You're in a desert, walking along in the sand...

[BenFace]

Just remember, he doesn't write the questions, just reads them.

 

[RaphaelsRedemption]

Because the desert is the path beyond life. And it represents a journey, where in the crossing you will truly understand yourself. Every action you take in the desert is a reflection of your true self, and so by choosing not to help the tortoise you see more about the underlying selfish nature of yourself as a human. Or you could choose to help the tortoise, and thus show yourself that you are worth more than mere mankind. As the prophet Brutha helped Vorbis cross the desert, so too may you choose whether or not to help the tortoise as it bakes in the sun...

Failing that, just eat the tortoise, provided it's not a god in disguise. I hear there's good eating on those things, after all...

Well done, very well done!

+lots for the Pratchett reference.

However, I'd be leaving the tortoise on its back, pretending to be a rock until the Ephebean philosophers go away. 'Cause tortoises should go faster than arrows. But just in case they don't, I'll disguise this one.

 

[InnerRebellion]

I wouldn't >_>
<_< I'd flip him over, apologize, and leave him be. The idea of doing that makes me very uncomfortable O_O

I couldn't not flip him back.

I am the same. Why would I even flip the poor thing in the first place?

 

[blankedboy]

Didn't this thread come up a couple days ago?

And I'm already helping it...

 

[IxionIndustries]

It's a snapping tortoise, who has come to consume my toenails. He is dangerous to me, and all foot-related functions, so therefore, the tortoise must remain upside-down.

 

[NLS]

Because a tortoise once bit me in the finger.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you, until you reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

No because i saw blade runner.

On a lighter note that doesnt ruin your discussion, my journy in the desert and the tortoises journy are seperate, i cannot intervine with his spiritual discovery, if i help it defeats the point of the lesson me and him will learn if we let things take their course.

 

[TheDutchin]

I don't flip it back over because in flipping it over the first time I have made it angry and I flipped it over in the first place because I noticed the name tag on his back that said B. Banner, Tortise version. And so not wanting it to turn into some super strong giant tortise when we (as companions) start to run low on food and water need to kill the other for sustinance in a fit of rage I flipped it over to stop us from becoming companions in the first place. I then realized that in flipping it over I had quite simply angered it sooner however everyone knows that tortises are vulnerable on their backs so even if it did turn into a super strong giant tortise I could still easily walk away from it as long as it remained on its back.

 

[Chefodeath]

Because God flipped me on my back and hasn't turned me back over yet either.

 

[linwolf]

The only reason that I would flip it over was if I was preparing to eat it, and if so it would be stupid to flip back again.

 

[zyfyn]

pffft tortoises flip themselves all the time, and always right themselves eventually, however its shell would make a great hat to keep the sun off and look quite stylish, and its blood would help keep me hydrated for a while at least, also the meat would jerk fairly quickly in the desert sun, so i would have food for a couple days...

screw it, i butcher the tortoise for the greater need

 

[L-J-F]

So, hands up who got the reference to Blade Runner?

 

[tomtom94]

Because I'm wondering why the fuck I'd be so cruel in the first place.

So, hands up who got the reference to Blade Runner?

There was a Blade Runner reference? I can't really remember much of watching the film as I was half asleep throughout. Perhaps meant some of its brilliant scenes went over my head somewhat.

 

[ProtoChimp]

Because I've got a horse with no name and it's really embarassing trying to remember it. As always a cookie for the obvious referance.

 

[Kurokami]

You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. It's crawling toward you, until you reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?

Obviously because its been dictated that I wont.

 

[Mr Pantomime]

Because my name is Inigo Montoya. The Turtle killed my father.

 

[S.R.S.]

You're waiting for a train. A train that will take you far away. You can't be sure where it will take you. But it doesn't matter - because we'll be together.

Hang on, what about a tortoise?

 

[Killerscape]

Wow very deep thoughts from some of you.
I'm not that deep. I'd eat the tortoise and then use its shell to surf down a sand dune (the hills made out of sand) Just because I can.