January 10, 2009

• WCFQ 30c: Of Chickens and eggs and eggish things

  What came first, the chicken or the egg????
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  I gave this question a lot of consideration a long time ago and came to the conclusion that the egg came first.

  Basically, the egg is a cell. It has a nucleus (yolk), cytoplasm (white), and a cell membrane (the shell). Everyone but the creationists agree that the first life forms on earth were single celled organisms. In essence, the first lifeforms were eggs, itsy bitsy little eggs that you’d need a microscope to see. Eventually those eggs evolved by borrowing traits from other cells (which is what happens when an egg is fertilized) and gathered together with like minded cells to make communities (multicellular organisms) to their mutual benefit (not being easy pickins for more aggressive cells and multicellular oganisms). Obviously, the multicellular outlook was a vast improvement on single cellular living. Cohabitation means you share all the costs of living, but you also have to deal with all the crap the cell next to you puts out until trash day. Of course, the multicellular outlook is so popular that even multicellular organisms gather together and to form families for greater security and benefit. lol Though it seems the more cells in an entity, the more it strives to survive… look at countries…. they’re like macrocosmic chickens protecting their little eggs.

  Eventually the first egg laying animal evolved which we will call a chickard or a lizken. In time, the lizards and birds separated into different animal kingdoms to give us our chickens and lizards. Even so, the egg as we know it came from the lizardy-type pre-chickenish animals. The chickens just made the shell a but thicker so that some day people could grind them up and use them to make homemade sidewalk chalk.
  
  But it was definitely the egg that came first. The egg, like the cheese, stands alone.

  
  Yeah… I’m really tired, and I have to go shovel out my car and head to work soon.
  

  
  
  

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  January 10th
  

  
  Securitas was commonly invoked by Romans when some imminent danger had been averted, but also annually on this day. She is depicted seated, relaxed, with a scepter in her right hand and a globe at her feet
  
  
  

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  This day honors Geraint, the 9th century Blue Bard of Wales.
  
  
  

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  On the 26th day of Mechir, Isis sees the face of Osiris, and Min Goes Forth to Coptos.
  
  
  

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  After Benin lifted a ban on the practice of Voodoo in the mid-1990s, it was declared an official religion in the former French colony, and January 10th is celebrated as National Voodoo Day, a public holiday ranking with Christmas and the Muslim Eid. Celebrations draw thousands of tourists each year to Benin, especially to the coastal city of Ouidah. Voodoo has a strong popular presence in Haiti and similar African-origin rituals are celebrated in Cuba under the name of Santeria and in Brazil as Candomble.
  

  
  
  

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