If you had to describe human actions and who we are to an alien from outerspace

[ramoo]

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]

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]

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]

"Violent, often insane, only slightly more intelligent than chimpanzees, and we're armed with nuclear weapons. Keep on flying."

Originally Posted by MoneyBoxers14

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]

Originally Posted by Slave of the Beast

"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]

Originally Posted by Narghile

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]

Originally Posted by Slave of the Beast

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]

Originally Posted by Narghile

There are no highly advanced alien lifeforms.

You can't possibly know that.

[KikoSanchez]

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]

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.