Cows don't exist (a game).

[Assyrian]

YouTube - The Blues Brothers - Ghost riders in the sky

 

[pgp_protector]

In that case, how do you know California even exists? In fact, the plane you would take to get here is a figment of your wild imagination.

How do we know the OP is real, and just not a bot?

 

[Supreme]

I am a professed cowist. I have seen cows. I have touched cows. I have been chased down a hill by a herd of cows. That was so scary.

 

[pgp_protector]

I am a professed cowist. I have seen cows. I have touched cows. I have been chased down a hill by a herd of cows. That was so scary.

All I know is they stink I drive by em quite a few times a week.

 

[Hespera]

I am a professed cowist. I have seen cows. I have touched cows. I have been chased down a hill by a herd of cows. That was so scary.

if a herd of cows actually chased you they'd have gotten you

cyber cows may be different.

 

[Upisoft]

Aren't those the critters that we call the females cows, the males bulls, and the young we call calves until they're weaned, cattle for a group of them, bovine for things referring to them... But what do we call them as an individual, without referring to their age or gender? You cowists don't even know what the animal you believe in is called, do you?

Is it that unseen animal with wings and small round squares all over its body? Or am I mistaken and thinking of zebra instead?

 

[Snow Phoenix]

I am a professed cowist. I have seen cows. I have touched cows. I have been chased down a hill by a herd of cows. That was so scary.

All I can picture with that sentence someone running down a steep hill, and cows running, tripping, and just tumbling down after them...

 

[chris4243]

I think it is fair to conclude that there is no amount of evidence [at least which can be presented on an internet forum] that would convince a dedicated acowist that cows do in fact exist. Is this accurate?

 

[Vatis]

I think it is fair to conclude that there is no amount of evidence [at least which can be presented on an internet forum] that would convince a dedicated acowist that cows do in fact exist. Is this accurate?

Absolutely accurate.
However, there are people who believe the earth is flat, or hollow, there are people who believe that Michael Jackson, Hitler, Elvis and Osama are playing Poker as we speak on some Island, and nothing we present them here could convince them of anything other.
That's just how the internet works. Thanks to the anonymity, people tend to be stupider and more stubborn than in real life, which is quite astonishing.

 

[Assyrian]

Grüezi Vatis, have you done any research into that acoustic hallucinatory phenomenon that seem to be very common in Switzerland 'cow bells'?

 

[Vatis]

Grüezi Vatis, have you done any research into that acoustic hallucinatory phenomenon that seem to be very common in Switzerland 'cow bells'?

Well I live in Zurich so I don't usually hear any cowbells.
But my theory is that the hundreds of cow farms, and the cowbells are all set up by the government to attract more tourists by creating a very stereotypical atmosphere.

 

[Assyrian]

Ah yes, all you would need are wandering packs of St Bernard dogs with bells around their necks cleverly disguised as brandy casks, the tourists would never guess... St Bernards are real aren't they?

 

[sandwiches]

I think it is fair to conclude that there is no amount of evidence [at least which can be presented on an internet forum] that would convince a dedicated acowist that cows do in fact exist. Is this accurate?

Fairly accurate. However, the answer to the OP was given in the very first response. You can go see live cows, ride them, buy one, and butcher it, and eat it, if you want.

Most of us aren't looking for evidence of the fabled cow on the internet. We're looking to see if one of the cowists can even come to a cohesive and consistent idea of the fabled cow that might show that it might exist and why anyone should consider it a serious idea that is actually related to reality. Sadly, the fabled cow is the universe, a force, energy, a being, outside the universe, inside the universe, in neither place, outside of time, within its own time, without time, omnipotent, limited, all-loving, hateful, all-merciful, vengeful, unknowable, knowable, incomprehensible, understandable, communicative, silent, caring, indifferent, personal, impersonal, one, many, et cetera, et cetera. Not to mention that you can't see this cow unless you already believe in it.

Yea... Sorry but if the cowists were better at their conspiracy and could show me their fabled cow without excuses as to why they can't, I just might still be a cowist myself.

 

[JustMeSee]

Of course, it's long been politically incorrect to question the existence of cows. Generally, questioning the existence of cows was simply met with ridicule, but more and more people are starting to question and we demand real proof. So, are any of you cowists going to respond? Those of you who aren't convinced are welcome to point out where their proofs are lacking.

You have already accepted the belief that these cow-things exist. That is a good starting point. If you questioned their existence, I would be hard pressed to supply you with evidence other than of the photographic variety. I have seen these things, so I am convinced that they exist.

Cows may be robots. I have never examined them sufficiently to know for sure if they are organic or inorganic. The popular belief is that they are organic. Without personally cutting one open, I am left to believe or disbelieve what other people tell me.

I am convinced that 'cow' milk exists. I have consumed this most of my life, but don't know that it came from robot cows, organic cows, or some other organic or inorganic source. The same rings true for the 'cow' meat that I purchase in the market. The two things have a consistent taste, so I assume that their sources are of a consistent origin. Basically, I am relying on other people's testimony.

The best way to verify that these 'things' are real would be to personally milk, dissect, and eat them. Since, I have done none of these things, I am now a bit skeptical about the whole idea of organic cows.

Dodo birds are another problem.

 

[JustMeSee]

It is hard to argue against evidence like that, yet how do you reconcile that with the fact cows don't exist? The real explanation is that God must have created a cow free universe with embedded cows.

Ouch!

 

[JustMeSee]

What is leather?

Aha! The conspiracy is multi-layered.

 

[quatona]

I think it is fair to conclude that there is no amount of evidence [at least which can be presented on an internet forum] that would convince a dedicated acowist that cows do in fact exist. Is this accurate?

Yes. Then again, I don´t seem to understand why it should be my job to educate persons who refuse to educate themselves.

 

[Phileas]

Fairly accurate. However, the answer to the OP was given in the very first response. You can go see live cows, ride them, buy one, and butcher it, and eat it, if you want.

This is an elementary mistake. The things people see and assume are cows are not in fact cows; they are beasts belonging to the bovine "kind" more akin to bison then the mythical cow. Cows are a physical impossibility and until one is produced in a laboratory they should not be featured in children's farmyard animal books or songs. To do so would spread false cowist doctrine.

 

[Hespera]

We have noticed that nobody is digging up any "cow" bones from the "Devonian" "Carboniferous' "Permian" or the like. Proof enough of collusion.

 

[rambot]

I love these kind of discussions because they prove themselves irrelevant.

If the point is that one can't prove that cows exist then how could you prove the desk my computer sits on exists? Or even that I exist?

Well, that's a great use of time! If I can't prove to you that these things in front of me exist, how likely is it that I'd be able to bothering trying to convince you that God who is not manifested in physical form or quantifiable data, exists?


So yes, there are no cows, there is no internet, I don't exist. Now let's move on to useful conversation maybe?