Credit, News, & Questions
Credit:
- Credit for this poster goes to FishKA13 of the Creators Faction.
News:
- The Oculus Branch will be released alongside this event.
- There will be no new tower levels released alongside this event for endgame players.
Questions:
- Considering that less can always amount to more, are people greedy if they choose to pursue the greatest quality/quantity of something instantly rather than hanging low and climbing up?
- Which level will you be going to this event?
My answers:
- Greed is characterized by wanting something that is beyond your grasp, especially when the item of interest is in the possession of someone or something else.
Is it considered “greed” when a lion attacks each and every sick or old prey item in the environment, and stashes all of them somewhere even a lion’s keen nose cannot pinpoint because he wants all of the quick and easy stuff to himself while other lions have to work for their shares? Is it considered “greed” when an impoverished human tries all he or she can to make some money because the poor lifestyle just isn’t for them? An even more pivotal question: is it considered “greed” when someone aims to be a scholar and pursues knowledge about every topic in the world, and if so, is it good greed or bad greed? Is greed always bad? Beyond just the definition of the term, what is “greed”?
One could state that greed is the brain’s credulous ability to be entranced by sorcerously impactful curses transmitted from the item of interest to the perceiving mind. Do we know that curses exist? It’s at least certain that the world is full of impact, and very mysterious. They say that life is a gift, and gifts can always be followed by more gifts… but not all gifts are good. People also say that life is magical, which would mean that there could also be some presence of good and bad miracles, aka blessings and curses, which constitute all of the good and bad experiences that happen to us. Greed is a bad curse that aims to influence its host into thinking they need more of something, forcing them to make impetuous decisions until they lose themselves.
But when someone does the opposite of what most people would expect a greedy person to do—hanging low and anticipating their climb up to the item of interest—that’s regarded as prudent. Prudence is characterized by employing careful insight and perspectives to ensure you make moves that are conducive to a bright future. But since all that suffices to define “prudence” is the word, “future”, can we really place a value on the word, “prudence” that decides how different it is from greed? It’s important to note that “greed” is also anticipation of the future; we just know by common logic that greed employs a more short-sighted focus rather than focusing on long-term outcomes, often being prolonged to become long-term because the greedy pursuant is taking the wrong approach. “Future” could refer to ten seconds from now; it could even refer to the timeframe between the moment I typed the word, “now” and this precise moment, or the moment when you read it.
A person with strong context clues may state that “prudence” is applicable to the reaches of time that are furthest away from the status quo, while “greed” is applicable to the near future, even though with that type of approach, the future may not be so near. All in all, both concepts deal with the future, so it would be safe to say that even in patience, there is the existence of greed; in patience, you’re content with keeping yourself at a steady and unhurried pace toward a certain cause, but you’re still anticipating it, so you’re still being greedy.
Greed is inherently bad, but not always. Someone can be greedy for bottles of lavender perfume, and although that’s a strange fixation to have, there’s nothing shameful about wanting to smell good. This type of greed isn’t inherently bad, and is actually more of a blessing than a curse, but it has some bad aspects such as the mind-control affect; this affect is even more of a detriment when paired with another mind-control affect that produces an even greater influence on the host (e.g. a woman wanting to hoard bottles of lavender perfume because they attract men to her).
The question at hand is: “Considering that less can always amount to more, are people greedy if they choose to pursue the greatest quality/quantity of something instantly rather than hanging low and climbing up?” Put simply, my answer is that greed is inevitable, and we will always be committing acts of greed whether we instantly aim high or patiently hang low; greed is the act of wanting, and as long as we have a goal or a vision, we are always wanting. But what I would ultimately describe the position to allow certain items to arrest your efforts and judgments as would be something close to corruption: of character, of dignity, and of purpose.
- From a starting point of level 567, I hope to ascend to level 580 at least and 590 at most.
