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"There is no fixed human nature that remains
identical regardless of time, place, and
circumstance;
human nature is in
accordance with self-knowledge and
with insight into the
essences of things." - Giambattista
Vico
"As human beings we live in a tragically
ambiguous condition, but
as human beings we must assume responsibility for
our actions."
Simone de Beauvoir
A member of the genus Homo, family Hominidae, order
Primates, class Mammalia, haveing a
human form characterized
by erect posture and an opposable thumb, especially a member of the only extant
species, Homo Sapiens, distinguished by
a highly developed brain, the
capacity for abstract
reasoning, and the ability to communicate by means of organized speech and
record information in a variety of symbolic systems.
Note:
Exhibits unique characteristics that
distinguish it from the rest of the animal kingdom; first and foremost being
the use of symbology to convey non-tangible abstract thought patterns and
conceptual structures to others of its kind.
man
An adult male human who may or
may not belong to a specific trade, profession, group, nationality, or other
category, as in: herdsman,
merchantman,
businessman;
clergyman;
layman;
workman; spokesman; congressman
…
Adult males, in most existing human social cultures, must
bury their emotions. Males are just as sensitive as females but due to social
cultural conditions males are typically not allowed to express their emotions.
Males that do express their emotions are looked upon as weak - unable to
control their emotions. Males that do not express emotions, or only anger, are
looked upon as strong in these social cultures.
woman An adult
female human who may or may not
belong to a specific trade, profession, group, nationality, or other category,
as in: washerwoman; congresswoman; saleswoman …
In Western
social cultures females are allowed to express their emotions.
Females
can cry but a male that cries is seen as weak.
Females are easily
attracted to ornamentation.
This is understandable in the fact that
with animals, especially with birds, the females are attracted to the
ornamentation of their more brightly colored male companions.
If human social culture paralleled animal social
structures then you would expect the males to be the most highly ornamented.
And they were the first to wear high heels - horseback riders.
Looking
back in history we see that military men tend to be the most highly ornamented
individuals within a social culture, possibly with the exception of royalty or
the ruling class. Ornamentation has been used as a social culture status symbol
throughout history across the face of the
Earth.
Social status of
men and women in the global consumer culture is still judged by clothing - cut,
material, style and fashion.
It should be noted that in the global
consumer culture of today the female is typically the one that is the most
highly ornamented which is a reversal of the order seen in the
nature.
"People, even more than things, have to be
restored, renewed, revived,
reclaimed,
and redeemed; never throw out
anyone." - Audrey Hepburn
humanAs a human:
You
have been given an animal body.
It will be the only one you get this
time around.
Many tools and resources are included with your
body.
Personal experience is your first and most valuable
tool.
Personal experience will teach you Lessons of Life.
Lessons of Life are uniquely your own.
Lessons of Life will be presented in various forms
until you have learned.
Lessons of Life
piercing the Veil of
Cognitive Blindness may be painful.
Trust deep emotion as emotional
intelligence wells up from the
catalog of your Life contained within the Lessons of Life.
When you have learned a
Life Lesson, you can go on to the next Life Lesson.
To avoid
obstacles, deadends and
The Abyss learn to use
the human intellect to
decipher the symbols left by the experience of others.
Life Lesson:
Unless
there is a direct physical threat 'there' is not better than
'here'.
human being
Human beings have abilities other mammals do not
share. Perhaps the foremost overriding ability
is recognizing our ultimate physical demise.
This takes us out of the moment, out of
unity consciousness and into pondering our future.
We remember the Creator kicked us out of the
Garden of Eden when we
recognized differentiation and entered duality under the spell of
magical consciousness.
Human beings have the ability to understand
and mimic the emotions of an other human being simply due to the
mirror neuron empathy
circuits hardwired into our bicameral brains through which
we learn socialization skills and basic movement.
Human beings, jointly,
have the ability to transform the natural
environment for purposes
benificial for life or detrimental to life through technology.
Perhaps
the most astounding ability that seems to be misundertsood although nearly
universal is the the ability to thoroughly convince ourselves of
the existence of a false reality other than the physical one that actually
exists.
Delusion is necessary at some
level in certain ways at different times to emotionally continue to
live.
"What gets us through life is just the right amount of
delusion - enough to fool us into feeling
relatively good about ourselves but not so much as to exceed our own
credulity. Healthy people can be deluded
into greater happiness when granted the mere illusion of control over their
environment. Learning how to delude
ourselves may be a key to
mental health." -
Daniel Gilbert
"The human being who can do without Brahma and
makes no effort to realize Brahma is not a human being at all; while if he were
able to understand Brahma, then that would not be Brahma. The authentic human
being, then, is one who is never free from striving, who turns restlessly and
endlessly about the light of the majesty of Brahma." - Rumi
"A human society would never willingly harm nature.
This is away of saying that violence is not a part of
human nature. Obviously, human
beings are quite capable of violence, but that does not mean that violence is
our destiny. The Barbaric
Heart is not a reflection of some innate disposition in humans. It is a
primitive ethic. The
assumption that violence is our nature turns fatalism into an excuse for more
violence. Actually, the truth is even more disturbing.
The problem is not with our nature; it is with our
spirit. As Tolstoy defined it, religious spirit is the "principle by which
a people lives." - Curtis White "Nature in its infinite
complexity is ever growing to a new development. Each successive result becomes
the parent of an additional influence, destined in some degree to modify all
future results. No fresh thread enters into the
texture of that endless web, woven in "the roaring loom of time" but what more
or less alters the pattern. It has been so from the beginning. As we turn over
the leaves of the Earth's primeval history - as we
interpret the
hieroglyphics in which are recorded the events of the unknown past, we find
this same ever beginning, never ceasing change. We see it alike in the
organic and the inorganic - in the decompositions
and recombinations of matter, and in the
constantly varying forms of animal and vegetable life. Old formations are worn
down; new ones are deposited. Forests and
bogs become coal basins; and the now igneous rock was once sedimentary. With an
altering atmosphere, and a decreasing temperature, land and sea perpetually
bring forth fresh races of insects, plants, and animals. All things are
metamorphosed; infusorial shells into chalk and flint,
sand into stone, stone
into gravel. Strata get contorted; seas fill
up; lands are alternately upheaved and sunk. Where once rolled a fathomless
ocean, now tower the snow-covered
peaks of a wide-spread, richly-clothed
country, teeming with existence; and where a vast continent once stretched,
there remain but a few lonely coral
islets to mark the graves of its submerged
mountains. Thus also is it with systems, as well as with worlds. Orbits vary in
their forms, axes in their inclinations, suns in their brightness. Fixed only
in name, the stars are incessantly changing
their relationships to each other. New ones from time to time suddenly appear,
increase and wane; whilst the members of each nebula-suns, planets, and their satellites, sweep for ever
onwards into unexplored infinity.
Strange indeed
would it be, if, in the midst of this universal mutation, man alone were
constant, unchangeable. But it is not so. He also obeys the
law of indefinite variation. His circumstances are
ever altering; and he is ever adapting himself to them. Between the
naked houseless savage, and the
Shakspeares and Newtons of
a civilized state, lie
unnumbered degrees of difference. The contrasts of races in form, colour, and feature, are not greater
than the contrasts in their moral and
intellectual qualities. That
superiority of sight which enables a Bushman
to see further with the naked eye than a European with a telescope, is fully
paralleled by the European's intellectual
vision. Every age, every nation, every climate, exhibits a modified form of
humanity; and in all times, and amongst all peoples, a greater or less amount
of change is going on.
There cannot indeed be a more astounding
instance of the tenacity with which men will cling to an
opinion in spite of an overwhelming mass
of adverse evidence, than is shown in this
prevalent belief that human
nature is uniform. One would have thought it
impossible to use eyes or ears without learning that mankind vary
indefinitely, in instincts, in morals, in
opinions, in tastes, in
rationality, in everything. Even a stroll through the
nearest museum would show that some law of modification was at work. Mark the
grotesque frescos of the Egyptians, or the shadowless
drawings of the Chinese. Does the contrast between these and the works of
European artists indicate no difference in the perceptive powers of the
races? Compare the sculptures of Athens with
those of Hindostan or
Mexico. Is not a greater sense of
beauty implied by the one than the others? But, passing to the more significant
facts supplied by historians and travellers, what are we to think on reading
that the Greeks and
Romans had a deity to sanction and
patronise every conceivable iniquity? or when we hear of
Polynesian tribes who believe that their
gods feed upon the souls of the departed?
Surely the characters indicated by such
conceptions of Divinity differ somewhat from ours!
In what
regard can it be asserted that human
nature is always the same? Is it in rationality? Is it in justice? Is it in
honesty? Is it in want of mercy? Is it in
vindictiveness? Where now is the sameness? It is not in actions as we see. Is
it then in manners and opinions? Certainly not.
Whilst all nominally held the creed professed by
ourselves, the Borderer was most zealous at
his prayers when going on a foray; saints' names were battle cries; bishops led
on their retainers to fight; and the highest
piety was in the slaying of
Saracens. Must not our natures have changed
somewhat, when we translate this
same religion into peace, into philanthropic effort of all kinds, into
missionary enterprise, into
advocacy of temperance, into inquiries about "labour and the poor"? Does the
agitation for the abolition of death
punishment indicate no revolution in men's feelings since the days when
Cromwell's body was exhumed, and his head stuck on Temple Bar-the days when
criminals were drawn and quartered as well as hung-the days when church-doors were
covered with the skins of men who had committed sacrilege? (Good way to
reduce critical thinkers!)
But really it is absurd to argue the matter. The
very assertors of this fixedness of human nature tacitly disown their belief in
it. They constantly stultify themselves by remarks on differences of national
character, on peculiarities in their friends' dispositions, and on their own
special tastes and feelings. Admissions thus
accidentally made quite invalidate their dogma. To the man of any insight, the
mere fact that he himself changes with circumstances, from day to day, and from
year to year, in sentiments, capacities, and desires, is sufficient to show
that humanity is indefinitely variable." - Herbert Spencer
"Dark
human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against
the gloomy border of the forest, and near
the river two bronze figures leaning on tall
spears stood in the sunlight under
fantastic head-dresses of spotted skins, warlike and still in statuesque
repose.
And from right to left along the lighted shore moved
a wild and gorgeous apparition of a
woman.
She walked with measured steps,
draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly with a slight
jingle and flash of barbarous ornaments.
She carried her head high, her hair was
done in the shape of a helmet, she had brass leggings to the knees, brass wire
gauntlets to the elbow, a crimson spot on her tawny cheek, innumerable
necklaces of glass beads on her neck, bizarre things, charms, gifts of
witch-men, that hung about her, glittered and trembled at every step.
She must have had the value of several
elephant tusks upon her.
She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was
something ominous and stately in her
deliberate progress.
And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the
whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the
fecund and mysterious life seemed to
look at her, pensive, as though it had been looking at the image of its own
tenebrous and passionate soul. " - Joseph Conrad
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