People Are More Alike Than Different

[Sunstone]

When I was much younger, I thought people were sometimes very different from each other -- especially if they came from different cultures. But as I've grown older, I have come to the opinion that most of us are pretty much alike. The differences are there, but the similarities are more profound. What do you think? Am I on to something? Or should I have more coffee and think about it again?

 

[ChristineES]

Everyone is different and everyone is the same. We laugh if we find something funny, yet we all find different things funny. We cry when we're sad, yet we find different things sad.

 

[Sunstone]

Everyone is different and everyone is the same. We laugh if we find something funny, yet we all find different things funny. We cry when we're sad, yet we find different things sad.

I sometimes think we're like snowflakes. Each of us is unique in a way, but we're all made of the same thing.

 

[T-Dawg]

But as I've grown older, I have come to the opinion that most of us are pretty much alike.

You are correct. People may look different on the outside, but they're all robots on the inside.
Humanity is evolving into a hive mind species.

 

[Autodidact]

I strongly agree. People are much more alike than different. People all over the world have different music; but they all have music. People laugh about different things, but they all laugh. They speak different languages, but they all speak a language. And on and on. It's all variations on very similar themes.

When the first European anthropologists met the New Guinea highlanders, from whom they'd been genetically isolated for 10,000 years, both sides knew to smile and offer each other gifts.

Every culture in the world eats together, but has sex privately.

 

[Ringer]

I sometimes think we're like snowflakes. Each of us is unique in a way, but we're all made of the same thing.

That reminds me...

 

[T-Dawg]

=D. It's true, I'm living proof of it XD.

 

[.lava]

We cry when we're sad, yet we find different things sad.

i am not so sure about that.




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[DallasApple]

YES snowflakes..I didnt see this thread and ironically I just started a thread on normal families.

We are all unique like snowflakes but I think we have amazing same feelings and sometimes "patterns" that are so similar it connects us.

Love

Dallas

 

[monta]

OK I can't stand it anymore, SNOWFLAKES ARE NOT UNIQUE

But there is some evidence to suggest the presence of morphic knowledge in higher animals, (well sheep anyway )

 

[Autodidact]

monta: Tell us more. I've always been suspicious of that claim. Do you know something?

 

[monta]

monta: Tell us more. I've always been suspicious of that claim. Do you know something?

Morphic knowledge or the snowflakes ? It's the snowflakes isn't it ?

 

[Autodidact]

Yes, the snowflakes.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Funny thing is, that people are usually most alike others, in the ways they think make themselves unique.

 

[monta]

It is just one of those stupid things that drives me nuts for no reason. Very interesting book btw about reoccuring patterns in the universe.

They say that no two snowflakes are alike , but the mathematician in me can see this statement is either trivial or a gross exageration. Any two objects in the universe are different if you look closely enough - well maybe not two electrons, though even there I wonder. But if you accept only those differences that are visable under a low-powered lens, and take into account just how many snowflakes have fallen in the Earths's four billion year history, surely somewhere some time, some snowflake double must have apppeared? Ian Stewart - What Shape is a Snowflake?

No two snowflakes are exactly identical, down to the precise number of water molecules, spin of electrons, isotope abundance of hydrogen and oxygen, etc. On the other hand, it is possible for two snowflakes to look exactly alike and any given snowflake probably has had a good match at some point in history. Since so many factors affect the structure of a snowflake and since a snowflake's structure is constantly changing in response to environmental conditions, it is improbable that anyone would see two identical snowflakes. ask.com

 

[Nepenthe]

Wow...! 10 points for Monta. I feel like an eejit for even posting but I'll add this:

I think I read something in a Christian Von Baeyer book about physics and snowflakes. Smaller snowflakes are alike, but the bigger ones get progressively complex and since the physics involved in the crystal formations are so varied, the crystals are varied as well. So the starter snowflakes up to hexagonal prisms or plates may be exactly the same, while the larger snowflakes have a variety of dislocations as the molecules do not stack up in the same way. The variety is staggering.

Cecil's answer(s) are good too.

 

[Autodidact]

It is just one of those stupid things that drives me nuts for no reason. Very interesting book btw about reoccuring patterns in the universe.

They say that no two snowflakes are alike , but the mathematician in me can see this statement is either trivial or a gross exageration. Any two objects in the universe are different if you look closely enough - well maybe not two electrons, though even there I wonder. But if you accept only those differences that are visable under a low-powered lens, and take into account just how many snowflakes have fallen in the Earths's four billion year history, surely somewhere some time, some snowflake double must have apppeared? Ian Stewart - What Shape is a Snowflake?

No two snowflakes are exactly identical, down to the precise number of water molecules, spin of electrons, isotope abundance of hydrogen and oxygen, etc. On the other hand, it is possible for two snowflakes to look exactly alike and any given snowflake probably has had a good match at some point in history. Since so many factors affect the structure of a snowflake and since a snowflake's structure is constantly changing in response to environmental conditions, it is improbable that anyone would see two identical snowflakes. ask.com

That's a fancy way to describe my hunch. Anyway, here's another nice snowflake.

 

[monta]

That's a fancy way to describe my hunch. Anyway, here's another nice snowflake.

Not my fancy way, I hope that is clear, the snowflakes are pretty though they should have their own thread.

 

[DavyCrocket2003]

I sometimes think we're like snowflakes. Each of us is unique in a way, but we're all made of the same thing.

Very Profound Statement. I almost convinced myself to add to your frubal monopoly. I just couldn't do it. I hate a monopoly .

Yes I believe that mankind is so similar, it can be scary. We all try to put on an act, like we're somehow superior to others. When you break through the superficial wall of who we pretend to be and discover the real person, you are amazed at how similar we all really are. Even if it's someone you thought you had nothing in common with. This is one of my favorite experiences ever. It's almost sacred. To know and trust someone so much that they completely open up to you and you see each other as you really are. It is an incredible bonding experience.