do you think humanity is worth saving?

[magma]

As far as we know, we're the only species that has a concept of what is "good" or "bad" for the Earth as a planet. If we were extinct, the Earth would cease to be good or bad, as nobody would be able to judge it.

Of course we should save ourselves; what a stupid question. We're brilliant. We're impetuous, greedy, proud, narcissistic, ugly, fat and we're also clever enough to have invented words for all those things. We scrape minerals from the earth, forge metals and design and build electronic instruments that make amazing music. We travel in space. We built the fucking pyramids and Tapei 101... we built and destroyed the World Trade Centre as a centrepiece for what we believe in... we are every possible point between good and evil at once.

We're just about the most interesting thing anyone's ever discovered.

[DRTY]

If we were extinct, the Earth would cease to be good or bad, as nobody would be able to judge it.

Of course we should save ourselves; what a stupid question. We're brilliant. We're impetuous, greedy, proud, narcissistic, ugly, fat and we're also clever enough to have invented words for all those things. We scrape minerals from the earth, forge metals and design and build electronic instruments that make amazing music. We travel in space. We built the fucking pyramids and Tapei 101... we built and destroyed the World Trade Centre as a centrepiece for what we believe in... we are every possible point between good and evil at once.

We also made Marmite

[magma]

We also made Marmite

How fucking awesome is a species that produces a substance it both hates and adores? We're brill.

[hackman]

pretty much every substance on the planet someone either loves or hates
we're fuckin stupid idiots, raping the planet and each other, no better than the apes we're supposedly descended from

[magma]

Oh, and we deserve to survive if we survive. Them's the rules round these parts, I believe.

We fuck it up, we go extinct like all the animals before that over-ate their resources or didn't have enough strength for the drought.

Natural selection doesn't do "good" and "bad" it just does "lives to breed" and "doesn't live to breed".

[DRTY]

pretty much every substance on the planet someone either loves or hates
we're fuckin stupid idiots, raping the planet and each other, no better than the apes we're supposedly descended from

We've achieved quite a bit to be fair. But you could argue either way and be justified I guess.

[hackman]

you can't block out everything bad that is going on in the world currently and in the past just cos we make amazing music and marmite

that does not save us lol

[DRTY]

you can't block out everything bad that is going on in the world currently and in the past just cos we make amazing music and marmite

that does not save us lol

You obviously haven't tried the new Marmite

[kay]

pretty much every substance on the planet someone either loves or hates
we're fuckin stupid idiots, raping the planet and each other, no better than the apes we're supposedly descended from

Most apes behave better than we do. We're almost an insult to apekind.

Of course we should save ourselves

I think we're only worth saving if we wake up enough to save ourselves. Not worth saving if it's because of some external reason, be it weather-change-to-the-point-of-no-return, fanatical godfearingness, alien intervention, whatever. It has to come from within.

[kay]

you can't block out everything bad that is going on in the world currently and in the past just cos we make amazing music and marmite

that does not save us lol

You obviously haven't tried the new Marmite

Marmite needs to turn this into a new ad campaign.

[hackman]

you can't block out everything bad that is going on in the world currently and in the past just cos we make amazing music and marmite

that does not save us lol

You obviously haven't tried the new Marmite

[DRTY]

[DRTY]

actually, speaking of Marmite adverts, whilst eating some marmite XO yesterday, I suddenly thought, why did they call it Marmite XO. What they should have called it is marMIGHTIER.

Anyway, we'll stop on the Marmite now.

[64hz]

We've achieved quite a bit to be fair. But you could argue either way and be justified I guess.

what has humanity achieved? really?
a slight understanding of the universe we are part of? technology that just allows us to either rape our own planet more or just add layers of unnecessary complexity to our already bloated lives?
art? just inferior copies of the world around us, according to the artists perceptions of it.

edit: lol only just read the end bit of that quote. damn me and my quick reply! but my question still stands:p...

[jigglypuff]

This will answer your question.

[DRTY]

what has humanity achieved? really?
a slight understanding of the universe we are part of? technology that just allows us to either rape our own planet more or just add layers of unnecessary complexity to our already bloated lives?
art? just inferior copies of the world around us, according to the artists perceptions of it.

edit: lol only just read the end bit of that quote. damn me and my quick reply! but my question still stands:p...

We've done some bad things, but we've also done cool shit.

3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine

Quantum mechanics are cool as well, there's loads of other stuff too but I jiving to some tunes atm.

[WhosZena]

This will answer your question.

These people have no right to be here.

[particle-jim]

This will answer your question.

...yep, fuck humanity

[64hz]

We've done some bad things, but we've also done cool shit.

3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine

Quantum mechanics are cool as well, there's loads of other stuff too but I jiving to some tunes atm.

don't get me wrong i'm not saying any of that stuff doesn't have any relevance to our lives.
i love mdma and i study physics

but all i'm saying is that none of these things (not even marmite) have any value outside of our lives. we give them value, but more than that, we give ourselves value.

[DRTY]

don't get me wrong i'm not saying any of that stuff doesn't have any relevance to our lives.
i love mdma and i study physics

but all i'm saying is that none of these things (not even marmite) have any value outside of our lives. we give them value, but more than that, we give ourselves value.

you BASTARD.

I wish I did physics or something cool, must be such a good thing to study. What you gonna do after it?