The Human Thread... - DPChallenge Forums

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

04/14/2008 02:30:12 PM · #1

Please chime in if you're human. (Irregardless of whether you believe you were created by design or a roll of the dice.) Bleed red. Genetic test could identify you as homosapien. Feel free to share the commonality of being human. Share the wonderful experiences of the opposable thumb. Cognitive reasoning. Stereo vision in color. Sure, some of us miss out on a few features common to most of the gene pool. But if you identify with being human...speak up now!

Share about human nature. It's tendency toward both that which is noble and ignoble. The struggle to choose the noble path over the ignoble. The interpretation and questioning over just what defines noble deeds from ignoble ones, and when...

The joy of procreation. Of seeing those little fingers reach up to you. The sorrows of loss. Share your humanity!!!! Rejoice in the fact we all bleed red irregardless of the shades of our skin, the color of eyes, or the style of our hair.

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

04/14/2008 02:47:39 PM · #2

Originally posted by theSaj:

Share the wonderful experiences of the opposable thumb.

From the Defining Feature Challenge

Flash

Nikon D700

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8D IF-ED

04/14/2008 03:05:40 PM · #3

Originally posted by theSaj:

Rejoice in the fact we all bleed red irregardless...

Here's proof of your humanity. Regardless.

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

04/14/2008 03:37:03 PM · #4

Originally posted by Flash:

Originally posted by theSaj:
Rejoice in the fact we all bleed red irregardless...

Here's proof of your humanity. Regardless.

Yes, the great "regardless" vs. "irregardless". I prefer the use of regardless for a single direction of thought and irregardless for a double.

"Regardless, of whether you have you are 21 or not, pubs are required by law to check your ID."

Versus...

"Irregardless of the color of whether one's eye color is brown, blue, green, or hazel."

Now, some English majors might take issue with my usage. But I've always thought people who endeavored to take issue with the use of the English language quite laughable. As most of the rules are broken. Most of the preferences are only recent. Proper use of punctuation is seldom understood by readers - and in fact a recent implementation. What is right and proper today was improper in yesteryear and will be wrong tomorrow (ie: use of active voice is promoted today, but use of passive voice was preferred in the 1800's).

And until I find someone who can state why in the English language we used to use "u" for "v" and vice versa (spelling love "loue" and spelling you "yov"), and tell me why we changed and when. I have no regard for any criticism on behalf of that which we call the English language.

In fact, at one time in history intelligence was not viewed by some as the means to spell correctly, but rather the ability to spell any multi-syllable word at least three different ways. *lol*

That said, English does possess a usefulness especially in it's diverse and multiple root word systems. Often offering the poet a diversity to select from in order to express that same thing.

;-)

***

All that said, the English language is very much alike to the humans who speak it. A diversity of double-standards and broken rules and ill begotten habits. Strange, diverse, incomprehensible at times, beautiful at others. *lol*

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

04/14/2008 04:00:38 PM · #5

Originally posted by theSaj:

... I've always thought people who endeavored to take issue with the use of the English language quite laughable.

From Ambrose Bierce's The Devil's Dictionary:

LEXICOGRAPHER, n. A pestilent fellow who, under the pretense of
recording some particular stage in the development of a language, does
what he can to arrest its growth, stiffen its flexibility and
mechanize its methods. For your lexicographer, having written his
dictionary, comes to be considered "as one having authority," whereas
his function is only to make a record, not to give a law. The natural
servility of the human understanding having invested him with judicial
power, surrenders its right of reason and submits itself to a
chronicle as if it were a statue. Let the dictionary (for example)
mark a good word as "obsolete" or "obsolescent" and few men
thereafter venture to use it, whatever their need of it and however
desirable its restoration to favor -- whereby the process of
impoverishment is accelerated and speech decays. On the contrary,
recognizing the truth that language must grow by innovation if it grow
at all, makes new words and uses the old in an unfamiliar sense, has
no following and is tartly reminded that "it isn't in the dictionary"
-- although down to the time of the first lexicographer (Heaven
forgive him!) no author ever had used a word that _was_ in the
dictionary. In the golden prime and high noon of English speech; when
from the lips of the great Elizabethans fell words that made their own
meaning and carried it in their very sound; when a Shakespeare and a
Bacon were possible, and the language now rapidly perishing at one end
and slowly renewed at the other was in vigorous growth and hardy
preservation -- sweeter than honey and stronger than a lion -- the
lexicographer was a person unknown, the dictionary a creation which
his Creator had not created him to create.

God said: "Let Spirit perish into Form,"
And lexicographers arose, a swarm!
Thought fled and left her clothing, which they took,
And catalogued each garment in a book.
Now, from her leafy covert when she cries:
"Give me my clothes and I'll return," they rise
And scan the list, and say without compassion:
"Excuse us -- they are mostly out of fashion."

Sigismund Smith

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

04/14/2008 04:53:20 PM · #6

I'm in! ...oh wait, I take it back.

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

04/14/2008 04:55:01 PM · #7

Life sucks!Why do humans have to turn their backs on others....especially when they are crying out for help. People are so damn cruel. They turn their backs on people when they need it...and then those people leave this world..why can't people help each other.

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

04/14/2008 05:01:33 PM · #8

Judi's glass is half empty today. :(

Judi

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

Canon EF 17-40mm f/4.0L USM

04/14/2008 05:02:01 PM · #9

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Judi's glass is half empty today. :(

Yes it is.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

04/17/2008 02:12:25 PM · #10

But look at all the people who do help?

Look how many organizations are able to help because people toss in a few dollars or coins as they can.

Do we need more...yes, absolutely....but at least we're not fundamentally opposed to it.

scalvert

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

04/17/2008 02:32:52 PM · #11

Originally posted by Flash:

Originally posted by theSaj:
Rejoice in the fact we all bleed red irregardless...

Here's proof of your humanity.

...unless you happen to be a gnu, mandarin duck or certain ball point pens, which also bleed red. ;-)

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

04/17/2008 02:38:45 PM · #12

Originally posted by Judi:

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who care about evil
And social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people be so heartless
You know I'm hung up on you
Easy to give in
Easy to help out

And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who say they care about social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no

From Hair -- Lyrics by Gerome Ragni and James Rado, Music by Galt MacDermot

NikonJeb

Nikon D850

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f3.5-5.6G ED VR

04/17/2008 04:20:36 PM · #13

Another day above ground for me.......it's ALL good!

hyperfocal

Nikon D7000

Nikon MF 105mm f/2.5 AIS

04/17/2008 05:31:30 PM · #14

"Some Humans Ain't Human" lyrics by John Prine

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind
You open up their hearts
And here's what you'll find
A few frozen pizzas
Some ice cubes with hair
A broken Popsicle
You don't want to go there

Some humans ain't human
Though they walk like we do
They live and they breathe
Just to turn the old screw
They screw you when you're sleeping
They try to screw you blind
Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind

You might go to church
And sit down in a pew
Those humans who ain't human
Could be sittin' right next to you
They talk about your family
They talk about your clothes
When they don't know their own ass
From their own elbows

Jealousy and stupidity
Don't equal harmony
Jealousy and stupidity
Don't equal harmony

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

[Spoken:]
Have you ever noticed
When you're feeling really good
There's always a pigeon
That'll come shit on your hood

Or you're feeling your freedom
And the world's off your back
Some cowboy from Texas
Starts his own war in Iraq

Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind
They lie through their teeth
With their head up their behind
You open up their hearts
And here's what you'll find
Some humans ain't human
Some people ain't kind

Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm
Mmmm Mmmm

MikeO

Fujifilm x100

04/17/2008 05:41:43 PM · #15

To Err Is Human, To Forgive Divine

04/18/2008 05:29:00 PM · #16

Originally posted by scalvert:

Originally posted by Flash:

Originally posted by theSaj:
Rejoice in the fact we all bleed red irregardless...

Here's proof of your humanity.

...unless you happen to be a gnu, mandarin duck or certain ball point pens, which also bleed red. ;-)

Ah....

Clarification: All S is P, not all P is S. All humans bleed red, not all that bleeds red is human. Red blood is inherent trait of being human.

;)

Yes, The Saj is back...to a limited extent. Might even try for a few challenges this weekend!!!!

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

04/18/2008 05:29:44 PM · #17

Originally posted by NikonJeb:

Another day above ground for me.......it's ALL good!

Ah, but what about all those working in the coal mines. Another day below ground....

jonnienye

Canon EOS-40D

04/21/2008 08:16:17 PM · #18

no problem eventually being worm food here...