Do You Consider Yourself An Animal?

[Kritic]

you got me laughin out loud with this bolded quote though for so many off topic reasons friend


sure there are pretenders though but there are also those who aren't, i think man being able to be worse than animals is also a testemant of our difference, but you do say they're acting like animals though, as in without generally accepted moral behavior and lacking of common sense

it's real out there. this food we eat, this music we listen to has turned us inside out. no disrespect to my white folks.. i love you all.
common sense is not so common. morals is are relative to culture.

i dont see ppl... i just see animals. and it ain't nothing for me put 2 in producers.

there are good ppl out there that can make you think man is superior but situations like the trayvon case brings out the worst of even good ppl and reminds we're just animals. no matter how we try to suppress our animal instincts with laws and morals. pastors are still fuqqin the congregation and we're letting them slide by calling it human nature. judges are crooked. etc...

 

[ExpensiveThrillz]

of course we're animals.

Higher intelligence and its application doesn't negate that simple fact.

Every facet of our human experience is brought upon either due to ethical standards, structured law, or both….these measures are imposed and are learned, practiced and refined over time to help steer us away from our base (animalistic) instincts and desires. Think of job standards, obligations, manners, and customs. To live lives in a productive human society…these measures are absolutely needed but we’re built to be natural and free just like all other living entities…our intelligence is more like a double-edged blade….sure it allows us all to experience a wide range of creature comforts by being the best at manipulating our surroundings better than our other animal brethren…however that same intelligence gives most humans a feeling of elitism…that we’re better than or not even in the same category of other animals…that’s simply just not the case…people just like to bend the argument


We’re animals we just function at a higher intelligence level than other animals we’re used to here on earth…but make no mistake….we’re also parasites… ….we reproduce over and over again while we continuously deplete our sustaining energies and expand until it (or they’re) no longer available…then we either die off or adapt in our quest for better or new resources to exist off of ….just gotta zoom in or out to get the different levels of perspective

 

[Odyssey]

1 star

 

[Slang]

Science falters when observing the including: In the experiments necessary to classify and label an object, the scientist cannot be included in the results.

of course we're animals.

Higher intelligence and its application doesn't negate that simple fact.

Every facet of our human experience is brought upon either due to ethical standards, structured law, or both….these measures are imposed and are learned, practiced and refined over time to help steer us away from our base (animalistic) instincts and desires. Think of job standards, obligations, manners, and customs. To live lives in a productive human society…these measures are absolutely needed but we’re built to be natural and free just like all other living entities…our intelligence is more like a double-edged blade….sure it allows us all to experience a wide range of creature comforts by being the best at manipulating our surroundings better than our other animal brethren…however that same intelligence gives most humans a feeling of elitism…that we’re better than or not even in the same category of other animals…that’s simply just not the case…people just like to bend the argument


We’re animals we just function at a higher intelligence level than other animals we’re used to here on earth…but make no mistake….we’re also parasites… ….we reproduce over and over again while we continuously deplete our sustaining energies and expand until it (or they’re) no longer available…then we either die off or adapt in our quest for better or new resources to exist off of ….just gotta zoom in or out to get the different levels of perspective

 

[ExpensiveThrillz]

Science falters when observing the including: In the experiments necessary to classify and label an object, the scientist cannot be included in the results.

 

[Slang]

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You can't observe the world and include yourself in it's mechanics other than that of an observer. A scientist cannot study himself.

 

[ExpensiveThrillz]

You can't observe the world and include yourself in it's mechanics other than that of an observer. A scientist cannot study himself.

ok...understood, but i'm not sure how it relates to humans being animals (or not)

more specifically, im not sure how you're trying to relate that sentence to humans being animals or not

 

[Blackking]

I guess you have to understand how thought processes work to understand the reason why it's only appropriate for a scientist to call a human an animal. Even scientist use the word animal in everyday language the way the rest of human do because.....

it's not Only a scientific classification. The desire to explore other planets, ponder life/death, commit suicide, manipulate environments and keep ANIMALS as pets is not simply the human equivalent of some random shyt that an animal does so he can get food and die. There isn't much that animals do that isn't centered around eating food and dieing.

We aren't ONLY looking for life on other planets because we want resources and we are trying to leach - WE also have the desire the innovate to develop and to explore.... not just our immediate environment but the Universe.

We might be able to train a monkey to add 2+2, but to understand that 2 divided by 2 is 1 and that 1-1 =0 and to even understand the concept of what 0 is - is so far beyond what an animal can think about it's as if some crazy shyt happened to even form the human mind. There is a reason we hype of every single thing a dolphin or elephant does - Its the same reason we get excited the first time a human baby says mommy. Except for the fact that by the time a human baby is 8 months old > the most intelligent animal on earth.

Also, we are pest like because we chose to be, not because we have to be. All organisms live off the Earth.... but humans destroy and leach like some other animals: difference is we have the choice while other animals simply follow their basic and rudimentary instincts.

Also, more population =/= better. like i said better is an opinion, but I wouldn't consider rats better than lions. Or shrimp better than dolphins. Or any animal better than humans.

 

[Slang]

You can't observe the world and include yourself in it's mechanics other than that of an observer.

ok...understood, but i'm not sure how it relates to humans being animals (or not)

more specifically, im not sure how you're trying to relate that sentence to humans being animals or not

Humans were never born with instinct.

 

[Blackking]

lol, humans are born with instinct...

some of the same ones as animals and there are reasons y we developed each of them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/mind/articles/personalityandindividuality/morals.shtml

 

[Slang]

I understand fully that we are made up of biological systems, and unless that is the only component to being an animal, I'd suggest the human experience is vastly different than in wild nature. We are supposed to be the caretakers of animals, not become them.

I guess you have to understand how thought processes work to understand the reason why it's only appropriate for a scientist to call a human an animal. Even scientist use the word animal in everyday language the way the rest of human do because.....

it's not Only a scientific classification. The desire to explore other planets, ponder life/death, commit suicide, manipulate environments and keep ANIMALS as pets is not simply the human equivalent of some random shyt that an animal does so he can get food and die. There isn't much that animals do that isn't centered around eating food and dieing.

We aren't ONLY looking for life on other planets because we want resources and we are trying to leach - WE also have the desire the innovate to develop and to explore.... not just our immediate environment but the Universe.

We might be able to train a monkey to add 2+2, but to understand that 2 divided by 2 is 1 and that 1-1 =0 and to even understand the concept of what 0 is - is so far beyond what an animal can think about it's as if some crazy shyt happened to even form the human mind. There is a reason we hype of every single thing a dolphin or elephant does - Its the same reason we get excited the first time a human baby says mommy. Except for the fact that by the time a human baby is 8 months old > the most intelligent animal on earth.

Also, we are pest like because we chose to be, not because we have to be. All organisms live off the Earth.... but humans destroy and leach like some other animals: difference is we have the choice while other animals simply follow their basic and rudimentary instincts.

Also, more population =/= better. like i said better is an opinion, but I wouldn't consider rats better than lions. Or shrimp better than dolphins. Or any animal better than humans.

 

[Slang]

Aside from baby's crying for mothers milk, I don't know of any other human instincts.

Instinct or innate behavior is the inherent inclination of a living organism toward a particular complex behavior.

The simplest example of an instinctive behavior is a fixed action pattern, in which a very short to medium length sequence of actions, without variation, are carried out in response to a clearly defined stimulus.

Any behavior is instinctive if it is performed without being based upon prior experience (that is, in the absence of learning), and is therefore an expression of innate biological factors. Sea turtles, newly hatched on a beach, will automatically move toward the ocean. A joey climbs into its mother's pouch upon being born.[1] Honeybees communicate by dancing in the direction of a food source without formal instruction. Other examples include animal fighting, animal courtship behavior, internal escape functions, and the building of nests. All of these are examples of complex behaviors and are thus substantially different from simple reflex behaviors