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gailem
Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 6:36 pm    Post subject: Humans are ugly? Reply with quote

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I'm starting to feel that all humans are ugly... What is going on.

P.S. Humans is a virus to earth. Bang Head
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 12:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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We'd be ugly to any species that aren't humans.
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 1:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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BumFluff wrote:
We'd be ugly to any species that aren't humans.

Um, mammals do agree on what is "cute".

And I'm sure we're simply irresistible to the infrared vision of mosquitoes.
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 3:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Beauty is something completely subjective ofcourse. What we see is nothing but skin and bones with some dead matter we call hair on it, that's not beautiful or ugly per se. Evolution gave us some built-in mechanisms to percieve these collections of skin and hair as beautiful or ugly, otherwise we wouldn't have come far as a species. But that doesn't mean humans are beautiful or ugly per se.
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Cosmo
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:52 am    Post subject: Re: Humans are ugly? Reply with quote

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gailem wrote:
I'm starting to feel that all humans are ugly... What is going on.

P.S. Humans is a virus to earth. Bang Head


You have generalized this . So I would like to clarify if to the proper individuals only.
It is the Old Testament and the capitalists that are the scourge of the Earth.

So only political reform of our governments can bring some form of sanity to our lives.

That is why I wrote My Brand of Socialism to eliminate these self serving
OT derivitives. Our US Constitution made an attempt to do this but corrupt dollars have transformed our democracy into a republic.

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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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After standing in my local bus station for twenty minutes waiting for my son I'm inclined to agree!

Are we now evolving towards webbed hands and feet, extraordinarily large ears and noses and eyes on our chins?
There seem to be whole families that look this way!

Humans can certainly behave ugly.

I know this to be true when i visit my town center on a Saturday night.

Which is why i don't anymore
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 3:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Beauty and ugliness are just words, they both are relative to one species to another. Any other creature on this planet currently doesn't understand the concept of ugly and beauty, so we are saying we are ugly, or beautiful is completley vague and ambiguous. Introduce exactly the point behind beauty and ugliness, se what extraterrestrial intelligent beings think, if they think anything of vanity and then make a conclusion, is there any point behind beauty and ugliness? For instance this video is a perfect example of relative ugliness:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=N0LkwLnyCuk
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Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Humans are ugly? Reply with quote

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Cosmo wrote:

You have generalized this . So I would like to clarify if to the proper individuals only.
It is the Old Testament and the capitalists that are the scourge of the Earth.
How did you get away with posting this Cosmo? Bill Gates' hacker must have been asleep at the switch.
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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:11 am    Post subject: Re: Humans are ugly? Reply with quote

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Harold14370 wrote:
Cosmo wrote:

You have generalized this . So I would like to clarify if to the proper individuals only.
It is the Old Testament and the capitalists that are the scourge of the Earth.
How did you get away with posting this Cosmo? Bill Gates' hacker must have been asleep at the switch.


Well, he only discriminates when I use the word 'billionaire'.

You will notice, I used the word 'capitalist'. Ha ha.

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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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425 Chaotic Requisition wrote:
Beauty and ugliness are just words, they both are relative to one species to another. Any other creature on this planet currently doesn't understand the concept of ugly and beauty, so we are saying we are ugly, or beautiful is completley vague and ambiguous. Introduce exactly the point behind beauty and ugliness, se what extraterrestrial intelligent beings think, if they think anything of vanity and then make a conclusion, is there any point behind beauty and ugliness? For instance this video is a perfect example of relative ugliness:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=N0LkwLnyCuk


The meaning of the word 'ugly' as it is used, refers to the personally', rather than the physical meaning or form.

So, you have to understand the meaning of words as used in 'context'.

When applied to racial issues, 'fangs and claws' is ugly while 'hands' is good and a substitute for brains.

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Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Still, ugly and beauty applied to even personalities are just words. Other words can be used to portray the same meaning. As I said, its all relative, like your opinion is your relative view, as mine is mine.
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