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Post by Ferrrrrre on Jun 10, 2010 10:27:23 GMT -5
EDIT: So let's say in ten years from someone asks you describe "the humans" as we are now.
What do you say? How do you describe the human race?
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Post by Joey on Jun 10, 2010 10:50:22 GMT -5
We have groups, and if you don't fit in, you're shunned and made fun of. We say we have gotten past segregation, but it is still here in less numbers. We have wars, and can hardly ever come to peace without death. Neighbor fight with neighbor, arguing instead of fixing. We hate because of the color of the skin, sound of the voice, beliefs in a superior being(or lack thereof), or sexual attraction. We come togethether in times of despair, but there is always someone to blame. We are a disgraced race.
But there is an elite group of us, believing in humans coexisting. We believe that together, we can "end world suck" so to speak. We don't care what you look like, believe, or who you are attracted to you. We want to all get along. Our numbers are growing since our founding in 2009. We are based on the south pole of the moon, but really live on earth, and connect throgh the Internet. We believe that our race can be saved, and that it's worth keeping humans around. We believe, that our world, is one that can be fixed.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2010 11:08:19 GMT -5
a hominae which has lived for about 150k year now. Pretty dominant, developed speech, all that jizz.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2010 11:22:26 GMT -5
Diogenes on Plato's Man
When Plato had defined Man as a featherless biped, and was admired for it, he plucked a chicken and brought it into the lecture-room and said: - "Here is Plato's Man!" After that, "broad-nailed" was added to the definition. On www.hellenism.net/cgi-bin/display_article.html?a=265&s=55
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Post by Trent on Jun 10, 2010 11:26:54 GMT -5
Douchey.
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Post by Ryan on Jun 10, 2010 11:48:23 GMT -5
You ask a loaded question Ferre. If we're living happily with aliens, then our species has changed from how we live today. Right now, we can barely get along with all of the different humans, let alone an alien race.
If we are in the future living peacefully with aliens, then I would assume that all of the humans would be on relatively good terms with each other.
So, asking us (pre-contact humans) what we (post-contact humans) would say to describe humans is kind've hard to do because our answer is not going to be the same.
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Post by Ferrrrrre on Jun 10, 2010 11:55:45 GMT -5
You ask a loaded question Ferre. If we're living happily with aliens, then our species has changed from how we live today. Right now, we can barely get along with all of the different humans, let alone an alien race. If we are in the future living peacefully with aliens, then I would assume that all of the humans would be on relatively good terms with each other. So, asking us (pre-contact humans) what we (post-contact humans) would say to describe humans is kind've hard to do because our answer is not going to be the same. Hmm.. I was expecting this answer. Here's a #cookie for being the one xD Okay, maybe I'd should refine it by saying how you'd describe the humans in general/ at the moment..
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Post by KipEnyan on Jun 10, 2010 14:39:34 GMT -5
Yeah, agreed. If/when first contact happens, all the retards who intelligent people fight to educate now, will redirect their aggression from illegal aliens to space aliens.
Wait... that's it. We fake first contact to give the KKK something much more foreign to hate, and then once they are sufficiently hating on the aliens and buddying up with black people and foreigners, we get rid of the fake aliens.
Brilliant!
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Post by krzych32 on Jun 10, 2010 14:45:25 GMT -5
why would we live with aliens when we can just nuke them?
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Post by Ryan on Jun 10, 2010 22:34:44 GMT -5
At the moment humans are a warring species, with high aggression. Our species is comparable to that of only 2 others on earth, one being ant, the other being a virus. Like both we are large in number and like the former have large scale society. From society we no longer have individual purpose, but merely societal purpose, while having the mindset of only bettering ourselves and not the society. I would describe this mindset as humans fundamental flaw, and I mean it in the general case - there are always exceptions to the rule.
Another way I would describe humans would be like a machine, but when this machine was designed, the manufacturer outsourced all of the parts. Some of the parts were sent somewhere where the metric system is commonly used for the design process. Some of the parts were sent to America where the inch is used almost entirely. Some of the parts were sent to Japan where machines that were high tech crafted each part nearly without flaw. Some of the parts were sent to Africa to be hand crafted. Anyways, when all the parts make it back to the designer and he begins to assemble the first prototype, he finds that not all of the pieces fit together the way he had planned.
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Post by knightofarboria on Jun 12, 2010 7:45:21 GMT -5
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." -Hugo Weaving, as Agent Smith in The Matrix
I think any alien life that takes notice of us as a whole might draw similar conclusions.
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Post by click3tyclick on Jun 12, 2010 8:06:17 GMT -5
Look at me, I'm a perfect example.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 12, 2010 15:30:04 GMT -5
From society we no longer have individual purpose, but merely societal purpose, while having the mindset of only bettering ourselves and not the society. I would describe this mindset as humans fundamental flaw, and I mean it in the general case - there are always exceptions to the rule.
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Post by earth on Jun 12, 2010 16:00:25 GMT -5
id say we were a race that was very advanced and had many good things but was full of flaws too. but i guess if there were no flaws, there would be no good things, just.. things. id say were pretty self centered, as a race.
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Post by krzych32 on Jun 12, 2010 16:38:50 GMT -5
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." -Hugo Weaving, as Agent Smith in The MatrixI think any alien life that takes notice of us as a whole might draw similar conclusions. If they are still alive........
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Post by rialvestro on Jun 14, 2010 0:14:28 GMT -5
I describe the human race as a bunch of ignorant barbarians who will inevitably kill each other over stupid things. Anyone who doesn't fit that description is not human. Note: I do not consider myself to be human.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 5:09:47 GMT -5
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." -Hugo Weaving, as Agent Smith in The MatrixI think any alien life that takes notice of us as a whole might draw similar conclusions. I've been thinking, and I think all species in a planet act like a virus. No mammal develops a natural equilibrium on its own, it is forced by the limitations caused by other competing mammals. Same for insects, bird, reptiles, etc. If you insert a foreign species in a system not ready to deal with it, it will act exactly like a virus.
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Post by KipEnyan on Jun 14, 2010 10:44:36 GMT -5
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." -Hugo Weaving, as Agent Smith in The MatrixI think any alien life that takes notice of us as a whole might draw similar conclusions. I've been thinking, and I think all species in a planet act like a virus. No mammal develops a natural equilibrium on its own, it is forced by the limitations caused by other competing mammals. Same for insects, bird, reptiles, etc. If you insert a foreign species in a system not ready to deal with it, it will act exactly like a virus. Good observation. I kind of always took that quote at face value, but when you think about it, humans and viruses only have that characteristic because we're the most adaptable of "life" (Viruses aren't living, but you get the idea) on the planet. If other species were as adaptable, they'd do the same.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2010 15:57:37 GMT -5
"I'd like to share a revelation that I've had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you're not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not. You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure." -Hugo Weaving, as Agent Smith in The MatrixI think any alien life that takes notice of us as a whole might draw similar conclusions. I've been thinking, and I think all species in a planet act like a virus. No mammal develops a natural equilibrium on its own, it is forced by the limitations caused by other competing mammals. Same for insects, bird, reptiles, etc. If you insert a foreign species in a system not ready to deal with it, it will act exactly like a virus. I never thought of it that way and I must say, it might be very true. nice thinking
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Post by kevinthelampost on Jun 25, 2010 21:53:01 GMT -5
20 years ago is when due to greed and power, we pushed the earth so far that it is a barren wasteland, and for this we blame bp oil, but becauseof online communities thier is still hope.
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