{"id":3851,"date":"2009-09-28T14:23:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T06:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2009-09-28T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T06:34:07","slug":"are-we-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/09\/are-we-human\/","title":{"rendered":"Are We Human?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Voted song of 2008 by Rolling Stone<\/em>, The Killers’<\/em> ‘Human’ has an interesting line, that seems grammatically incorrect –<\/p>\n

‘Are we human,
\nor are we dancer?’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Wikipedia:<\/strong> ‘There remains confusion and debate over the line “Are we human, or are we dancer?” in the song’s chorus. Debate raged across the internet over whether the lyrics said “denser” or “dancer”, a misunderstanding which invoked conflicting interpretations of the song’s meaning. Entertainment Weekly’s<\/em> Pop Watch section called this line the “silliest lyrics of the week”. <\/span><\/a><\/sup>They were puzzled by the interpretation, stating “most dancers are generally human”. On the band’s official website, the biography section states that Flowers is singing “Are we human, or are we dancer?” and also says that the lyrics were inspired by a disparaging comment made by Hunter S. Thompson, where he stated America was raising “a generation of dancers”‘<\/p>\n

Comments: <\/strong>Both lines can have interesting implications if interpreted with the Dharma. For ‘Are we human, or are we dancer?’ – Are we static humans, or do we prance around, dance around and morph in the rounds of Samsara and in this life itself, becoming sometimes less than human by falling into the lower realms, and sometimes superhuman by becoming more enlightened? For ‘Are we human, or are we denser?’ – Are we mere imperfect humans in the outer physical sense, or is there something denser within, in a good sense, at our spiritual core, that is more than human? Buddha-nature.<\/p>\n

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