So you consider yourself no better than an animal....wow, thats sad. I was made in the image of the creator, sorry for those who think they are no better than animals or that they magically came from monkeys while we still have monkeys that I guess didn't get promoted?. You prefer to argue, I have nothing to argue about. There is ONE RIGHT WAY, not many. I do not belong to a religion, they have tarnished the name of Christianity with all their different doctrines. Know need to beat a dead horse here. I wish you the best of day and let us end this. Like I said, I am a WATCHMAN and my job is to warn, not stand and bicker or try to convince. You do with it what you will.....good day sir.
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"they magically came from monkeys while we still have monkeys that I guess didn't get promoted?."
You magically came from dirt and we still have dirt so I guess it wasn't promoted? I feel sorry for you if you believe that.
The apes in the savannah had different evolutionary pressures. The creator in whose image you were made is a mess of inefficient pathways, physical vulnerabilities and bad design. Live long enough, and your hips and back will go out because your ancestors didn't walk on two legs.
I see humans as animals but "no better"? No? What does that mean. We are social animals who gain strength in cooperation and numbers. We are not the only species that does this. Our minds set us apart from other animals but just because we are different does not mean we are not still animals.
You make it sound like a bad thing when it's not.
"So you consider yourself no better than an animal.... Know need to beat a dead horse here."
"Yahoo!" - Houyhnhnm, Gulliver's Travels , Jonathan Swift
what do you mean by "better" than animals?
better at what, as measured how?
sure, i'm more skilled at computer programming than my dogs are, but they can beat me at scent tracking in their sleep. i'd like to think i'm more intelligent than they are, but if pressed i'd have to confess i can't even clearly define the term "intelligence", much less produce an unequivocal, objective measure of it.
No, what you are is an ape, a particularly treacherous one at that. To just stomp your feet like the universe is your fucking mommy ready to buy you one ice cream after another just to avoid anoter tantrum. You filth bring shame and disgust to what is otherwise a rather decent species.
Riddle me this, who is closer to godhood, an ape screaming he`s related to one or one who ripped the mantle from the universe to make us stronger and safer?
I believe I am better than an animal in that since I was born human, I am endowed with human rights which we don't give to animals. The reason I believe all humans have human rights is because we can reason with each other, for one, and mainly because we as a species can either benefit or cause harm to each other, and it's far more beneficial to the world if we all benefit each other. Therefore, we all get basic human rights. If that makes me "better" than an animal, so be it. But I, you, and everyone else are still animals.
Reading stuff like this, however, makes me think you're not equal to an animal. The animals are so much better.
>I was made in the image of the creator,
Out of mud...
>or that they magically came from monkeys
Humans did not evolve from monkeys. We evolved from a common ancestor of modern chimps and bonobos, who evolved from a common ancestor shared by monkeys. Children in elementary school learn this pretty early, and typically have no trouble grasping the concept.
>while we still have monkeys that I guess didn't get promoted?
Promoted to what? Who ever said that evolution was goal oriented? Aside from survival, there is no goal.
>There is ONE RIGHT WAY, not many.
And yet none of you can agree on what that "one right way" is. About the only thing you people do agree on is that you somehow have the right and obligation to force your idea of it on everyone else, including each other
So you consider yourself no better than an animal....
How can you be better than something you already are?
Better to be evolved from an intelligent fuzzball than DIRT!
"animal" "horse" "Risingsun"
"There is ONE RIGHT WAY"
Yep:
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Praising that Sun !
"I was made in the image of the creator"
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Thank you for admitting that the creator of God is Lauren Faust (Ponies and Blessings Upon Her). /)^3^(\
"while we still have monkeys that I guess didn't get promoted?"
If they would just do their jobs better, they could get promoted too. Perhaps even to management.
I do not belong to a religion
If it worships something, it's a religion. Any arguing with that fact gets you beaten to death with a dictionary.
Quite right, Elijah! You certainly are not a religionist. You are a zombie cultist. Take a look in the mirror next time you're passing one. That dull, dead-eyed face looking back at you is the face of Bible God. That malicious, bigoted pan with its bland, fleshy, proud-to-be-ignorant, herp-a-derpistic glower is Bible God at His most compelling. Enjoy your rampant gullibility. Lol!
He's a renown goat blower is what he is.
This little "I do not belong to a religion, they have tarnished the name of Christianity" gambits becoming more common and I expect it to continue. Polls show that those that claim belief are increasingly non-affiliated every year.
What they don't mention is why, they're becoming increasingly embarrassed by the levels of bullshit from the pulpit and the inherent hypocrisies being exposed. This is why there's so many denominations, they're in a repeating pattern of running away from their histories, it not just the people with mythical rebirths, it's churchs destroying their repretation and reforming under different names.
We are no better than animals because we are animals. We didn't come from monkeys, we share a common ancestor with them, there's a difference. Species that would eventually lead to the evolution of hominids weren't promoted as their taxonomic branch separated from monkeys, they filled a different environmental niche, but this doesn't mean that we're superior. This whole mindset is caused by a closed minded, human centric view which sees homo sapiens as special and more important, but we're not, and it is supposedly us evolution accepting godless heretics that are the arrogant ones!
"Know need"
That should be know knead.
Well, considering certain affiliations of mine... No, I rather don't consider myself better than an animal.
As to the monkeys that are still around, they just haven't found the right evolution stones yet. Because biological evolution is totally Pokémon evolution.
There is only one right way to what?
The 'Watchmen' had exactly 1 meeting before deciding not to organize (thus, technically, never really existing as an organization). I seriously doubt you were one of them, or even a convincing cosplayer.
If you can splash random sentences together, so can I.
Arceus is the false origin! All Hail MEW!
"those who think they are no better than animals"
We ARE animals. What else would be be? Plants or Fungi?
"they magically came from monkeys while we still have monkeys that I guess didn't get promoted?"
If we came from dirt, why is there still dirt?
"I was made in the image of the creator"
Then our creator must be a pretty flawed being himself.
"You prefer to argue, I have nothing to argue about."
...My irony meter just exploded.
"I am a WATCHMAN"
There's a Dr. Manhattan joke in there somewhere but I'm too lazy to search for it right now.
"I am a WATCHMAN"
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You are free to be whatever you want to be, Ellie. Now here are the nice young men in white coats to take you to a nice room with rubber walls. Oh, and here's a lovely jacket with shiny buckles! Also some happy pills...!
OR:
'I am not an animal. I AM A SEXUAL ORGAN! ' [/Robin Williams] X3
OR:
I think sex on TV is wrong. You could fall off and hurt yourselves! I mean, have you ever tried Conceptual Sex in the Mercenary Position on top of a 50-inch 4K Ultra-ready smart TV?! And there's also the risk of contracting HDMI, to say nothing of experiencing Blu-Ray balls ! X3
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Well, as there are portable widescreen TVs (for the car/truck/motor home/travelling etc) that have digital decoders; some with recording facilities onto flash drive/SD/Micro-SD cards, then like your 'belie fs', you have refused to evolve and are now obsolete .
...good day sir.
"So you consider yourself no better than an animal "
Given that I love animals and wanted to be a zoologist as a kid, I have no problem being an animal myself.
The rest of your drivel has nothing to stand on since I answered its premise differently from what you were expecting. That renders it, at best, irrelevant. But since it's nothing more than an appeal to consequences dolled up with irrelevant information, it's flat-out wrong, anyway.
Both people who think they're "better" than animals and people who use being "no better" than animals as an excuse to do awful things piss me off for the same reason.
Confused?
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