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- From: liebea@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman)
- Subject: Total Perspective Vortex--Re: spew, blah...
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- Keywords: whine
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <1993Jan21.020438.10039@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1993Jan23.175510.23629@scorch.apana.org.au>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 05:58:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan23.175510.23629@scorch.apana.org.au> jarqui@scorch.apana.org.au (Jared Quinn) writes:
- >For those who dont know what the Total Perspective Vortex is it is a
- >machine that shows how important you are compared to the rest of the
- >universe, ie. shows u as a small dot... It is meant to make u go
- >crazy of something.. I haven't got the books with me at the moment...
-
- If you must know, it kills you AND destroys your soul, from the horror
- of your sheer insignificance compared to the whole universe. The priniciple
- it's based on doesn't work. It depends on the fact that everything in the
- universe affects everything else in some way, so you can reconstruct the
- entire universe from a piece of cake. The problem is that when many
- different things act upon a single object, it's impossible to tell what
- different causes are responsible for the result you get. Here's a simple
- analogy: I tell you that there are several numbers and they add up to six.
- You can't figure out what the numbers are from that. The six may be the
- result of a one, a three and a two, but as far as you can tell, the universe
- (the number six) consists of all two's.
- Anyway, I think that people are important no matter how small they are.
-
- -Adam
-
