http://www.snabbstart.com/film/feec340a7a

A very interesting video that I believe is very true. It talks about how screwed up we are and that it is our fault that we are screwed up. I agree with almost all of it.

The one thing I find most interesting is that we are "cursed" with conscienceness. It does give us all the problems we have but it also makes our lives much more interesting. Instead of just doing what is essential for our survival like everything else, we look for meaning in our lives. This is like trying to find a needle in 8 billion tons of hay-stacks. We will never know the purpose of us. But yet, we still ask questions. We try to come up with answers to these questions, but have no way to prove our theories. But, this is the beauty of our consciences: we ask these questions because they are interesting. It is a sick thing to be able to think of unanswerable questions. But, without being able to think of these questions, we would become just like every other organism (at least on this planet). Just doing the essential things to survive without any meaning but to live. But why do we live? What is the purpose? It's a never ending cycle.

What do you guys think?

This post has been edited by Will.Allison: Aug 20 2007, 06:45 AM

There are also some questions that either meant to be not answered, such as "meaning of life", or those that are just intruding on a particular living's life. While it is interesting to know the problem and curiousity may get to a person on how to find the answer, but in some cases, it's better to let life run its course.

That is one interesting and funny movie, i watched it twice... It is true that many humans forget we are still only a bunch of apes. An evolved bunch, but still only a bunch of apes. Evolution hasn't given us only good things, but also some dark parts. While we are intelligent enough to go into space and send probes to distant planets, we aren't smart enough to not use nuclear power as a weapon, we aren't smart enough to stop using fossil fuels while our planet is still habitable.
Our conscienceness, the only thing that truly separates us from the rest of the animal kingdom is also our weakness. Because conscienceness has given birth to our dark side - to hatred. The evolved monkey doesn't (rarely) care(s) about the welfare of it's fellow evolved monkey, what is really important for the evolved monkey is the green stuff that makes its world go round, money.
As a evolved monkey we have an open door to unraveling the mysteries of the universe, but first we must fight the demons from within us, we demons that conscienceness has waken up!

But we must remember what John Stuart Mill (an evolved monkey) once said: "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides."

And by the way... here is another interesting (although not as funny as the first one): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbJ8xhJqKps

I think about this sometimes , And after I wonder why I'm here , I'm left feeling a bit empty and feeling without meaning. I think that people in massive company's are trying to find some kind fulfillment in wealth , so they can live their life with those kind of goals. Depending on the kind of person you are , your goals in life will differ.

Well i see the human race as a serious problem for its surroundings.
Due to our curiosity and our selfishness we deall great damage to nature.
Also our agressiveness towards others.

Give a human a finger and he will take your hand.

We are not monkeys. Monkey is a whole different species than we are.
I think what you are meaning to say is, "We have the same common ancestor"

Once down the line, we were the same. Millions of years ago, there was a species, and one of them had a mutation which was for the better, and so that mutated being mated many times and spread it's genes

And there we are

And monkeys also are like that too

Survival of the fittest, I know there is a word for it I learned in bio but I totally forgot XD

We are not monkeys and we do not have the same ancestor. You want proof. Adam is proof.
Adam is the first human, and he is ancestor of all people.
Of course I didn't see Adam, but all four holly books say Adam is created from earth by the only God.

i'm more inclined to believe all living things are ALIENS.

All four "holly" books? Don't you mean just Genesis? (and it's "holy" books. Books aren't made of holly.)
Or, do you possibly mean the four Gospels, which is a misconception. They mainly talk about Jesus, not Adam. (Considering that our bible study teacher tells us that Jesus is the "second Adam", what's the difference?)

Or, do you possible mean the three (not four) books of the Abrahamic religions? That would be the Bible, the Torah, and the Qu'ran.

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QUOTE(serverph @ Jun 16 2008, 04:10 PM)

i'm more inclined to believe all living things are ALIENS.