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Human Primates

established 1/10/2008 4:23 pm | updated 1/10/2008 4:23 pm

This group is for people interested in exploring the primate nature of human beings. There is increasing attention by researchers to demonstrating the cultural and individual similarities between humans and chimpanzees, as well as other primates. Does this begin to explain how important our unconscious minds are to the individual and collective decisions we all make?

Will a better understanding of our real human nature (apart from the myths of divinity and intellectual mastery) help us to create greater cultural values to offset our tendency to ignore matters like war and global warming until it is too late to prevent them?


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Friends, I was very impressed with the following essay in Ode - and wanted to be sure that you didn't miss it. Servan-Schreiber writes at the level of human life - beneath the abstractions and rationalizations that serve to impose other peoples' realities upon us via cultural absurdities like consumerism. When we understand human nature, and we still love the human race, can we find ways to be more fully human?

www.odemagazine.com/doc/print/50/the-meanings-of-life

David Servan-Schreiber | January/February 2008 issue The meanings of life

When I was 15, a church sermon left its mark on me. The priest began with the question,

posted by Earon on 2/ 1/2008 11:51 am
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