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Richard Wallace 19-03-2015 12:10

Re: Should there be a new division in FIRST?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Bob Steele (Post 1459458)
Ahh another Vonnegut supporter

Yes. I was thinking of this excerpt from Vonnegut's (1959) The Sirens of Titan:
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Originally Posted by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Once upon a time on Tralfamadore there were creatures who weren’t anything like machines. They weren’t dependable. They weren’t efficient. They weren’t predictable. They weren’t durable. And these poor creatures were obsessed by the idea that everything that existed had to have a purpose, and that some purposes were higher than others . These creatures spent most of their time trying to find out what their purpose was. And every time they found out what seemed to be a purpose of themselves, the purpose seemed so low that the creatures were filled with disgust and shame . And, rather than serve such a low purpose, the creatures would make a machine to serve it. This left the creatures free to serve higher purposes. But whenever they found a higher purpose, the purpose still wasn’t high enough . So machines were made to serve higher purposes, too . And the machines did everything so expertly that they were finally given the job of finding out what the highest purpose of the creatures could be . The machines reported in all honesty that the creatures couldn’t really be said to have any purpose at all . The creatures thereupon began slaying each other, because they hated purposeless things above all else . And they discovered that they weren’t even very good at slaying. So they turned that job over to the machines, too. And the machines finished up the job in less time than it takes to say, “Tralfamadore.”

I first read this a long time ago, although not as long ago as Vonnegut wrote it. It was one of my early inspirations.

It remains one of the foundations of my belief that FIRST is not about building robots.

The other Gabe 19-03-2015 15:41

Re: Should there be a new division in FIRST?
 
You could always become a mentor :P

dag0620 19-03-2015 22:08

Re: Should there be a new division in FIRST?
 
*Cough*Volunteering*Cough*

Seriously though, its one of the best ways to be involved with FIRST during your college years, and it is a total blast working events. :D

Briansmithtown 19-03-2015 23:51

Re: Should there be a new division in FIRST?
 
Im already a mentor, and I volunteer at FLL events, Im just thinking that FIRST kinda leads you up to college, where when your on leadership, you feel like your on top of the world...then you graduate and its a boring as... lunacy.

faust1706 20-03-2015 05:27

Re: Should there be a new division in FIRST?
 
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Originally Posted by dag0620 (Post 1459935)
*Cough*Volunteering*Cough*

Seriously though, its one of the best ways to be involved with FIRST during your college years, and it is a total blast working events. :D

I'm pretty sure every volunteer at the local FLL event the other week was a FIRST alumni that attends MST.

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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace (Post 1459274)
Tralfamadorians.



I miss vonnegut. I read everything I could get my hands on by him.

Poo-tee-weet?


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