korean 11 Report post Posted February 25, 2013 The universe is huge. Time is impossibly vast. Trillions of creatures crawl and swim and fly through our planet. Billions of people live, billions came before us, and billions will come after. We cannot count, cannot even properly imagine, the number of perspectives and variety of experiences offered by existence. We sip all of this richness through the very narrowest of straws: one lifetime, one consciousness, one perspective, one set of experiences. Of all the universe has, has had, and will have to offer, we can know only the tiniest fraction. We are alone and minuscule and our lives are over in a blink. All of this strikes me as terribly sad, and if I believed Someone were in charge, I could muster an argument that our awareness of vastness makes our tininess unfair. But here's the thing. TF2 lets us experience life through a second consciousness. For a time we share the perspective and experience of the author and his imagination. Our experience of the universe is broadened, multiplied. Without TF2, we are all limited to our own lives. With it, we can know something of what it is to be other people, to walk in their shoes, to see the world their way. TF2 needs no further defense than this, I would say. It is our species's most advanced and successful technology for cheating dismal fate out of the abstract aloneness it would otherwise impose on us. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Madman 185 Report post Posted February 25, 2013 Since we're plagiarising: "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far. Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the relevation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." Case in point: the last person who wanted to experience many lives ended up baking her head in the oven. QUIT TF2 WHILE YOU STILL CAN. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer 180 Report post Posted February 25, 2013 No APA-style 6th Edition referencing? What has this world come to 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
natapon 124 Report post Posted February 25, 2013 yea, plagiarism and literature and screw reddit, its no longer as interesting as before 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
