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Originally Posted by Halx
Its only a platitude if you disagree.
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Not necessarily. According to wikipedia, a platitude is a trite, meaningless, biased or prosaic statement that is presented as if it were significant and original. The word derives from plat, the French word for "flat". Whether any given statement is considered to have meaning or not is highly subjective, so platitude is often — but not always — used as a pejorative term to describe seemingly profound statements that a certain person views as unoriginal or shallow.
See, it's not that I disagree with Klosterman's quote, it's that I find it trite and shallow.
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Originally Posted by Halx
Nothing DOES matter if your scope of understanding is limited to your own existence, which will end in a definite way. However, your impact on the world around you will continue to matter, if you've done enough to ensure your lasting impression on the world.
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So, then, this is the sort of philosophy that Harris and Klebold, i.e. the killers at the Columbine massacre, would've subscribed to?
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There are a few individuals who can claim to have altered history, civilization and our current way of living. This all will calculate into how we approach the future.
Help or hurt; do enough of either and your actions will live forever.
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In time, even that, too, will pass away. Why, on the cosmic scale of things, the time span of a person's – or even an entire civilization's – impact and legacy is like a drop in the ocean.
Haven't you read Shelley's "Ozymandias" or heard the Kansas song, "Dust in the Wind"?
