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"Just a question that popped into my head. Supposing that our species was collectively called upon by some sort of galactic court to justify our existence and why we shouldn't be wiped from the galaxy, what would we testify to be our greatest achievement as a species, and upon which fundamental values do we possess, that you would argue could lead us to brighter and greater things?" Dick & Dom in da bungalow | |||
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"Just a question that popped into my head. Supposing that our species was collectively called upon by some sort of galactic court to justify our existence and why we shouldn't be wiped from the galaxy, what would we testify to be our greatest achievement as a species, and upon which fundamental values do we possess, that you would argue could lead us to brighter and greater things?" I give up... Tell me  | |||
"I would argue for the other side. We've been kinda shit.
-Courtney "
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"I would argue that we've done the best with what we've been given." Given or taken? | |||
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"I don't buy into all this 'humans are parasites/evil' stuff. People are amazing. The rate of development in the past 150 years has been incredible. Give us another hundred years and we'll be awesome "We would be awesome. We just destroy what's around us. | |||
"People are amazing. The rate of development in the past 150 years has been incredible. Give us another hundred years and we'll be awesome "Some of us already are  | |||
"People are amazing. The rate of development in the past 150 years has been incredible. Give us another hundred years and we'll be awesome
Some of us already are " | |||
"I would argue that we've done the best with what we've been given. Given or taken? " I mean in terms of human traits. We've done pretty badly with what we've taken. I suppose it depends on if you think we have control as a species over how long we're going to survive or if we're on some path dictated by our inherent human failings that can only end in disaster. | |||
"I would argue that we've done the best with what we've been given." In that we have vastly overpopulated the Earth and are now in the process off stripping it of all its natural resources and in some cases causing the extinction of other species all in the name of progress and profit. | |||
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"Mecca bingo." Case closed | |||
"I would argue that we've done the best with what we've been given. In that we have vastly overpopulated the Earth and are now in the process off stripping it of all its natural resources and in some cases causing the extinction of other species all in the name of progress and profit. "Easily reversed. Stop distributing aid to developing countries. Happy now? | |||
"I would argue that we've done the best with what we've been given. In that we have vastly overpopulated the Earth and are now in the process off stripping it of all its natural resources and in some cases causing the extinction of other species all in the name of progress and profit. "That's my point. We are doing what humans do. | |||
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"I would argue that we've done the best with what we've been given. Given or taken? I mean in terms of human traits. We've done pretty badly with what we've taken. I suppose it depends on if you think we have control as a species over how long we're going to survive or if we're on some path dictated by our inherent human failings that can only end in disaster." I saw a piece on the telly box as I was dressing for work this morning. Apparently, we're in the Anthropocene epoch. All the matter we have made now has a geological layer and we're affecting the ecosystems. Is our curiosity, desire and ability to change things our inherent failings? | |||
"I would argue that we've done the best with what we've been given. In that we have vastly overpopulated the Earth and are now in the process off stripping it of all its natural resources and in some cases causing the extinction of other species all in the name of progress and profit.
Easily reversed. Stop distributing aid to developing countries. Happy now?"As long as we give them Coca Cola , and McDonald's | |||
"Considering how many of us there are and the things human's have been through, and some are still going through, I think we've done well. If the court is mainly male then boobs & cleavage should do it "Even if they're all gay? | |||
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"I would argue that we've done the best with what we've been given. Given or taken? I mean in terms of human traits. We've done pretty badly with what we've taken. I suppose it depends on if you think we have control as a species over how long we're going to survive or if we're on some path dictated by our inherent human failings that can only end in disaster. I saw a piece on the telly box as I was dressing for work this morning. Apparently, we're in the Anthropocene epoch. All the matter we have made now has a geological layer and we're affecting the ecosystems. Is our curiosity, desire and ability to change things our inherent failings? " In a way yes, I think they are or at least the fact that we aren't able to foresee how the results of our curiosity will affect things and our desire and ability to change things isn't always for the better. We're flawed, I don't know what we can do about that. | |||
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"Considering how many of us there are and the things human's have been through, and some are still going through, I think we've done well. If the court is mainly male then boobs & cleavage should do it
Even if they're all gay?
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"I would say to them; in my pocket I carry a device through which I can access all the collective knowledge and accumulated wisdom of mankind. I use it to argue with strangers and watch videos of kittens. Personally I think were screwed!" Haha!!
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"I would say to them; in my pocket I carry a device through which I can access all the collective knowledge and accumulated wisdom of mankind. I use it to argue with strangers and watch videos of kittens." That's brilliant, kitten videos will count in our favour too | |||
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"So it's kind of an argument between whether we should have stuck with the monkeys (& not bred too much) or whether we should try to progress. I'd rather plea that we tried to make the most of our short period on earth than lazed about in the shade of some trees." Yep! Mind you if someone asks me to justify myself I usually tell them to take a long walk off a short pier so I'd have us all doomed if the alien stopped me on the street. | |||
"Just a question that popped into my head. Supposing that our species was collectively called upon by some sort of galactic court to justify our existence and why we shouldn't be wiped from the galaxy, what would we testify to be our greatest achievement as a species, and upon which fundamental values do we possess, that you would argue could lead us to brighter and greater things?" Isnt there a star trek episode (next generation?) Themed around the premise of your question? The q Continuum putting humanity on trial.. Or something. Interesting episode... | |||
"Just a question that popped into my head. Supposing that our species was collectively called upon by some sort of galactic court to justify our existence and why we shouldn't be wiped from the galaxy, what would we testify to be our greatest achievement as a species, and upon which fundamental values do we possess, that you would argue could lead us to brighter and greater things? Isnt there a star trek episode (next generation?) Themed around the premise of your question? The q Continuum putting humanity on trial.. Or something. Interesting episode..." ...is exactly what I was thinking as I was reading this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Good_Things..._(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation) "Make it so, Number 1." | |||
"Just a question that popped into my head. Supposing that our species was collectively called upon by some sort of galactic court to justify our existence and why we shouldn't be wiped from the galaxy, what would we testify to be our greatest achievement as a species, and upon which fundamental values do we possess, that you would argue could lead us to brighter and greater things? Isnt there a star trek episode (next generation?) Themed around the premise of your question? The q Continuum putting humanity on trial.. Or something. Interesting episode... ...is exactly what I was thinking as I was reading this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Good_Things..._(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation) "Make it so, Number 1."" https://youtu.be/-UqNIOc8rgc Ugh. Why'd they have to ruin star trek with that " enterprise" bollox. Granted Scott Bakula is/was dishy as fuck.. But still  | |||
"Just a question that popped into my head. Supposing that our species was collectively called upon by some sort of galactic court to justify our existence and why we shouldn't be wiped from the galaxy, what would we testify to be our greatest achievement as a species, and upon which fundamental values do we possess, that you would argue could lead us to brighter and greater things? Isnt there a star trek episode (next generation?) Themed around the premise of your question? The q Continuum putting humanity on trial.. Or something. Interesting episode... ...is exactly what I was thinking as I was reading this... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Good_Things..._(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation) "Make it so, Number 1." https://youtu.be/-UqNIOc8rgc Ugh. Why'd they have to ruin star trek with that " enterprise" bollox. Granted Scott Bakula is/was dishy as fuck.. But still "Your taste in men is as bad as my woman's | |||
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"I would argue for the other side. We've been kinda shit.
-Courtney " | |||
"The rate of development in the past 150 years has been incredible. Give us another hundred years and we'll be awesome "Every living thing on the planet will be extinct - including us! | |||
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"We should be castigated by this hypothetical court for our lack of ambition; it's 40+ years since a man set foot on the moon; if we had not been so wet and useless, we would be on Mars by now , and working out how to get beyond this solar system." I've heard it was a hoax and we never really went to the moon  | |||
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"The rate of development in the past 150 years has been incredible. Give us another hundred years and we'll be awesome
Every living thing on the planet will be extinct - including us!"Not quite everything, some form of life will survive and start the next round of evolution, hopefully resulting in something better than us lot next time. | |||
"The rate of development in the past 150 years has been incredible. Give us another hundred years and we'll be awesome
Every living thing on the planet will be extinct - including us!"What bollocks. The Earth has survived considerably worse than we can throw at it and will be here far beyond us. | |||
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"Millions of other species on this planet have made a much better fist of things than humans ever have." Name one. | |||
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"Just a question that popped into my head. Supposing that our species was collectively called upon by some sort of galactic court to justify our existence and why we shouldn't be wiped from the galaxy, what would we testify to be our greatest achievement as a species, and upon which fundamental values do we possess, that you would argue could lead us to brighter and greater things?" WE are the achievement. The only animal capable of contemplating its own existence, the one self-aware creature. The expression of the universe's own desire to experience itself. We summon all of reality into existence by perceiving it. Without us there would be no world as we know it. We are the light and the warmth in a cold dark universe. All good and all evil is in us. Humanity is the ultimate expression of the creative force of life. We tell the story of life to ourselves, making sense of the cosmos. We are mega. Now, if that doesn't get me a kiss and a cuddle and a fuck and a love, I dont know what will! | |||
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"Millions of other species on this planet have made a much better fist of things than humans ever have. Name one." Probably most of them. It's only our self awareness and arrogance that makes us think we are somehow 'greater' than other forms of life. Our great flaw is that we all think we are someone, when in fact we are all no one. Here's a quote from a film I like which just about sums it up for me... "Animals they don't have time to bother with the success of getting rich, don't have fantasies of glory, don't borrow money to buy things to decrease the value of while they own it, see, they are beautiful because they just are. They do what they do. Lion don't try to be a tiger, rabbit don't try to do an impression of a monkey. They don't try to be what they are not. Not like us, we human beings. The cheetah, the tiger, the snake, the monkey, the baboon, the muskrat, the bobcat, the pig that's fat, the hippo, the rhino, the dodo, the honey badger, the slithy toad, each one, each perfect in their own original form. Then man came in. Who created him, or for what purpose, is still a mystery. Why is he here? It's a mystery. We know he's trespassing, doesn't know his own place. Of course he doesn't know his own place, he doesn't have one. Man, the bear hunter, the fur trapper, the deer chaser, the baby seal clubber, the dolphin snagger, lowest form of existence, lowest form of existence... He goes around sticking his nose where it doesn't belong. The zoo, the aquarium, they are prisons for the animals, those animals can't learn anything from man, man don't have a thing to teach them. I don't even like looking at human beings, they disgust me so much with their atom bombs, their blowdryers, their automobiles. They build hospitals as a shrine to the diseases they create. Human beings, along with their secrets, masked and anonymous... If I see a crack in the sidewalk, to me it's more beautiful than any human being. A crack in the mud at the bottom of a sundried dead lake, I count that more beautiful than any human being. You know what I mean?" | |||
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"If I see a crack in the sidewalk, to me it's more beautiful than any human being. A crack in the mud at the bottom of a sundried dead lake, I count that more beautiful than any human being. You know what I mean?" " No. I think you're part of a long line of people spouting some populist crap with very little thought to what life is actually about. All creatures are designed to evolve. We're just doing it better. | |||
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"Considering how many of us there are and the things human's have been through, and some are still going through, I think we've done well. If the court is mainly male then boobs & cleavage should do it
Even if they're all gay?
They'll say they're straight anyway "FabS straight alien guys; that should be interesting  | |||
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"The rate of development in the past 150 years has been incredible. Give us another hundred years and we'll be awesome
Every living thing on the planet will be extinct - including us!
What bollocks.
The Earth has survived considerably worse than we can throw at it and will be here far beyond us."This | |||
"The rate of development in the past 150 years has been incredible. Give us another hundred years and we'll be awesome
Every living thing on the planet will be extinct - including us!
What bollocks.
The Earth has survived considerably worse than we can throw at it and will be here far beyond us.
This".. Errm yeah that's debatable, I mean yeah the earth will be here, whether it will be able to sustain complex life is a different question. I mean Venus is there but it ain't having no life on it anytime soon because it sufferers from extreme climate change, astrologers look for planets in what they term the Goldilocks placement, there's a very relative distance from the host star that allows for life as stars change size and intensity through there life cycle... I mean to assume complex life would just start again, is a large assumption.... If it were that easy, Mars and Venus would be teeming with life, the fact they aint shows the fragility of it all | |||
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"I would argue that we've done the best with what we've been given." Sadly I'd disagree Humans as a species are a paracite We will over populate destroy and suffer despite the very best efforts of some | |||
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"Just a question that popped into my head. Supposing that our species was collectively called upon by some sort of galactic court to justify our existence and why we shouldn't be wiped from the galaxy, what would we testify to be our greatest achievement as a species, and upon which fundamental values do we possess, that you would argue could lead us to brighter and greater things?" You don't need to worry about that . With how we kill our own kind for no reason any alien race would soon wipe us out just in case we turned on them Hence why I know aliens don't exist | |||
" 50% of all extinct species has happened since 1970 ... smart or what ... " That ain't true. | |||
" 50% of all extinct species has happened since 1970 ... smart or what ... " More than 50% of all species that ever existed were extinct before humans existed. | |||
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"Just a question that popped into my head. Supposing that our species was collectively called upon by some sort of galactic court to justify our existence and why we shouldn't be wiped from the galaxy, what would we testify to be our greatest achievement as a species, and upon which fundamental values do we possess, that you would argue could lead us to brighter and greater things?" Thats a fucking awesome question I'm going to sleep on it . | |||
"Thats a fucking awesome question I'm going to sleep on it . " That might be the best answer so far | |||
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"Said Earth would still be here. Said nothing of complex life. As for what's on Venus, in truth we haven't a clue. Last I heard there were some women there.." . There's nothing on Venus it's several hundred degrees. If anyone wants to contemplate what runaway climate change looks like... They you go. It took 4 billon years for "life" to develop on earth, about 500 million years later you got complex life, 250 million years after the great die off for complex life to resurface!. To presume that we'll leave an earth worthy of complexity to start again is worryingly short of any evidence to the contrary!. And quite frankly nobody gives a shit about what comes after us. As an intelligent species, we really should be concerned about extending our own life span!, however it seems were really not that bothered, so one could conclude were not as bright as we think | |||
"As an intelligent species, we really should be concerned about extending our own life span!, however it seems were really not that bothered, so one could conclude were not as bright as we think" Our intelligence is the thing most likely to remain. Albeit likely not in human form. | |||
"As an intelligent species, we really should be concerned about extending our own life span!, however it seems were really not that bothered, so one could conclude were not as bright as we think Our intelligence is the thing most likely to remain. Albeit likely not in human form." . No I think our pollution will be our biggest and longest living legacy. I mean depleted uranium has a half life of 4 billon years, which coincidentally enough is the same life span of the earth. And I mean the ball of rock called earth, not just the life on it | |||
"I would argue that we've done the best with what we've been given. In that we have vastly overpopulated the Earth and are now in the process off stripping it of all its natural resources and in some cases causing the extinction of other species all in the name of progress and profit. "We are at once amazing and unbelievable in our belief that this world is OURS! | |||
