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Kalingingsong
Profile Joined September 2009
Canada633 Posts
April 11 2013 23:18 GMT
#21
On April 12 2013 07:04 im a roc wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2013 06:48 Nikoras wrote:
On April 12 2013 06:34 AnachronisticAnarchy wrote:
Weirdos are more often than not not "half-people". They're people who are fundamentally different from normal people in some ways, whether it be finding flowers disgusting or having a train of thought that just doesn't follow a normal path.


I agree, and I really regret my wording there. It just feels to me like someone missing something from that list is missing a piece of themselves to me. I'm very aware that I'm a white male living in a first world country. I am very privileged (although I didn't hit the complete genetic lottery but I won't get into that here). I am also aware that this list is entirely relative from my own perspective, and someone from subsaharan Africa would probably come up with a very different list.

I wonder if there's possibly some acceptable universal list that more or less spans culture and maybe time period. TL philosophy majors, ATTACK!


A full adult male is a male with a penis.

IF you are a male and you are missing penis (aka you are Varys from Game of Throne) you are obvious not whole.

QED...
Dess.JadeFalcon
GMarshal
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States22154 Posts
April 11 2013 23:24 GMT
#22
so, a deaf person isn't human. Interesting definition
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FatNikE
Profile Joined March 2013
United Kingdom52 Posts
April 11 2013 23:51 GMT
#23
On April 12 2013 08:24 GMarshal wrote:
so, a deaf person isn't human. Interesting definition


I assume this is a troll. It's already been clearly established that the deaf are indeed people, they just happen to fall under the category of half humans.

If it makes it easier for you to understand, try to relate them to the "halfling" hobbits of J.R Tolkien's universe.
Lokk
Profile Blog Joined September 2011
Canada635 Posts
April 12 2013 00:08 GMT
#24
to own noobs
@Lokk_2/Go Woori 우리
Kenpachi
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States9908 Posts
April 12 2013 00:59 GMT
#25
99 problems
Nada's body is South Korea's greatest weapon.
Steveling
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Greece10806 Posts
April 12 2013 00:59 GMT
#26
Our only purpose it to love one another.
My dick has shrunk to the point where it looks like I have 3 balls.
SnipedSoul
Profile Joined November 2010
Canada2158 Posts
April 12 2013 01:43 GMT
#27
On April 12 2013 09:59 Steveling wrote:
Our only purpose it to love one another.


Thus making babies!
Spiffeh
Profile Joined May 2010
United States830 Posts
April 12 2013 02:40 GMT
#28
Life has no purpose. That's the beauty of it.

If life had one specific purpose, millions or billions of people would flock to get that purpose done. But that doesn't happen.

You make your own purpose, and, strangely, everything tends to work out in the end.
Motiva
Profile Joined November 2007
United States1774 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-12 03:22:17
April 12 2013 03:21 GMT
#29
A full adult human being has:

An Identity. To go beyond that is to forget what it is to be human.

But the right question is:

Who am I? What do I want? How can I ascertain perfect knowledge of the answers? from the perspective of another human?

When you find that you can't... you just have to learn to live with it.
GERMasta
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany212 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-12 06:53:05
April 12 2013 06:28 GMT
#30
The issue with the OP is that it gives zero arguments. But then again almost nobody who replied to it gave any arguments either...

Another funny thing to point out is that OP included a 'love life' but not 'having children' - the latter has become quite unfashionable in our modern day and it is now perfectly acceptable to decide against having kids (but not against being in a relationship); but if he were to give any argument whatsoever as to why we should accept his list, the lack of 'having children' on his list would be a great counter-example to whatever he could come up with; but he didn't give an argument, so who cares. 1/5
AKA.
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
76 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-12 06:59:08
April 12 2013 06:52 GMT
#31
All he did was insult a huge majority of people to boost his own self confidence with not even an attempt at reason.

I have no problem with people who blog to get unpleasant opinions off their chest, but this is just an insult.

Hey, you reading this: If you don't have a pet your not even worth calling a member of the human race, you halfbred excuse.

That's the kind of message hes sending in a cowardly and passive aggressive way. I can't even imagine typing something like that with the intent of being serious.
HwangjaeTerran
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Finland5967 Posts
April 12 2013 09:20 GMT
#32
I read the first line and I feel really bad for the OP.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/*tlusernamehere*/
r.Evo
Profile Joined August 2006
Germany14081 Posts
April 12 2013 13:27 GMT
#33
On April 12 2013 07:00 Carbonyl wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 12 2013 05:49 Tommie wrote:
The goal is to decompose. That is where it all leads to.

Isn't the goal to not decompose for as long as possible?

I love the dynamic that's suggested here.

From my experience people who dislike the idea of "getting decomposed" fear death, both their own and others, and are permanently suffering because in the end it's suggesting to try and avoid the unavoidable.

The other option is to embrace it as a part of life. Life as we know it would be impossible without death. It's not inherently bad or evil, it's neutral just like life. It's nothing to be afraid of.
"We don't make mistakes here, we call it happy little accidents." ~Bob Ross
Incze
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Romania2058 Posts
April 12 2013 14:49 GMT
#34
Where did you even come up with the idea of "full humans" and "half humans" ? And why does, in your view, a full human have only positive aspects to his life? Where's the pain, where are the other factors in our lives? I think we are defined more by the saddest moments in our lives than the happiest, but then again, I never was an optimist.
Religion: Buckethead
Kalingingsong
Profile Joined September 2009
Canada633 Posts
April 12 2013 15:35 GMT
#35
don't forget about quarter-humans, and one-eighth-humans, those guys deserve some mention too.
Dess.JadeFalcon
c0ldfusion
Profile Joined October 2010
United States8293 Posts
April 12 2013 15:55 GMT
#36
On April 12 2013 05:44 Kasaraki wrote:
If you find the real reason, you'll find that there are many paths to that goal, each legitimate in it's own right. Or so I think anyway.


But real reason is just to find ways to cope with the harsh realities of existing - pretty simple.
nunez
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Norway4003 Posts
April 12 2013 18:34 GMT
#37
On April 13 2013 00:35 Kalingingsong wrote:
don't forget about quarter-humans, and one-eighth-humans, those guys deserve some mention too.


one quarter of a mention and one eighth of a mention respectively.
conspired against by a confederacy of dunces.
Passion
Profile Joined December 2003
Netherlands1486 Posts
April 12 2013 22:15 GMT
#38
- Music preferences
- Art preferences (I lump in movies, plays, and books in here)

Why do you split these? Do purposely exclude paintings, sculptures?

And, something which to me seems more important than pretty much anything on your list, what about intellectual and/or ideological ideas?
obesechicken13
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States10467 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-13 20:49:18
April 13 2013 03:47 GMT
#39
On April 12 2013 11:40 Spiffeh wrote:
Life has no purpose. That's the beauty of it.

If life had one specific purpose, millions or billions of people would flock to get that purpose done. But that doesn't happen.

You make your own purpose, and, strangely, everything tends to work out in the end.

I like your answer. But beauty in itself has to be subjective since there is no objective beauty.
I think in our modern age technology has evolved to become more addictive. The things that don't give us pleasure aren't used as much. Work was never meant to be fun, but doing it makes us happier in the long run.
radscorpion9
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Canada2252 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-13 04:04:48
April 13 2013 04:01 GMT
#40
On April 12 2013 08:01 PassionFruit wrote:
That's a ridiculous way to measure fulfillment. A full adult human being is a human being who feels he is a full human being. That is all.


Passion fruit :D. I always seem to agree with you. But I think a full adult human being, generally speaking, has very similar desires. So we can say at least what the common factor is in those desires, and make a list of what most of us already feel are necessary.

I agree on the principle that no one list should be capable of defining it for everybody. There are always outliers...but I think its safe to make a list for the majority.
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