Damn, you weren't kidding when you said "wait for it". This is beautiful.

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If everyone is special, then no one is.

we're not special. that's part of the legacy of lies of religion. (we're all god's flowers, lamb of god, god is with you, god's chosen, god looks like us, the planet is OUR domain). self-entitled bullshit. that is not reality.
consumerism also sells to the "specialness".

one of the major problems with the psyche of our species is that we're so focused on pursuing our own special self interests to the detriment of the planet and everyone else. consumerism or religion to the individual isn't a big deal. for the collective it is destroying the planet.
shit i'm starting to sound like a broken record.
but evolution of the species means evolution of the consciousness.

bolivia gets it right:
http://www.pvpulse.com/en/news/world-news/bolivia-set-to-pass-historic-law-of-mother-earth-which-will-grant-nature-equal-rights-to-humans#startOfPageI
d776

we are just another species.
i would even go so far to argue that on the whole, we are not an intelligent species. we possess intelligence, and there are those in our species who could be considered intelligent, but most of us just repeat patterns and emotion rules our decisions rather than cognition. Around 80% of humans are virtual automatons.
we celebrate competition and division and feed that to our young, while it is without question that cooperation is how an intelligent species flourishes.

before guilt and shame and expectations that you cannot possibly meet fuck up your life, religion has to first establish that you are something more than a primate, another piece in the collective. it has to first prey upon your ego, your fears, and your self interests. it is an element of control.
Consumerism, before selling you piles of crap, must first convince you that you need to buy that shit, that you deserve it, that you are entitled to it, and that by accumulating more shit to the self, you will fulfill your dreams and your happiness.

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Beautiful!
Help turn us around.

Impressive.

Not clever. It's just a copy/reversal of this video that was made years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgFU5Ak88-k&feature=

criticalthud : Well said.



It made me think of a Tyler Durden quote :
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

@criticalthud: "We're not special! Well, except for me and my friends. We're pretty intelligent. But geez, the rest of the human race is dumb."

Come on.

I'd really like to believe the optimists that believe our race will someday overcome it's petty evils but I look at history and just can't.

If history teaches us anything, it is that we never learn from history.

The Hitler's, Stalin's and roman empires of the future will all wrap themselves in pretty words and as did the monsters we remember and a sufficient number of our fellow humans will believe or accept it to give them the power to commit once again the same crimes that make up our planet's history. My only real hope is to try and stave that off for my and my children's generations.

Clever. Anyone who has read Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach will recognize this as a crab canon. Well done!

>> ^direpickle:

@criticalthud: "We're not special! Well, except for me and my friends. We're pretty intelligent. But geez, the rest of the human race is dumb."
Come on.


i would claim to be curious. but certainly not special. and being smarter than your peers doesn't necessarily qualify you as intelligent.
but please, explain how you happen to be special.

>> ^criticalthud:

>> ^direpickle:
@criticalthud: "We're not special! Well, except for me and my friends. We're pretty intelligent. But geez, the rest of the human race is dumb."
Come on.

i would claim to be curious. but certainly not special. and being smarter than your peers doesn't necessarily qualify you as intelligent.
but please, explain how you happen to be special.


I wouldn't say that I am, any more so than anyone else. I was just calling you out on your own hypocrisy and self-conceit, claiming at once that no one is special and that most people are just automatons (presumably excluding yourself from that last distinction).

>> ^direpickle:

>> ^criticalthud:
>> ^direpickle:
@criticalthud: "We're not special! Well, except for me and my friends. We're pretty intelligent. But geez, the rest of the human race is dumb."
Come on.

i would claim to be curious. but certainly not special. and being smarter than your peers doesn't necessarily qualify you as intelligent.
but please, explain how you happen to be special.

I wouldn't say that I am, any more so than anyone else. I was just calling you out on your own hypocrisy and self-conceit, claiming at once that no one is special and that most people are just automatons (presumably excluding yourself from that last distinction).


Coming from a fairly rabid puritan family, i was quite infected with the specialness for a long time. At some point I started realizing how much of a limiting factor it was psychologically, especially in creative pursuits. I'm pretty sure that I'm not quite free of it yet, but like many things, it's a continual journey.

For Christ's sake, QUIT READING THE TEXT OR LEAVE IT OFF!

Humanism is a religion and evolution is its creation story.

"I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of the educational level -- preschool day care center or large state university. The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new -- the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism."

John Dunphy THE HUMANIST MAGAZINE

As you can see, these humanists are proselytizers too, and their stated goal is the indoctrination of our children with humanist values, and the destruction of Christianity, which they will replace with their humanist faith. So much for tolerance and unity, right? How hypocritical can you get? This is the kind of insanity you get when you try to replace God with man.

These are the very people trying to establish a one world government, which is what will usher in the antichrist to power. So when that happens by sure to thank them for ending the world.

>> ^criticalthud:

we're not special. that's part of the legacy of lies of religion. (we're all god's flowers, lamb of god, god is with you, god's chosen, god looks like us, the planet is OUR domain). self-entitled bullshit. that is not reality.
consumerism also sells to the "specialness".
one of the major problems with the psyche of our species is that we're so focused on pursuing our own special self interests to the detriment of the planet and everyone else. consumerism or religion to the individual isn't a big deal. for the collective it is destroying the planet.
shit i'm starting to sound like a broken record.
but evolution of the species means evolution of the consciousness.
bolivia gets it right:
http://www.pvpulse.com/en/news/world-news/bolivia-set-to-pass-historic-law-of-mother-earth-which-will-grant-nature-equal-rights-to-humans#star
tOfPageI
d776
we are just another species.
i would even go so far to argue that on the whole, we are not an intelligent species. we possess intelligence, and there are those in our species who could be considered intelligent, but most of us just repeat patterns and emotion rules our decisions rather than cognition. Around 80% of humans are virtual automatons.
we celebrate competition and division and feed that to our young, while it is without question that cooperation is how an intelligent species flourishes.
before guilt and shame and expectations that you cannot possibly meet fuck up your life, religion has to first establish that you are something more than a primate, another piece in the collective. it has to first prey upon your ego, your fears, and your self interests. it is an element of control.
Consumerism, before selling you piles of crap, must first convince you that you need to buy that shit, that you deserve it, that you are entitled to it, and that by accumulating more shit to the self, you will fulfill your dreams and your happiness.


Very well said, also the information on Bolivia is really great news, lets hope America doesn't send in troops/arrange assassinations to reverse this fantastic effort.