GENIUS FORUMS

If you were to summarize the human race in a sentence, what would it be?

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Perhaps like this:

• The emerging ability to summarize as well as becoming confused by the splendor of that very act.

It's perhaps hard to top Douglas Adam's "mostly harmless", in its brevity.

The human race is on an individual journey to discover, to crack, and then to smash, the glass wall of his ignorance of his belief he cannot be liberated first of his belief that he is a thing called "human", then secondly of his belief that he cannot be liberated of his human, racing thoughts.

Innocent.

The human race - comprising of the handful of human beings who throughout history have sometimes miraculously appeared amongst apes.

the majority of the human population is increasing in its unawareness and neglect for their mentality.

m4tt_666 wrote:the majority of the human population is increasing in its unawareness and neglect for their mentality.

Mensa says: Exactly!

Mensa says: I suspect and expect this thread Sentencing the Human Race to be a good long one, because it is a premium post, the kind deserving of much thought.

Not quite sure of what manner to approach this in.

A form of the Infinite.

A technical response seems unsavory.

David Quinn wrote:If you were to summarize the human race in a sentence, what would it be?

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If we were all gay the human race would have died out before it got started.

Hungry, easily led, slow to recognise necessity.

The human race is mostly mundane with occasional sparks of brilliance, driven but without direction, alive but not awake.

Some of Kevin's, from Poison for the Heart:

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What is man?

The long sought after "missing-link" between animals and humans.

An ape with large brain capacity enabling him to enjoy crosswords, television, and the atomic bomb.

A bipedal relative of plants.

A rational animal who loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with reason.

A failed evolutionary experiment in ignorance.

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"A rational animal who loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with reason."

Hah! Brilliant. I've got another one -

The human race - a species of animals which have conquered the earth, largely due to their ability to make each other feel guilty.

"A virus with shoes." - Bill Hicks.

movingalways wrote:The human race is on an individual journey to discover, to crack, and then to smash, the glass wall of his ignorance of his belief he cannot be liberated first of his belief that he is a thing called "human", then secondly of his belief that he cannot be liberated of his human, racing thoughts.

Nice, Pam! You didn't mention duality even once!

My thought on the Human Race: Everybody crosses the finish line.

The Human:

A machine programmed to satisfy biological drives. There is a spiritual self buried in that mess somewhere, but few have the character to even self-examine.

The human race is a blueprint of the Universe.

fascinating, repulsive, but mostly absurd...

An absurdity earnestly in search of a stupidity.

Forward animals, or "animals forward!".

David Quinn wrote:If you were to summarize the human race in a sentence, what would it be?

Inventors of existence.

Short and sweet.

David Quinn wrote:If you were to summarize the human race in a sentence, what would it be?

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Mensa says: Developers of intelligence!

So many good answers.


We look within and we look without.

David Quinn wrote:If you were to summarize the human race in a sentence, what would it be?

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Trudging towards Armageddon and perfectly on schedule.

Dan Rowden wrote:An absurdity earnestly in search of a stupidity.

That. Is. Funny.