"Humans weren't meant to..."

_John_
_John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
edited November 2024 in Chit-Chat
usually you see this with cows milk or about some other food.

Can we evolve past this line of thinking?

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  • Escloflowne
    Escloflowne Posts: 2,038 Member
    Evolve? Poor choice of words, it's just a theory.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    Escloflowne wrote: »
    Evolve? Poor choice of words, it's just a theory.

    Theory>hypothesis>WAG
  • MommysLittleMeatball
    MommysLittleMeatball Posts: 2,064 Member
    If "humans weren't meant to...", I guess we should all just stop whatever we are doing and reproduce all day every day, because that's what humans were meant to do. Right?
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    Jackie0Marie wrote: »
    If "humans weren't meant to...", I guess we should all just stop whatever we are doing and reproduce all day every day, because that's what humans were meant to do. Right?

    I don't know...you make a compelling argument to use the "meant to"...
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  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    sunn_lighter wrote: »
    sorry I missed the point of this thread. I thought it was finish the sentence "humans weren't meant to..."

    it's ok...I wanted a more free discussion on this subject than the main boards usually give, so I understand how you people might respond.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    Sugar_Pill wrote: »
    Are we talking monogamy, breastfeeding?

    I tried to set the context, but I think everyone assumed it was a blank canvas to be creative...
  • DaddieCat
    DaddieCat Posts: 3,643 Member
    Jackie0Marie wrote: »
    If "humans weren't meant to...", I guess we should all just stop whatever we are doing and reproduce all day every day, because that's what humans were meant to do. Right?

    I like the way you think.
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  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    Escloflowne wrote: »
    Evolve? Poor choice of words, it's just a theory.

    http://www.notjustatheory.com/
  • moijo1
    moijo1 Posts: 1,214 Member
    wear clothes?
  • MommysLittleMeatball
    MommysLittleMeatball Posts: 2,064 Member
    OneHundredToLose wrote: »
    Escloflowne wrote: »
    Evolve? Poor choice of words, it's just a theory.

    http://www.notjustatheory.com/

    Andy-Dwyer-OMG.gif
  • SojournerThirteen
    SojournerThirteen Posts: 28,204 Member
    Behave like animals
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,786 Member
    Jackie0Marie wrote: »
    If "humans weren't meant to...", I guess we should all just stop whatever we are doing and reproduce all day every day, because that's what humans were meant to do. Right?

    Where you want to meet up? My place or yours?

  • shadowfax_c11
    shadowfax_c11 Posts: 1,942 Member
    When we use the words "meant to" we imply that some mind was behind the decision of whether or not we should. Now if a person happens to believe in a creator and wants to use the Bible. Well there are passages in the old testament about how to prepare food including that a calf should not be cooked in its mother's milk. Implying that the eating of milk is fine by said creator and so is the eating of veal for that matter, as long as it is properly prepared....So if one goes purely by religion (Specifically Christianity) We were "meant to" eat dairy.. and meat. Of course this is putting aside the fact that the Bible only specifically endorses the use of animals for food after Noah got off the ark. So pre-flood perhaps humans were vegetarian and the creator changed his/her mind later on. But that's a whole other conversation.

    I happen to believe that nothing humans do is something they were meant to do. We just figured out to do or not do things based on our positive and negative experiences and the positive and negative experiences of others.

    Science says that ,in some cases, whether or not the positive or negative experiences occurred depended on genetic mutations. Our DNA has been modified and changed over the millennia to allow us to do many things that ancestors could not.

    Just because a few humans have problems with dairy products does not mean that all humans should never eat dairy products. It just means that some humans for some reason lack the ability to digest it properly. Science thinks the ability to get useful nutrition from dairy is a genetic modification..."Natural selection" so for some humans it is probable that we are in fact "meant to" eat milk/dairy by Nature due to the DNA that we happen to possess that makes that possible.

    I like Ice cream.
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
    _John_ wrote: »
    usually you see this with cows milk or about some other food.

    Can we evolve past this line of thinking?

    It is small thinking to diminish yourself to animistic instinct, and those that do are just justifying some bad choice.

    Barring mental health issues, everyone has reasoning and the ability to think (I know it doesn't seem like it), but the fact is most people choose to ignore both. Hence...lack of maturity as a species.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    Escloflowne wrote: »
    Evolve? Poor choice of words, it's just a theory.

    Sure. So is gravity.
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