I won't digg you down but others will.To me - it makes me feel like the human race is more special if we had to crawl up from the mud - near indistinguisable from other creatures. We've built great cities, destroyed entire cultures and created great advances due to our adaptations. We didn't get a leg up from any supernatural being IMO yet here we are... very well adapted to our environment and able to think abstractly and emphathize - this (I believe) is what keeps us from killing each other on a whim because we don't believe in divine retribution.
Sure, but if you want to live in that reality, you have to have to make some non-philosophical judgments about words like "better". We have the potential to travel the galaxy and spread mind. That is "better" than having the potential to eat ants out of ant hills. Especially for the ants.Also to the post above that one, I think that if everyone of us realises that we have such potential (is not just _told_ of it), then things like wars would stop automatically. Could you imagine trying to convince someone who sees every person on the planet as a brother or sister that the best thing for them to do right now is go and blow the crap out of a village for not adhering to their governments ideologies? It just wouldn't make sense.
@CoffeedemonNo, the theist does not have to reconcile the paradox of an evolved brain that also accurately and fully percieves reality.Nice try though.
lordthorSep 25, 2006
motherf**kin dupe.
coffeedemonSep 25, 2006
I won't digg you down but others will.To me - it makes me feel like the human race is more special if we had to crawl up from the mud - near indistinguisable from other creatures. We've built great cities, destroyed entire cultures and created great advances due to our adaptations. We didn't get a leg up from any supernatural being IMO yet here we are... very well adapted to our environment and able to think abstractly and emphathize - this (I believe) is what keeps us from killing each other on a whim because we don't believe in divine retribution.
zcreemSep 25, 2006
A phonetically challenged one ;)
omega6Sep 25, 2006
DANCE MONKEYS DANCE!!!!hehehe
flapjawSep 25, 2006
Did anyone spot the dildo in the picture of the psychiatrist?
ridgelawrenceSep 25, 2006
everyone knows we didn't come from monkeys, we came from fish!
berfmurretSep 25, 2006
MONKEY HIVE!!
tonageSep 26, 2006
From Monkeys to Religion? Geez, you people are desperate for outlets to bash religion.
masgradaSep 26, 2006
The monkees make music.
afrazkhanSep 26, 2006
Sure, but if you want to live in that reality, you have to have to make some non-philosophical judgments about words like "better". We have the potential to travel the galaxy and spread mind. That is "better" than having the potential to eat ants out of ant hills. Especially for the ants.Also to the post above that one, I think that if everyone of us realises that we have such potential (is not just _told_ of it), then things like wars would stop automatically. Could you imagine trying to convince someone who sees every person on the planet as a brother or sister that the best thing for them to do right now is go and blow the crap out of a village for not adhering to their governments ideologies? It just wouldn't make sense.
Closed AccountSep 26, 2006
f**king monkeys
banderbeSep 26, 2006
@CoffeedemonNo, the theist does not have to reconcile the paradox of an evolved brain that also accurately and fully percieves reality.Nice try though.