| Author |
Message |
dragonfly
Advanced Vegan Talker
Joined: 15 Jul 2001
Posts: 73
Location: Strawberry Fields Forever
|
| Posted: Mar 11, 2005 12:43 am Post subject: What makes us human? |
 |
|
| Just being part of the human race isn't enough. It could be anything. |
|
 |
Ads
 |
|
Masha
Active Vegan Talker
Joined: 26 Feb 2005
Posts: 18
Location: Ukraine
|
| Posted: Mar 11, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject: |
|
|
1 genie or should I say 1% of genes that differ from the chimpanzee.  |
|
|
dragonfly
Advanced Vegan Talker
Joined: 15 Jul 2001
Posts: 73
Location: Strawberry Fields Forever
|
| Posted: Mar 12, 2005 11:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Masha wrote: |
| 1 genie or should I say 1% of genes that differ from the chimpanzee. |
Yes that is an interesting subject.
Let me state this another way. Somebody that drives a nice car and eats only fast food, they are human beings of course, and they might be capable of rational thought, but what is it that actually makes them human? Clearly they are not making good choices, or worse yet are just plain uninformed and/or self-righteously misinformed, yet all too often these inidividuals are instantly recognized as having mainstream values and as being mainstream in appearance. But we all know that is just being ordinary being taken to a new level. |
|
|
Roman
Vegan Forums Guest
|
| Posted: Mar 15, 2005 12:22 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Do you say that if someone eats fast food he is not human? |
|
|
dragonfly
Advanced Vegan Talker
Joined: 15 Jul 2001
Posts: 73
Location: Strawberry Fields Forever
|
| Posted: Mar 15, 2005 2:49 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Roman wrote: |
| Do you say that if someone eats fast food he is not human? |
No in fact i state the opposite thing.  They are however, and without a doubt, suffering from malnutrition. The nutritional deficiencies and dangers of a empty calorie fastfood/junkfood diet, high in sugar, fats and chemicals, is well known and well documented. |
|
|
AndyBa
Lord of the posts
Joined: 27 May 2001
Posts: 670
|
| Posted: Mar 22, 2005 1:17 am Post subject: |
|
|
First we have to understand what does it mean to be human.
What the dictionary is saying? |
|
|
dragonfly
Advanced Vegan Talker
Joined: 15 Jul 2001
Posts: 73
Location: Strawberry Fields Forever
|
| Posted: Mar 9, 2007 3:23 am Post subject: |
|
|
| AndyBa wrote: |
First we have to understand what does it mean to be human.
What the dictionary is saying? |
| www.freedictionary.com wrote: |
hu·man
n.
1. A member of the genus Homo and especially of the species H. sapiens.
2. A person: the extraordinary humans who explored Antarctica.
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of humans: the course of human events; the human race.
2. Having or showing those positive aspects of nature and character regarded as distinguishing humans from other animals: an act of human kindness.
3. Subject to or indicative of the weaknesses, imperfections, and fragility associated with humans: a mistake that shows he's only human; human frailty.
4. Having the form of a human.
5. Made up of humans: formed a human bridge across the ice. |
| www.m-w.com wrote: |
1hu·man
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English humain, from Anglo-French, from Latin humanus; akin to Latin homo human being — more at homage
Date: 14th century
1: of, relating to, or characteristic of humans
2: consisting of humans
3 a: having human form or attributes b: susceptible to or representative of the sympathies and frailties of human nature <such an inconsistency is very human — P. E. More>
|
And of course there is the wikipedia definition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human |
|
|
AndyBa
Lord of the posts
Joined: 27 May 2001
Posts: 670
|
| Posted: Mar 11, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Hey dragonfly!!!!
Welcome back!!! 
_________________
Andy`Ba
The human body has no more need for cows' milk than it does for dogs' milk, horses' milk, or giraffes' milk. ~Michael Klaper, M.D., author of Vegan Nutrition: Pure & Simple |
|
|
dragonfly
Advanced Vegan Talker
Joined: 15 Jul 2001
Posts: 73
Location: Strawberry Fields Forever
|
| Posted: Apr 3, 2007 4:29 am Post subject: |
|
|
| AndyBa wrote: |
Hey dragonfly!!!!
Welcome back!!! |
Hi Andy. It's good to be back. |
|
|
|
FAQ
Archive
Nutrients
Log in
REGISTER
