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Do you consider human beings to be animals? Why or why not? I know a lot of people say no, but we are mammals for fuck's sake. I got a book called, "Humans, and other animals" that I think some of you guys should read.
 
May 19, 2005
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we are definetly animals.jus like animals there sole purpose is to procreate and survive,religion jus makes us think were more important then we actually are,or that theres something bigger then us that we should be serving.were jus mamals eaking by day by day,we may think that our lives purpose is to find the meaning of life or to find true love,but our basic wiring is to fuck,and not die...thats it,all the rest is jus background music

^^^mista murder,wut makes you think animals cant talk to each other?species from elephants-lions-dolphins communicate with each other.jus cause you cant understand them doesnt mean that they dont communicate.and as of humans being being the top of the food chain ,maybee as a huge mass where on top,but as single species,id say were down there with dogs and small mountain lions.our only defensives are creating tools to attack,and to run like hell,and even that,we'd get smoked by a majority of animals.and as for a majority of humans i think theres way more dumb shit humans(living almost as animals)as intelectual humans.look how fucked up our world is right now.id actually prefer being a big mamal in africa,jus chillin,hunting,takin care of my kiddies,instead of being stressed out by the many problems of this fuckin planet
 
Sep 29, 2003
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yea way back when the first humans came about from monkeys in africa, we used grunts and shit to communicate too, just like an elephant or ddolphins or a lion.^^ as time grew that developed into different sounds and different dialects as people migrated throughout the world how u think theres so many different languages here.

edit...to answer the question yea humans are just super intelligent mammals...thats it thats all, we eat, sleep, drink, fuck, shit just like all the other animals on this planet.
 
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DeceptaKhan said:
we are definetly animals.jus like animals there sole purpose is to procreate and survive,religion jus makes us think were more important then we actually are,or that theres something bigger then us that we should be serving.were jus mamals eaking by day by day,we may think that our lives purpose is to find the meaning of life or to find true love,but our basic wiring is to fuck,and not die...thats it,all the rest is jus background music

^^^mista murder,wut makes you think animals cant talk to each other?species from elephants-lions-dolphins communicate with each other.jus cause you cant understand them doesnt mean that they dont communicate.and as of humans being being the top of the food chain ,maybee as a huge mass where on top,but as single species,id say were down there with dogs and small mountain lions.our only defensives are creating tools to attack,and to run like hell,and even that,we'd get smoked by a majority of animals.and as for a majority of humans i think theres way more dumb shit humans(living almost as animals)as intelectual humans.look how fucked up our world is right now.id actually prefer being a big mamal in africa,jus chillin,hunting,takin care of my kiddies,instead of being stressed out by the many problems of this fuckin planet
i agree with everything you just said
 
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I see "animal" as a word created to seperate them from us humans. So no I do not believe we are animals. However, we are mammels just as they are but far more intelligent.

I think individually we are at the very top of the chain even though we are physically inferrior to other species. DeceptaKhan, you point out how we have weapons to our advantage, and without these weapons we would not be at the top, but you must consider ALL things into the equation. We are without a doubt more intelligent than any other species of life on this planet, and that is our advantage; just as a bear has it's size and teeth, or how a spider has it's poison. Take these advantages away and it changes everything. If I went head to head with any animal I would win because I will bring a big ass gun and shoot it dead; that animal is not smart enough to know any better, that is his disadvantage.
 
Mar 9, 2005
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So you are at the top of the chain because you can shoot another animal? Strange. I'd put several bacterial species above us when it comes to survival - they can tolerate conditions which would kill us 1000 times over. Consider the extreme thermofiles which thrive at 80 degrees celsius, or the extreme halophiles which can tolerate amazingly high concentrations of salt. There are those which sporulate and can tolerate years of dessication and others which are adapted to thrive in sub-zero temperatures - some can even stand levels of radiation which would have us mutated like residents of Dr. Moreau's island.

Also, if we ever experienced a nuclear winter, which would be more likely to survive - the human race or the cockroaches? If you said humans than you are sorely mistaken. Yes, we have a big arse brain which gives us an advantage over other animal species in the world which we have made, but when it comes to 'animals living in nature', we are in the middle of the chain at best. The construction of our own world merely separates us from other animals, it doesn't make us better.
 
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Whoever has the gold, makes the rules. And whoever runs the planet decides what they are to be called, and what everything else is to be called.

Animals. Non-Animals. The fact that WE are the ones who decide it is already the proof that we are not animals. Name me one other species that has a systematic nomenclature-ish quasi-schematic apparatus, and perhaps we can talk.
 
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i think we would have to re-define the word "animal" to get an appropriate answer..



Dirty Shoez said:
Name me one other species that has a systematic nomenclature-ish quasi-schematic apparatus, and perhaps we can talk.
why would it neccisarily be a matter of naming something that we do that animals cant, instead of asking what animals do that we do not?
 
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Dirty Shoez said:
The fact that WE are the ones who decide it is already the proof that we are not animals.
So according to you, we are not animals because we have devised a nomenclature system which classifies 'them' as animals and 'us' as humans (that being different from animals). In other words, we have collectively decided that we are not animals and therefore we ARE NOT animals. Me thinks not.
 
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we're sophisticated animals. over time we've been able to con ourselves we're bigger than what we are. but at the end of the day we eat, sleep, shit, and fuck just like any other species. don't think that just because we can talk that makes us non animal. because what are words? words are just sounds....you cant hold words in your hand or see them physically. to a dog....barking is talking. but we can't understand them. we can't even understand other people if they don't make the same sounds(language) we make.

being a human is just dealing with alot of bells and whistles. like tvs, cars, jewlery, money, clothes, religion......but really that shit means NOTHING. we're just smart enough to isolate ourselves from other animals and build our own cities(nests). but the laws of nature still apply....life, death, illness, disease, aging. if we were really all that great we wouldn't be so fuckin evil. but we can kill each other off and prey on each other because its a dog eat dog world just like in the jungle. and our purpose is to breed and die. to leave our seed (kid) in the earth (pussy)
 
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Hutch said:
So according to you, we are not animals because we have devised a nomenclature system which classifies 'them' as animals and 'us' as humans (that being different from animals). In other words, we have collectively decided that we are not animals and therefore we ARE NOT animals. Me thinks not.
More or Less.....Yes. Agree to disagree then, seeing as though you cannot come back with a proper refutation, but would rather just repeat what I say and say you don't think so.
 

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Some Random Asshole
Apr 25, 2002
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I think the main problem is people's ego. Humans are animals. Sorry, homosapiens are animals. We're mammals, just like the other 5,000 species of mammal. We just happen to think we're smarter because we dont' understand shit. If someone tries to tell me that dogs don't communicate-what the fuck is barking? Them trying to cough up some food? Please.

People have a mislead perception of who and what they are because we have the capacity to think and TRY to understand things. The funny thing is though, NONE of the labels are "real" because someone made them up. We didn't just all call dogs "dogs" one day and just have it be consensus. It's taken a long to to develop speech as humans, I just think that people's egos and religious beliefs screw with their perception of what reality REALLY is.