Omg, you just made me remember how I was constantly wondering as a kid if I was not human, and instead like an alien or something. I just always felt so different from everyone else and didn't relate to anyone or fit in anywhere. I still feel that way but now I understand that having those thoughts is proof that I am human
This is a very common experience. In Japan this feeling/behavior is called "chuunibyou", which I believe roughly translates to something like "second year of middle school syndrome"
Yeah I know about it. But is that like really the same? Maybe it is. But in most cases I have heard about it in anime, these people are like teenagers. I felt like not human when I was like 7 years old
Usually the anime characters that are known for being chuuni are high schoolers, but usually the point of their character is that they're immature and never grew out of it unlike most people. Personally I remember feeling that way primarily in late elementary school and early middle school, so like 8-11 or something like that.
I had something similar, except I wondered if I was playing some sort of video game that was so complex and realistic that I forgot about my real life.
Either it’s really poorly designed or my theory was wrong, because the longer I play the more anti-fun mechanics I’m seeing.
Oh, you're actually probably a bot tho? I appreciate the irony here.
I always have to scroll back up when i realize i upvoted a comment someone else, probably an actual human person, has already said.
It's making bread for me! Especially unleavened bread which is the oldest form of bread. Always makes me think of the tumblr post with the [little clay dude](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/du26uv/making_the_ancestors_proud/).
Anytime I go hiking I get this nice grounded feeling, like Im doing something that humans were built for and have been doing for thousands of years. Walking around long distances in the wilderness looking at nature. Hell yeah.
I think I get it. I rarely have had to commute during rush hour (because I usually have had jobs with weird hours) but when I do I find it sort of weirdly comforting? or something? to know I'm one of thousands of people doing the same thing at the same time.
And here we see the male adult, eating his fourth bowl of cereal in his underwear while crying.
While there's no academic consensus, it is assumed this behaviour is part of the species' mating ritual
I'd unironically want a documentary that's just following a random person doing random human things with David Attenborough explaining why we do them from an evolutionary, sociological and psychological perspective.
"Unable to find a mate, this female spends her evening masturbating to pictures of other humans mating and follows it up by eating a bucket of ice cream."
I do that whenever I have a good, normal, suspiciously ordinary conversation or interaction with a stranger. Like, alright, successfully doing basic human tasks. Nailed it.
I think a lot of people fail to recognize how much human = animal and instead choose to believe they are fully logical beings. These are generally people I don’t get along with.
Anyone who would look at your actions and expect you to have an immediate, logical explanation, so pretty much anyone put into a place that allows for judgement. If an action can’t be explained by the actor as a logical, autonomous decision, it’s generally seen as that person trying to hide malicious intent.
I am that same person. Originally I made the joke because you seemed amazingly self centered based on your first comment. However, I didn't plan on continuing with the joke if It became obvious I just missed your point, so the orginal 'who' had a double meaning.
I went through with it because you seem like the exact sort of person who you don't get along with.
>Anyone who would look at your actions and expect you to have an immediate, logical explanation
The looked at my comment and expected me to have an immediate and logical explanation. Yet I was just setting you up for a bad joke.
>If an action can’t be explained by the actor as a logical, autonomous decision
This is correct, atleast in this case. It wasn't exactly clear what my original intent was with my question.
>it’s generally seen as that person trying to hide malicious intent.
Also right, I was hiding malicious intent. I was hiding the logic behind my question by painting the 'question' with broad strokes and making it extremely lacking in detail. This makes it hard to tell if it's autonomous or not.
So you were entirely correct, but you were so ready to explain yourself that you entirely missed your own point and ignored the exact thing you were expressing disdain for people missing.
Of course, I agree, we're very emotional creatures, so that's why you're blameless, I just wanted to make a stupid joke that turned into an example for myself.
There is also the possibility that you just didn't want to waste too much energy on such a lacking question.
You’re so wrapped up in your own joke you didn’t recognize my own lol. I assumed nothing of you and responded to your sassy comment with a sassy comment.
During my high school years when I’d go to the mall with friends or have sleepovers I would always think: “Hell yeah I’m doing Regular Teenager Behavior”
I sort of get it. It's thrown in there a bit like "you know, when I'm slaughtering the pigs". Indeed plenty of pigs get slaughtered and most people eat them, but it's not like that typical of a pastime for a regular person.
It is typical for people who do this on a regular basis. Chanting at the church may seem weird for non religious people, but it's part of daily life for those who are.
It’s one of those things that’s weird that religious people don’t see. I wouldn’t make a post like this one and include “contemplating my non-theistic world views.” That would be weird.
I've been feeling this quite a lot since getting out more than ever since COVID.
*I'm in a crowd of humans listening to other humans perform musical art!*
I 100% have moments like that. Sitting around a camp fire, are you kidding me? Human beings have been doing exactly this for *millions of years*. You could go back so far that we hardly even be able to communicate, and we’d still bond over making a fire and sitting around it and watching it burn.
I do the same thing. I was sitting in a hookah lounge last year and I was staring at the curtains thinking, "holy shit, I'm a real person and I'm having a good time."
"Chanting" is pretty much synonymous with "singing" in the context of churches.
[This is a chant of Psalm 50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUJNuMg0RDg), for example.
It's one of the oldest forms of Christian music that comes from pre-schism times, I personally find it quite beautiful in an opera/classical sense sort of, even if I don't understand most of it (the video is in Aramaic, I believe - though you can also find chants in everything from Arabic to Greek to Russian to English).
In some Christian traditions like Eastern Orthodoxy, entire church services are sung in a similar style. I was once invited to a Greek Orthodox church and got to sit in on the service - it was quite magical!
That's because you might have never used (plain-)chant! Individual parishes can be very different, but if you look around in your area you might find a church using chant at least from time to time
Girl, literally all my religion says is: be nice to your guests, don't get too proud, love your family and do what makes you happy. Sounds pretty good to me.
"Some" humans? You do realize that the vast majority of humans throughout recorded history were religious, right?
Religion is older than civilization itself.
I mean if people assume things about you just because you used a non-specific descriptive term that’s kinda on them. I don’t bother worrying about what people might assume if I say I’m Christian, because… I mean I don’t have to defend strawmen that I don’t believe in. So there’s no cost to me if someone wants to start something
Nah, we need more chill athiests to balance out people like the personified reason. I'm not an athiest myself, but I think all the different ways people understand the universe are super interesting :)
It's worth mentioning that the majority of people don't blindly believe their religion. They actively choose to believe it, usually because it gives them hope. It feels nice. Religion is also one of the oldest concepts in human history, so it is in fact a very normal activity. It fits perfectly into this post.
>just because ~~religion~~ religious fanatics suck
ftfy. as much as people love to hate on religion (and no, I'm not talking about just christianity bc yknow, there's a lot more than just one religion out there) there has been a great deal of advancements through history that were made possible because of religion. there are people today that are motivated to help their communities because of religion. there is also a great deal of introspection that comes with the teachings of most religions.
so no, religion doesn't suck. in fact, it is wonderful what good it can do for society. what really sucks is the egocentric religious people that think their religion is the superior one and all who disagree are wrong.
Other people definitely shouldn't. It's time for humans to evolve a little further. Religion is insanity. It provides nothing but the delusions people feed. We have no soul. There is no heaven. Now that that's out of the way, all we have is each other and what we do with our time to elevate the lives around us. The world would be much better without any religion.
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Highly relatable. Am I right, fellow humans?
Neigh
Would you like a sugar cube, my fellow homo sapien
Do you have some tea? My throat is a little ~~horse~~ hoarse.
Surely you would prefer this bucket of water 👁️
neigh thanks
\*NO thanks
Interesting
🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
Indeed. Mighty fine oxygen we’re metabolizing through our inner chest sacks today, wouldn’t you also agree?
Would you care for some carbohydrates with sucrose spread on top? I have prepared them to be vibrating with the correct thernal frequency!
How fast are they vibrating? Optimal frequency preference can vary from organisms to organism.
Sus.
HE USED A COMMA PROPERLY WE FOUND THE ALIEN GET EM BOYS
Human fellas?
If you could see me now you'd be like, "yep, that is a human".
and now here's... [Human Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1jWdeRKvvk)
Human music... *I like it!*
I too enjoy breathing and walking with leg.
Me playing with my dog: “yes this an example of the relationship between man and the domesticated dog”
Hurray a perfect specimen of internet commentary
Do we all have the Blessed Voice of David Attenborough narrating our lives for us inside our heads ?
“Here we see this commenter going into an existential crisis because they think they hear me narrating, they are wrong”
Imagine being Attenborough and getting to hear that voice all the time
Same. When I was a kid, I suspected I was an alien sleeper agent who forgot his original identity.
What eventually changed your mind?
Never changed their mind, just hasn’t heard the activation phrase yet
"I still do, but I used to, too.."
Sussy balls
I am an alien sleeper agent who forgot their identity. AMA
what's your identity
I forgot
they forgor 💀
“Other”
The custard rises slowly
the narwhal bacons at midnight
Do you remember the activation phrase?
How many grains are in a fist shaped ball of cooked rice?
Omg, you just made me remember how I was constantly wondering as a kid if I was not human, and instead like an alien or something. I just always felt so different from everyone else and didn't relate to anyone or fit in anywhere. I still feel that way but now I understand that having those thoughts is proof that I am human
This is a very common experience. In Japan this feeling/behavior is called "chuunibyou", which I believe roughly translates to something like "second year of middle school syndrome"
Yeah I know about it. But is that like really the same? Maybe it is. But in most cases I have heard about it in anime, these people are like teenagers. I felt like not human when I was like 7 years old
Usually the anime characters that are known for being chuuni are high schoolers, but usually the point of their character is that they're immature and never grew out of it unlike most people. Personally I remember feeling that way primarily in late elementary school and early middle school, so like 8-11 or something like that.
Same, and for anyone wondering, it's a sad realization y-y
Have you considered ~autism~
Yeah I have autism and ADD, but only mild
I had something similar, except I wondered if I was playing some sort of video game that was so complex and realistic that I forgot about my real life. Either it’s really poorly designed or my theory was wrong, because the longer I play the more anti-fun mechanics I’m seeing.
Total Recall
This is *exactly* what a colony of bees piloting a human-shaped robot would say.
I was thinking aliens or sentient AI but no, you’re right. This is classic bees-piloting-human-mecha meirl
/r/BrandNewSentence
~~We~~they say the same thing when they're fapping.
Maybe the real colony of bees was the human-shaped robot we found along the way
Human beehavior
Human beeing doing human beehavior
Or a socially awkward human
Interesting how specific you are able to get...
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Oh, you're actually probably a bot tho? I appreciate the irony here. I always have to scroll back up when i realize i upvoted a comment someone else, probably an actual human person, has already said.
Okay, but real shit I understand this too well. Even the feeling of like making coffee, knowing it's been done for hundreds of years by scholars etc
I like to look at the moon, be in awe, and remember than people have done the same for 200,000+ years. Shit grounds me.
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We live in a society with a moon!
Bottom text
"sometimes i look up at da moon n realize i aint shit compared to dat" - some old twitter proverb
“the ocean is bigger than my whines.” - me
Exactly! If I’m ever enjoying a campfire or a bonfire, I think to myself “this is one of the oldest human activities”
Oldest human behaviors include: eating, drinking from a river, making fire, hitting things with rocks or sticks, masturbating, having sex.
It's making bread for me! Especially unleavened bread which is the oldest form of bread. Always makes me think of the tumblr post with the [little clay dude](https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/du26uv/making_the_ancestors_proud/).
Cooking food on an open fire for me. Rituals as old as time.
Rituals really is what it feels like
Anytime I go hiking I get this nice grounded feeling, like Im doing something that humans were built for and have been doing for thousands of years. Walking around long distances in the wilderness looking at nature. Hell yeah.
I think I get it. I rarely have had to commute during rush hour (because I usually have had jobs with weird hours) but when I do I find it sort of weirdly comforting? or something? to know I'm one of thousands of people doing the same thing at the same time.
Behaviors that are natural to human beings.
As a human, this fills me with all the normal human emotions.
Chanting in church is not a natural behavior.
ok sure, but ritualized communal worship of some higher power has a longgggg history — i think that’s more the point
chanting in unison with fellow humans is totally natural behaviour
It is typical though
Something we've been doing for tens of thousands of years is probably close enough to natural at this point.
I mean we’ve been around for millions of years and for some reason only decided to start civilization a few thousand years ago but yeah
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And here we see the male adult, eating his fourth bowl of cereal in his underwear while crying. While there's no academic consensus, it is assumed this behaviour is part of the species' mating ritual
I narrate cooking shows for a solo audience of my cat. Does that make it count?
I'd unironically want a documentary that's just following a random person doing random human things with David Attenborough explaining why we do them from an evolutionary, sociological and psychological perspective. "Unable to find a mate, this female spends her evening masturbating to pictures of other humans mating and follows it up by eating a bucket of ice cream."
It's great fun to imagine a voice over on human mating behavior in e.g. a bar or the beach.
https://youtu.be/q8zwIphm5r4 I think you’ll like this.
Man I love VLDL, their sense of humor is peak.
This is very much what going to a party on LSD is like. Interesting and a bit depressing.
https://youtu.be/q8zwIphm5r4 you might find this funny.
I could watch that specific one
When you're so happy that you're fitting in that you subconsciously start a reality check just to have that positive confirmation as an extra
oh my god i felt this
I do that whenever I have a good, normal, suspiciously ordinary conversation or interaction with a stranger. Like, alright, successfully doing basic human tasks. Nailed it.
I think a lot of people fail to recognize how much human = animal and instead choose to believe they are fully logical beings. These are generally people I don’t get along with.
Who?
Anyone who would look at your actions and expect you to have an immediate, logical explanation, so pretty much anyone put into a place that allows for judgement. If an action can’t be explained by the actor as a logical, autonomous decision, it’s generally seen as that person trying to hide malicious intent.
Cares
At least me and the person who asked me about it.
I am that same person. Originally I made the joke because you seemed amazingly self centered based on your first comment. However, I didn't plan on continuing with the joke if It became obvious I just missed your point, so the orginal 'who' had a double meaning. I went through with it because you seem like the exact sort of person who you don't get along with. >Anyone who would look at your actions and expect you to have an immediate, logical explanation The looked at my comment and expected me to have an immediate and logical explanation. Yet I was just setting you up for a bad joke. >If an action can’t be explained by the actor as a logical, autonomous decision This is correct, atleast in this case. It wasn't exactly clear what my original intent was with my question. >it’s generally seen as that person trying to hide malicious intent. Also right, I was hiding malicious intent. I was hiding the logic behind my question by painting the 'question' with broad strokes and making it extremely lacking in detail. This makes it hard to tell if it's autonomous or not. So you were entirely correct, but you were so ready to explain yourself that you entirely missed your own point and ignored the exact thing you were expressing disdain for people missing. Of course, I agree, we're very emotional creatures, so that's why you're blameless, I just wanted to make a stupid joke that turned into an example for myself. There is also the possibility that you just didn't want to waste too much energy on such a lacking question.
You’re so wrapped up in your own joke you didn’t recognize my own lol. I assumed nothing of you and responded to your sassy comment with a sassy comment.
No one is forcing you to believe me, or look at my comments. Nor reply to them. I'm replying to you because you seem like you want to talk about it.
This is what I imagine dogs feel like when they wag their tail or track/herd something
During my high school years when I’d go to the mall with friends or have sleepovers I would always think: “Hell yeah I’m doing Regular Teenager Behavior”
*I'm just a normal, functioning member of the human race, and there's no way anyone can prove otherwise.*
Hmmm, human music. I like it
atheist redditors coming out of the woodwork when they see any mention of religion
I sort of get it. It's thrown in there a bit like "you know, when I'm slaughtering the pigs". Indeed plenty of pigs get slaughtered and most people eat them, but it's not like that typical of a pastime for a regular person.
It is typical for people who do this on a regular basis. Chanting at the church may seem weird for non religious people, but it's part of daily life for those who are.
I am aware
I'm not religious, but religion is one of the distinguishing characteristics of humanity.
It’s one of those things that’s weird that religious people don’t see. I wouldn’t make a post like this one and include “contemplating my non-theistic world views.” That would be weird.
As do butthurt theists.
Ladies, gentlemen, calm down. You're all terrible.
And that goes for you too, enbies!
Painting a mural feels like this
I've been feeling this quite a lot since getting out more than ever since COVID. *I'm in a crowd of humans listening to other humans perform musical art!*
Timeless Human Behaviour^(TM): * Making/listening to ritual weird noises * Making/drinking alcohol * Philosophical and introspective lazing about
I 100% have moments like that. Sitting around a camp fire, are you kidding me? Human beings have been doing exactly this for *millions of years*. You could go back so far that we hardly even be able to communicate, and we’d still bond over making a fire and sitting around it and watching it burn.
So that's what Bjork was singing about? I was so confused.
Since I was a child I hated clapping hands for this specific reason
/r/totallynotrobots
I do the same thing. I was sitting in a hookah lounge last year and I was staring at the curtains thinking, "holy shit, I'm a real person and I'm having a good time."
We live in a human society.
Man, I'm getting an A in human activity.
Chanting in church lmao
I was wondering if this was Ted Cruz, but I see it refers to humans as "my species" so it's definitely not him.
What kind of children of the corn shit is this "chanting in church"?
Hymns I would assume
We sing hymns in the churches I grew up in. Very little chanting. We did torture mentally ill people though.
Reading this comment like “uh huh… that’s normal… I’ve done that… -wait WHAT”
That's.... something...
"Chanting" is pretty much synonymous with "singing" in the context of churches. [This is a chant of Psalm 50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUJNuMg0RDg), for example. It's one of the oldest forms of Christian music that comes from pre-schism times, I personally find it quite beautiful in an opera/classical sense sort of, even if I don't understand most of it (the video is in Aramaic, I believe - though you can also find chants in everything from Arabic to Greek to Russian to English). In some Christian traditions like Eastern Orthodoxy, entire church services are sung in a similar style. I was once invited to a Greek Orthodox church and got to sit in on the service - it was quite magical!
There's some non Christian religions that do chanting as well. It's definitely a "typical human activity"
Catholicism
Chant is common in non-Protestant churches (like Catholics and Orthodox).
I was raised Catholic for 16 years, we never used the term chanting.
That's because you might have never used (plain-)chant! Individual parishes can be very different, but if you look around in your area you might find a church using chant at least from time to time
that's how regular church is my man
Pentacostals speak in tongues.
So totally could be a line from Harry in Resident Alien!
Oh no, I'm not doing human activities!
Is shadow boxing under a cold shower while listening to the MGR soundtrack a regular human activity?
Is this dissasociating
There's definitely definitely definitely no logic to human behavior.
chant at god drink mildly poisonous bread juice with companionate humans l i e
Well I don't, I lover the human species average behavior
It is unbelievable how hard I vibe with this. If there were a woman sitting on me right now, she'd cum.
Did Mark Zuckerberg write this?
Did Mark Zuckerberg write this?
Haha hashtag adulting, anyone? Hashtag silly hashtag funny hashtag ImSoRandom !!!!11
Dude what?
Hahah I'm so silly hashtag adulting!!!!! Hashtag DoingHumanStuff!!
What does enjoying being a human have to do with "adulting"?
Oh yeah. Totally enjoy.. chanting in church. Such a human activity. Being brainwashed over stupid shit a few hundred years ago. Humans. Right?
Religion is a part of regular human behavior
Some humans. Sure. The easily manipulated.
Girl, literally all my religion says is: be nice to your guests, don't get too proud, love your family and do what makes you happy. Sounds pretty good to me.
"Some" humans? You do realize that the vast majority of humans throughout recorded history were religious, right? Religion is older than civilization itself.
there it is again, the personified reason why I can't say I'm an atheist online...
I mean if people assume things about you just because you used a non-specific descriptive term that’s kinda on them. I don’t bother worrying about what people might assume if I say I’m Christian, because… I mean I don’t have to defend strawmen that I don’t believe in. So there’s no cost to me if someone wants to start something
Nah, we need more chill athiests to balance out people like the personified reason. I'm not an athiest myself, but I think all the different ways people understand the universe are super interesting :)
It's worth mentioning that the majority of people don't blindly believe their religion. They actively choose to believe it, usually because it gives them hope. It feels nice. Religion is also one of the oldest concepts in human history, so it is in fact a very normal activity. It fits perfectly into this post.
grow up.
I’m more grown than you if I can see the folly in religion. It’s ok to have blind faith in some imaginary sky fairy. Whatever floats your boat.
Big chungus fortnite funny wholesome reddit moment keanu reeves 100
sorry. I was being provocative for the sake of it, that was wrong of me. Have a good rest of your day mate
Prime r/atheism user here.
Just because religion sucks doesn't mean it isn't a major part of human society.
>just because ~~religion~~ religious fanatics suck ftfy. as much as people love to hate on religion (and no, I'm not talking about just christianity bc yknow, there's a lot more than just one religion out there) there has been a great deal of advancements through history that were made possible because of religion. there are people today that are motivated to help their communities because of religion. there is also a great deal of introspection that comes with the teachings of most religions. so no, religion doesn't suck. in fact, it is wonderful what good it can do for society. what really sucks is the egocentric religious people that think their religion is the superior one and all who disagree are wrong.
lol what is with reddit atheists basically falling over themselves rushing to prove how ignorant and uneducated they are
"chanting in church". Albeit foolish human activities. God isn't real. Grow up .
Just because you don't believe in a god, doesn't mean that other people shouldn't.
Other people definitely shouldn't. It's time for humans to evolve a little further. Religion is insanity. It provides nothing but the delusions people feed. We have no soul. There is no heaven. Now that that's out of the way, all we have is each other and what we do with our time to elevate the lives around us. The world would be much better without any religion.
Girl, calm down.
Bitch, please.
Please what?
You don't say
r/oddlyspecific
Ted? Is that you, fellow human being?
I think that too! I warder how many are we
Give me sugar water
I'm a perfectly normal human being and there's no way anyone can say otherwise!
I got this exact feeling at a baseball game the other day
I'm a stock photo right now!
HELLO FELLOW HUMAN. ME, AS A HUMAN, ALSO ENJOY HUMAN ACTIVITIES = ["eating", "drinking", "breathing"]
"I am Human" The diaries of Mark Zuckerberg.
[Human music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1jWdeRKvvk)
I read this in David Mitchell's voice
This post suspected of alien activities. In other news is your neighbor eating corn?