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Human Branding Historically, human branding—the practice of burning marks or patterns into the skin of a living person—was used to mark slaves and criminals. The ancient Romans branded runaway slaves with the letters FUG, for fugitivus. Until the 1800s, hot irons were used to brand British criminals with letters specific to their crimes.
Human Branding Historically, human branding—the practice of burning marks or patterns into the skin of a living person—was used to mark slaves and criminals. The ancient Romans branded runaway slaves with the letters FUG, for fugitivus. Until the 1800s, hot irons were used to brand British criminals with letters specific to their crimes.
"Man" is a concept. Man, mankind, humankind. The human race. Man is a social animal. Although that is an old-fashioned idea, that 'man' the core of human existence and the male individual, so you won't see it any more in current thought, only in old adages like that. Using 'a man' to mean 'anybody' would be far worse.
The Human Botfly Also known as the torsalo, the human botfly is the only botfly known to attack humans. Its lifecycle begins when a female torsalo captures a mosquito and deposits her eggs on its body. The mosquito then conveys the eggs to a human host, where they burrow beneath the host's skin and develop.
A husband. But you can still see the original meaning when you use words like karlmaður/kvenmaður. Using that meaning of maður, in Icelandic you get humankind = mannkyn; and a human being is manneskja - mann-holder (the vessel which contains a person). So, 'mankind' is non-sexist, in an Old English, pre-Norman way.
Neurons: 31,236. Location: Miami, Florida, United States. Dreamy wrote: leonAzul wrote: We each have our own values, and as adults, we need to take responsibility for them. Or be punished for them. If you have time, leonAzul, could you say something about the nature of values, and how we come by them, please.
Because of her death I am left with the emptiness of her loving me and God. I feel alone and lost and living with this suffering, which is a word I hate. The word opinion comes to mind. I have mine and you have yours. I now understand my human nature plus my spiritual side and the war between God and Satan. I am at war with the word suffering.
A human has to live with the consequences of his actions, and compromise which denies ones ethos is unacceptable. You seem, Foundit, to take a jaundiced view of humans and ignore the nobler side. However it is this nobler side that is the saving grace of the human race, although on the decline.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Out of many vying to see a few are willing to look; and of those fewer yet will find their path without (something) having it made clear for them before looking.
In most cases, one person's resolution breaks first and they swerve to one side, but cases have been recorded where the game was a draw, even if the "winners" were no longer alive to celebrate, proving just how deep is the well of potential human stupidity.