more human than humans by 1kiki

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more human than humans

POSTED BY: 1KIKI
UPDATED: Sunday, November 9, 2014 08:52
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Saturday, November 8, 2014 5:23 PM

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

Oct. 24, 2011 Image captured at 12:09 p.m., 1 hour and 54 minutes before the dog was euthanized. Yun-Fei Tou

March 7, 2011 Image captured at 4:17 a.m., 13 hours and 12 minutes before the dog was euthanized. Yun-Fei Tou

Nov. 28, 2011 Image captured at 10:54 p.m., 72 minutes before the dog was euthanized. Yun-Fei Tou

Aug. 1, 2011 Image captured at 11:38 a.m., 29 minutes before the dog was euthanized. Yun-Fei Tou

Sept. 23, 2011 Image captured at 12:57 p.m., 66 minutes before the dog was euthanized. Yun-Fei Tou

June 9, 2010 Image captured at 5:01 a.m., 12 and a half hours before the dog was euthanized. Yun-Fei Tou

Oct. 11, 2010 Image captured at 3:17 a.m., 14 hours and 12 minutes before the dog was euthanized. Yun-Fei Tou

Nov. 29, 2010 Image captured at 6:16 a.m., 11 hours and 12 minutes before the dog was euthanized. Yun-Fei Tou

Oct. 4, 2010 Image captured at 1:49 a.m., 15 hours and 42 minutes before the dog was euthanized. Yun-Fei Tou

I think as people we’re conditioned to not see other people, or be seen by them. We don’t recognize very well – identify or interpret – people of other races than what we grew up with. We’re trained to not ‘see’ or respond to people like pan-handlers, the homeless, buskers … the strangers passing by on the street, the waitresses, taxi-drivers and pharmacists. They’re functions, not people.

We don’t look each other in the eye. We strive to present a social face.

But dogs have no such conditioning. What they are and what they feel shows and we’re not trained to ignore them. They can’t help but show us, and we see them.

They show more humanity than humans.

As I think about it some more, the photographer must be very understanding of dogs. He didn’t catch them snarling, or growling, or cowering – but looking at him, and us, from behind their whole lives.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014 8:05 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

I sometimes wonder.... if we could smell like dogs can.... if we could detect another person's emotional state and state of health (calm, happiness, fear, tenderness, arousal, anger, pregnancy, illness, vitality) in some immediate way, would we be more humane?

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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014 8:20 PM

WISHIMAY

I've always said pain should glow. Be a lot easier to get where someone is coming from if they're lit up like a baseball field...

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Saturday, November 8, 2014 8:39 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Wanna get sad ? Here's one...

This photo was taken in Paris, 1838.

Not 1938, but 100 years earlier.

See the man, in the lower left corner ? Getting his shoe shined.

There are 2 men there, but I only see one... the man getting his shoes shined.

What was his name ? Who was he ?

This is suppose to be the oldest known photograph of a living human being.

He likely died before the Civil War even began.

This, imo, is freaking creepy. Looking back in time 186 years ago.

Look at the buildings. They look OLD! Even back then. This photo just looks... ghostly. Peering back into time. I know photography was around during the 1860's, but almost 30 years before... it just seems haunting.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014 8:45 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

Sad thread.

I don't know why your photo is sad Auraptor. Though it is interesting.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Saturday, November 8, 2014 9:39 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.

I think, when we look at people, we think too many things. We don't see them.

But looking at these dogs, we see them. We see the life they've lived and the world they live in. It's a world we've created. We see what we've made of them and of this place.

Maybe it should give us pause to wonder about what we're doing.

SAGAN: We are releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide, increasing the greenhouse effect. It may not take much to destabilize the Earth's climate, to convert this heaven, our only home in the cosmos, into a kind of hell.

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Sunday, November 9, 2014 12:05 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by kpo:
Sad thread.

I don't know why your photo is sad Auraptor. Though it is interesting.

It's not personal. It's just war.

I can't explain it. It's a peek back in time. 1838. Oldest known photo of a human being. other old pics... I know, still very old. It just seems sad, for some reason.

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Sunday, November 9, 2014 8:52 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

These pics are of dogs, some old, some young and apparently full of life, before they were put down. They're taken 3 to 4 years ago. It is sad.

I guess it's far more emotional to see a dog's eyes, up close and personal, than some grainy image of a person from a distance.

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