Quintessential

[TheGreenGoblin]

Whether or not you are French, Mongolian or Danish etc...

This is a place to tell us in cultural terms what you have to offer...

What makes you quintessentially human... as we all are....

[TheGreenGoblin]

Just don't talk about money...

[TheGreenGoblin]

Not one taker here willing to talk about being quintessentially human so I raise the case of Gerald ...

[llondel]

Ah yes, the daffodil muncher.

[TheGreenGoblin]

The ongoing history of Gerald's TV commercials...

[boing]

Not sure how far you can go with "quintessentially human" except perhaps that human's generally have the same number of eyes and limbs but when you get to such things as the brain and what goes on inside it even that comparison breaks down.

Quintessential urge to violence, sex, cupidity. Me, a cynic ?

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[TheGreenGoblin]

Not sure how far you can go with "quintessentially human" except perhaps that human's generally have the same number of eyes and limbs but when you get to such things as the brain and what goes on inside it even that comparison breaks down.

Quintessential urge to violence, sex, cupidity. Me, a cynic ?

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You raise some good and interesting points Boing, and I guess we could extend that to the question of what would be quintessential in an alien. I have not met any of them and at the age of 58 am unlikely to make into the billions of years required to discern if they even exist, so I am apt to pat puppies, like you guys, and listen to songs like this...

[boing]

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

T. E. Lawrence

Five deliberately misleading statements in the first sentence followed by the biggest lie of all in the second. Lawrence paints himself as the quintessential man. The unconventional hero tries to hide beneath "ordinariness" while his counterpart, the poseur, promotes himself as a hero. Both of the men are liars but we praise the hero for lying and call it modesty and we shun the poseur for the same crime and call it an outrage. And between the hero and the villain sits the "quintessential" mass of humanity not having enough drive and imagination to be either but feeling perfectly capable of judging them both.

I love the insane complexity of the human mind.


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[Fliegenmong]

OK then, while we're doing Gorilla stuff..