We're all just monkeys

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An educational video that shows how we're all just monkeys.

http://www.glumbert.com/media/flash/...sh/monkeys.flv

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<li id="c3183955" class="c-normal"> I don't claim to know the answers to the cosmic questions of existence, no one does. Instead, I sit hear waiting for the day we can actually learn and evolve so we can get the hell off this planet. Maybe then monkeys can achieve something. [reply]

1. by tidu 13 hours ago
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   Correct; consciousness sucks.
2. by quickgold192 5 hours ago
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   The definition of evolution makes it impossible to stop evolving. We might be reducing genetic variation, but we're always subject to Darwin's Theory.
3. by Zippo 4 hours ago
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   All you need to do is look at the guy from this story ( http://digg.com/apple/Is_this_a_Joke...e_Hairier_Arms ) to know we evolved from monkeys.
4. by bitcloud 3 hours ago
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   This video has been a favourite of mine for a long time.
   
   It's really not saying we're all monkeys and can't do anything about it, but it's poking fun at the way we try and suggest attacking each other vengefully is somehow "human". It pokes fun at this silly notion of big dick contest arms races engaged in by the wrinkled children who think they run the place.
   
   Wired the world to explode... spot on.
5. by Chongo 2 hours ago
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   I still have (many) people in my college classes that get insulted when you say we evolved from monkeys....
   
   example:
   
   in class, during a Q&A the word Evolution came up... more then a few students asked "What is evolution?" (no shit... no joking... these are 18-20 year olds). I said that it's the belief that we evolved from monkeys. They say "I didn't evolve from no fucking monkeys... you calling us monkeys?" Jeeez some people.
   
   Keep in mind this was completly serious and the guy(s) were not joking.
6. by meihan 2 hours ago
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   And your belief that people evolved from monkeys isn't silly? Where did the first living thing come from? You mean to say you believe everything we see, every plant, animal, insect, human, all came from...nothing?
7. by coolguy69 1 hour ago
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   direct link
   http://www.glumbert.com/media/flash/...sh/monkeys.flv
8. by Coffeedemon 1 hour ago
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   Chongo: (just being picky - plus it gives me a chance to ramble about this topic)
   
   Technically we didn't evolve from monkeys - we evolved with them from a common ancestor that had human and money like traits. One group evolved to take advantage of a given environment - primarily terrestrial and another stayed arboreal. This also seems to have given rise to the great apes (almost all terrestrial adaptations except in some circumstances like the orangutan which evolved for a jungle existence.
   
   To be accurate the old saying should be "I'll be a monkey's cousin" rather than its uncle.
   
   Meihan - creation and evolution are two separate concepts. Assuming adaptation to an environment resulting from genetic variation and selection of advantageous traits does NOT preclude a magical act of creation. The two beliefs are mutually exclusive and can coexist.
9. by Mohanned 53 minutes ago
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   Wow, this video is a really broad, cynical and seemingly antisocial generalization and denouncement of the wonderful acheivements and capabilites the human race has acheived and reached. Looks like the author is oversimplifying the world in order to better understand it in his 'litte' 'monkey' terms.
   
   Someone needs a monkey hug... or a visit to one of those monkey therapists.
   
   Damned dirty apes! WHAT HAVE YOU THEY DONE TO YOU! Nooooo!!!!
10. by lordthor 30 minutes ago
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    motherfuckin dupe.

<li id="c3186577" class="c-normal"> by rach 13 hours ago
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The monkeys make videos on the internet critiquing the monkey race.

And monkeys critique the monkeys making videos on the internet critiquing the monkey race. [reply]

1. by Software2 5 hours ago
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   Silly monkey, laughing off the ideas of monkeys because they came from monkeys, then turning around 30 seconds later giving his idea of how the world should be. But you're just a monkey.
2. by LiThiuMElectro 53 minutes ago
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   silly rabit trix are for kids

<li id="c3187534" class="c-normal"> by speedstream 11 hours ago
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I wish people would make the distinction between monkeys and apes. They're not the same thing: Monkeys have tails, while chimps and humans do not. [reply]

1. by Shorties 5 hours ago
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   Wait is a chimp an Ape or a Monkey? and who says humans don't have tails, they are just really really tiny.
2. by AeonTorpor 5 hours ago
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   The correct answer is because no one gives a shit.
3. by SmokedL 5 hours ago
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   @AeonTorpor
   
   "The correct answer is because no one gives a shit."
   
   The librarian does.
   I agree with the sentiments in the video, but I just couldn't stop worrying about the librarian to turning up, flipping the narrator over and bouncing him
   on his head.
   
   (If this confuses you, you need to read more Terry Pratchet)
4. by AeonTorpor 5 hours ago
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   @SmokedL
   
   "The librarian does."
   
   I don't give a shit.
5. by ofimiano 23 minutes ago
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   Actually your coccyx is a vestigial tail.

<li id="c3188015" class="c-normal"> by the_d 10 hours ago
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I love this.
If more people thought like this guy, the world would be a better place.

"The monkeys build giant monkey hives that they call 'cities.'"
Awesome. [reply]

1. by afrazkhan 4 hours ago
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   I don't think the world would be a better place if more people thought _badly_, that's silly.
   
   While I appreciate the fact that we're just animals, and the humility that brings (humility is a good thing, as opposed to humiliation), it's just no good to say that we're equal to other animals. Some animals really are more equal than others.
   
   Do you think that a Lion thinks it's equal to a Zebra? That is, presuming that it could have such a high level of consciences to allow such a thought in the first place.
   
   And that's the point, our brains are bloody amazing. Sure you could say that our developed brains only serve the same function as say, an ant eater's developed trunk, but that would be disingenuous in my opinion. An ant eater's trunk, no matter how developed, can only serve one function (survival). Our brains can travel the universe.
   
   Take some time to take that in for a moment; our brains can travel the universe.
   
   We are better than monkeys, apes, _and_ ant eaters. Be proud of being human, just don't look around to see what some of us are doing (or not doing) with our developed potentially universe traveling brains -- it can be a little depressing.
   
   N.B. I have nothing against ant eaters. Some of my best friends are ant eaters.
2. by MoofTheStoof 3 hours ago
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   First has to come the realization that we're just monkeys. *Then* we can realize how amazing a monkey we really are.
   
   Let's get the nationalism, religious strife, and sometimes just plain spite under control, then we can put our energies into the important stuff - like making sure that there are no poor or starving monkeys. Like making monkey hives in other parts of the solar system and maybe eventually even other solar systems. We're amazing monkeys and our big brains mean we can be very effective stewards of non-monkeys. Then we can be ready when we finally find and/or make some non-monkeys with the curse of consciousness.
3. by yukevster 3 hours ago
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   "Better" is a purely subjective word and It depends on your perspective. In 'reality' there is no better or worse, bad or good or any dualities of perspective and personal judgments. We have a big and powerful brain, Anteaters have a long and incredibly powerful nose, and that's all - in 'reality'.

<li id="c3188677" class="c-normal"> by theone3 9 hours ago
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Monkeys would never come to this sort of realization..

How's that for circular referencing? TAKE THAT EXCEL! [reply]

1. by ScottMaximus 5 hours ago
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   GET IN THE CHOPPER!

<li id="c3189528" class="c-normal"> by Shorties 5 hours ago
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Haha FSM reference... Dugg! [reply]


<li id="c3189575" class="c-normal"> by AF-Geek 5 hours ago
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This is Awesome! I'm starting to feel better about myself already.
I'm never shaving again; time to show my true monkey nature!
I love the "The Monkeys make music..." slide. [reply]

1. by bramblequest 5 hours ago
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   I know what you mean about feeling better about yourself... Although I didn't feel bad about myself before. I'm just a confused monkey.

<li id="c3189679" class="c-normal"> by tj_walker_dvt 4 hours ago
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Hmmm, there may be hope for humans afterall.

= : )K [reply]


<li id="c3189688" class="c-normal"> by zcreem 4 hours ago
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ooh ooh aah aahh! [reply]

1. by sadecrvn 2 hours ago
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   It's not "ooh ooh aah aahh!" -- it's "ooh eeh ooh ahh aahhh!"
   followed by "ting tang walla walla bing bang."
   
   Have some self-respect. What kind of monkey are you?

<li id="c3189699" class="c-normal"> by Ambassadeur 4 hours ago
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AWESOME! [reply]


<li id="c3189725" class="c-bury"> by vegasbright 4 hours ago
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I posted this months ago!

Grr

http://digg.com/videos_educational/T...f_Homo_Erectus [reply]

1. by Shorties 4 hours ago
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   yeah but you didn't call the entire digg population monkeys, its all in the title.
2. by Quantumsparrow 1 hour ago
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   Not to mention that humans are Homo sapiens, not Homo erectus--they were a million years or two before our time.
3. by babakshirazi 1 hour ago
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   You're a homo.

<li id="c3189923" class="c-normal"> by HanSolo69 4 hours ago
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Woo! lets see how many consecutive weeks this story can be submitted! [reply]


<li id="c3189981" class="c-normal"> by biffta 3 hours ago
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Here is the original monkey piece. It's unedited and I reckon it's funnier!

http://www.christopherleestreet.com/...eys_dance_.swf [reply]


<li id="c3190018" class="c-normal"> by FlameProof 3 hours ago
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There is no such thing as a "Human-Monkey". As a viable species, we are what is commonly referred to in passing (probably mostly by other monkeys) as "Domesticated Apes". I think of myself (and all of you) this way. It helps a great deal to explain most, if not all, of human behavior.

Go to a zoo, visit the monkey house, watch them throwing poo at each other...

You get where I'm going with this, right? [reply]


<li id="c3190066" class="c-normal"> by RogueJediX 3 hours ago
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You're monkey people, all of you! [reply]


<li id="c3190070" class="c-normal"> by korimickster 3 hours ago
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Great video, but it made me feel like I was plummeting to my death in an elevator. Mix it up with the transitions, already. [reply]


<li id="c3190124" class="c-normal"> by baalzebub 3 hours ago
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i can digg this, it is insightful, actually brilliant... [reply]


<li id="c3190135" class="c-normal"> by SmeRndmGy 3 hours ago
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My made up god is better than yours, you monkey! [reply]


<li id="c3190195" class="c-normal"> by billybob476 3 hours ago
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Help! The human is about the escape!

Get your paws off me you dirty ape! [reply]


<li id="c3190359" class="c-normal"> by geuisteses 3 hours ago
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This was on Neave.tv last week. Good clip. [reply]


<li id="c3190919" class="c-normal"> by web46 1 hour ago
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Thought it was pretty boring but then again I did'nt listen to it with sound. I think it shows a few world issues but how could it help??? [reply]


<li id="c3191075" class="c-normal"> by zedj 1 hour ago
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This was posted like almost 80 days ago http://www.digg.com/videos_education...l_just_monkeys [reply]


<li id="c3191123" class="c-normal"> by eddyc 1 hour ago
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More spoken word here http://www.ernestcline.com/spokenword/ check out nerdporn its hilarious [reply]


<li id="c3191494" class="c-normal"> by CarGuy37 1 hour ago
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Rom 1:20, "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse."

Although I'm obviously in the minority here, at least I still have free speech (for how much longer?) to share my opinion.

I am displeased with people's efforts to make humans indistinguishable from the rest of Creation. The logical implications are simply too unsettling for me to reconcile; morality is an illusion. Consider a random act of "violence" where everyone you "love" is killed for no reason. Try and personalize this. If we are all just monkeys, this incident is merely inconvenient; any notion of "grief" is a neurological anomaly, any desire for "justice" is a chemical imbalance, and any appeal to the supernatural is a flagrant response to social brainwashing.

I pray that everyone who reads this post is convicted, and that instead of responding immediately to criticize this Fundamentalist Christian that they contemplate why we have a conscience. If you still disagree with me, please don't disappoint; go marry your three year old daughter and a cactus and stop pretending that there's a difference between "good" and "evil". [reply]

1. by merper 31 minutes ago
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   Or you can believe the truth, namely that we've been wired to care about our relatives from the start.
   
   http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-tfe082306.php
   
   Marry your 3year old and a cactus? This is what you waste your free speech on? Marrying your 3 year old daughter(and the obviously disgusting implication you're making about this) from strictly evolutionary terms is harmful. 1 - A 3 year old can't have kids. 2 - Bringing together 2 similar pieces of genetic code increases the chances of a harmful mutation becoming more prominent.
   
   And a cactus... Well I'll chalk that off to whatever mutation turned you to fundamentalism in the first place.
   
   Altruism(the basis of conscience) is beneficial to organisms, much more so for highly social organisms such as humans. You see it happen in hundreds of species.
2. by Arevos 30 minutes ago
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   Just because there is no objective morality, does not mean that there is not subjective morality.
3. by Harabeck 24 minutes ago
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   Chimpanzee mothers have been known to die of grief if their child dies. Maybe animals aren't so different than us. Genetically, were 99% the same as chimpanzees.
   
   This however, does not mean that God does not play a role in our life. Who's to say that God didn't didn't create the first little single celled lifeform that seeded all other life? Who's to say that he didn't slowly arrive at humans through the evolutionary process? Who's to say that we're the finished product??
4. by Coffeedemon 4 minutes ago
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   I won't digg you down but others will.
   
   To me - it makes me feel like the human race is more special if we had to crawl up from the mud - near indistinguisable from other creatures. We've built great cities, destroyed entire cultures and created great advances due to our adaptations. We didn't get a leg up from any supernatural being IMO yet here we are... very well adapted to our environment and able to think abstractly and emphathize - this (I believe) is what keeps us from killing each other on a whim because we don't believe in divine retribution.