Quote: (05-16-2016 06:11 PM)WeekendCasanova Wrote:
Rarely has the use of this gif -- one of the handful of all time greatest gifs, incidentally -- been more fully warranted.
I urge everyone to pause for a second and contemplate the miracle that has been accomplished here -- building on painstaking research by so many other men over the course of months and years and decades and centuries -- and the kind of difference it will make in this one man's life.
Such
game changers still seem few and far between, for now. But in truth, for those with their ears to the ground, their pace is picking up -- they are certainly not yet an avalanche, but no longer exactly a trickle.
The avalanche is coming -- in some ways, coming within our lifetimes -- and it will effect a fundamental change in the way we see the world and feel about it. The human being will persist in being an
ingrate until the very last moment -- it is always spoiled and always doubtful, always waiting for what a poet called the
ocular proof. But once that ocular proof hits him again and again -- once it's no longer a new dick here and a new esophagus there, but millions of terminal cancer patients cured overnight, tens and hundreds of millions of creaky knees and aging hips replaced with tissues that are better and more pliable than a superathlete's -- well, then the human being looks around and
accepts its true powers and his old thoughts fall by the wayside like a bad habit that no longer even brings the pleasures of familiarity.
Until that happens, many lives will be
botched by today's reign of nihilism and its obligate belief in "meaninglessness" all the way down the line; many lives of intelligent and thoughtful men will have all the juice sucked out of them by their fear and hatred of the future and their confusion about the human being's true destiny. But if you take a moment to reflect on the meanings of this strange and miraculous headline -- if you truly let yourself be
mindblown by all that it implies -- perhaps your life does not have to go along that dreadful and desiccating path. It's unlikely for any man to defy the philosophical conventions of his time and to seize on the meaning of
new facts before they hit him repeatedly over the head; but it's not impossible for a man to do that, so why can't you be the one?