At 11/30/08 02:08 PM, poxpower wrote:
1. Anyone who askes the question "hey why are you doing this?" is automatically an asshole.
anyone who questions anything is automatically an asshole, moron, dirtbag, nazi, heretic, loud mouth, or fool. just depends on who you ask.
2. No one ever said that to you, admit it.
ask a smoking teen why they smoke. you'll get the response after a couple of tries.
Name one single thing that you can do "because it's trendy" but that you don't enjoy doing too.
- smoking. people know the risks involved and many get started because of their friends. I personally don't know a single person who ever enjoyed their first smoke. they always talked about gagging and/or puking. How they go back for a 2nd time is beyond me.
- drink nasty tasting liquor to get drunk in front of 'friends'. Ok maybe not so much this one.
- wasting money on expensive clothing that you know you'll ditch a few months later for more expensive clothes, know you'd rather spend the money on something else.
- watching a show you don't care for, or think is just stupid, in order to impress people when you can join in on talking about the show with them.
the list goes on and depends on the individual.
While it is a well known fact that sheep are herd animals and herd mentality keeps them alive, humans are not prey animals. We are predatory creatures, more along the line of wolves. A pack of wolves can bring down a large animal, however, a single clever wolf can hunt down smaller creatures for itself. As far back as human history has recorded, we have hunted down creatures and killed them for food. As with other apes, we have superior intelligence and we use this to our advantage in survival. Most larger ape species, especially chimps, have been known to develop new methods, such as jabbing a sharp stick into a hole in a tree to get bugs. This may seem to be a rather silly thing to a human, but before a chimp thought of this, none of the others did it.
Humans are social creatures, but we're capable of more than being mere sheep. Humans are (supposed to be) far more intelligent that most creatures on earth, and yet this superior intelligence is often wasted, tossed aside to follow the crowd like a useless sheep in a herd of sheep, who's sole purpose is to merely exist until it falls victim to a higher being. and Mansheep often fall victim to beings of higher intellect. gang leaders, politicians, salesmen, con artists, just to name a few. People know how to take advantage of lesser people and they do it every single day.
And now as I leave for this night to get me some sleep, I leave you with this to look at. It's interesting to look at, and shows that the human mind is capable of being deep. If the artist wasn't capable of deep creative thought, then he/she/they could have never come up with something like this.
