What is a human being?

[Thomas]

Its funny how when the bible was written (or even translated), the word "man" referred to both the male and female varieties of men, but today the word has a maleness to it and the only word which can be used to clearly describe "man the creature" rather than "man the sex" is "human".

If we are to take the UN definition of "human being" - a creature of reason and conscience - we find that most men (the creature) are not actually human beings. If memory serves me correct, the original definition for human in blacks was "monster" and this makes alot of sense when you consider that there were creatures of reason and conscience who felt a moral obligation to propogate the truth that the planets were not travelling around the earth, but the sun. Such monsters threatened to destroy the status quo which had for so long corrupted the concept of god to ensure, not their survival, but their total dominance over the earth.

That's interesting Freeman Stephen, Man and Woman (Wo, means "take out" in Hebrew)

Mankind

Being "reason and conscience" from the Biblical context. Years ago when my body was young it was common for people to say that Human beings were different because we had "reason and conscience" where as animals didn't have "conscience", now that's frowned upon by many.

Human? I don't know what that Hu means.

And the sun, moon, etc, cycles were all described in the book of Enoch (who was the first prophet, but the churches took that book out.) And Stone Henge used Soni lunar reckoning, and the 56 six posts Aurbry circuit used the star Sirius as a very easy way to keep dates.

The margin of error, after 49 years, was around 4 minutes and 17 seconds... based on nothing more than counting posts.

A major check and balance system for precise reckoning existed in observing the Equinox rises and sets, but the 56 posts could be used to teach initiates the mathematical basis of the Sabbatical cycle concept and to keep-track of the progress of the Sabbatical Calendar position.

[aether]

Okay ... lets expand!

IN THE ESOTERIC WORLD OF LEGALESE

From Ballentines Dictionary of Law 1930...
“human being – See monster.”
“monster - A human being by birth, but in some part resembling a lower animal. A monster hath no inheritable blood, and cannot be heir to any land.”

From Ballentines Legal Dictionary 3rd Edition
Human - Of the form and characteristics of man.
Form - The antithesis of substance; the appearance or superficial aspect rather than the substance or the essence. Shape or configuration of a body; the figure as defined by lines and surfaces.

Cut and Paste time...

A human is of the "antithesis of substance".
A human is of the "appearance or superficial aspect" of man.
A human is NOT of the "substance or essence of man".
A human is of the "shape and configuration" of a body.
A human is a "figure as defined by lines and surfaces".

So, in the esoteric world of legalese, a human is the equivalent to a picture of a man on a men's room door.



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MEANWHILE, BACK ON EARTH ....

A human is ....

From the Random House Dictionary of the English Language , 2nd Edition, page 901, Human Being is defined as a "Natural man: unenlightened or unregenerate," and on page 1461, Unregenerate means "not regenerate; unrepentant; an unregenerate sinner; not convinced by or unconverted to a particular religion; wicked, sinful, dissolute."

In Webster's New World Dictionary , Third College Edition, 1988, page 657, Humanitarianism is defined as "the doctrine that humankind may become perfect without divine aid."

In Colliers New Dictionary of the English Language, 1928 , Humanitarian is defined as "a philanthropist; an anti-Trinitarian who rejects the doctrine of Christ's divinity; a perfectionist."

And in the Random House Webster's College Dictionary, 1990, page 653, Humanism is defined as "any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values and dignity predominate, especially an ethical theory that often rejects the importance of a belief in God."

... an Atheist, or close to it.

[tr0niks]

David camerons a human being a ****.

don't agree with this - a **** has some important uses!

Im a normal man hahah freshy

Normal is just a setting on a machine.

[enegiss]

The question may have been framed differently,

what is Being Human ?,

might it be that thats what these reprobates are trying to turn you all into "Humans" or the colour of man

Shades or shadows of your potential realities

[aether]

Expanding on this ....

In Legalese, a Human is a Fiction

Maxim of Law:
The meaning of words is the spirit of the law

From Ballentines Legal Dictionary 3rd Edition
Human - Of the form and characteristics of man.
Form - The antithesis of substance; the appearance or superficial aspect rather than the substance or the essence. Shape or configuration of a body; the figure as defined by lines and surfaces.

Cut and Paste time...
A human is of the "antithesis of substance".
A human is of the "appearance or superficial aspect" of man.
A human is NOT of the "substance or essence" of man.
A human is of the "shape or configuration of a body".
A human is a "figure as defined by lines and surfaces".

So, in the esoteric world of legalese, a human is the equivalent to a picture of a man.

From the above definition, a human is only narrowly or generically defined as a man. Just like a picture of a man can only narrowly or generically be defined as a man - but clearly lacks the substance or essence to be a true man.

From Ballentines Legal Dictionary 3rd Edition
man. In a generic sense, a human being whether male or female; all human beings; mankind. In a narrow sense, a male human being who has reached the age of majority, at least an age above puberty.

Webster's 1828
narrow. 1. Of little breadth 2. Of little extent; very limited.

narrowly. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. Without much extent; contractedly. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; Sparingly; parsimoniously.

Maxim of Law:
A general expression implies nothing certain.

From Ballentines Legal Dictionary 3rd Edition
living. Being in a state of animation.

In the legal world, a human is not a man but a fiction.

Maxims of Law:
A fiction is a rule of law that assumes something which is or may be false as true.
http://www.ecclesia.org/truth/maxims.html

Whereas the human is not a true entity, law assumes it is a true entity.

aetherical.blogspot.com

[Blotto]

Hi,

The following information is from the internet, I have included the source web address to support my findings, please feel free to check these findings out by please correct me if I am wrong:-

Human:-

From Middle French humain, from Latin hūmānus (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”)

Source:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/human

Hūmānus:-

From homō (“human being”)

Source:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humanus#Latin

Homō:-

From Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰǵʰm̥mō (“earthling”)

Source:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/homo#Latin

Hemō:-

From the word helvetinmoinen

Source:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hemo#Latin

Helvetinmoinen was a little harder to trace as there was no link to it on wiktionary, however typing it into a search engine brings up a match in EUdict.com as a Finnish word meaning hellish

source:
http://www.eudict.com/index.php?lang=fineng&word=helvetinmoinen

So we could say that given these findings that a meaning of human is hellish, so human being would mean hellish being, ergo would it be fair to say that a hellish being is a fair description of a monster, or at least very close to it?

Even if we follow the origin of human in middle french (see human origin above) which is humain, we get hūmānus (see hūmānus above) as an origin:-

Humain:-

From Middle French, from Old French humain, umain, from Latin humanus (“of or belonging to a man, human, humane”)

Source:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/humain#Old_French

So again following the origin we get that 'hellish' meaning again.

Can anybody else offer an alternative, or in fact back up this theory?

Blotto

[aledsav]

HUMAN BEING...suggests that maybe we are something other than HUMAN but just BEING human at this time.

No other spicies has BEING attached to its title?

What differentiates us from animals?...the only thing i have noticed is we can override our instinctual behaviour in a given situation, whereas an animal has no choice but to follow its instinct?