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Old November 28th, 2005 #64
einzelwesen...
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Not for sure where you got all this from or if you just read it on some webpage.
Well...

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"Man" is a decendent of Adam, the first white man.

Hence my screen name.

"Human" is a contraction of "hued man", i.e a colored individual.

I believe "humans" were on the earth long before "man" came on the scene.
It sounds to me like he's simply talking nonsense.

Human is a contraction of 'hued man', indeed... (FYI, the word is originally from Latin, and came into our language through 'Old French', and then 'Old English'.)