If you had a few words to say to Humanity what would it be?

Just trying to think of something original.
Maybe I’d say something like this.
“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. “

Peak Warming Man said:

Just trying to think of something original.
Maybe I’d say something like this.
“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. “

I’m pretty damn sure you copied that off someone.

The World needs a genuine original message like:

“With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”

Tau.Neutrino said:

If you had a few words to say to Humanity what would it be?

No nation, race or culture is special or superior to any others. Humans are pretty much the same all over the world. Every nation has room for improvement and should be open to no learning and new ideas.

Do not confuse advancement in industrial technology as proof of national/cultural/racial superiority, or lack of it as proof of inferiority. Industrial technology is temporary, others will soon enough catch up.

You think I’m sick? Well, the only disease I’ve got is modern life: a schnut-busting gauntlet of inefficiency and misery that’s one long parade of letdowns, put-downs, trickle downs, shutouts, freeze-outs, sellouts, numb-nuts, nincompoops and nimrods, all making every day as much fun as waxing a flaming Pontiac with your tongue, where even if you do luck into the possibility of some fleeting pleasure, like say if some nymphomaniac telephone operators with the muscle control of Romanian mat-slappers agree to a little strip air hockey, it’ll be over before it starts, ‘cause some vowel-lacking, feta-reeking cab-jockey slams his Checker up your hatchback and the cab is owned by some pinata spanker from a Santeria cult in Xoacalpa who starts shaking chicken bones at you and gives you a boil on your neck so big all it needs is Michael Jordan’s autograph to make it complete. And even with all this — with all this — I still drag my sorry butt off the Sealy every morning and stick my face in the reaping machine for one more day, knowing when it’s time to flash the cosmic card key at those Pearly Gates, I won’t be in the coffin anyway ‘cause some underhanded undertaker sold my heart, pancreas, and other assorted Good ‘N’ Plenty to that same Santeria cult! So, does anybody really wonder why anybody is hanging onto sanity by the atoms on the tips of their fingernails while life dirty-dances on their digits, and is it really any wonder that I seem DERANGED?!

The Rev Dodgson said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Just trying to think of something original.
Maybe I’d say something like this.
“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. “

I’m pretty damn sure you copied that off someone.

The World needs a genuine original message like:

“With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”

Nobody has to strive to be happy nor pursue it. Happiness simply is. All you need to do is accept that it is a natural state.

Live with nature, don’t exploit it for selfish reasons.

Used to be okay down here, you know that? Used to be you could walk down here any time. Go out on a Saturday night with just brass knuckles, nothing else. Maybe a piece of wood or something, piece of pipe, you know what I mean? Nowadays, you need a gun, all the time. F#cking bunch of sh!t what these people are doing to the f#cking world.

Watch The Omega Man. You could be him.

imagine no religion.

Keep washing your hands

Tau.Neutrino said:

If you had a few words to say to Humanity what would it be?

Learn morality.

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

If you had a few words to say to Humanity what would it be?

Learn morality.

These simple two words already include all that was said above by Rev Dodgson, party_pants, roughbarked, PermeateFree, and sarahs mum.

Lots more I could add, but those two simple words are more powerful, more all-encompassing, and more necessary.

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

If you had a few words to say to Humanity what would it be?

Learn morality.

These simple two words already include all that was said above by Rev Dodgson, party_pants, roughbarked, PermeateFree, and sarahs mum.

Lots more I could add, but those two simple words are more powerful, more all-encompassing, and more necessary.

hmm. except that ‘morality’ is actually different for different people… so are you advocating that people do what they consider is right and good? because that could get messy.

Arts said:

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Learn morality.

These simple two words already include all that was said above by Rev Dodgson, party_pants, roughbarked, PermeateFree, and sarahs mum.

Lots more I could add, but those two simple words are more powerful, more all-encompassing, and more necessary.

hmm. except that ‘morality’ is actually different for different people… so are you advocating that people do what they consider is right and good? because that could get messy.

Unless it was me. Except for the lack of bananas I’m basically perfect.

Arts said:

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Learn morality.

These simple two words already include all that was said above by Rev Dodgson, party_pants, roughbarked, PermeateFree, and sarahs mum.

Lots more I could add, but those two simple words are more powerful, more all-encompassing, and more necessary.

hmm. except that ‘morality’ is actually different for different people… so are you advocating that people do what they consider is right and good? because that could get messy.

No more than ‘science’ is is different for different people. It is messy. “Doing what is right and good” is only one approach to morality. We could have “do no harm”, “do more good than harm”, “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”, “be happy”, “whatever you need to do to stay healthy”, for example. People need to be taught the difference.

I have a collection of books here with messages to humanity. The titles include “Feeling good”, “Life’s little instruction book”, “Murphy’s law”, “The meaning of life”. The message from “the meaning of life” can be summarised as:

• Find what you love doing, and do it.

The one book with a title that deserves mention here is:

• Think something wonderful

Arts said:

mollwollfumble said:

mollwollfumble said:

Learn morality.

These simple two words already include all that was said above by Rev Dodgson, party_pants, roughbarked, PermeateFree, and sarahs mum.

Lots more I could add, but those two simple words are more powerful, more all-encompassing, and more necessary.

hmm. except that ‘morality’ is actually different for different people… so are you advocating that people do what they consider is right and good? because that could get messy.

I was about to respond to moll’s post, but I’ll settle for
+1

I wouldn’t presume to be able to comprehend what humanity is, whatever that is the scale of it brings my neuron to a grinding halt, a catatonic modesty I might joke

but to indulge some optimism, some fondness about the species for a moment, I would add there probably are moral universals, a moral space if you will, soft territory inhabited by people that want to sleep in peace, and raise offspring without too many worries

couple things popped into my mind regard the subject

one, the most important, is that a functional morality can be incomprehensible to a force hostile toward it, which puts any potential aggressor at a disadvantage, and the morality need not be labyrinthian, tyrannical, or in any way adversely imposing

The Rev Dodgson said:

Arts said:

mollwollfumble said:

These simple two words already include all that was said above by Rev Dodgson, party_pants, roughbarked, PermeateFree, and sarahs mum.

Lots more I could add, but those two simple words are more powerful, more all-encompassing, and more necessary.

hmm. except that ‘morality’ is actually different for different people… so are you advocating that people do what they consider is right and good? because that could get messy.

I was about to respond to moll’s post, but I’ll settle for
+1

Stay tuned. I’m programming moral systems (including “I solemnly swear that I am up to no good” LOL) into Excel.

Morning Pilgrims, nothing to report at this early stage of todays proceedings.

Actually, I said nothing about morality.

Moral realism is the class of theories which hold that there are true moral statements that report objective moral facts. For example, while they might concede that forces of social conformity significantly shape individuals’ “moral” decisions, they deny that those cultural norms and customs define morally right behavior. This may be the philosophical view propounded by ethical naturalists, however not all moral realists accept that position (e.g. ethical non-naturalists).Moral anti-realism, on the other hand, holds that moral statements either fail or do not even attempt to report objective moral facts. Instead, they hold that moral sentences are either categorically false claims of objective moral facts (error theory); claims about subjective attitudes rather than objective facts (ethical subjectivism); or else not attempts to describe the world at all but rather something else, like an expression of an emotion or the issuance of a command (non-cognitivism).

Some forms of non-cognitivism and ethical subjectivism, while considered anti-realist in the robust sense used here, are considered realist in the sense synonymous with moral universalism. For example, universal prescriptivism is a universalist form of non-cognitivism which claims that morality is derived from reasoning about implied imperatives, and divine command theory and ideal observer theory are universalist forms of ethical subjectivism which claim that morality is derived from the edicts of a god or the hypothetical decrees of a perfectly rational being, respectively.

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So much for morality