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nacmat
on 2004-09-14 03:11 [#01334150]
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why do we tend to think that humans are the most intelligent species in this planet?
why do we give such importance to progress as a sign of superiority over the rest of the animals?
I remember in the film matrix when one said thast humans are the cancer of this world... and I think its in some way true
I am at work... thinking these things... is that normal???
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mortsto-x
from Trondheim/Bodø (Norway) on 2004-09-14 03:13 [#01334153]
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Yep. Talking about "useless turtles" last night made me realise, that the first species who should be deleted from this planet, is humans
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hyakusen
from 8=============> on 2004-09-14 03:14 [#01334155]
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no.
anyway, i heard somewhere that animals are actually better, because, only people could kill for joy, animals kill coz of natural instinct and for food, but people are killing coz they like to do it.
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DJ Xammax
from not America on 2004-09-14 03:15 [#01334158]
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Humans = animals
But whatever. Us humans should indeed be wiped out. We're slowly destroying a planet that was perfect.
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hyakusen
from 8=============> on 2004-09-14 03:15 [#01334159]
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hey, its my turtle, leave it alone.
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nacmat
on 2004-09-14 03:23 [#01334165]
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of course humans are animals... but you know what I mean
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pOgO
from behind your belly button fluff on 2004-09-14 03:43 [#01334176]
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humans are no way more inteligent.
Some humans may be the most inteligent animals on the earth, but as a whole we're pretty dumb imo =o)
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mdv
from Zwolle (Netherlands, The) on 2004-09-14 03:48 [#01334179]
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i allmost decided to dedicate my life to wiping out the human race.
my plan was to study genetics etc and then genetically modify a virus that causes a uteral infection making women infertile, to spread like the flu.
i would not be killing anybody, but no more humans would be born in a natural way anymore. perfect solution i thought and i was very serieus about it.
then music got in the way...
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Pinguiz
from Sirap on 2004-09-14 03:51 [#01334180]
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Humans are the most inteligent specy... We have the conscience of our existence... That's the difference, as they said.
I think that's all.
Can we really speak of human's supremacy of inteligence? I dont think so.
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hyakusen
from 8=============> on 2004-09-14 03:52 [#01334182]
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bwahahahaha !! l awesome post.
btw, welcome on the board.
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tolstoyed
from the ocean on 2004-09-14 03:55 [#01334183]
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humans are the most inteligent species, but we're using our inteligence in a not so good way.
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JLefrere
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-09-14 05:51 [#01334256]
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tolstoyed, nail -> head :)
however, the people who ask for us to be wiped out...sorry but that is really stupid. you're just asking for yourself to be killed?? hypocrits.
the only real problem is overpopulation. and as long as we eventually lose the natural increase in population and it gradually lowers until it becomes stable, problem solved.
but i've thought about this in the past, and i came to the conclusion that it's inevitable that a species will evolve to the point of consciousness, and if people weren't here, another species would take our place, it would be the same. so why destroy the ol' homo sapiens when we've come so far, and have the potential to eventually bring things back to normal? it doesn't look so likely with the increasing population that we have right now, but germany, japan (probably others) have a decreasing birth rate, so it will happen. do your bit, have 2 or less kids! :)
also hyakusen, killer whales kill for fun as well. there are probably others i don't know about.
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Laserbeak
from Netherlands, The on 2004-09-14 06:14 [#01334294]
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I saw a documentary on tv a while ago that said that if the earth's history was one hour, life would exist in the last 20 minutes and humans would only start to appear in the last hundreds of a second. Considering we probably don't last much longer I think we're pretty insignificant if you look at the big picture. A few frames in a movie, hardly noticable.
In this way spiders seem pretty intelligent for surviving so long
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hyakusen
from 8=============> on 2004-09-14 06:18 [#01334301]
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you wanna know the funny thing ?
earth is over millions of years old. our civilization , no matter how long we will survive, will no leave any signs of it after millions of years.
question :
maybe there were other civilizations before us, but after millions of years the signs of them are vanished ? how do you think ?
you cant say "no", tho you cant say "yes".
thats the most amazing thing.
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melack
from barcielwave on 2004-09-14 06:23 [#01334303]
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i would like an animal/ nature revolution to kill all humans.
that would be ok.
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JLefrere
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-09-14 06:33 [#01334312]
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melack, shut up. sorry to be blunt (and offensive) but that is just thick.
hyakusen, we still dig up dinosaur bones...or do you mean buildings, tools, etc?
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WooferAttack
from Milano (Italy) on 2004-09-14 06:51 [#01334334]
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animals are better
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hyakusen
from 8=============> on 2004-09-14 06:55 [#01334339]
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yeah tools, buildings... and im talking about time long long before dinozaurs, millions of years before them.
i mean, we cant be sure that atmosphere was allways anti-life before evolution started to create living organisms.
maybe there were civilizations that affected nature so badly that they have perished, and the circle goes on and on and on...
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epohs
from )C: on 2004-09-14 07:03 [#01334345]
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yeah, i supose it's all in how you define "intelligence", but i think it's a rather weak argument to say that we are not the most intellectually advanced.
Through our ability to concieve, create, and use tools we can manipulate any environment on earth and kill any other animal predator or prey. I'd say that puts us at the top.
However, we may very well smother ourselves into extinction with our shortsighted arrogance. So, our ability to live in complete harmony with our environment is severely limited by our desire to conquer it.
But, that's just how life as we know it seems to work. Species try visciously hard to survive at the expense of other species (sometimes even their own). We're just the most efficient.
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cie jiks mawp
from motion to descend (Australia) on 2004-09-14 07:10 [#01334349]
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animals live by instincts=purity human intelligence gives them a choice. we are the only animals capable of being "bad". we have a choice to be pure but it is very hard. The domestic dog, tainted by human teaching can be said to be on a fine line of knowing what "bad" behaviour is. eg, a family dog that nips a small child and then hides under the table looking meek knows it has been naughty.
these are my thoughts. now sleepy time.
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rockenjohnny
from champagne socialism (Australia) on 2004-09-14 07:14 [#01334353]
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to be human is the ideal form in which to pursue the spiritual
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JLefrere
from London (United Kingdom) on 2004-09-14 07:17 [#01334357]
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sounds like a bad sci fi plot :) but yeah, it could be true, you can't prove either way.
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scup_bucket
from bloated exploding piss pockets on 2004-09-14 07:21 [#01334359]
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I love kitties!!!!!!!!!
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Mertens
from Motor City (United States) on 2004-09-14 07:38 [#01334379]
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If there's a fire in my house and I must choose between my child and my cat, guess who's gonna burn.
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mappatazee
from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-09-14 09:44 [#01334495]
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Is it better though not having the ability to comprehend death? It's a pretty heavy burden.
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Anus_Presley
on 2004-09-14 09:46 [#01334496]
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it's a harrd one this.
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