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Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
December 27 2009 20:43 GMT
#41
On December 28 2009 05:17 Hypnosis wrote:
i know don;t worry

Yeah, unfortunately you bumped your blog and everyone who reads it is going to momentarily forget it's the middle of winter holidays and you couldn't possibly still need advice T.T
LEGEND!! LEGEND!!
RLTY
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States965 Posts
December 27 2009 20:47 GMT
#42
This bacteria analogy is rather quite abstract. You're best off changing it so that the topic isn't just a debate over some definitions.
Topicwise, I think that we are bacteria in that we live to be, just as any other organism does. We're not ruining it rather we're doing things that are beneficial for us that have negative effects on the earth; where as other animals are doing things that are beneficial for them that is percieved as having a "natural" effect on the world.
Jyvblamo
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada13788 Posts
December 27 2009 21:06 GMT
#43
A much more awesome thesis would be to argue that Humans are von Neumann machines, but I guess it's too late for that.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-28 21:00:48
December 28 2009 20:59 GMT
#44
On November 18 2009 01:57 DwmC_Foefen wrote:
We're just the dominant species, and the reason we pollute kill destroy everything is all because of money and stuff (basically concepts which originated from our own minds).
Actually our intellect may be our own downfall. :s

Nukes or Robots
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
Lemonwalrus
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States5465 Posts
December 28 2009 21:02 GMT
#45
Nukebots
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
December 28 2009 21:13 GMT
#46
http://www.exitmundi.nl/exitmundi.htm
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
Loanshark
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
China3094 Posts
December 29 2009 00:36 GMT
#47
We are not prokaryotes.
No dough, no go. And no mercy.
Superiorwolf
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States5509 Posts
December 29 2009 01:03 GMT
#48
His question is "are humans scourges of the earth?"
I would say yes.

The question "are humans bacteria" makes no sense because biologically speaking, of course not, and metaphorically speaking, not all bacteria are harmful.
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FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11566 Posts
December 29 2009 01:09 GMT
#49
misanthropes

all of you
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
rei
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
United States3594 Posts
December 29 2009 01:21 GMT
#50
@Hypnosis you are Wrong, wrong in Facts, and you are brain washed by the media.

" I am trying to prove that Humans are actually a bacterial infection upon the Earth and all we do is harm it and its inhabitants. "
You will fail at logic trying to Prove this.

The Earth does not give a fuck about how we "harm" it, it also does not give a fuck about its inhabitants. If earth has a pocket full of fucks, and every single human is handing over a cliff about to fall to their death, and looks up to earth and ask " would you plz give me a fuck???" Earth will no doubt and reply " Too Bad for you guys, But you know, I don't give a fuck"
We human are the one who actually giving a fuck, we give a fuck not because we are trying to save the planet, it is because we want to save ourselves.

Consider the following, Human as a specie has been existed on earth for a friction of the 4.6billion years of age. It had been here for long long time, way way before any human developed critical thinking ability. The planet does not give a shit what we human do, it doesn't care how much CO2 we releases, how much nuke we drop on each other, it will still be there at the end of the day, and will be here for a long long time after human as a specie gets wipe out.

Then who cares about the planet?, WE DO!!!!!. Why??? Because we want to survive, we don't want to go away, we are the only specie that do not need to adapt to the environment we live in, we change our environment as we see fit.

You need to stop using phases such as "Saving the environment saving the Earth", because the earth and its environment does not need you to save, WE DO. when you use those phases what you are really saying is "save the humans from themselves"

But if my words are not entering your ear, or perhaps they are existing your left ear right after it enters your right, then maybe George Carlin have more credibility than I do around here.

GET OUT OF MY BASE CHILL
Kwidowmaker
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Canada978 Posts
December 29 2009 01:58 GMT
#51
We're clearly not bacteria in the biological sense. Bacteria are referred to in popular culture as an invisible danger. Look at anti-bacterial soap - it's a shield against this invisible enemy. I does nothing but sit on your hands and dry, and yet it's protecting you. One might call it superstitious if they didn't know better. And think of the way that the dangers of bacteria are presented in the news and in the classroom - they're too small to see, but when they get inside of you they cause you harm.

The word you're looking for is parasite.

And we're not that either, sorry. Sure you can weaken the definition of the word to include humans, but then all animals are parasitic. Every husband is parasitic. Every business is parasitic. Essentially all you'd be doing is destroying a word that has a niche use
Kk.
lazz
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Australia3119 Posts
December 29 2009 01:59 GMT
#52
no
GrayArea
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States872 Posts
December 29 2009 02:22 GMT
#53
bacteria are prokaryotes. humans are eukaryotes.
Kang Min Fighting!
Jyvblamo
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada13788 Posts
December 29 2009 02:28 GMT
#54
On December 29 2009 11:22 GrayArea wrote:
bacteria are prokaryotes. humans are eukaryotes.

On a more fundamental level, bacteria is a domain level classification, where as human (homo) is a genus level classification, or a species level classification (sapiens).
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