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Pessimism is great, but I prefer modified cynicism. If you never expect anything to go right, then you will never be disappointed when things go wrong. The only thing you're really risking is being pleasantly surprised. I would consider myself a cynic if it weren't for my personality and just plain weirdness. Pessimism is "seeing the glass as half empty." But I see a glass that's twice as big as it need to be lol

I'm not scary.

I'm cute. Like a rabbit. But not like that Rabbit from Silent Hill 3. I am not bloodthirsty. D:

Yes that's me. ^__^

I am Rabbits.

Take the television show Jersey Shore for example. A bunch of orange idiots humping and punching each other all day. Why? What's the point? You're exactly right. There isn't one. So how could we have evolved to the point where there are such large portions of our population that have no purpose whatsoever to their existence? Well, lets start with religion..."
It's an awesome dream.

Internally inconsistent and disconnected, the human existence is plagued with contradictions. An incomplete species that seems to do nothing but destroy. A species whose very existence has been nothing but a cursed and pathetic blight on the world. What purpose could there possibly be for this? You all had your 7 terabyte theology and philosophy chips implanted last week, correct? And biology and chemistry? Good. Let's review for a moment. The average human body contains 50 to 60 billion cells, all of which contain genes in the form of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. These are the fundamental building blocks of all life that exist inside the cells' chromosomes. They store genetic information that can be passed down from parent to child. The structure of DNA is common throughout all life. Through DNA recombination, lifeforms take on differing forms with variable abilities. Now what could have possibly led us to the situation we are in today?

Of course, the expiration of individual beings as a varitaion within the species will still occur, because even synthetic materials like us humans won't last forever. We're like... living plastic. Only more quickly degradable. And in this room we have our latest project, influencing large groups of people using only a single remote-controlled person. We use neurotransmitters to manipulate the nerve transmitters in certain parts of the brain a certain way to control the feelings, thoughts, and even personalities of other humans. And here's the museum. From single-celled organisms to protozoans, from fish to amphibians, and eventually from reptiles to birds and mammals, we humans have been evolving for millions of years. Beginning with a cerebral neocortex, which only exists in higher-form mammals, the anthropoid brain enlarged and developed at an accelerating pace until it became the human brain we are now familiar with. Do any of you know why?

I've often had dreams of leading a tour through a laboratory in the future, after having fixed everything that's wrong with the human species.
"And this wing was built to reform the human evolution process that we have so thoroughly smurfed up over the past few centuries. Every brainwave, muscle fiber, genetic strand, etc. has been completely decoded and is under constant surveillance to ensure no serious negative mutations occur and corrupt the general public. Over here we have memory scanning and rewriting, and on that side of the room is brain development and behavior, along with simulating thoughts and feelings within individual specimens - it's all just electrical signals flowing through the circuitry of the brain, after all. The vessels of flesh and the substances of blood and other various fluids can all be reproduced through cloning. Even 'souls' can be simulated. It's as if death no longer occurs, or needs to occur.

I understand what you mean about philosophy not being able to go forward, as I've had similar discussions myself in my theoretical physics forum (although how we got onto the subject of philosophy is baffling at the moment) where it was pointed out that some of the most widely accepted philosophical generalizations - such as Immanuel Kant's critical transcendentalism - were simply built off of the works of other great philosophers without really adding anything new; critical transcendentalism is merely a combination of John Locke's empiricism and David Hume's skepticism. The fundamental problems of metaphysics cannot be proven by either speculative thought or by scientific demonstration, but are needed to render our moral actions coherent. But what I don't entirely get is why we wouldn't be able to comprehend an alien explaining to us the flaws in our own philosophies. If that's what you meant. I may not be able to infer from the text exactly what you meant.

Well, I'm an epistemological scientist and philosopher. I don't "believe" or trust any one idea, as everything is purely a problem of possibilities, and the world is stabilized only by the viewpoint of the one who observes it. There isn't a definite shape, and the idea is still under heavy debate. There are many possibilities, and even a flat 4-dimensional concept recently proposed that I personally have not found any flaws with, yet. In String Theory, the universe could be an impossible third-dimensional shape, or it could be infinitely spherical. Although I will say that I lean slightly towards the idea of a hyperbolic universe, as described by hyperbolic geometry, which can be thought of locally as a "three-dimensional analog of an infinitely extended saddle shape." Although I really have no logical basis for my preference.

I would give you a very serious look. And you would regret asking.