Humans - Are we really unique?

[Napoléon]

Big whoop

Oh c'mon. You're not even trying to troll anymore. Why bother staining my thread with your presence.

Who cares? Do you?

Yes, as a matter of fact! I saw it as a point of pride that I had such a troll put me on his ignore list, a shame he's obviously took me off it (or didn't actually have me on it in the first place) because now I get to have you giving your brilliant insight on threads that I've created. How wonderful for me!

[Pyrrho]

I think one of the big factors in people believing humans are special is due to religion. Christianity tells people they are special. Descartes, due to his religious beliefs, believed that nonhuman animals were just machines, and did not really feel anything, because they lack "souls." His reasoning on it was theological, not from examining the world (obviously). Even if you have escaped religion yourself, or even if you never believed it, if you grew up in an historically Christian culture, you are likely to have been influenced by it. And this is one of the possible influences.

People are not separate from nature, but are a part of it. The idea that we are separate from nature comes from stupid religions.

[Minimalist]

Now, in case you're wondering why I have a certain interest, or fascination let's call it, with torture and beheadings and all of those things I have mentioned, is because each of these items reminds me in life over and over again what beasts we human beings really are. When you get right down to it, human beings are nothing more than ordinary jungle beasts. Savages. No different from the Cro Magnon people who lived twenty five thousand years ago. No different. Our DNA hasn't changed substantially in a hundred thousand years. We're still operating out of the lower brain. The reptilian brain. Fight or flight. Kill or be killed. We like to think we've evolved and advanced because we can build a computer, fly an airplane, travel underwater, we can write a sonnet, paint a painting, compose an opera. But you know something? We're barely out of the jungle on this planet. Barely out of the fucking jungle. What we are, is semi-civilized beasts, with baseball caps and automatic weapons.


George Carlin

[Longhorn]

underneath it all, we're just savages

Just another animal. woof and all that shit

[Longhorn]

Who cares? Do you?

Yes, as a matter of fact! I saw it as a point of pride that I had such a troll put me on his ignore list, a shame he's obviously took me off it (or didn't actually have me on it in the first place) because now I get to have you giving your brilliant insight on threads that I've created. How wonderful for me!

Yep. Twas a fucking honor. We celebrated it with a hi5 and all that.

sadness :c