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Get Some Perspective!
Posted By Eric Ptak On September 30, 2007 @ 7:26 pm In Pnilosophy,Random Recordings of Mental Meanderings | No Comments
Recently, a lady friend of mine told me that I need to get some perspective. Lately, I have been withdrawn, introspective, not very social, and in a relatively dour mood. By lately, I mean the last year or so. She’s pretty sick of it, and said it rather angrily to me.
So, you want some perspective? Here you go:
I think that I’m right to say that we are pretty fucking insignificant.
How’s that for perspective?
I remember the Total Perspective Vortex from “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” series. The idea is that the size of the Universe can be extrapolated from a piece of fairy cake (or a cupcake, for all you unschooled morons). This guy created a chamber which did just that, because his wife kept nagging him about having no sense of proportion. This machine was called the Total Perspective Vortex, and it had an arrow that pointed to a microscopic dot on a microscopic dot with a marker that said “You are here”. The net effect of the Vortex is that when you see yourself in relation to the rest of the Universe, you see how really insignificant you really are, and faced with that knowledge, the soul is destroyed.
Can you face your insignificance?
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