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Mankind In a Word “Greedy” choose your word, In a short but not in a word "Greedy for pretty much anything,respect, power, money, love, someone to care, intrest in something, challenages, power (yes its worth saying twice) an easy life."

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That IS a word, right?

Royally screwed. Oh, sorry, you said one word.

F***ed.

Mankind In a Word “Greedy” choose your word, In a short but not in a word "Greedy for pretty much anything,respect, power, money, love, someone to care, intrest in something, challenages, power (yes its worth saying twice) an easy life."
Ignorant.

American!!!

Beautiful.

Arrogant? It isn't really fair to sum up all of humanity, seeing as some of us aren't all that bad, but some of us really think that out of all the possible beings in the universe, God thought they were the only ones worthy of being saved?

fleshy.

anything else misses.

Stupid.

rooted.

Doomed.

Smelly.

A longer explanation:

Like a non black Barry White. Meaning Without Soul.

Parasitic.

'Hopeless,' would be my first impulse. 'Inevitable,' would be my final choice.

"people"

Gullible.

messy

Infected

human

Egotistical.

Incompetant

illogical

(Spock sums it up quite well.)

Cool!

Based on most of the responses, I'd say self-hating (That's one word, no really, it is)

beef... stew... Oh wait, that's 2 words, isn't it?

selfish
or
self-centred

Best

brilliant

Pathetic.

leeches, parasites, republicans, either of the three work the same.

wonderful

variable

Man, lots of glass is half-empty people on NS :D

One word to sum up mankind. Not really possible but I'll go with

Hope

Bananarama

I thought Hope was good, but that beats the shit out of everything :D:D:D

egotistical

Bananarama

amazing

dust

Ambitious

Toasted. Nicely Toasted.

'Hopeless,' would be my first impulse. 'Inevitable,' would be my final choice.



"Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? It's the sound of inevitability."

Glass half-empty response: Lemmings.

Glass half-full response: Audacious.

Torn or split.

(That is, between hope and hopelessness.)

awesome

challenged (to become better than we are)

Quote of the thread:

"A man must strive long and mightily within himself, before he can learn fully to master himself."

EDIT: In the end, I wonder if one of the most important steps on our journey is the one in which we throw away the map. In jettisoning the grinds and brambles of our own preconceptions, perhaps we are better able to find the real secrets of each place; to remember that we are all extensions of our collective history.

BUMP-a-rama!

really dum.

Stupid.

agreed

Overpopulated.

Tasty.

Tasty.

Not really.

Jim2004

Fascinating. Utterly fascinating.

slaves

slaves

*shhh...*

Jim2004!

Finished
(As in doomed. World War III will wipe out civilization, an event that unfortunately seems rather soon.)

Gods.

Finished
(As in doomed. World War III will wipe out civilization, an event that unfortunately seems rather soon.)

I'm curious...why do you say this?

Gods.

Morons.

Jim 2004.

Imperfect.

Animals

untrustworthy

Temporary

Morons.

Jim 2004.

(You fail it. The emo concert is in the next room.)

Harmless

DON'T PANIC!

Followers, or sheep, I like sheep better.

Quizzical

variable
Yeah.

Diverse. Everybody's right (negative or somewhat egotistical, but right).

we still fight the same fight that our great grandfathers did in WWI and grandfathers in WWII one between the free world and tyranny and persicuation it was a clash of civilisations then and it still is the west vs islamic extreemism. the world today is just teh same as it was 50 or 100 years ago just that its inside our boarders now we still fight the same fight as those who went before us

dog

forwards and backwards.

unpredictable

Stupid.


Most of em.

Winsome

2 Monkeys

Insecure, apathetic, ignorant, arrogant, aggressive, irrational, greedy, deceitful, nieve, misguided, cruel, confused, stubborn...

...but have the potental to improve, grow, evolve, and progress.

Harmless

DON'T PANIC!



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wish he hadn't died

Flawed.

We have so many destructive tendencies, most based on either hedonistic disregard for others or the desire to control other people, but I'm not willing to say hopeless just yet, because I'm an optimist.

imagination

crap
.
.
.
bucket

One half ignorant, other half spoiled.

In one word "spoilorant"!

Potential

Weak

Weak emotionally
Weak intellectually
Weak physically
Weak morally

There are varying degrees of weakness, and some people balance strength in one area with weakness in another. But in the end we are all children grasping at the stars.

"If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave... "
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms

gullible

Stunted.

Viruses with shoes.

Thats more than one word.

Humanity as I see it in one word:

humane?

(the quesstionmark is essential for the meaning.)


***thinking about this question I've come to the conclusion that my solid one word summation of the human race is "optomistic".

poontab

selfish

Doomed

dynamic

Potential

I thought of that. As well as "developing" and "us".

Uneducated

Deluded

cancer

Mankind In a Word “Greedy” choose your word, In a short but not in a word "Greedy for pretty much anything,respect, power, money, love, someone to care, intrest in something, challenages, power (yes its worth saying twice) an easy life."

scum

Humanity as a whole = Spam

Unimpressive

I'm surprised with all the negative publicity, this one hasn't come up: sinful.

But that's probably because most of you don't have a religious worldview, much less a Christian one.

Oppressed

Food

















For Cthulu.

searching

I'm surprised with all the negative publicity, this one hasn't come up: sinful.

But that's probably because most of you don't have a religious worldview, much less a Christian one.
Really late on this but nice one.

Self-important ants.

eclectic

drunk


hey its my nation and we drink here, ,so everyone is always drunk, mabey ill give a serious word.




gods


we are the gods of the planet, yet we treat it like garbage....... go figure

gullable but creative

(greed is a culture thing (and basicly just another form of aggressiveness). that is why no revealer of organized belief ever endorsed capitolism)

(while it is true that capitolism enabled tecnology to make up for time previously lost to other forms of fanatacism, whithout fanatacism in the first place it would never have needed to. nature, tecnology and creativity get allong with each other just fine when aggressiveness, austentation and the automobile arn't preventing them from doing so.

the only reason our earth isn't universaly a paradise is because we keep destroying it. like i said; gullable)

=^^=
.../\...

spud-gun

overanalyzed.

:)

Possibilities (are infinite)

Curious

Irritating.

Indifferent.

Transient.

Tetris

we still fight the same fight that our great grandfathers did in WWI and grandfathers in WWII one between the free world and tyranny and persicuation it was a clash of civilisations then and it still is the west vs islamic extreemism. the world today is just teh same as it was 50 or 100 years ago just that its inside our boarders now we still fight the same fight as those who went before us

In Response to the original thread topic: Myopic.

All current technologically developed cultures have so many blinkers over our eyes, because we're used to the mindset of social, political, or economic imperialism we've been operating under for the past 3 centuries.

Which brings us to the above quote.

In some ways, this quote is true. Violent Islamic fundamentalism is an agressive force that will fight (or create those it percieves as) enemies, no matter who or what. That much is true.

However, to connect the threat of a violent fringe group of a culture/religion to the danger of the expansionist Fascist dictatorship is a very faulty premise.

Firstly, Islamic fundamentalism is primarily a reactive movement, rather than pro-active political agenda (as Fascism is). The roots of what is happening today were laid years ago, when the western world dealt in primarily bad faith with middleeastern cultures, and the reaction, so long in coming is predictably violent. Violent Islamic fundamentalism is a negative movement in that it needs an enemy to strive against, in order to be the 'good' against a percieved 'evil'. Remove the enemy, the thing to be fought against, and the movement collapses until it can re-create a new 'evil'.

This doesn't make the reaction right or good, but it's one that could (read- should) have been anticipated long before now. If it had been truly anticipated, the right course of action would have been to correct the wrongs done, even if only by gesture or admitting fault. Instead, the western world short-sightedly decided to strong arm its way around such cultures. The result has been the powderkeg that exploded over the past four to five years and more.

Please note- there is no, and should not be ANY reason to deal with those who believe that a car bomb or airline hijacking is justified as a weapon of war in normal and open discourse. Their actions preclude that.

However; I am saying that if the nations and cultures that gave rise to these splinter groups had been treated with respect, rather than being used as proxies/puppets in larger conflicts (such as Saddam Hussien's Iraq by the United States) then those splinter groups and radical factions would have a much harder time recruiting new members, or even finding backing.

So I guess the basic upshot of the situation is this: Why is the developed West battling against a symptom of thier own mismanagement of diplomacy, rather than removing the causes of conflict?

childish

Fools, I tell ye, fools the lot of them!