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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:52 am


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In the song Sophia there is a long quote said in the middle.

"The human animal is a beautiful and terrible creature, capable of limitless compassion and unfathomable cruelty. If you wish to find that which becomes the dividing line between mankind and other biological classifications, it rests not in brain size, dominance, or even emotional capability, but lies in the unique capacity for human beings to reflect on their actions and show regret, what is most certainly the ability to empathize, that gives them their position. All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another lifeform. Losing this capability, among individuals of this species, reduces them below their much heralded position, and readies the climate for the likely fall of man, the fall from grace."

Does anyone know where it came from? Or if it was written by them??

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:05 am


Rogue wrote it himself. There is an error in it though.

It says "It lies not in brain size, dominance, or even EMOTIONAL CAPABILITY. It lies within the innate capacity for human beings to reflect on their actions and show REGRET"

Last time I checked....Guilt and regret were feelings..  

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 12, 2009 2:38 pm


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Rogue wrote it himself. There is an error in it though.

It says "It lies not in brain size, dominance, or even EMOTIONAL CAPABILITY. It lies within the innate capacity for human beings to reflect on their actions and show REGRET"

Last time I checked....Guilt and regret were feelings..

Maybe, but the difference between the range of emotions in other animals compared to human beings is like the difference between primary colors and the entire color spectrum.

It's the ability to reflect and ponder that adds that range to human feelings that sets them apart from other species.
Which is basically what he's getting at I think.
PostPosted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:48 pm


You know, over the past month or so, I noted that there is a hidden meaning in this... it is not flawed. I looked at it wrong.

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