Social Cancer: Are You a Place Holder?
Everyone should answer this question. The question was originally formulated on the main Exploring the Realms page and the instructions were given there as well. There's not much more to say here- just answer the damn question. I don't expect any questions of clarification either like, "Well, I'd really like to answer the question, but my I just got a new coffee table and I'm having some friends over." For one thing, this isn't even a question, for the last time Keith. It's more like a semi-arrogant statement about your newest furniture item. I especially don't want people asking me what a place holder is. If it's a question to you, then explain what you think it is and I'll judge your character based on your assumptions. See ya' in hell.
posted by fiestawizard at 6:09 PM
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Place holders are important to our culture and society, remember; we need consumers and their latent desires to drive the marketplace (including the marketplace of ideas). Also, we might all be place holders in one capacity or another. some are placeholders to their gods, some to their demons. Some hold the place in line so that their buddy can return to the line and order a double size basket of fries to share; some get the ketchup. Others are simply waiting for the right moment to step out, but they'll miss it if they wait too long or get distracted.
On the other, other hand -- at some point, people to need to put up or shut up. Living your life out of a basic fear of rejection makes sense, but it's not interesting or fun, for the most part (although we all make choices bases on fear at times). You need to look around and realize that the possibilities are endless, even if true freedom is not. How you affect the world is beyond your imagination or even what you see. Realize that, and imagine that you're connected to all living things, and then start to help them feel connected to you -- or risk missing out on life altogether, little by little each passing moment.
The last words of Hassan-i Sabbah, master of the old secret order of the assassins, and Old Man on the Mountain (by way of W.S.B. and others): "Nothing is true, everything is permitted."
Very well said B.O.R.T. I know that if I ever happen to be the procurer of catsup, as I call it, I will be sure to make the most of my journey. And maybe that's what it's all about- muliplying the affect of your seemingly meaningless tasks. "Nothing is true, everything is permitted." There exists no ultimate truth, that's for sure. These ideas parallel Eastern religious thought, inclusive of Master Hassan. This touches on the dilemma I was faced with earlier on around lunchtime: "Is it necessary for science to be so cold in all of its objectivity?" "Maybe," I thought aloud, as I ate some jello and taco crisps.
On the other-other-other hand...
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-Philip K. Dick
You just proved (per August Berkshire), that God does not exist. Nice going.
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