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Uploaded by on Nov 10, 2009

If aliens saw us from a distance they would say that people are just like animals, only their inner control mechanism is more complicated and involved. We work with great skill in improving our lives but we are still the same animals, just a bit more developed. The question is, why do we even call ourselves human? After all, we are completely preoccupied with our bodies interests, and in this regard, we hardly differ from animals.

A human being, however, has an additional question: What will happen after I die? An animal doesnt ask this question, whereas for the human, it is essential for raising himself above this life while still living in this world. In other words, one is given the question about the meaning of life in order to become a human being instead of remaining an animal. One becomes a human being when one begins to feel life outside ones body whether it is living or dead, when one develops an ability to feel existence on the next level. A person needs to reach this state in the time between ones birth and death. Essentially, this constitutes the meaning of ones life.

Until we reach this level, we are animals, absolutely precisely programmed in our animal bodies within which we exist and with which we associate ourselves.

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  • Stated above, below the video: "A human being, however, has an additional question: What will happen after I die? An animal doesnt ask this question"

    - How do you know? Did you ever ask one? And if you did, did that one speak for everyone of the thousands of species of other non-humans?

  • Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them — without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. ~Carl Sagan

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