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"Humanity is a being in the first throws of evolution - a being not yet selected for consciousness.
Human beings, though ants, are conscious and vie to be it’s Queen."
Objection 1: Selected by whom?
If our selection was mere happenstance,
Who is to say humanity's will happen in the same sense?
Is there something we can do to make that happen?
Would we want to ?
After all, humanity's life is the sum of all our lives from the moment of its awakening to its present moment.
Humans' lives are short in comparison.
But then, we are not a suicidal race, are we?
Certainly we are short sited, but only a few of our number are actually suicidal.
Are those who are suicidal only suicidal to serve some greater good?
Or is hopelessness a real and actual thing?
Is there not a scientific and an emotional answer to such a question.
objection A1 (Objection to objection 1):
This is a moot point. Humanity as a whole is not one conscious being.
There's no real segue between the idea of this giant baby and suicide.
Suicide just kinda sucks, why'd you even bring it up.
Everyone contributes to the whole - even if they don't know they do - until the moment they die.
After, their contribution may be remembered or it may not be remembered.
It is unimportant to them and serves no purpose to humanity except perhaps a little on the sad and angry side.
The dead transfer their problems (with no need of a segue) onto the living.
They leave their joys behind to.
Create and add to the joy.
Destroy and add to the terror, the darkness, the void and its vacuuming sludge.
(In this metaphor, sludge has mystical vacuuming powers.)
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How many of the internet's stars are female?
The porn stars.
How many of the internet's most read, most respected bloggers are female?
Whatever their relative merits, human beings judge women to be the weaker of the species.
It is possible that less imposing physical stature translates into less imposing swagger
Is it a leap to say that less imposing swagger translates to less imposing intellects?
I think it is.
... and this is why I have no friends. Okay, I have some friends, but not many and not often.
Human beings, though ants, are conscious and vie to be it’s Queen."
Objection 1: Selected by whom?
If our selection was mere happenstance,
Who is to say humanity's will happen in the same sense?
Is there something we can do to make that happen?
Would we want to ?
After all, humanity's life is the sum of all our lives from the moment of its awakening to its present moment.
Humans' lives are short in comparison.
But then, we are not a suicidal race, are we?
Certainly we are short sited, but only a few of our number are actually suicidal.
Are those who are suicidal only suicidal to serve some greater good?
Or is hopelessness a real and actual thing?
Is there not a scientific and an emotional answer to such a question.
objection A1 (Objection to objection 1):
This is a moot point. Humanity as a whole is not one conscious being.
There's no real segue between the idea of this giant baby and suicide.
Suicide just kinda sucks, why'd you even bring it up.
Everyone contributes to the whole - even if they don't know they do - until the moment they die.
After, their contribution may be remembered or it may not be remembered.
It is unimportant to them and serves no purpose to humanity except perhaps a little on the sad and angry side.
The dead transfer their problems (with no need of a segue) onto the living.
They leave their joys behind to.
Create and add to the joy.
Destroy and add to the terror, the darkness, the void and its vacuuming sludge.
(In this metaphor, sludge has mystical vacuuming powers.)
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How many of the internet's stars are female?
The porn stars.
How many of the internet's most read, most respected bloggers are female?
Whatever their relative merits, human beings judge women to be the weaker of the species.
It is possible that less imposing physical stature translates into less imposing swagger
Is it a leap to say that less imposing swagger translates to less imposing intellects?
I think it is.
... and this is why I have no friends. Okay, I have some friends, but not many and not often.
Humanity is a being in the first throws of evolution - a being not yet selected for consciousness.
Human beings, though ants, are conscious and vie to be it’s Queen.
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No one human being can know everything.
(this leap needs to be filled in)
Humanity strives to know everything by it’s very consciousness.
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Very long sentence: two human forces: the forces of knowledge and the forces of censorship,
‘good and evil’ or ‘evil and good’, depending whose side you’re on.
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(E likes writing: you can tell by the effort she puts into her work. Her sentences can be florid, exploratory - they have
an air of playfulness and pretense, the younger forms of genius and style. I remember when my own tone had that play - when I was a girl, imitating my father, imitating the great soft writers of the canon. Reading is incredibly difficult if you
do it right.
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I take every praise as a charity and every slight as a mortal offense because every word of praise is a great charity and every slight a moral offense which only a mortal might feel.
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Given a choice of one of three, two the same and one different, what do people chose?
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Nicole: ”What do you do on the internet?
Patrick: “I don’t know. Stuff happens.
Human beings, though ants, are conscious and vie to be it’s Queen.
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No one human being can know everything.
(this leap needs to be filled in)
Humanity strives to know everything by it’s very consciousness.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Very long sentence: two human forces: the forces of knowledge and the forces of censorship,
‘good and evil’ or ‘evil and good’, depending whose side you’re on.
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(E likes writing: you can tell by the effort she puts into her work. Her sentences can be florid, exploratory - they have
an air of playfulness and pretense, the younger forms of genius and style. I remember when my own tone had that play - when I was a girl, imitating my father, imitating the great soft writers of the canon. Reading is incredibly difficult if you
do it right.
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I take every praise as a charity and every slight as a mortal offense because every word of praise is a great charity and every slight a moral offense which only a mortal might feel.
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Given a choice of one of three, two the same and one different, what do people chose?
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Nicole: ”What do you do on the internet?
Patrick: “I don’t know. Stuff happens.
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