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- From: gpt@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (gabe.p.torok)
- Subject: Re: Total Perspective Vortex--Re: spew, blah...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.183534.13984@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Summary: hi
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- References: <1993Jan21.020438.10039@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <vgm3rvr@rpi.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:35:34 GMT
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- In article <vgm3rvr@rpi.edu>, liebea@rebecca.its.rpi.edu (Adam Fred Lieberman) writes:
- > 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
-
- I like your atitude.
-
- Aliza
-