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[Serious] Why defecation?
#11
RE: Why defecation?
It's not a pollutant.  It's fertilizer.  People using it wrongly is on them.  Use the poop.  Embrace the poop.  Be the poop.
#12
RE: Why defecation?
(August 15, 2020 at 12:56 pm)Ranjr Wrote: It's not a pollutant.  It's fertilizer.  People using it wrongly is on them.  Use the poop.  Embrace the poop.  Be the poop.

In an efficiently designed system, you wouldn’t need fertilizer. In fact, it’s a mark of inefficiency that plants need animal poo to grow.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
#13
RE: Why defecation?
Could've just as well created creatures using some form of atomic fusion as an energy source, given the right fundamental constants of nature. A better question is, why stars though?
#14
RE: Why defecation?
(August 15, 2020 at 12:43 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I don’t think the question is whether it’s ‘good’ system, but why a god with the ability to do otherwise would create such a system at all. It would have been just as easy for an omnipotent creator to set up a system in which all organisms would be 100% efficient and not need to excrete at all.

Boru

Maybe God likes to watch.  Doh
"The world is my country; all of humanity are my brethren; and to do good deeds is my religion." (Thomas Paine)
#15
RE: Why defecation?
(August 15, 2020 at 12:56 pm)Ranjr Wrote: It's not a pollutant.  It's fertilizer.  People using it wrongly is on them.  Use the poop.  Embrace the poop.  Be the poop.

(Shits in your water supply.) Taste the poop!
#16
RE: Why defecation?
(August 15, 2020 at 1:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(August 15, 2020 at 12:56 pm)Ranjr Wrote: It's not a pollutant.  It's fertilizer.  People using it wrongly is on them.  Use the poop.  Embrace the poop.  Be the poop.

In an efficiently designed system, you wouldn’t need fertilizer. In fact, it’s a mark of inefficiency that plants need animal poo to grow.

Boru

I don't claim the system is designed by a being.  I'm saying there are uses for various byproducts that we can design around.  I built controls and instrumentation for closed loop aquaponics systems years ago.  So I have a different perspective on poop.

Your objection is like saying, why do we need to breathe?  Why do we get old?  Seems trivial to discuss in this way.  We have established that if there is a god, he's a royal fuckup.
#17
RE: Why defecation?
In Midnight at the Well of Souls there's a race that is basically an intelligent plant. They root at night and need at least an hour of sunshine each day to stay healthy. If Jack Chalker and think up a better system than we have now I'm at a loss as to why a god couldn't do it.
#18
RE: Why defecation?
Why place the shit and piss functions so close to the reproductive functions? God should have known that would be confusing for some and tempting to others.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!






#19
RE: Why defecation?
(August 15, 2020 at 1:50 pm)chimp3 Wrote: Why place the shit and piss functions so close to the reproductive functions? God should have known that would be confusing for some and tempting to others.

A comedienne (I disremember who) phrased that as, ‘Of COURSE God is a man. No woman would build a toxic waste dump right next to a recreation area.’

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
#20
RE: Why defecation?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/potty-training



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