{"quotes":[{"text":"Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer—anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.","author":"Kat Lahr","tags":["aware","change","connect","divine","earth","enlightenment","evolve","fear","growth","growth-and-development","insights","life","meditation","prayer","promised","purpose","reflection","species","suffering","understanding"],"id":5639,"author_id":"Kat+Lahr"},{"text":"I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?","author":"Denis Markell","tags":["books-for-children","books-for-kids","different","kidlit","middle-grade","middlegrade","people-relations","species","unliked"],"id":12535,"author_id":"Denis+Markell"},{"text":"Bullying is an attack upon the runts of the litter - the weak of the species, and it is predicated on a lack of bond with the parents. If a child has a secure bond with the parents, that forms a force-field around the child in terms of bullying. If the child does not have a strong bond with the parents, then it's like being separated from the herd - those are the ones who get picked off by the human predators in childhood and adulthood. So keep your contacts as close as you can, they provide an amazing shield against bullies and users.","author":"Stefan Molyneux","tags":["bully","bullying","death","ethics","evolution","morality","species","stefan-molyneux","wisdom"],"id":31922,"author_id":"Stefan+Molyneux"},{"text":"We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as the animal kingdom does. It is not a kingdom, but a common-wealth; a democracy, and therefore puzzling and unaccountable from the former point of view.","author":"Asa Gray","tags":["analogy","animals","charles-darwin","darwin","democracy","kingdom","philosophy","plants","science","species","vegetables"],"id":39178,"author_id":"Asa+Gray"},{"text":"Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["devour","devoured","devours","environment","environmental","environmental-conservation","environmental-degradation","environmental-protection","environmental-values","environmentalism","extinction","natural","natural-disasters","natural-law","natural-selection","natural-world","naturalism","silence","silence","silenced","species","species-relations","victim","victims"],"id":45352,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"It is our ultimate purpose to continually evolve as a species both physically and emotionally, as change is the mechanism for growth and development, and if we fear change we stunt our own growth and with it, human evolution.","author":"Kat Lahr","tags":["change","change-the-world","evolution-of-consciousness","evolutionary-enlightenment","evolutionary-process","evolve","evolved-consciousness","fear","growth","growth-and-development","growth-process","human-evolution","human-nature","purpose","species"],"id":45749,"author_id":"Kat+Lahr"},{"text":"[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature.","author":"Tiffany Madison","tags":["challenge","essence","flaw","human","human-condition","human-nature","humanity","illusion","instinct","instincts","love","lover","mind","nature","overpower","power","procreation","redemption","schopenhauer","schopenhauer-as-educator","selfish","species","violence","violent"],"id":46130,"author_id":"Tiffany+Madison"},{"text":"My simple explanation of why we human beings, the most advanced species on earth, cannot find happiness, is this: as we evolve up the ladder of being, we find three things: the first, that the tension between the range of opposites in our lives and society widens dramatically and often painfully as we evolve; the second, that the better informed and more intelligent we are, the more humble we have to become about our ability to live meaningful lives and to change anything, even ourselves; and consequently, thirdly, that the cost of gaining the simplicity the other side of complexity can rise very steeply if we do not align ourselves and our lives well.","author":"Dr Robin Lincoln Wood","tags":["adaptation","anthropacy","autognosis","autonomies","autopolesis","biosphere","british-","complex","difficult","earths-future","economist","evolution","finding-happiness","finding-well-being","future-humanity","good-life","good-life-examples","heaven","hell","holarchy","homo-sapiens","human-condition","human-development","humanity","imperfect-adaptation","inspirational","integral-philosopher","ken-wilber","men-empowerment","opposites-attract","paradise","post-modern-philosopher","self-creation","self-help","self-knowledge","species","thriving","unhappiness","well-being","women-empowerment"],"id":60842,"author_id":"Dr+Robin+Lincoln+Wood"},{"text":"Humans, after all, weren’t actively hostile toward most of the species we’d made extinct over the millennia of our ascendance; they simply weren’t part of our design. The same could turn out to be true of superintelligent machines, which would stand in a similar kind of relationship to us as we ourselves did to the animals we bred for food, or the ones who fared little better for all that they had no direct dealings with us at all.","author":"Mark O'Connell","tags":["ai","extinction","hostility","humans","machine-intelligence","species"],"id":73267,"author_id":"Mark+O%27Connell"},{"text":"Λαθράνθρωπος, οι = ἂνθρωπος/οι, που λαθραῖα συν~κατα~λέγονται στο εἲδος των ἀνθρῶπων ~ Lathranthrope, Lathranthropes = the person or persons that get smuggled into being included within the Human species neology by Ale3ia.","author":"Ale3ia","tags":["anthropoeid","anthropoeids","being","contraband","human","humanity","include","included","lathranthrope","lathranthropes","people","people","person","persons","smuggle","smuggled","species","stealth","stealthy","within","άνθρωπος","άτομα","άτομο","ανθρωποειδή","ανθρωπος","ανθρωπότητα","είδος","εἲδος","λαθράνθρωποι","λαθράνθρωπος","λαθραια","λαθραιο","λαθραιος","συγκαταλέγω","ἀνθρωποειδές","ἀνθρωπότητα","ἂνθρωπος","ἂτομα","ἂτομο"],"id":75850,"author_id":"Ale3ia"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":67,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}