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| | "About Nothin'" | |
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| | By: Spiff | |
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Is there random? No. Random is just a word people use when they don't
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know why something happned or they don't want to believe that it happened for
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a reason. Random violence? Random crime? It's not random. That guy that
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walks up to the top of that tower with a shotgun, he's part of everyone's
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definition of random. He's not random, nothing about him is random, he has
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a definite plan. Talk to his friends; he probably has a pattern of past
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problems or mental instability. Why's he doing that? To be honest, I don't
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know, but he has a reason. Maybe his wife left him, maybe he lost his job,
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maybe he's just a psycho, that doesn't matter. The point is there is a
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reason. People will tell you it's random because they don't want to believe
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that anything could possibly cause someone to take human lives. They don't
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want to believe that someone from their society, someone so close to them,
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even if only by species, could commit such an act. I mean, would you? Turn
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on the news, any channel, any time. The top story will be death, pain,
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suffering, human misery, even on the slowest of slow days. Gee, I feel great
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to be a human, we are so much more advanced than other animals. I don't
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remember the last time I heard of a rabbit killing another rabbit. But,
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that's okay, it's not because of humanity, or society, it's RANDOM.
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People use the word random too frequently. If they don't know why
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something happens, they'll call it random. I think that has something to do
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with human conceit. If people don't know about something, they will usually
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automatically discount its existence. They call it random. People don't
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know for sure that there is a god, so, he's doesn't exist. He might.. if he
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did, I wonder, would he be random? If not, why would he be there? But
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anyway, I can't really blame anyone for their conceit. They've been
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conditioned as a race towards this since the beginning of history. Since
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anyone could remember, humanity's the way to go. We're the best; we're the
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greatest; we know it all. Even the bible would tell you that man is the
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pinnacle of creation. It even says the god made humans last (save the best
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for last?) and made him the steward of the earth. So look, if we don't know
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it, there can't be a reason, because if there was, we'd already know it!
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Right? I mean.. why wouldn't we? And they call it random. Maybe calling the
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unknown random makes it easier to deal with? After all, if people fear
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anything, it's the unknown. Death - I'm afraid to die, why? Because there's
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no way to know what will happen next. One of the hardest things for a guy to
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do is to ask a girl out, sure, they're smooth, they'll say it's no big deal,
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but, no matter what, they have no idea what she is going to say until she
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says it. This whole fear of the unknown is built into our existence, our
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culture. "Curiosity killed the cat." (M0RpHeUs). Remember that? Kids are
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taught at an early age to avoid the unknown, and that it only brings...
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badness (is that word? Well, it is now...).
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I think that most people who tend to use random are idealists. Maybe
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that's why my man m0gel is such a strong pusher of random. I don't know what
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he views himself as, but I see him as an idealist. For most events that are
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labeled random, the only possible reason would be so dark, that they'd rather
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try to hide it's existence. People don't murder their families because human
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beings suck, it's just random. I think it's easier to be a part of humanity
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that way. I tend to see myself as a realist right now - maybe someday i'll
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advance to be an idealist...I'd like that, but anyway (is the the most
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incoherent thing you've ever read?) So, since I'm a realist, I'll make a
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really broad generalization and say that most realists would probably say
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okay look, it's not random, that kid killed his family for some reason, but
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I really couldn't tell you. And I guess cynics would probably say that it's
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not random, but the reason that kid killed his family is because man is
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inherently evil. Wouldn't that just suck. Sometimes, I wonder how anyone
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can be a cynic, if they realize they're cynics, and how they live with
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themselves. I can barely stand most people as it is, but if I thought there
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was an inner evil in every person, and their natural instinct was to kill me,
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i'd go insane. Sometimes, I'd rather just be an alien.
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(spiff goes back on topic --->)
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So, it's almost the end, but is there random? If there is, it's only a
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word that people use to explain the unexplainable. So, just use
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unexplainable, c'mon, do it for me. Random shouldn't be used as it is, to
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mean that there is no explanation. Why is the sky blue? Classic question.
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There is an answer, I remember asking that back in grade school and the
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teacher had an answer. I forget just why it's blue.. so, I couldn't explain
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it to you, but i'm not about to call the color of the sky random. The next
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time you don't know the answer, resist the urge to say random. Random
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exists because mommies and little puppies die. If there was a reason, people
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would be pissed off. I don't know, maybe we are better off just calling it
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random.
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| I know greets are stupid in text files, but, I just want to tell m0g |
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| thanks for making me write this, I hope you like it; and I want to say |
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| hi to some 0'da 0ld sk00l h0mi3z: crank, dash, morpheus, black francis. |
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Copyright (c) 1994 HoE Publications and Spiff. #68 -> 04/12/95
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All rights Reserved.
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