Not having Civ3 has taught me something about life.

[Whiskey Priest]

I found out about civ3 about four months ago. Ever since then my mind has been occupied with thoughts of 16 civ games, intelligent ai, and perhaps a more realistic economic system. Anyway it's about two weeks after its release and I still don't have it. The weirdest thing happened. For no reason I just stopped caring. I no longer care if I ever play civ3. This was weird because I had an all out civ fetish. I've been playing it since the first one came out. Anyway, It's not that I think the game won't be any good (by the way all you people bashing it, get a f*cking life), its jsut that I have realised that my life will not be any better if I play this game. Now this thought had asome far reaching ramifications. I have asked myself about everything I've ever wanted. You know stuff like a good job, a nice car, a big house, some beautiful woman. I've realised that the more I wnat these things, the less I want them. As Buddha put it, Want something long enough and you don't. Could it be that the pain of waiting for Civ3 lead me to transencd all my earthly desires and merely be happy to exist?

 

[BlueMonday]

Are you ready for that journey?

Are you to cast everything away and life deliberatly?

Maybe you are, maybe you aren't, but it's time for you to find out. Norman Mailer once said: "We are a Faustian age; determined to meet the Lord or the Devil before we are done; and the ineluctable ore of the authentic is the only key to the lock." When you find the authenticity of life will you know it? According to Maslow, only one half of a percent of the people on the face of the Earth ever become truly self-actualized. Do you think you are one of those? do you like your odds?

I hope you do. You might be part of one of the most beautiful things there ever was and ironically, most will hate you for it.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

It is an interesting epiphany (right word?) to reach as an individual. Lately, I have found myself just not able to really get motivated about Civ3 (never was anyway, and might get it in a few years, if ever), work, study, even the recent election in Australia.
Don't know what it is, but I'd probably ascribe it to hereditary lethargy/ burnout due to lots of work and other stuff lately.
Haven't yet got to the stage of not wanting stuff. There are some...desires...that never go away:vampire: