[ExI] plastic turkeys

[William Flynn Wallace]

I believe there is a plastic turkey living in the White House.   bill w

On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 3:48 PM ilsa via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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