Friday, November 26, 2004

Ningen

Thoughts about human
Emotions are said to be human's, yet, what is human?
Acording to a dictionary, it's something related to mankind, though, it doesn't go further than that. Are emotions defined by people, or people defined by emotions? But wait! Not all human has feelings, nor feelings are characteristic to us. There are other creatures who are able to feel emotions, most of them mamals, so there can't be just that.

Would it be learning hability then? As far as I know, ANY living creature has the hability to learn, even the smallest needs to do it in order to survive. There can't be reflexes even, because this universe is based under cause and efect rules.

Reason itself, cannot be, since a good programed computer could take desitions and give arguments. It turns out that it has to be all mixed up, both feelings and thoughts to become humans, yet there's something odd about it, as many claim we're better than animals because "we can think and they don't", but there's an old saying that states: "emotion kills reason", so , where did the superiority goes if we can't manage to keep under control then? If a person sustained heavy brain damage and can't have feelings is he/she still human?

If, like they say, there are living creatures wich can't feel nor think at the bottom (of the list), then the animal kingdom, wich can feel emotions and on top of that there's human kind, wich can also think, we see that there's some kind of advance in species, though nobody could claim mankind has an even quantity of wits and heart. Is the future of our kind to overcome our emotional bonds? If superiority comes by the reasoning power, what will it be the future of our feelings? Some say feelings are humanity's bigest strength and weakness.

So, keeping that way, about superiority and power, what is god?
Every culture has one or more gods, yet in all of them, gods are far superior than humans, further more, they're inmortal.
What makes a god god?
Invincivility?
Inmortality?
Perfection?

All gods are divine, yet, what is divinity?
Are gods perfect?
What is perfection?
Is it something within humanity's reach?
Is perfection divine?
Does perfection includes emotions?
Aren't emotions imperfect?
Do the gods feel emotions?
If all god's actions are divine, how come we're not?: If we are a perfect god's creation, how come we're not perfect?

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