[ExI] plastic turkeys

ilsa ilsa.bartlett at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 21:45:40 UTC 2020


Have any of you purchased the plastic turkey for Thanksgiving? Where do I
get one can I order it online do you have a link?
Grin

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020, 5:52 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 19/11/2020 21:37, John Grigg wrote:
> > I am actually frustrated with my mother because she attended Columbia
> > University, but did not find a father for me there, who would have
> > most likely provided quality genes for high intelligence. Instead she
> > found a "bad boy" who was tall, handsome and entertaining, a war vet,
> > but of very average intelligence, though street smart. And yet I did
> > not even inherit his movie star good looks, despite him being my sperm
> > donor, and the one who most likely constrained my intellectual
> > abilities. His brothers were all very bright, but not him. One of them
> > is even in the IBM Hall of Fame. But then I must remember that every
> > conception is a big roll of the genetic dice... I could have come out
> > very different, in either a good/superior or a sad/horrific way...
>
> John, the way I see it is that whoever that hypothetical different
> person would be, they wouldn't be you. That's my answer whenever I'm
> asked if I ever regret anything I've done in my life. If I had done
> things differently, I would have turned out different, and that
> different person wouldn't be who I am now.
>
> No regrets, either about what you did or how you came to be. Be thankful
> (to yourself) to have turned out as you.
>
> I'm not, of course, saying don't strive to better yourself (that would,
> on this list, be blasphemy :-D ), just don't have any bad feelings about
> things in the past.
>
> --
> Ben Zaiboc
>
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