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[Agrippa]

"A ship in the harbour is safe – but that's not what ships are for"
        -   John A. Shedd, Salt from my Attic

There are millions of animal species on earth. Many of them are faster, and stronger than us ..
But strangely, we are the ones that have evolved ..
We have the knowledge and the capacity to create miracles ..!
But how do we use this gift ..?

For years we have waged wars because we could not cooperate.. We fought for our rights, our ideas. And you know what?, The fight never ended, you just stopped caring.
Now our so called leaders continue the wars. They lie to us, they try to make us believe they are doing the right thing ..

But hey ,.. Its your own fucking fault ..
If you act like cattle, you will be treated like cattle .
You are only used for your meat, your mindless flesh that you use to fulfil your small part in their machine.
  You see the corpses, you smell the rotting flesh, and yet you still believe them when they tell you; 'This will only hurt a bit ..', while they are holding the knife ..!

Its time to stop.. Turn off autopilot..  Lets start thinking again..
If enough parts 'malfunction', the machine will stop working. And the only way to do that, is to take control of your life, and live it they way you want it!

There is a storm coming .. An exciting time to leave the harbour ..
My ship is setting sail .


- Agrippa

[Cramulus]

[PopeTom]

nitpick

But strangely, we are the ones that have evolved ..

Actually all the other animals have evolved too.

[Agrippa]

whoops, you are right.. will fix later

[hooplala]

The line was "we evolved into the dominant species", which I would argue is true.

[Cain]

Don't worry about editing it Agrippa.  Its a minor quibble in what is a great rant, I think.  Anyone who actually got hung up on that part of the message probably isn't the sort of person this is aimed at (PopeTom aside).  Of course everything else has evolved biologically, but not in the sense humans have, in the realm of ideas.

[AFK]

this deserves the technicolor mittens, but I'm too lazy to go find them so have these in their place:

[LMNO]

We're still just monkeys.



Unusually large brains, but still monkeys.


It's easy to be a monkey.


It's hard to be human.

[Cainad (dec.)]

We're still just monkeys.



Unusually large brains, but still monkeys.


It's easy to be a monkey.


It's hard to be human.

"How should I know how to be a human? I'm not Doctor-bloody-Bronowski!"

Cainad,
Read The Ascent of Man

[Richter]

Well spoken!  Nicely sums up the current state of humanity. 
I'm just hoping the future is folk who realize this and do something, not descendents of those you relate to livestock.

[Agrippa]

I pimped my rant: