good things about humanity

Lukas · Post by **Lukas** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 4:12 pm

i notice we have a tendence to post negative things on us, so im starting this topic so we can all remember were not completly useless since were all human!(unless your beliefs say your arnt but tahts not the point)
one reason humans are good is we eventlly fix are mistakes and increases them to be better then ever eventully

BlackWolfDS · Post by **BlackWolfDS** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 5:56 pm

We invented computers.....most are good, mine's horrible

White Paw · Post by **White Paw** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:33 pm

you make awesome weapons........ands explosives...

Border Walker · Post by **Border Walker** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:35 pm

Humanity is begining to learn about the greif it has caused for the enviroment and is now working to pprotect it from themselves.

Kirk Hammett · Post by **Kirk Hammett** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:00 pm

We can play guitar and make absolutely amazing music (In a different way to birds singing etc).

I'd never be able to live without that.

Aki · Post by **Aki** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:38 pm

This managed to knock my faith in humanity/opinion of it up a few notches.

Scott Gardener · Post by **Scott Gardener** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 10:42 pm

Actually, humans paradoxically could be the best chance of the Earth's biosphere perpetuating itself. Maybe right now we're a mess, even the cause of a mass extinction. But, we're also smart enough to catalogue and archive DNA, and we're actively trying to fix our own messes now as they happen, conserving and restoring past damage and damage in progress.

In the future, we can transplant life from Earth to other worlds, populating first nearby places like a terraformed Mars. Millions of years from now, we could seed other worlds beyond the solar system, making the descendants of humanity in essence the gametes of Earth's biosphere. A half a billion years from now, when Earth is no longer inhabitable due to the heat of the expanding sun, perhaps our descendents will have spread Earth's DNA to thousands of other worlds. Or, perhaps we will be able to move the Earth or refuel the sun's hydrogen, pushing back its expansion and maintaining Earth's viability. This sounds far-fetched today, when people still die of old age and genetic engineering is a sin against God, but I'm an optimist and a long-term thinker.

Lupin · Post by **Lupin** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:12 pm

They manage make things that look like this without even trying:

(It's a bit blurry because I was in a plane flying over Dallas when I took that.)

Kirk Hammett · Post by **Kirk Hammett** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:51 pm

Aki wrote:This managed to knock my faith in humanity/opinion of it up a few notches.

This really gave me tears, what a beautiful thing. When I graduated from high school, I remember two of my good friends, two really bright and friendly guys, wore shirts with 'Free Hugs' and yellow smiley faces. I got hugged twice that day

It was really inspiring. It's also showing that a lot of strangers don't stop to help others. I always do. A long time ago, I think in highschool also, I saw a kid fall off his bike. Everyone stared at me like I was weird when I helped him up and got him to school.

Vuldari · Post by **Vuldari** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:01 am

Aki wrote:This managed to knock my faith in humanity/opinion of it up a few notches.

That's Awesome!

My friends at work think I'm a little strange for being so willing to give Anyone a hug who asks for it, or looks like they need it.

It's statements like that which make me think that it's good to be a little wierd.

Humanity is great though...

...just think of all of the greatest, most beautiful music, the most emotional stories, and the most inspiring visual art you have ever seen. None of that would have ever existed if not for the Human Race.

Yeah...Homo Sapiens aren't so bad after all.

PariahPoet · Post by **PariahPoet** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:01 am

Meh, it's a nice idea, and if he's making people happy with what he's doing then more power to him, but personally I can't stand physical contact from anyone but my closest friends. Even then I need at least a little warning.

FoxOfWar · Post by **FoxOfWar** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:27 am

That video showed a really beautiful thing. Yep, maybe humankind ain't that bad. Even if we're solving mostly the problems that wouldn't have existed without us.

But all the art, in form of music, visual art and wonderful stories... they make life worth living.

...I got to find a "free hugs"-T-shirt.

Fang · Post by **Fang** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 4:13 am

What humanity needs to learn and improv on is tolerance, there will always be hostility, but mabey if we can bury our inflated egos we could all just apologize and love eachother.
The capacity to learn and love is one thing about humanity

MoonKit · Post by **MoonKit** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:18 am

Music, Art and Cooked Food are all wonderful human inventions!

BlackWolfDS · Post by **BlackWolfDS** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:21 am

Hmmmm
I know!
Chocolate and Klondike Bars

PariahPoet · Post by **PariahPoet** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 9:33 am

MoonKit wrote:Music, Art and Cooked Food are all wonderful human inventions!

who needs cooked food?

MoonKit · Post by **MoonKit** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:20 pm

PariahPoet wrote:
MoonKit wrote:Music, Art and Cooked Food are all wonderful human inventions!
who needs cooked food?

Nobody! But it sure does taste good. I need my mushroom porkchops!

Machine-Whisperer · Post by **Machine-Whisperer** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:12 pm

Well. look at it in the yin/yan sense. everything good has some bad in it while everything bad always has some good in it

Silverclaw · Post by **Silverclaw** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:55 pm

Movies, art, animation, music, books, TV, the internet, chocolate, and other lovely foods and drinks

hehe

And of course...ME!!!!

Hearth · Post by **Hearth** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 3:37 am

Scott Gardener wrote:Actually, humans paradoxically could be the best chance of the Earth's biosphere perpetuating itself. Maybe right now we're a mess, even the cause of a mass extinction. But, we're also smart enough to catalogue and archive DNA, and we're actively trying to fix our own messes now as they happen, conserving and restoring past damage and damage in progress.

In the future, we can transplant life from Earth to other worlds, populating first nearby places like a terraformed Mars. Millions of years from now, we could seed other worlds beyond the solar system, making the descendants of humanity in essence the gametes of Earth's biosphere. A half a billion years from now, when Earth is no longer inhabitable due to the heat of the expanding sun, perhaps our descendents will have spread Earth's DNA to thousands of other worlds. Or, perhaps we will be able to move the Earth or refuel the sun's hydrogen, pushing back its expansion and maintaining Earth's viability. This sounds far-fetched today, when people still die of old age and genetic engineering is a sin against God, but I'm an optimist and a long-term thinker.

Or, in the other hand, we and the whole biosphere of Earth may be dead in couple of decades. (Except for couple of species of bacteria deep in the oceans.)

All in all, odds are against humans and life. But, then again, so they have always been.

Vuldari · Post by **Vuldari** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 5:52 am

Hearth wrote:Or, in the other hand, we and the whole biosphere of Earth may be dead in couple of decades. (Except for couple of species of bacteria deep in the oceans.)

All in all, odds are against humans and life. But, then again, so they have always been.

Hey, hey hey... None of that.

This thread is for nothing but GOOD things about humanity.

There will be NO pessamism and negativity within THIS thread.

*Rolls up Newspaper and whaps Hearth on the noggin*

Lukas · Post by **Lukas** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:53 am

woohoo! i think i just made the best topic for this week

MoonKit · Post by **MoonKit** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:23 am

One nice thing about humanity: My lovely mate. Because when he saw someone crying in the park he wanted to go help and see if they were OK. Whereas I shrugged it off, not caring. It was their own problem. Perhaps the majority of humans are too cold and need to be more friendly and warm, even to strangers.

White Paw · Post by **White Paw** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:22 am

this world would be a much better place because of it...

Hearth · Post by **Hearth** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 11:46 am

Vuldari wrote:
Hearth wrote:Or, in the other hand, we and the whole biosphere of Earth may be dead in couple of decades. (Except for couple of species of bacteria deep in the oceans.)

All in all, odds are against humans and life. But, then again, so they have always been.
Hey, hey hey... None of that.

This thread is for nothing but GOOD things about humanity.

There will be NO pessamism and negativity within THIS thread.

*Rolls up Newspaper and whaps Hearth on the noggin*

I call it fatalism.

Let's just say, then... Humans are inventive.