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 SUPERIORITY RULES !

“Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth” Oscar Wilde

SUPERIOR

of Higher Nature or Higher Kind
of Greater Station, Rank or Mind
of Greater Value or Quality
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Superior

Are you superior? I know I am. When I was growing up, I watched my parents and I knew at once: They were idiots.
  
At school, one summer’s afternoon, my class chums were heatedly maintaining that, far from being superior, I was not even the equal of an insect. At that very moment, a ladybird landed upon the table immediately adjacent to my lemonade. I squashed it with my fist. “Case proven,” I murmured, wryly.
  
I wasn’t very popular at school. It isn’t fashionable to be superior in these egalitarian times. Everyone’s into ‘being equal’, the cowards. (Every time I hear the word ‘equal’, I’m reminded of the word ‘moo’.)
 
 I wouldn’t mind this herd-like behaviour if it represented any kind of truth.
  
A dinner guest recently piped up with the extraordinarily original comment “Surely all people are equal”. I mentioned that her batique shawl was almost certainly produced by dwarfish yellow maidens suffering sweatshop conditions in Outer Mongland, or somewhere. Her face took on a shamed expression.
  
“I know. I shouldn’t really. But it was so pretty and…”
“Don’t feel bad,” I reassured her. “Those people are not your equals.”
She flashed me a radiant, almost regal smile.
 
Some years ago, on a televisual programme entitled ‘You’ve Been Framed’, an innocent delivery motorcyclist was ordered to deliver a package to a temple. At the temple, glamorous televisual types were posing as humble religious folk.
  
Upon the delivery motorcyclist’s entrance, they all bowed down and worshipped him. He was amazed. But they showed him his carved image in their shrine. The image was undoubtedly his.
  
His mind began to adapt to this turn of events. They had been awaiting his arrival for many years, they admitted. He was their Saviour. Even the eldest among them knelt and kissed his hem. His eyes took on a holy benevolence. They asked for his blessing. One by one, he placed his hand upon their heads and blessed them.
  
He had come in a delivery motorcyclist and now he was a God. It took about 2½ minutes.
  
When the ugly little televisual presenter with the deformed fingers threw off his priestly garb and revealed that it was all a prank, I fully expected the God to strike them all asunder. He didn’t. He smiled sheepishly and shrank back into obscurity.
 
It is always the privileged who bang on about being equal. The rest know they’re not.
  
I’ve even heard these ‘Equals’ witter on about ‘how clever the creatures are on David Attenborough’, whilst tucking into roast animal.
  
An attractive female wit on the witty panel game ‘Have I Got News For You’, recently observed, “If dolphins are so clever, why aren’t they saying this?” Hilarious! And true. Dolphins are buffoons!
  
Of course we want to save endangered species, because that means they are rare. So we want to keep a few as ornaments.
  
Food, clothing and ornaments. Worms are acceptable, since they till the soil. But snails go crunch - and don’t even think about it. They’re pests, like greenfly on the roses.
  
It’s all for us. We’re superior.
  
And if humans are superior to the other humble inhabitants of Creation, then it follows that some humans may actually be superior to other humans, which is where I come in.
 
When the invasion of Iraq began a few years back, a liberal acquaintance mentioned that it was all about oil. The rest of the guests all said moo in agreement.
  
Everyone, it seemed, knew it was about oil. So, apart from a few radical ne’er-do-wells, everyone kept schtumm, because if our Masters control the oil, we can go on being privileged and witty and compassionate.
 
Equality is equally convenient when it comes to God. God is superior. No question about it. Since superiority hasn’t been PC since poor old Hitler, God has become unacceptable. A relic from a bygone age. A lost and lonely myth. And a troublemaker to boot – setting Christians against Mohammedans in a battle for supremacy.
  
But our Lord’s teachings on superiority carried numerous strings attached. We were to tend the Garden of Eden. We were to treat others as we would have them treat us. We were to be good as gold or we’d catch Hell in the Hereafter, or come back as snails.
  
By knocking God off his perch, there’s no one above us. We are free. We can say good, nice, virtuous things - and do what the Hell we like.
  
“The truth will set you free” Jesus Christ
  
I spent a night in a South African township. Ma Anna, in her forties but looking sixty, proudly showed me her plot of land and introduced me to her relatives, most of whom had Aids.
  
I awoke on Sunday morning covered in sand. Ma Anna’s plot was sand.
  
We went to church that morning. A band was playing. The congregation were singing their hearts out, waving their arms about and embracing each other. A man got up and said he had been bad. But then he had found the Lord. And now he owned a chair. Hallelujah!
 
If you are vulnerable, you need faith. If you live in a world of health and safety, you need hypocrisy.
 
Observe the way married couples bicker. They are fighting for supremacy, - asserting, in their sad way, their superiority. Observe the same of minions in an office, automobile drivers at the rush-hour, sports competitors, politicians, leaders of business and other money-filching enterprises, even the priests in their holy frocks… All flashing smiles and glinting knives. Because they know. We all know: Superiority Rules! Okay?
  
Of course, you – reading this – have already realised that you are just another hypocrite. Spin Doctors, the lot of you. And I know that, deep inside, you know that you are therefore shabby and inferior. I know this because, as God is my witness, I am superior to you.
  
“Hypocrisy is a homage paid by vice to virtue” François de La Rochefoucauld
  
Thank you.


QUOTES BY SUPERIOR PEOPLE
  
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
Samuel Johnson
 
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be - and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
François de La Rochefoucauld

The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
Anonymous
Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.
Mark Twain

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
Anonymous
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
Oscar Wilde

'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Samuel Johnson
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
 

Democratic Superiority -

                  openDemocracy
                        free thinking for the world
 
 America’s open-cast election
                Godfrey Hodgson
 
 Seventeen months before polling day, the George W Bush administration is extraordinarily unpopular. Surely the Democrats will win in 2008. Not so fast, says Godfrey Hodgson.
At least twenty states will hold primaries on 5 February 2008, including California, Florida, Texas and New Jersey - all with big populations and more than one television advertising "market". Candidates will have to spend money in at least 40 markets. This means raising unprecedented sums.
Senator Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, has raised an enormous campaign chest. Her rival, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, has raised $55.7m (£27.9m). Republicans will spend at least as much.
Michael Bloomberg, the popular mayor of New York, may run as an independent candidate. As a billionaire, he could subsidise his campaign from his own resources.

Christian Superiority -

 “The wonderful truth is that, as Christians, we can base our lives on something much more substantial than mere personal opinions! We have foundational knowledge from an Infinite Being our Creator.”

from “The Genesis Solution” by Ken Ham & Paul Taylor

 

All religions are not the same — Biblical Christianity is absolutely unique among all the religions and philosophies of mankind. Its claim to be necessary for salvation is based squarely on the Uniquely Powerful Evidences for its Truth and Finality.
 
“By Him, and for Him, were all things created” (Colossians 1:16, 17)

 

" I am the Way and the Truth, And the Life.
No one comes to the Father
Except through ME!"
(John 14:6)

                    - now that’s Superior !

Islamic Superiority -

  Superiority of The Human
        (Tafdhil al Insan)
     Prof Dr. Omar Hassan Kasule, Sr.
 
The human is superior to every other living and non-living thing that Allah created. Human superiority is not a right, but a potential that can be developed or neglected.
 
A human achieves superiority by fulfilling certain conditions. a) superior intellect b) free will (c) responsibility, and d) morality.
 
Human intellect can be used for social improvement of society. It can also be misused to cause harm to self, the society, and the eco-system.
 
The human will is defined and limited. The human is personally accountable for actions within this. Other creations have no will and are not accountable.
 
The human is responsible. This covers ibadat, iman, the self, the family, the society, and the whole eco-system. These responsibilities are obligations.
 
The human ability to choose what is moral and good confers even more honor considering that humans have a great potential for evil.
 
Other creations do not even have a concept of morality. Good and what is bad is governed by simple instincts of survival and self-gratification.
 
Some individuals have exemplified very high levels of morality, seeking to do good even in most difficult conditions. They are able to put the interests of others first.

Boing Boing Monday, June 11, 2007
   Robot rights activist attacked
    by human superiority bigots
Charles Kline, a 24-year old student at Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA was arrested on April 18th on a charge of Disorderly Conduct. Why?
  
Because at a protest by Life & Liberty Ministries on the KU Campus, who were spouting intolerant hate-speech, he decided to make a sign that said, “Equal Rights for Robots”.
He returned to the protest and held it up. Within a few minutes, he was arrested. He wasn’t provocating, he was just standing there with his sign.

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SCIENTISTS & ANIMAL-LOVERS FIGHT FOR SUPREMACY


SCIENTIST WRITES

Homo sapiens have a set of adaptive advantages that are an expression of the functional capacities of our greatly enlarged cerebral cortex. It does not matter that some of these functions may be shared by a few other species. We have all of these capacities and we create overwhelming technology, which makes us superior to any other animal on Earth. By equating a human being with a laboratory rat, you are demeaning humans!
[paraphrased from: Sharon M. Russell and Charles S. Nicholl. "A Dissection of the Chapter "Tools for Research" in Peter Singer's Animal Liberation". Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine.]

‘Animals are less valuable than human beings’
Leading researcher John Martin, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at UCL., explains why it is morally justifiable to cause heart attacks in rats - and why he isn't scared of animal rights extremists.
“Animal research is morally justified because animals are less valuable than human beings.”
He argues “We have bigger fish to fry than a handful of animal rights activists.”
  

              Human superiority
                  by Robert Florey
Yes, human beings are superior to animals. This is because only human beings can define the word 'superior'. Check it out at your local zoo. Not a single one of those animals, even if you give them days to get to it, can define the word. http://mb.sparknotes.com

 SUPERIOR & INFERIOR
                                                    this man is intelligent -
but this man is stupid -


ANIMAL RIGHTS

 People often assert that humans are superior to animals, with qualities more valuable than mere animal qualities.
 
It is unreasonable to judge animals by human values. A bear and an eagle would reject human capabilities as purposeless.


 Speciesism

 Speciesism is human discrimination against other species based on the assumption of superiority.

It is similar to racism, etc. in that it excludes another group of beings from our moral consideration.


 Specious Reasoning

"The main adaptation of humans is their intelligence."
- No evidence. Humans do not possess an adaptation greatly more important than any other adaptation.


"Our intelligence drives us to understand the world."
- Humans have survived for over 100,000 without understanding the world more than with superficial stories. Rational understanding is recent & began in Greece just 2,500 years ago.


 "Knowledge gained by understanding the world is used to assure survival of humans as a species."
- The knowledge gained by understanding the world is used by people for gaining money and power, even at the expense of destroying other people and life on Earth.


 Anthropocentrism

The attitude that humans are the most important thing in the universe.

It can be traced back to the Judaeo-Christian religions & Greek philosophy.

Science has repeatedly shown that these views are false: The Earth is not flat with Jerusalem at its centre. The Earth is not at the centre of space. The Milky Way is unexceptional and only one of billions of galaxies. Humans are descended from animals and share most of the same genes. Most human genes are the same as bugs. We even share nearly half our genes with bananas and other plants.

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Homo Perfectus!

       Especially Me
Whenever I am feeling low
And the road seems dark & long
Do I lie down and give up?
No - I sing this little song …
I'm a human being
And humans are the best
I'm proud to be a human
We're better than the rest

 Plants just sit there growing
Being watered, being warmed
Birds flap about in a mindless way
And monkeys are deformed

But human beings are wonderful
We're bold and brave and free
Oh human beings are wonderful
Ah yes - and especially me

Animals know nothing
They mill about in herds
They grunt & bark & squeak & moo
Whilst we can speak long words

Animals are vulgar
They run around in the nude
They're too dim to realise
That they are just our food

But human beings know how to dress
We move so gracefully
Oh human beings are the perfect shape
Ah yes - and especially me

Humans are immortal
Unlike those we dominate
Our souls flutter up to heaven
If we’re good, and we are, we are great

The human spine’s a miracle
So are the human hands
The brain so clever so complex
That no one understands
No one understands?!

We are not lonely or bad
We are not stupid or sad
Life is not futile
We are not small
Banging our head
Against a brick wall
No one to hear
Our pitiful cries
No - Don’t think that
That way madness lies
We are not just stuff
that grows on a pebble in space
We are the human race
And there is no end
to our specialness
No! - Yes!

Soon there will be humans
With feathery wings that fly
And clones of us with spare bits
So our bodies never die

Superhuman humans
With telepathic thoughts
Who know the meaning of everything
And are also good at sports

So what's the secret of our success?
It’s our integrity
We seem to glow with an inner light
Ah yes - and especially me

So if you're sad and boring
And you've gone and lost your dream
Or even if you're very poor
Don't let down the team

Simply rise above it
And sing this song with pride
I'm a human being
I am on the winning side

Us humans walk like gods
Upon the earth
We're making history
Us human beings are the stuff of legend
Yes - And Especially
ME !
 

"Altering human heredity looms as a near-horizon prospect."
Edward O. Wilson
Pulitzer prize-winner & professor of biology Harvard University

     Will Genetically Improved
             Children Be Robots?
Bill McKibben, author of the book Enough argues that genetically engineered children would be more akin to robots than to humans with free will.

 “The meaning of a human life will disappear. Imagine yourself an 'improved' child. Is your intelligence your own? Is your mood your own, or some protein pumped out in response to commercial DNA added by your parents before your birth? Would your accomplishments, your hopes, your dreams mean anything? Or would you be more akin to a robot?”

Gregory Stock, in his new book Redesigning Humans, says: “As scientists rapidly improve their ability to manipulate genes, people will want to protect their future children from diseases, help them live longer, even influence their looks & abilities. Neither governments nor religious groups will be able to stop the coming trend of choosing an embryo's genes.”

Toward a New Human Species
by R. E. Spier

What would it take to deliberately create a new human species? Over the last 2.2 million years many species of humans have come & gone. Homo -rudolphensis, -habilis, -erectus, -ergaster, -antecessor, -heidlebergensis, -neanderthalensis, and –sapien. We’re the latest in the genus, and unlikely to be the last.

A new species is characterized by the inability of its members to engage  in a productive sexual union with organisms outside the species. Higher intelligence, beauty, height, artistic skill, and creativity figure predominantly in a much-repeated wish list.

GENETIC ENGINEERING

Adaptability

What if we could develop wings? survive underwater? Or completely adapt for survival in currently hostile environments; places of extreme temperature, where gravitational pull is higher or lower, the air unbreathable - i.e. other planets.
Maybe we would want to adapt ourselves to have very long limbs or to be very short because it suited our chosen profession. Or what about getting the eyes of a hawk or the skin of a rhino, all of these adaptations have their potential uses.

Space travel
We set out on our journey in search of a new home planet, not knowing what the environment will be like. Our Crew will include:
Those running the ship for the first 200 years, requiring longevity and other specialist skills.
 Others placed in a state of suspended animation who may be needed as replacement crew.
 Others will be available for genetic modification to the new planet, once found.
A bank of frozen embryos, waiting for modification to meet the needs of the new planet. Additionally some will be modified for rapid development from child to adult.             http://ieet.org

     Genetic Engineering
     & Space Exploration
by Athena Andreadis  29th April 2007
Associate Professor of Cell Biology
University of Massachusetts Medical School
To go into space, we will have to accept radical change. Settling on other planets will speciate humanity even if we forego genetic engineering. It will create relatively isolated breeding pools in radically different circumstances. At some point, the pools will no longer be able to interbreed.
By sending out planetary expeditions, we will create aliens. Our first alien encounter, beyond earth, may be with ourselves, seen through the distorting mirror of divergent evolution.

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SUPERIOR PRODUCTS
 This Month:  Homes, Cars, Holidays, Foodal Delights & Footwear

$139 million for Updown Court, in Windlesham, England

makes it the most expensive home in the world. The unlived-in mansion, with 103 rooms, 5 swimming pools, its own 50-seat screening room, oozes opulence, from the 24-carat-gold leafing on the library floor to the heated marble driveway. With your own squash court, bowling alley and tennis court, you may never need to leave--except to visit the queen at nearby Windsor Castle.

At $1,700,000, the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 is the most powerful, most expensive, & fastest street-legal production car in the world, with a top speed of over 400 km/h!

 Jeffersons offers the ultimate experience in luxury travel  by private jet to Europe’s finest luxury hotels.

 A limousine to the airport, helicopter on arrival, presidential suite, dinner on your own private terrace… We’ll create a personal itinerary for you.

 Luxury, style, impeccable service, breathtakingly spectacular locations, sumptuously comfortable suites, & the ultimate in luxury lifestyles.

 …Consider a historic villa in the south of France, a private yacht birthed at Monaco for the Grand Prix, a camping holiday in Margate…

– All every bit as luxurious as you’d expect from a Jeffersons holiday.

     SALAD – Over £600 Per Serving!
                 London, July 1 /PRNewswire
Michelin-starred chef Raymond Blanc has created the world's most luxurious and expensive salad The Florette Sea And Earth Salad at more than £600 per serving!
Delicious Florette Baby Leaf salad, tossed in Moulin Jean Marie Cornille olive oil,  grated truffle, nestled in courgettes, red peppers, potato & gold leaf, surrounded by Almas golden caviar in a gold tin, complete with a gold spoon! Langoustines on a tagliatelle of cucumber with Beluga caviar, a tian of Cornish crab with ginger, Cornish lobster with cauliflower puree & truffles, dusted with grated truffle, gold leaf, drizzled with a red romano pepper essence. “This is a luxurious culinary masterpiece!” says Mark Newton, Florette‘s Commercial Director.

World's most expensive shoes! April 06, 2004
THE CINDERELLA SLIPPERS cost a cool $2 million! These unique 4½-inch stiletto sandals, studded with 565 platinum-set Kwiat diamonds (including 55 carats of clear diamonds & one big 5-carat stone), were worn by singer Alison Krauss at the 2004 Oscars ceremony.

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MEET THE SUPERIOR PEOPLE

The richest -

Forbes     World's Richest Man
                          .com          Be Like Bill Gates
U.S.     EUROPE     ASIA                  by Julie Watson
NEW YORK - In one of our most popular readers' polls ever, we asked people who they'd rather be. Among the 13 options: a billionaire, rap star, head of state or a medical researcher who cures cancer. Readers overwhelmingly wanted to be like Bill - as in Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, the world's richest man.
Here's a breakdown of the poll results:
A billionaire: 46% - A rap star: 2% - An astronaut: 2% - A Nobel Peace Prize winner: 4% - A medical researcher who cures cancer: 16% - A famous philanthropist: 4% - A professional sports star: 6% - A head of state: 2% - A best-selling author: 5% - An Oscar-winning film star: 3% - A pop star: 2% - A supermodel: 2% - None of the above: 8%

The strongest –

Meet Jill Mills - A mother, wife ...and
 THE STRONGEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD!
She has competed successfully in Bodybuilding, Powerlifting & in the newer sport of Strong Woman Competitions. She is Undefeated in All Powerlifting & Strength Competitions!  Jill says  “I get tons of emails from people from all over the world.”

 The Cleverest -

PRAVDA          World’s cleverest man is Russian!
 online since January 27th, 1999                                 21.08.2006
The cleverest man lives in St. Petersburg. It has become recently known that the mathematician Grigory Perelman was named the primary candidate to this title. Izvestiya first wrote about him in 2003, when he managed to solve one the top seven problems of the millennium: to describe mathematically the “Formula of the Universe.” Now Perelman is eligible for a million dollar award.
The ceremony on honor of the most intelligent man on the planet is going to take place in Madrid on August 22 right after the session of the International Mathematical Association.

The most beautiful -

Apr. 25, 2007 | 08:00 AM EDT World's Most Beautiful: Drew Barrymore
There's something great about real life," says Drew Barrymore. "You know, what you see is what you get." Although in her case, you're never really sure what that's going to be. "Some days I feel preppy," she says. "Some days I feel rock 'n' roll. Some days I feel hippie. Some days I feel glamorous. Some days I feel like a rebellious 13-year-old boy."

Clooney is 'sexiest man alive' - again
12:00AM Thursday November 16, 2006
Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES - Coming off a pivotal year in which he earned three Academy Award nominations and clinched an Oscar for his performance in Syriana, actor George Clooney was again named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive" today.

"This one's going to be hard for Brad [Pitt] since he's been 'Sexiest Man Alive' twice," Clooney joked. "He's enjoyed that mantle. I'd say, 'Sexiest Man Alive' to him, and he'd go, 'Two-time!'."

But who is the single most superior human on the planet?
Well, you’re about to feel priviledged. It’s yours truly!
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