Jun 4th 2024, 17:03:37
Flip side of that, Empy.
There are 7 billion people on earth, and 112 billion that have lived ever (or whatever the numbers are). Throughout human history we've seen famine, disease, war, crime, natural disasters. Humans have experienced tragedies, sorrow, heartbreak. Species have gone extinct. An untold number of horrors have occurred on this Earth.
And despite all of that, the thinking agents on this plane that are literally made from the stars, still find ways to do amazing things every single day. Your brain named itself, and learned that it was made from atoms that exploded millions of years ago from millions of miles away (or further). Those same atoms formed humans that created poetry, music, literature, governments, medicine, technology, etc.
In spite of the horrors around us, and the horrors throughout human history. Mankind has seen people literally sacrifice their lives for the benefit of others. Mankind has seen people go to the moon. Eradicate diseases. Create wonderful charities whose sole focus is to help others. We've created universities to educate ourselves. We've created governments that, although aren't perfect, have led to one of the most peaceful times in human history. We've bridged distance gaps like no other humans have before us. I can speak to people in Malaysia and Ukraine and Australia, while living in rural America. I can enjoy this incredibly stupid game with people like you from all over the world. I can learn about your families, your careers, the great things you all have done in life. I can see the best in humanity in all of you.
And in all of that, I also get to troll you all. To demand apologies in a stupid game, on the forums, because it's fluffing hilarious. I get to create division within alliances, just to see if I can. I get to war the entirety of this player base, making everyone hate me, just to see how people react.
And at the end of it all, I get to realize it's just a game. And the same humanity you speak about that is going to die one day, Empy, is the humanity that is responsible for doing amazing things in life right now.
So yes, we are all going to die. And yes, a forum apology is ultimately meaningless. But in a world as vast as ours, with us being as insignificant as we are, we have this wonderful ability and opportunity to make of life whatever we want. And if we decide to spend some of our free time jostling with individuals on a stupid text based game's forum, demanding apologies, arguing over political decisions, clicking words on a screen.... Well that's just pretty fluffing wonderful and amazing isn't it? Life has given us this great opportunity, this ability to forge our own destinies, and to get out of life what we want. That sort of freedom and opportunity is literally priceless, and it's something the vast majority of living entities have never experienced the way we do. And Empy, as you know, we are lucky enough to even exist in the first place, in this vast universe we reside.
So I for one, am not going to waste this freedom or opportunity presented to me. I will demand MORE apologies now. I will troll HARDER. For I have just this one amazing opportunity in life, and I'm going to live this life to the fullest.