Originally posted by Corlindel
The monkeys too 🙂The difference is that humans pay for sex pleasure 😄
...and ofc our DNA
not sure how you write it in english but bonobo's (?) have sex for pleasure too and they pay with it too... like: I get this banana, you get the sex
Silver Tears.........
Humans stand above the animals because of our advanced sentience. We are self-aware where the lower orders are not. We are naturally cruel where the lower orders are not. We have advanced pleasure-centres, ( already mentioned ), in our brains. We Kill for pleasure as well as gain, where the animals don't and we have sex for pleasure where few of the lower-orders do, ( this one is hard to confirm ! ).
Besides our lesser or greater moral instincts and desires we also have the capability to generate original thought and to manufacture original art and literature and music - which the lower animals can not.
Like many of the other predators we have our eyes in the front of our heads instead of on the sides of our heads but we have an ability that none of the other predators have that makes us the most dangerous creatures on the earth: Along with the cognative ability that we have, ( already mentioned ), we have the ability to look into the future and make accurate estimates about what will happen if we do this or that. Because we can estimate future possible outcomes of our actions we can hunt and kill much more easily than the the rest of the animals on the earth can. Add to that our ability with our opposable thumb and our cognative abilities to create technology and this raises us far above the other intelligent creatures like the Dolphin or the Ape.
On top of all this our ability to think and to imagine and to theorise makes us vulnerable to the thoughts and ideas of other humans. From this comes the ideas of religion and of faith that even although we are powerful thinkers ourselves makes us also weak and easily influenced by stronger and more ambitious personalities.
So, you see, even although we are much more mentally advanced than the lower-order animals we pay for this ability by being wonderfully creative and good at one end only to terribly destructive and evil at the other end.
The animals don't have these gifts or these curses.
THIS....is what distinguishes us !
Originally posted by yerssot
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(sorry, brought back a funny little scene from two years ago 😄)not sure how you write it in english but bonobo's (?) have sex for pleasure too and they pay with it too... like: I get this banana, you get the sex
But that is a payment under the rules of Fair Trade Labelling Organizations International (FLO)!!! So they are different from us and less stupid and less corrupted than us.
What truly distinguishes us is our ability to learn; but we still have a lot to learn with monkeys 😛
Originally posted by Papaumaueither that, or porn
[b]Silver Tears.........Humans stand above the animals because of our advanced sentience. We are self-aware where the lower orders are not. We are naturally cruel where the lower orders are not. We have advanced pleasure-centres, ( already mentioned ), in our brains. We Kill for pleasure as well as gain, where the animals don't and we have sex for pleasure where few of the lower-orders do, ( this one is hard to confirm ! ).
Besides our lesser or greater moral instincts and desires we also have the capability to generate original thought and to manufacture original art and literature and music - which the lower animals can not.
Like many of the other predators we have our eyes in the front of our heads instead of on the sides of our heads but we have an ability that none of the other predators have that makes us the most dangerous creatures on the earth: Along with the cognative ability that we have, ( already mentioned ), we have the ability to look into the future and make accurate estimates about what will happen if we do this or that. Because we can estimate future possible outcomes of our actions we can hunt and kill much more easily than the the rest of the animals on the earth can. Add to that our ability with our opposable thumb and our cognative abilities to create technology and this raises us far above the other intelligent creatures like the Dolphin or the Ape.
On top of all this our ability to think and to imagine and to theorise makes us vulnerable to the thoughts and ideas of other humans. From this comes the ideas of religion and of faith that even although we are powerful thinkers ourselves makes us also weak and easily influenced by stronger and more ambitious personalities.
So, you see, even although we are much more mentally advanced than the lower-order animals we pay for this ability by being wonderfully creative and good at one end only to terribly destructive and evil at the other end.
The animals don't have these gifts or these curses.
THIS....is what distinguishes us ! [/B]
The way I see it is that we are set apart because of our ability to conceptualize. I look at the book sitting next to me and say it's blue. A dolphine may be able to do that, but then again, the dolphine or monkey won't wonder why it's blue...or what makes it blue.
Another thing that sets us apart is our need for excess. This wasn't always the case. I don't think that cave men killed entire herds of buffalo for their skins. They killed what buffalo they needed to kill for their survival. It was all very in order with nature.
So, I don't think it's our humanity that has made us cruel, but rather our advancement as a species....which is a result of our intelligence. We are still animals, base animals. But what makes us different is that we strive to exist outside the naural order of the world.
Conversly, I think that for every step forward we make, we lose a step that we took in the past. So, when we gain one thing, we lose another. And I think that's something we aren't even aware of. Look at all the amazing things we did as a species in our past. Cures for diseases, building pyramids, creating society, etc. When we deny nature and our need to exist inside of it, we lose the benefits of doing so at the same time. So many mysteries of our past have been lost to time, but were they really lost to time or to our humanity?
The Force> Hahahahhaha. No, there was NO proof from your side. DO point to where in the Evolutions-thread you offered proof of Creationism! You fled when cornered… remember? 😉
Dolphins do have sex for pleasure, too. So do chimpanzees (I think).
What distinguishes us from other animals? Self-conscience. Simple as that actually. We are AWARE of ourselves… We can contemplate consequences of our actions, and thereby we do not act only on instinct.
Anthropologists speculate that it happened sometime in the past, when our forefathers and foremothers started picking up stones and sticks… and realised that the stone and stick was not “part” of them. This realisation slowly evolved into our self-conscience.
The rest is history.
Originally posted by The Omega
Dolphins do have sex for pleasure, too. So do chimpanzees (I think).