csdf@mit-vax.UUCP (Charles Forsythe) (08/20/85)
First Ted opens his mouths and inserts his foot: > I love it when some of these people who obviously don't know what >they're talking about try to refute my articles point by point! Now, from this delicate position: he speaks out of his anus: >The American Indians regarded animals as their BROTHERS. The Indians regarded animals as food, Ted. Food. Food. Food. Have you been watching too much TV? ARCHIALOGICAL digs (which are not mentioned in the Bible and have no basis in reality) have occasionally uncovered mass burials of animals that were slaughted for NO REASON AT ALL. They were just killed. Not even eaten. This includes NORTH AMERICA. >Likewise, the pygmies of today make no dent in the elephant herds of >Africa by their hunting. Until there was money to be made in the ivory trade, that is. I hate to burst your little reality, Ted, but the elephants are very much in danger from the African natives who hunt them for their tusks. I learned this on a recent NOVA show. That's right, Ted, you can learn from TV too! Stop watching "the Smurfs." > Elephants, when stampeded, tend to stampede TOWARDS the stampeders, >Stanley. Really? Have you ever stampeded anything? I have (once). You know what? They tend to run IN THE DIRECTION OF THE ANIMALS IN FRONT OF THEM. Ted, that COULD be in the direction of a cliff. Ever hear of lemmings? > [Flamage about not being able to kill huge super-animals.] Your arguments about not being able to kill huge animals are absurd. Have you ever been face to face with a modern buffalo? Scare the shit out of you! You'd NEVER believe an Indian would face one of those. Did you know, ten years ago (or so), a silicon chip designer would get a big, empty room. There, he would lay HUGE sheets of mylar on the floor. After these were down, he would go to work designing -- with an X-ACTO KNIFE! Now, go next door to your friendly VLSI design department and tell the 17-year-old MIT graduate sitting at the APOLLO WORKSTATION that story. He will laugh and say,"If that's was true, chip design would have never gotten anywhere!" It's amazing how ignorance of history can drive someone to say stupid things. >>> 5. Consider that rabbits and deer are tastier than elephants or >>> super-bisons etc., have always been plentiful in north >>> America, and can be trapped and killed without exposing the >>> hunters to any extreme danger. Enough said. >>> It's hard to feed a village on rabbits, Ted. That's why the Indians hunted buffalo. I know you don't believe me, but I DID see it on TV so it's probably true. -- Charles Forsythe CSDF@MIT-VAX "We pray to Fred for the Hopelessly Normal Have they not suffered enough?" from _The_Nth_Psalm_ in _The_Book_of_Fred_