The Chicken - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Guo Si · 05-28-2002, 03:26 PM

Upon waking up this morning, I had an incredible insight on the question of chicken's wings and their ability to fly. The answer is clearly in the Lieh-Tzu, a Taosit text describing the path to enlightment through myths and tails (Bad pun, I know [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]). In all of the tales, there is a moral, and many of these the point that you should not use strength is stressed. In the tale of the Immortal Old Shang, he had the power to move boulders, but never needed to call on that power, as he never found a task so diffucult as to need it. Obvoiusly the chicken, being far more enlightened then us, realized that he could simply cross the greenway, and didn't need to fly. However, this brings up some startiling new questions:
Are chickens Taoist, or are they naturally enlightened?
Can chickens talk, but never find the need to say anything?
And what of turkeys, the chickens' fatter counterparts, are they enlightened too?

05-28-2002, 03:26 PM	#11
Guo Si Animated Skeleton Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: I wanna kiss you but your lips are venomous Posts: 27	Upon waking up this morning, I had an incredible insight on the question of chicken's wings and their ability to fly. The answer is clearly in the Lieh-Tzu, a Taosit text describing the path to enlightment through myths and tails (Bad pun, I know [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]). In all of the tales, there is a moral, and many of these the point that you should not use strength is stressed. In the tale of the Immortal Old Shang, he had the power to move boulders, but never needed to call on that power, as he never found a task so diffucult as to need it. Obvoiusly the chicken, being far more enlightened then us, realized that he could simply cross the greenway, and didn't need to fly. However, this brings up some startiling new questions: Are chickens Taoist, or are they naturally enlightened? Can chickens talk, but never find the need to say anything? And what of turkeys, the chickens' fatter counterparts, are they enlightened too? __________________ Gimme a d00t!