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>.> most the things i'm coming up with are food relate, burgers, pizzas, chili, ya know, the good stuff X3, but since good food can make a day better i'm going with :3
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>.> most the things i'm coming up with are food relate, burgers, pizzas, chili, ya know, the good stuff X3, but since good food can make a day better i'm going with :3
Yay I was going to watch that but forgot about it, and now you have reminded me, hooray. Apparently its on at 10:30 tonight. WoooEmileeElectro said:
More on topic I think Jellybabies are the greatest contribution humanity has ever made to the world.
Well I think the girl I like likes me too, kinda. I think we may go to the homecoming dance together. Life is good.
Honestly I think life would be pretty boring if we weren't attracted to the opposite sex. The thought of her keeps me up-beat and happy a lot of the time.
Honestly I think life would be pretty boring if we weren't attracted to the opposite sex. The thought of her keeps me up-beat and happy a lot of the time.
Ah, all you guys suffering from hubris, let me point you towards the novel Jurassic Park and everything Ian Malcolm says.
"What you call discovery, I call a rape of the natural world."
This planet has been around for 4.6 billion years. That's billion. With a B. Mankind has been on this planet for about 10,000 years. A blink of an eye to the Earth.
That said, sure, humans have the power for great evil or great good. Our art and literature. Our advances in medicines. Our generosity towards those less fortunate than ourselves. Our desire to put back what we take, to protect. Our desire to fight on even when victory seems impossible. Our ability to learn from the past, from our world. To think and plan for the future. Democracy.
Chocolate is definitely up there too.
For this debate, I would like to point towards the events of September 11, 2001. A day that saw humanity both at its best and at its worst. It saw brave men and women who went into almost certain doom on the off-chance of saving one more stranger's life. It saw total strangers rise up to stop evil from an unknown plot, willing to sacrifice themselves. It saw people come together to donate money, supplies, and sweat toward people they would never meet.
People came to donate more blood than could be collected at a time.
I would also like to point toward Alcatraz island, the inescapable prison. Escaped from. We saw birds fly for centuries. We flew with them. We saw the moon for eons. We visited there, less than seventy years after learning to fly. A testament to mankind - Do Not Challenge Us, We Shall Meet It.
"What you call discovery, I call a rape of the natural world."
This planet has been around for 4.6 billion years. That's billion. With a B. Mankind has been on this planet for about 10,000 years. A blink of an eye to the Earth.
That said, sure, humans have the power for great evil or great good. Our art and literature. Our advances in medicines. Our generosity towards those less fortunate than ourselves. Our desire to put back what we take, to protect. Our desire to fight on even when victory seems impossible. Our ability to learn from the past, from our world. To think and plan for the future. Democracy.
Chocolate is definitely up there too.
For this debate, I would like to point towards the events of September 11, 2001. A day that saw humanity both at its best and at its worst. It saw brave men and women who went into almost certain doom on the off-chance of saving one more stranger's life. It saw total strangers rise up to stop evil from an unknown plot, willing to sacrifice themselves. It saw people come together to donate money, supplies, and sweat toward people they would never meet.
People came to donate more blood than could be collected at a time.
I would also like to point toward Alcatraz island, the inescapable prison. Escaped from. We saw birds fly for centuries. We flew with them. We saw the moon for eons. We visited there, less than seventy years after learning to fly. A testament to mankind - Do Not Challenge Us, We Shall Meet It.
Ugh, yes, I am absolutely sick of this constant whining. In the West, life is better than it's ever been, yet people complain more than ever. The only major problem these days is that people are too negative. There's nothing wrong with being optimistic, and pretending you're apathetic to everything is not 'cool', it just makes you a sociopath, and you're just missing out on everything life has to offer.
Y'know, at this moment in time, I'll have to say music, first and foremost. Fun things in general, stories, fairytales, videogames
, I dunno, a lot of things. If we were inherently 'evil' then why don't we act evil? Why do we do all these nice things? Can't be "Society being oppressive" because surely if everyone was evil, society wouldn't exist in the first place.
On another tangent, are we really unavoidably selfish? As in, even when we give to charity, we just do it to feel better about themselves. Because there's plenty of examples of people doing things that can't be anything other than selfless, eg. people that refused to take part in the holecaust at Auschwitz, knowing they would be shot, someone taking a bullet for someone. just one person doing something like that throws the whole selfish angle off, I thnk.
Y'know, at this moment in time, I'll have to say music, first and foremost. Fun things in general, stories, fairytales, videogames
, I dunno, a lot of things. If we were inherently 'evil' then why don't we act evil? Why do we do all these nice things? Can't be "Society being oppressive" because surely if everyone was evil, society wouldn't exist in the first place.On another tangent, are we really unavoidably selfish? As in, even when we give to charity, we just do it to feel better about themselves. Because there's plenty of examples of people doing things that can't be anything other than selfless, eg. people that refused to take part in the holecaust at Auschwitz, knowing they would be shot, someone taking a bullet for someone. just one person doing something like that throws the whole selfish angle off, I thnk.
Humanity will forever be a positive species to me, even though there are times when the evidence seemed to the contrary, we've created music so beautiful it can bring you to tears. Explain that to a primitive species and they wouldn't understand, crying because of tuned sounds in sequence? When you put it like that it does sound slightly irrational. We've created food so delicious our entire youth grows fat on it, we've made art so perfect and inspirational it can bring millions to see it yearly.
We've created created intolerance, racism, things that can kill you in 100 different ways, each one more painful than the last, we've created nuclear arms and mass paranoia, highly addictive drugs that can ruin your life, and alcohol that can maim and disfigure you with one fell swoop.
But you know what? Music and Art make up for all of it. All you have to do is listen to Heal Me, I'm Heartsick by No Vacancy to see that. I don't know why, it's from a movie I don't even like and is by a band that is hardly massive and who also wrote Rock Lobster, it isn't even my usual style of music, but it just makes me feel.. great.
We've created created intolerance, racism, things that can kill you in 100 different ways, each one more painful than the last, we've created nuclear arms and mass paranoia, highly addictive drugs that can ruin your life, and alcohol that can maim and disfigure you with one fell swoop.
But you know what? Music and Art make up for all of it. All you have to do is listen to Heal Me, I'm Heartsick by No Vacancy to see that. I don't know why, it's from a movie I don't even like and is by a band that is hardly massive and who also wrote Rock Lobster, it isn't even my usual style of music, but it just makes me feel.. great.
