Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for October 20, 2014
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Transcript:
I don't think so. Listen, I've read a lot of books on Biology, development, reproduction... I understand the biological reasons and physiological symptoms of puberty. So, I just don't see it happening to me. I mean, I understand the system completely. If you understand a system, I can't hurt you. Right? You're going to have rough go of it with art, science, love, war, money and time. Ech. I'm more into cookies anyway.
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 9 years ago
Wasn’t this the opening to Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
emptc12 over 9 years ago
That was me. I eventually found that mere book learning is “wis-dumb.” In 5th Grade, I tried to fix a broken faucet by looking up “Plumbing” in the World Book Encyclopedia. Actually, I almost succeeded. Too bad I didn’t understand the concept of “shutoff valve.”
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 9 years ago
Da Vinci understood the concept of powered flight in a single rotor craft. Understanding without the means of enactment of intended consequences isn’t really very satisfying.Now, if she understood the system well enough to maintain herself in a physiological state equivalent to being eleven years old for an extended time without rigorous gymnastics to fool her system into stress delay of reproductive capabilities through hormone manipulation, then that would be something.