickens and recharge existing iChickens, or plug it into the $9000 iChop to convert iChicken files into iFood. iFood-to-Regular Food converters sell for an additional $50/month fee, however the optional iFood-to-FoodXP converter is still in development. iChickens are only available from authorized iDealers, which can be found in nearly every US state. If your iChicken develops a disease or stops working, you must send it by FedEx Overnight to Littleton, Montana and our iTechnicians will send you a replacement within 3 months. The iChicken. Wow.

Darwin: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically disposed to cross roads.

Moses: And God came down from the Heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.

Hume: Out of custom and habit.

Epicurus: For fun.

Jack Nicholson: 'Cause it (censored) wanted to. That's the (censored) reason.

John Locke: Because he was exercising his natural right to liberty.

Goethe: The eternal hen-principle made it do it.

The Egyptian Sphinx: You tell me.

Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.

Hemingway: To die. In the rain. Alone.

Captain Kirk: To boldly go where no chicken has gone before.

Aristotle: To actualize its potential.

Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.

Freud: The fact that you are at all concerned that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.

Colonel Sanders: I missed one?

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Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 1:30amSanction this postReply
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If I were the chicken, and I were intelligent, I would definately use the cross walk so that the semi didn't hit me, and watch over my shoulder for the butcher. I would definately make my way to an open range. I would become a free range chiken. 

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Saturday, April 1, 2006 - 10:18pmSanction this postReply
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    Btw: did anyone ever get the license plate of that Perdue truck? That trucker's in real philosophical trouble.

LLAP
J:D


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Monday, May 30, 2011 - 8:18amSanction this postReply
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This came up as a random article and I think I missed it the first time 'round.

Good stuff.

Ed


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Tuesday, May 31, 2011 - 9:48pmSanction this postReply
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In Post 7 of this thread, Jenna W asked:

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Ayn Rand would have answered:

"Because zat is zee nature of zee chicken qua chicken."

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 5/31, 9:48pm)


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