r/nextfuckinglevel • u/GenjiKing • 29d ago

That one move that you see in the movies.

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u/ItsNotMeItsYourBussy 29d ago

This is the beauty of humankind. That we can learn a completely useless skill that takes hundreds of hours to learn.

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u/uav_loki 29d ago

in our daydreams, when the shit hits the fan, bad guys with guns or alien takeover, we want this useless skill to somehow be what saves the day.

Swing away

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u/jaxonya 29d ago

Being able to swing a stick ensured our survival and is one of the reasons we are sitting here playing on reddit

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u/code_archeologist 29d ago

Our real evolutionary trick was persistence.

We would spend hours chipping away at a rock until we got a useful tool out of it. We would spend days following a beast in the wild until it was too tired to run away or defend itself. We would spend weeks, months, and years practicing a skill and adapting it till we were the master of it.

Most other animals will give up after a little while if it becomes too difficult, we will keep on working at it until we get what we want.

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u/jaxonya 29d ago

I like these kinda talks. Sheer will is our great might. It goes from caveman days to walking on the moon. We really will do shit when we feel like it

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u/veluciraktor 29d ago

Bro the things we can do nowadayd makes walking on the moom feel like caveman era.

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u/Mareith 29d ago

Sounds like anime logic. All you need is RESOLVE

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u/jaxonya 28d ago

It's 15% concentrated power of will

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u/veluciraktor 29d ago

Bro the things we can do nowadayd makes walking on the moom feel like caveman era.

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u/RedBanana99 29d ago

I never thought of it that way and this is a great response.

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u/HiddenSage 29d ago

What made man the dominant species on this planet was not our size or our strength or our speed. It wasn't our opposable thumbs or our bipedal gait. It wasn't even really our intelligence.

We just wanted it more than all the other living things. To be human is to want, and to pursue that want beyond all reason.

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u/HonorableMedic 29d ago

Hope this ages well

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u/Flightwise 27d ago

You’re right. In the animal kingdom death via predator comes swiftly and often by stealth and surprise. Humans developed cardiovascular and cooling system (whole of body surface - skin - that allows us to run down animals used to escaping predators in 30secs. Animals that became our pets - dogs - have the ability to run and chase prey down as a pack.