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ramoo
2008-06-15, 04:23
what would YOU say?


I would say that most humans either fall into the dominant or dominated category. I would tell him to not trust any human and that ethnocentric views are going to be responsible for our demise. I would further let him know that we humans deceive ourselves and tend to justify their actions for selfish reasons.

Narghile
2008-06-15, 05:15
A sculptor could but make me good,
and shake my heart into my bones. - Adrian Orange

Rose hips, and bull whips. - Adrian Orange

Man is a God in ruins. Man is the dwarf of himself. - Emerson

I (Man) will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. - Eliot

To live on this earth you need two hands
One to crush the weeds that steel your crops
And one to crush your fellow man
And a women to tell you when to stop. - Simon Joyner

The pain of darkness is called wisdom. - Burns

A tree, afraid before it's voyage to the sky. - Vicente Huidobro in Altazor.

MoneyBoxers14
2008-06-15, 05:17
A. "Humans are soft pink animals with allusions of superiority & a hankering for digital watches. Treat them accordingly."

I'd also ask to drive the space ship btw..

Slave of the Beast
2008-06-15, 13:37
"Violent, often insane, only slightly more intelligent than chimpanzees, and we're armed with nuclear weapons. Keep on flying."

A. "Humans are soft pink animals with allusions of superiority & a hankering for digital watches. Treat them accordingly."

That sounds very much like a Douglas Adams quote.

Narghile
2008-06-17, 12:49
"Violent, often insane, only slightly more intelligent than chimpanzees, and we're armed with nuclear weapons. Keep on flying."



That sounds very much like a Douglas Adams quote.

Not much smarter then chimpanzees huh?

Slave of the Beast
2008-06-17, 17:01
Not much smarter then chimpanzees huh?

From the perspective of a highly advanced alien lifeform with an unmeasurably high IQ, yeah, I'd say so.

Narghile
2008-06-17, 18:33
From the perspective of a highly advanced alien lifeform with an unmeasurably high IQ, yeah, I'd say so.

There are no highly advanced alien lifeforms.

Slave of the Beast
2008-06-17, 20:11
There are no highly advanced alien lifeforms.

You can't possibly know that.

KikoSanchez
2008-06-18, 02:52
I'd tell them to come back in 1,000 years and maybe then we'd have something more definitive to say on the subject. I mean seriously, we're only in the pure infancy of understanding the behavior and motives of human action. Just in the past 150 years have we begun psychological and neurological research. We definitely don't understand these subjects very well at this point, but maybe on down the road we will.

ThePrince
2008-06-18, 03:17
A crude hunk of shit slapped together by natural selection that is nevertheless the forerunner of the intelligently designed super-beings that will dominate your ass.

MoneyBoxers14
2008-06-18, 17:30
"Violent, often insane, only slightly more intelligent than chimpanzees, and we're armed with nuclear weapons. Keep on flying."



That sounds very much like a Douglas Adams quote.

I borrowed the part about digital watches ;)

I like your description better. That's probably what get's said inside every alien space ship that passes earth ahah

Star Wars Fan
2008-06-20, 07:25
what would YOU say?.

Quote Temple Gradin and Amanda Baggs.

And say that the society is contradictory, lying, and full of shit.

EDIT: And Human Actions are illogical, destructive, violent, and contradctory.

EDIT 2: some 'good' things to balance it out I think.

dal7timgar
2008-06-20, 16:48
A highly infectious virus that makes people stupid spread around the planet and very few of us are immune.

LOL

Dt

fallinghouse
2008-06-23, 07:13
The alien would probably have a clearer understanding than I do.