[quote]Perhaps even tensions between people will diminish, as people begin to feel and experience the pain of others." [/quote]
That sounds so ideal.
Maybe someday Talos, maybe someday...
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Can we get filters, like pop up blockers? So much tweeny angst on the current tubez, i don't want that junk inside my head!
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Have you seen the movie the giver? Or read the book?
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That book was shit
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Your opinion is shit
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My shit is shit
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I've heard of the book, but I've never read it.
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I see think elements of the book could be applied to reality with this stuff coming.
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The Giver is a 1993 American social science fiction children's novel (generally Young Adult or older) by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society but then has the reader question whether the societies' utopia is worth the cost. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth and thirteenth years of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness," a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness, as there may be times where one must draw upon the wisdom gained from history to aid the communities' decision making. Jonas struggles with concepts of all of the new emotions, and things being introduced to him, and whether they are inherently good, evil, in-between, and if it's even possible to have one without the other. The Community lacks any color, memory, climate and terrain whatsoever, all in effort to preserve structure, order, and a true sense of equality beyond personal individuality.
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This completely destroys my dreams to end human suffering lol [spoiler]Dammit Talos ;_;[/spoiler] [spoiler]I'll have a new book to read now at least. [/spoiler]
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It's one of the few books I really enjoyed having to read for school.