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What could Redeem Humans?

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What could Redeem Humans?
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What could Redeem Humans?
November 4, 2015 at 8:47 pm (This post was last modified: November 4, 2015 at 8:47 pm by Shining_Finger.)
Humans are Selfish, Obnoxious and Ignorant. Look at what they've achieved: Destroying forests, forcing multiple species into extinction, Genocide, Global Warming and a never ending parade of Failures and logical fallacies. 

What could possibly Redeem Humans?
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RE: What could Redeem Humans?
November 4, 2015 at 8:49 pm
A massive culling....

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RE: What could Redeem Humans?
November 4, 2015 at 8:52 pm
Redemption? Was ist das?
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RE: What could Redeem Humans?
November 4, 2015 at 9:15 pm
We could start by getting rid of all the fuckheads who think we need redemption.
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RE: What could Redeem Humans?
November 4, 2015 at 10:46 pm
(November 4, 2015 at 8:47 pm)Shining_Finger Wrote: Humans are Selfish, Obnoxious and Ignorant.

What could possibly Redeem Humans?
Mozart, Bernini, Shakespeare, Newton, Lincoln... I think humans are noble, ingenious, and profound.
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RE: What could Redeem Humans?
November 4, 2015 at 10:48 pm
Black-tinted glasses tint the world as surely as the rose-colored variety do.

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RE: What could Redeem Humans?
November 4, 2015 at 10:50 pm
(November 4, 2015 at 8:47 pm)Shining_Finger Wrote: Humans are Selfish, Obnoxious and Ignorant. Look at what they've achieved: Destroying forests, forcing multiple species into extinction, Genocide, Global Warming and a never ending parade of Failures and logical fallacies. 

What could possibly Redeem Humans?

All the good things we do, and the fact that in more modern nations we've been getting better over time.
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RE: What could Redeem Humans?
November 4, 2015 at 11:12 pm (This post was last modified: November 4, 2015 at 11:13 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 4, 2015 at 10:48 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Black-tinted glasses tint the world as surely as the rose-colored variety do.

Well said. Nowadays I'm too much of a cynic about the cynics to be a cynic about the non-cynics any more (or less) than a cynic about the cynics.

Say that ten times fast.
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RE: What could Redeem Humans?
November 4, 2015 at 11:28 pm
Personally, I'm just trying to be a little less of the worst qualities of H. Sapiens every day, and little more of the better - but not always succeeding. That's redemptive enough for me.
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RE: What could Redeem Humans?
November 4, 2015 at 11:34 pm
(November 4, 2015 at 11:28 pm)Skeletor Wrote: Personally, I'm just trying to be a little less of the worst qualities of H. Sapiens every day, and little more of the better - but not always succeeding. That's redemptive enough for me.

"Think globally, act locally" and "be the change you wish to see" are cliches, true, but if more people practiced that advice, we'd be better off.

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