ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

[Chomsky]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

- adaptable -

that was my second choice.

[we_are_toast]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

----Toast----

[Guest]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

Two dollar words not accepted.

Discombobulated.

[Guest]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

That's another noun. Yeesh. :rolleyes:

----Toast----

[Sharky]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

As mentioned in my response to your PM: Confused.

[Jeff]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

As I responded to Heidi-Lee before, "flawed".

[HDLee]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

Discombobulated.

what does that mean ???

[reallife]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

Overshot....

[Guest]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

I think we need to put this whole lot on a regimen of Prozac and hot and cold therapeutic baths for generalized depression. Heidi-Lee, "discombobulated" means "disoriented", "having lost one's composure" and so forth. Welcome to the iTulip zoo and menagerie.

Strittmatter is getting fancy with the adjectives. Don is actually erudite and widely read, but he just had a momentary lapse with the noun/adjective thingy. We_are_toast is out_to_lunch on the noun/adjective thingy today also.

Meaning of discombobulated (adjective)
having self-possession upset

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[HDLee]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

[QUOTE=Lukester;91103]I think we need to put this whole lot on a regimen of Prozac and hot and cold therapeutic baths for generalized depression. Heidi-Lee, "discombobulated" means "disoriented", "having lost one's composure" and so forth. Welcome to the iTulip zoo and menagerie.

Thank you Lukester . . .

how appropriate . . . discombobulated - one of the best so far . . . wish Mega would share his . . .

if we put them on prozac they'd all be warm and fuzzy . . . and lose their edge, which is what I appreciate on iTulip
Heidi--Lee

[BiscayneSunrise]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

sophomoric

[raja]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

arrogant . . . . . . . . . . .

[swgprop]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

Yeah well, that would be "tragicomic" to you Don. "Tragicomedy" is what you go to the 'ol Opry' to see on Sundays, and that is a noun, see? "Tragicomic" is the 'adjective'. [ tragicomic trag′i·com′ic (-käm′ik) adjective ]. (Don't worry folks, we're still learnin' Don the nouns and the adjectives). ;)

Seems to me the thread starter gets to lay the ground rules ...

so . . YOUR ONE word for the human race as a species - can be ANY word (noun, verb, adjective, even slang)

[ricket]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

fail


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[Guest]

Re: ONE word for the human race as a species . . .

All of these answers are wildly ahistorical. The human *condition* is wretched, but the *human race*, has demonstrated an extraordinary success - at least until it's overcrowding and resource depletion of this century.

We've progressed from caveman to brutal tribalism, to brutal despots, to early classical republics, to the flowering of the great monotheistic religions, to the spectacular renaissance and the flowering of rationalism, to the supernova explosion of science, to astonishing frontiers springing from that, which open our eyes to the universe's deepest mysteries. We can peer back to the creation and origin of time itself, for heaven's sake, and yet five thousand years ago we were running around in bearskins?

All the people here posting things like "cancer' and "fail" and other such dismissals are making references to the state of the present day human condition - but this does not have much to do with the attributes of the species, which have demonstrated a dazzling rise from brutish animal to an intelligence now raising it's sights up to the universe and challenging it's mysteries.

If we ever unlock a limitless energy source, we will take a quantum jump to the next level for humanity. Of course, the plight of the individual, and even all the races, in this century particularly, is becoming critical and in many places wretched today - - although clearly the plight of the individual has been utterly wretched in many cases throughout thousands of years - but using terms like "cancer", "virus" and "fail" are all deeply ahistorical to our past 10,000 years of very rapid evolution.

I think this whole lot of replies is curiously uncomprehending of the central signifier of human history, for failing to make these core distinctions. Count me unimpressed with the historical awareness all such (depressing) replies.