Mind's Eye Re: Are You A Human Being ?

"Human" seemed an unspoken word- I don't remember it at an early age.
One might consider the impact of negative nick-names that stick. A
child has to learn the categories, I think, as blankets and toys are
often given powers by the child. And children will grieve/rejoice
more with animals than humans for a while- the genius of Walt Disney
understood how to parlay this.Then catechism is a whole new ballgame-
at least the old one was. Behavior/manners are stressed before
identity- little girls/little boys do or don't do this or that.
Clothing is a metaphor one wears.//Traumas and emotions break us down/
lift us up.

On Aug 13, 12:36 am, AmandaRheen <Machiavellib...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No it is not the growing up within a human family that was the point.  It
> was that the people in charge already identified themselves as human and
> identified me as human.  They told me I was a human - that is I believe how
> I first came to understand I was human.  My thinking in fact was done for
> me.  Much like a old wives tale handed down with little thought beyond the
> remembering.  And while they may have identified the cats and dogs as
> family, they did not identify them as human.  That would be silly ;-)
> Your question requested us to put aside all science and book knowledge.  I
> guess that leaves folklore and generational stories - if that is still
> considered in the context of your question someone else's knowledge than I
> can only say that I know I am human because I see that I look, sound, move
> etc different to other animals and plants.  The personal experience of my
> senses tell me so.
> I do not hold to the view that humans are 'above or beyond' animals or even
> plants.  I hold to the view that we are different, but essentially made of
> the same ingredients.  I see the uniqueness of being human is really only
> that particular combination of ingredients that makes us, us.  Dogs are
> made of the same ingredients but in different combinations.
> More flippantly I see the biggest difference between humans and animals is
> that that humans are probably smart to make something that would destroy
> their whole nest while being dumb enough to actually use it.  That is
> really what I think sets us apart from animals.
>
>
>
> On Saturday, August 11, 2012 5:04:00 PM UTC+10, Vam wrote:
>
> > If mere being raised by human beings, and being a part of their family, is
> > the criterion... I'm afraid, even dogs and cats can lay a claim to being
> > human.
>
> > #*BrainIsNotTheMind*<https://twitter.com/search/?q=%23BrainIsNotTheMind&src=hash>
>
> > I've never held in hand or dived into the brain 2 connect neurones, or
> > throttle endocrine glands, 2 deal with matters in the mind !
>
> > And, to those who continue to primacy to the animal in man ... I've not
> > known of any animal devising 84 different, well thought out positions to
> > copulate, or prepare thousands of distinct food preparations and still
> > distinguish their flavours enough to write volumes on each !
>
> > On Saturday, August 11, 2012 6:09:24 AM UTC+5:30, AmandaRheen wrote:
>
> >> I guess the only thing that really allows me to know that I am a human
> >> being is that I was born into and grew up within a family of creatures who
> >> identified themselves and me as human beings.  Then as reinforcement of
> >> this idea I attended large communal gatherings at regular intervals with
> >> others who generally looked and acted the same as myself.  Occassionally
> >> the creatures in charge would take great pains to demand that we act like
> >> human beings, not like animals hehe.  Mostly from these experiences I have
> >> learned to identify myself as 'human being'.
> >> As far as considering myself  'apart' from other animals I'm not sure I
> >> really attended that class. Perhaps I played hooky that day and was off
> >> riding my horse through the bush with our two dogs.  Granted some of the
> >> human being creatures I knew would tell me we were apart from other
> >> creatures but my own human being family seemed less concerned about this
> >> distinction and more concerned with showing other creatures great care and
> >> respect in return for the loyalty and co-operation they gave in their
> >> interaction with us.  Sure we occasionally ate one of them but animals have
> >> their own ways of levelling the field when they really feel like it.  I
> >> concede though none of them ever actually ate me.  - Hide quoted text -
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