Well, I'll either go with Religion, or the current state of the world. The fact that we let it get to this stage is bad enough, but the fact that we're not even doing something substantial about it is even more of an epic fail for me.
What do you think is the greatest epic fail for humanity?
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If the question was- What do you think is the greatest epic fail for humanity of each generation? That would be more easy for me to answer after I read through my history book again.
A few for me would be the 14th century Plague, genocide of Native America, atomic bomb, Holocaust, agent orange, old Europe raping most of the resources of the Middle East/Africa/Mexico thus making them economically ruined to this day, slavery, destruction of history like the Library of Alexandria, murdering intellectuals like Socrates, Vatican Church crusades, man made drugs/viruses, and etc...
Based on the bible Humanity's epic fail was when Adam and Eve committed sin and got their asses kicked out of paradise.
Ok enough with that religious bullsh*t
"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."
~Jean-Paul Sartre
think about it...
Everything we have done and everything we could've done is an epic fail.
Yes, we've made progress but at what expense?
We all do these things just to satisfy our desires, to feed our greed and our curiosity. We are pretty much a failure, individually and as a whole. But that what's makes us human beings.
Sad to say that our species is a failure by itself but really..."nothing is perfect".
Seriously though
The greatest epic fail for humanity(and the greatest epic fail for every living thing) is when our species goes extinct. Especially us humans.
We have the ability to think, the intellectual advantage so it would be pretty much an epic failure if rats survived longer than we do.
Ok enough with that religious bullsh*t
"All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure."
~Jean-Paul Sartre
think about it...
Everything we have done and everything we could've done is an epic fail.
Yes, we've made progress but at what expense?
We all do these things just to satisfy our desires, to feed our greed and our curiosity. We are pretty much a failure, individually and as a whole. But that what's makes us human beings.
Sad to say that our species is a failure by itself but really..."nothing is perfect".
Seriously though
The greatest epic fail for humanity(and the greatest epic fail for every living thing) is when our species goes extinct. Especially us humans.
We have the ability to think, the intellectual advantage so it would be pretty much an epic failure if rats survived longer than we do.
The space program. We went from going to the friggin moon so often that the news stopped covering it to being stuck in our own orbit. Fuck that. Space station orbiting Jupiter or bust!
War does have a use. It cuts down the human population, which is high enough as is. In some ways, I think another war is coming up. Maybe not in this life time, but it is coming. The Earth is running out of resources and everyone is too afraid of the political turmoil that would occur if they started to develop in space. We will eventually run out of land and resources, and a war will begin for each faction to gain more. This war will likely have one of two outcomes:StormShaun said:
1. Humanity wipes itself out with superweapons (Nukes, or whatever else we have by then.
2. Humanity eventually makes peace and realizes that they are fighting because they are too afraid of using available resources (The stuff in space) as it might start a fight. Knowing politicians though, this is probably just wishful thinking
And Yes, bad internet is the absolute worst mistake we have ever made. (Goddamn Nanna's Modem keeps dropping in and out)
Ummm..... Ok. I have no idea what is meant by most of this.StormShaun said:
Atheism is no worse than Religion, and vise versa. Both can be used for good, both can be used for bad. Both try to scapegoat the other when one of their believers does something wrong.
I am personally Agnostic, having no real beliefs about god (which is different to Atheism. Atheism says god DOES NOT exist. Agnosticism says he MAY exist, or he MAY NOT exist). Atheism, however, is not a bad thing. If we count it as one, we must also count religion as one. It is the people in each faith who feel the need to force others to accept their ideologies that is the true Fail in both Religion and Atheism.
Darwin was a great man. He gave us a greater understanding about the world we live in, which is a noble goal. Personally, I like this world where we understand more of how things work, and have proper theories of how things have occurred. I would hate to live in a world where things like this were never discovered, and religions reigned supreme. Calling Darwin a bad person because he discovered evolution and disproved some of religion's teachings is like saying that the burning of the library of Alexandria (what I believe humanities greatest mistake was) was a good thing, as the Greek religious beliefs at that time were not the same as your own.
Also, being Australian, I am quite glad that we were colonised by the British. It has given us a good, modern form of Government, in which it is nigh on impossible for the government to have too much power (unless we let them, which going by how little thought a number of people put into politics, is entirely possible). I do not see how being colonised by anyone else would have had a positive effect on who we are. Back then, all world powers had the same conquering mindset as England, and would have made the same mistakes they did (and I know there are a quite a few...). Tell me, who would you rather we have our motherland as?
If you entire post was just trolling, however, which I see as entirely possible based of the ignorance displayed here that is similar to the ignorance displayed by the person who said that Religion was humanities biggest fail, you may disregard the entirety of the above as this answer was written as if the post were serious.
I find it ironic that you and many others say not to list religion, and then go on to say thing like burning down the Library of Alexandria and the dark ages. Not to be a jerk, but part of the reason the dark ages "forgot" everything was because of the catholic church growing in power and neglecting or outright destroying ancient roman and greek knowledge (the muslims were cool enough to save as much of it as they could, and subsequently kicked ass for a while), and I remember hearing that the library of alexandria was burned down by a religious mob as it was viewed as heretical. I think religion is a valid point for this list. While it's true that many early religions were mechanisms important for allowing our ancestors to deal with living in a world they knew virtually nothing about, and greatly helped the formation of communities, culture, and served as humanity's first awkward steps to earnestly trying to understand the world, now that we have a basic understanding of the world we live in, the laws that govern it, as well as means to attain more knowledge, religion is not as neccesary and at this stage may do more harm then good (and if left unchecked, may even do enough harm to negate the good it did building the initial civilizations). IMHO it went downhill around the time those monotheistic religions started to preach one and only one god, until then the pagan religions, while not always friendly to one another and most likely started or served as a catalyst to a few wars, at the very least tolerated each others existence. Most monotheistic religions such as Christianity and Islam have a very expansionistic viewpoint (regardless of how poorly most of their followers hold them), which leads to conflict. Yes I am an atheist and TBH I think it is quite an epic fail to have religious fundamentalists (of any religion) and nukes coexisting in the same planet, just doesn't seem very safe no sir.Arontala said:
Would the war in Afghanistan count? Since that is Muslim extremists fighting against people, one of the reasons being religion.EllEzDee said:
OT: Yeah, Religion.
Uh, shit.... I KNOW! Money grubbing power figures, combine one sin with another and you get a great big bowel of deadly, evil person. Thats about number 3, and then the last 2 is WW2 and the sudden rise of undeserving pop culture singers [Joking on the pop thing, mostly.]
Our failure to work against a common goal. There are so much resources on the planet, and so much workpower going to waste. If the entire human race was as organized as an anthill...I seriously doubt there is a limit to what we could achieve.
Instead, we waste our resources on stupid weapons, fuel for the warmachine and fucking bribes for FIFA. God damnit. Humanity is so depressing.
Instead, we waste our resources on stupid weapons, fuel for the warmachine and fucking bribes for FIFA. God damnit. Humanity is so depressing.
Perfect post and avatar combo.OneStepAhead said:
As for me, probably just the whole massive scale treating people like shit/killing people instead of learning how to coexist peacefully.
Somehow humanity developed with a fatal weakness: to intrinsically trust charisma over reason. To be honest, our brains are capable of a great many delusions and false intuitions, but trusting those who purely sound like they know what they're on about is a fatal flaw.
No, it wouldn't. We're (as in, the western soldiers) are not there to stop the practicing their religion, we're there for their oil, under the facade of bringing liberty to their people.MrJKapowey said:
The extremists are using their so-called "religion" as an excuse for massacring others; nowhere in the Islamic bible, nor their teachings, do they tell their followers to destroy "infidel westerners". Infact, it's the exact opposite, like all (almost all) religions, where they preach peace and loving and all that other "crazy" stuff. Once again, it's a select few followers that give it a bad name.
That's not to say i have no qualms with Islam...it's just that they're not told to be "terrorists" through religious teachings.
I got two but I can't really decide which is worse:
Religion or development of emotions.
Don't get me wrong I love traditions, culture and history. But fact is that there would been some kind of culture/history/tradition even without religion, it would just be different. I do not like religion, had ban experiences with it and it clouds the reason and logic out of peoples minds, I respect reason and logic more than I do anything else.
And emotions... they cloud the reason and logic, also you make really bad decisions with it and it usually end up in more fail than required.
I have right for my opinions, so don't bother giving me angry private message of how I "disrespect" jesus/god/santaclaus or how I "hate" you personally, I don't I hate everyone equally and alike, including me and my family.
Oh... And my 3rd option would be, idiots.
Religion or development of emotions.
Don't get me wrong I love traditions, culture and history. But fact is that there would been some kind of culture/history/tradition even without religion, it would just be different. I do not like religion, had ban experiences with it and it clouds the reason and logic out of peoples minds, I respect reason and logic more than I do anything else.
And emotions... they cloud the reason and logic, also you make really bad decisions with it and it usually end up in more fail than required.
I have right for my opinions, so don't bother giving me angry private message of how I "disrespect" jesus/god/santaclaus or how I "hate" you personally, I don't I hate everyone equally and alike, including me and my family.
Oh... And my 3rd option would be, idiots.
