Tractatus Logico-Chocolatus

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1. Oh, man, am I in trouble! – being allergic to chocolate, and all.

   1. Heretic! Burn him.

      1. But, but: “We are not tribalists, we chocoholists. Heresy is for tribalists. We are universalists who seek the Endarkenment of all.”

         1. True, but we object to error when the see it in contrast.

         2. Is there no light without darkness?

         3. There can be light without darkness. You just couldn’t see anything. See The Endarkenment.

         4. Is this a cocoan?

         5. Are you a Zen Chocolatist? If you see the Buddha at the side of the road selling chocolate, rob him.

2. Oh My Godiva! Love it!

3. You reject the umami receptor?

   1. Of course. It is a fiction of the hated atomists. Or at best it is just what happens when the other four flavours are combined in a particular ratio. Either way it is not an elemental flavour.

      1. That taste is a four-dimension space is your belief, and therefore I shall not disturb it.

4. Whereof one cannot savour, thereof one must not eat.

   1. And you can’t sauté it, either.

5. Dear Dr Wilkins –

   I found your blog via a Wikipedia post about clades. I teach at a community college outside Chicago, and I am (lightly) exposing my students to taxonomy, etc. I personally have only learned about phylogenetics pretty recently. Is there a quick and simple resource you can point me too so I can at least expose my group to this concept?

   Thank you!

   1. Berkeley has a site that gives a good intro to modern systematics ideas:

      http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/clad/clad4.html

      1. Thanks!

6. Chocolate consists of the taste with which it is enjoyed.

7. Chocolatism is a pleasure-induction of cocoa composition. (A cocoa composition is only surpassed by a greater amount of itself.)

   1. 🙂

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