BS: One compelling reason for humanity?

Subject: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:25 AM

I certainly can't come up with one. Anybody else?

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:31 AM

Gives us something to talk about!

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:34 AM

The Dixie Chicks. Need I say more?

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:51 AM

LOL! Well...not bad, I have to admit. I specially like the dark-haired one.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: autolycus
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:31 AM

Misremembered quote from pre-war (that's WW2 in my notebook) French film (Les Regles duJeu?),

   "That's the trouble with people. They always have to have reasons"






       I.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:37 AM

Shit happens....

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 10:39 AM

And on the sixth day God created people, male and female God created them, and God saw what He had done, and said, "Oops! My bad!"

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:06 AM

So that's where that annoying expression comes from ... One more thing to blame Him for!

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Bill D
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 11:58 AM

Stuffy old ass once pontificated: "Indeed, I am a self-made man!"

to which a wag replied: "Oh, good...that absolves the Almighty of a terrible responsibility!"

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Bobert
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 12:14 PM

beer...

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: mack/misophist
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 02:05 PM

That which already exists, exists. You can't get any more compelling than that.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 02:06 PM

Yes but why does it exist?

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Rapparee
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 02:08 PM

A variety of amino acids, organic chemicals, electricity....

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Amos
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 02:12 PM

Who else?


A

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Peace
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 02:13 PM

. . . and a partridge in a pear treeeeeeeeeeeee.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: GUEST,Peter Woodruff
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 03:43 PM

God wants desparately to believe in us.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 01 Apr 07 - 07:57 PM

Cartoon: amoeba, fish, lungfish, lizard, mammal, ape, human.
Thought bubbles: "Eat. Survive. Reproduce.", "Eat. Survive. Reproduce.", "Eat. Survive. Reproduce.", "Eat. Survive. Reproduce.", "Eat. Survive. Reproduce.", "Eat. Survive. Reproduce.", "Eat. Survive. Reproduce.", "What's it all about?"

But the reason for humans is our feet.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: autolycus
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 02:03 AM

Its art.






       I.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 03:28 AM

One of the saddest images I have of life and living things is that of the creature (frog?) that lives (sleeps?) in mud for years then when the time is right (!) climbs out, mates,lays eggs and burrows back down into the mud.

Do you suppose that to a superior being that is what we look like?

By the way, my image is sadly flawed. It is not the cicada- what is it I'm thinking of?

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 03:34 AM

There are various creatures that have a life cycle similar to that, Ebbie. There are also bugs that live only a few days or hours...mainly to mate and produce the next generation who will, of course, do the same thing in their turn.

If you looked at the lives of human beings as compared to the life of planets and stars, it would seem quite comparable to those bugs.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: alanabit
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 04:13 AM

Who stares at the mud when the sun is shining? I am surrounded by wonderful friends, a wonderful family and I see kindness everywhere I go. Those are all good reasons to love humanity.
I know we humans also fart, vomit, defecate and do plenty else we would not want to be written down and anylysed by others. On the whole though, I concentrate on the stuff I like about poeople. There is plenty of that. Humanity is as transient as everything else. It was never supposed to be perfect!

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 07:06 AM

Who stares at the mud when the sun is shining? ... mudcats?

Humanity cultivates certain plants and is capable of contributing to a panspermia project that may spread life to other corners of the universe.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 08:34 AM

One compelling reason for humanity? To talk on mobile phones, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: GUEST,Ian cookieless
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 08:40 AM

I'm confused. Why humanity, in particular? Why does there have to be a reason?

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 09:10 AM

one human compelled to reason?

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: *daylia*
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 10:21 AM

One compelling reason is to experience the wholeness of physical existence and in so doing, to learn and grow and celebrate life.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 10:23 AM

Ian c.: the thread arose as a take-off on the reason-for-God thread.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 02:28 PM

Yes, my point was that it's as inane to demand that there be a compelling reason for God to exist...as it would be to demand that there be a compelling reason for us humans to exist.

In either case, it's a pointless demand. The demand seeks a justification for that which needs no justification.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 02:45 PM

My text is left justified.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Amos
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 02:50 PM

The compelling reason for humans to exist is that they have demonstrated the will and the wit to make sure they do exist and make some sort of a future. It is good to remember that despite our gross species-wide vulnerability to insanity, we are at the core a species of survivors who use their brains to make survival happen. It may not be much bit it is the only reason we've got!


A

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 02:50 PM

And my text is centered.

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 06:39 PM

*sniff* doesn't anybody wonder what I meant about feet? Or was it obvious? It took me a while to conclude...

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: GUEST,meself
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 06:49 PM

(Sigh).

Yes! Tell us what you meant about feet!

Subject: RE: BS: One compelling reason for humanity?
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Apr 07 - 06:57 PM

You're so nice, meself!

OK - all apes have these nice opposable thumbs. They just have too many of them. When we lost our opposable toes and stood up, we liberated our hands to be exapted into tool users instead of locomotors, AND accidentally changed the shape of our throats so that later, when we'd evolved language, we could exapt the larynx and evolve speech.

Cool, eh?