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Clifford Harris
Splat! -- crashland into being. Confronted with sensory overload, the doctor's whamsmack,
you screamcry. If you're lucky and born into developed west you survive. Being human, at
a certain point you begin wondering why. The daunting, dangerous horrifically futile
quest for meaning. Perhaps your parents comfortably conclude unpleasant questioning by
passing down ancient doctrine to which they continue ignorantly to cling. Or maybe you
recognize truth in proliferating New Age ideology. Maychance, blessed with independant
intellect, you reject simplistic solutions to troubling, complicated quandries. Rather
than superstition, you seek truth in reason's bright sunburst. Your quest, an intellectual
odyssey through philosophic word forests, wind swept sociological planes, historical
jungles, daedalian labrynths of psychological mystery, swirling whirlpool seas of
ambiguous scientific puzzles. Inevitably, you arrive upon dismal void shores illuminated
by truth's oblique ghost light: The univese, inexplicable randomness; your life, a blank
slate. It seems meaning, self-created, found in tenacious pursuit of career, true love,
hedonistic pleasure dances, fighting overwhelming odds for the cause of justice, always
remaining aware of the void toward which, beings-unto-death, we inexorably progress.....
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