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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free” Baruch Spinoza
-->“The arrogant animal” as one University of Iowa professor refers to humans because we believe we are unique and different from other animals. The assumption is that human beings are somehow separate from nature and better than other animals. Is it because we are self-aware and can invent things by use of our opposable thumbs? If anything we are a natural disaster.
If we say that mother nature creates tornadoes and hurricanes that ravage our cities and kill us then we are doing the same to mother nature. If she is considered a “natural disaster” because she can kill us and destroy our “civilization” then we are in turn also a natural disaster because we can cause things like global warming which is damaging the earth.
If you don’t believe in global warming then you must believe in the trees that are being cut down in mass proportions or at least the sudden increase in animal species that are going extinct. We are just as natural as a hurricane or a tornado and we cause a great deal of harm because of it.
-->Poors, minorities and the underrepresented. Minorities, the underrepresented, and poors. I’m tried of these categories. There’s an obvious bias in careers based on race and gender. Certain races are more likely to be scientists, certain genders are more like to be nurses and school teachers and still a certain type of race and gender is more likely to be basketball players. I bet I can predict the races and genders that came to mind when you were reading the last sentenced. You probably thought white people (or white men in specific), women for the second, and black males for the final biased career.
I still say there’s nothing wrong with this. Okay, so many blacks end up in entertainment careers. So what? Why should we downplay a gift that we can give the world? Music, dance, and sport. If you ask me, after watching Lebron James dunk several baskets from the opposite side of the court I would say it takes some level of genius in order to do it.
Why is brilliance in science and math the only “real” smarts? I wish schools would reconsider making cuts to arts and music, and some even sports in an attempt to teach students math and science. Without proper exposure how is a student supposed to find their true calling?
As for the school systems and employers, it would be nice if employers respected HBCUs as much as state schools and other crappy traditional community colleges (not to say all community colleges are bad; there was one in my old neighborhood that had one of the top culinary schools in America). HBCUs are just as good and sometimes better then these other colleges they just aren’t getting the respect they deserve.
I wish people respected health related jobs more than they did. The “feminine” jobs in the health system have remained relatively stable while testosterone ran masulineconomic financial collapse of the seeming second Great Depression not only affects men but women.
The mainstream race think they are so smart and educated inventing all these things and ignore that their inventions cause just as much trouble as it helps. For example, hospitals have many great doctors, mostly White Americans. But what about the car accident victims that end up there frequently from the White people made vehicles that claim a substantial amount of lives?
What about the cancer stick or cigarettes that are produced by White people that send people to the hospitals for lung cancer? What about all this scientifically generated and carcinogenic enriched food that we eat that gives us cancer and sends us to the hospital? Our desire to scientifically develop a better world for White people by White people is the same as the masculine run economics taking the females down. Why for every “genius” invention of theirs is there a thousand other unfortunate things that result from it? What’s the point?
Who’s smarter - an Advanced or an Indigenous person? A person who tries to drastically improve his live, stresses himself out and ends up dying alone and broken in his old age from some shitty disease that didn’t exist thousands of years ago? Or a person who lives in tune with nature so the next generation will have a planet to live on? Again I beg of you to tell me who’s better off? Who is smarter?
-->Read the old testament if you can find a place that promises immortality or eternal life come tell me. It’s just the New Testament apparently according to Spinoza. It’s such a tease living in existence as such conscious matter that we are aware of ourselves and our wants and desires. Nature is mocking us because it has provided us with such a profound understanding of life, and yet given us no way to sustain our own life forever to enjoy it. The fact that we are aware of our deaths as so many other creatures with “living monads” is the most frightening reality one can face. And we have to face it alone.
The more I think about people the more I wonder if we are in fact soulless. Essentially, if we don’t have souls then we are living, breathing matter that slowly deteriorates and ceases functioning until we break down and become other pieces of matter; in other words, the circle of life. Like in “The Lion King” the antelopes eat the grass, the lions eat the antelope and both the lions and antelope become fertilizer for the growth of new grass. Where does the soul come into play in that eternal circle? Someone with Alzheimer’s if they lose their personality, they lose it because parts of their being is destroyed. If the body were just a shell and the soul resided within, any damage to the body itself would not affect the capability of the soul. Then again you could argue that the spirit lives within the body on a different realm or dimension – but it’s impossible to test with out current scientific instruments. That is things that aren’t considered pseudo-science.
Nothing that isn’t meant to exist will be. Humans were meant to live in just the way we are. No matter what anyone says people are apart of nature. There’s no distinction between “natural” and “manmade”. Just because humans have touched the matter to mold it into something else, doesn’t mean that it is any less a part of nature. We’re all nature in motion with abilities to perceive and manipulate it better than any other life form – at least on this planet. Think about it clairvoyants may not be real, but a physicist is. Compared to the talents of, for example, medieval alchemist, a modern day physicist might as well be a magician.
