Are humans more animal like then we admit? (page 2)

chrissy

I once had to conduct a similar experiment for an interpersonal communications class. in this instance we had to pair up in twos and record the results of a instance in which we could somehow get strangers to approach us and communicate something. so this girl and i went to a high traffic shopping area and attached a long piece of toilet paper to one of our shoes and walked around with our heads up in the air and smiles on our faces pretending we were just shopping and business as usual...while the other person secretly hovered around behind clothing racks and displays, observing strangers reactions and recording the results. In most instances it was older men that said, "excuse me miss," and then they would just point down at our shoe. then we would act all embarrassed and say "wow! thank you so much!!!" wait a few minutes, and reattach the decoy. omg, it was the funniest thing ever.

anyway, your experiment reminds me of something i read in a book about hysterical living in which it suggests, just for kicks, that you walk around on any given day, gazing into the eyes of strangers as if they may be the one true love of your life, destined for you and you alone, and whether you might be passing them by forever...acting in consequence. hehehe. but you would have to look at everyone this way, not just the people you are physically attracted to.

gumby

Let's play the old...."suppose a baby boy was raised by two gorillas and never saw a human" game.

Do you suppose 20 years later he would be more like a modern day man in his ways......or would he act more like the animal gorilla parents that raised him? Would he eventually think like a human such as desiring to worship something because of wonderment as to his existance.....or just lay around all day scratchin his nutsack till it was time to eat again?

I seriously do not know.......but I've thought about this many times over.

Gumtarzan

Cygnus

I don't mind being stared at. One former psyche would look at me like all the time and I was okay with it. When caty and I had our dog Marly she taught me that when a human and a dog are staring at one another, the first to look away is considered by the dog to be inferior.

Once in a great while I go to a busy street light near my house, stand at the corner, and stare into people's cars as they're stopped at the red light and try to make eye contact, usually with the passenger as they're less distracted. Just to see what would happen. No guns pulled on me yet. (Hey, I live a 'boring-ass life' to quote Kevin Smith.)

gaiagirl

The animal origins of human behavior are strikingly illustrated in "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors", cowritten by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. Lots of first hand observation of primate social interaction make the point beyond any shadow of doubt, human culture is just a veneer, and a rather thin one at that, laid over animal culture.

DanTheMan

Sometimes, based on what I can tell from my peripheral vision, I become quite certain that a person is staring at me, but then when I look directly at them it turns out that they weren't. I've even considered tinting my car windows so that I can be more at ease when I'm stopped at traffic lights or whatever. Yeah, I'm paranoid like that.

DannyHaszard

I was attacked by a pit bull who tried to take me down like a deer to rip my throat out,pure killer.I was an innocent passerby minding my own buisness,and the dog had escaped from his owner.I had a lot of clothes on dead winter and at my 220 lbs fought the dog off.

I never had any anger for the dog as i could sense it was just acting out instincts and it was nothing personal against me.

Humans for comparison can be malicious,willfull,wanton.Watchtower followers think it's fun to eat their young wild critters rarely do that.

Aren't we suppose to be made in God's image?

Satanus

Danny

Aren't we suppose to be made in God's image?

The bible writers had a poor understanding of this subject. We have come much further since then. The ot jehovah had many animalistc reactions which make your friendly throat ripping pitbull look mild. Even his seraphim are pictured as having animal heads and animal wings. The nt basically labels the animal traits of humans as works of the flesh or demonistic - see galations 5 or 6. Let's face it honestly, danny, we are body (animal), mind (perhaps construed as soul), and spirit (also confused as soul). The spirit doesn't do much at all. W our minds we think. W the body we feel, just as animals feel. Animals also have minds, to various extents. They also have spirits. There is nothing demonic about our animal nature, anymore than there about attacking pitbulls.

S

AuldSoul

My insides smile through my eyes. I meet all kinds of people. I greet complete strangers continually. I have extensive conversations with strangers in shopping malls and restaurants.

If you treat everyone as your friend, odds are the vast majority will be. I have never been skittish about grabbing someone's eyes and smiling into them.

If I am greeted by a sneer in return I can always follow that person home and eliminate them from the gene pool . Oh, would that not be a cool thing to do?

Just kidding. Sneers in return don't phase me. Some people are just dark, and they take immediate unconscious offense to anyone who doesn't share their dark inlook on the world.

AuldSoul

tetrapod.sapien

excellent point gaiagirl!

dan-the-man,

sound slike you need to lay of the peyote for a while. LMAO!!

TS

Darth Yhwh

Yeah we learned to master fire and all of a sudden we're making up Gods in our image and afraid to admit that we're part of the animal kingdom.

Are humans more animal like then we admit?

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