innerculture ([info]innerculture) wrote,
@ 2008-01-10 07:22:00
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Lacking Sleep
Every morning at 7am I realize again in a most visceral way that I'm most emphatically not a morning person.

Yesterday was spent up at UVic. I had intended to get some work done in both my math and particle physics classes, but I only ended up getting the math done after arguing with the people at the pro-life booth for nearly an hour and a half. It's odd asking someone who is trying to "inform" others on the topic of abortion if they believe that a blastocyst constitutes human life, only to be asked: "what in the heck is a blastocyst?"

[Edited when I caught myself spelling, 'blastocyst' as 'blasticyst'. Go team!]



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A Beard Has Exactly 10,000 Hairs
[info]innerculture
2008-01-11 06:57 am UTC (link)
No, you missed:
Pro-Lifer: Well, a cell, or collection of cells becomes human being once it has complete DNA.
Me: So, by your definition, each one of the cells in my body is a human being?
Pro-lifer: Uhm....

P: Any cell (or collection of cells) which will potentially grow into a full-grown human is itself human.
M: This reminds me of the Monty Python song, "Every Sperm is Sacred". Seriously though...does that mean that I commit a mini-holocaust when I scratch my head, or don't donate to the sperm bank?
P: Erm....

You also missed me getting schooled on knowing the number of chromosomes in a sperm (I thought it was 46 'cuz im teh smrtz). They then asked me what my major was and I said, "biology--just kidding; janitorial studies." I think they bought it.

-Groundskeeper Willy

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