Guest Mattdotcom Report post Posted October 3, 2002 I'm listening to Our Lady Peace's "Spiritual Machines" and this comes up: "Take death for example A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it We make extraordinary efforts to delay it And often consider its intrusion a tragic event Yet we’d find it hard to live without it Death gives meaning to our lives It gives importance and value to time Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it If death were indefinately put off The human psyche would end up Well like the gambler of the Twilight Zone episode" Anybody wanna help and tell me what "The Gambler" was about? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Daredevil21 Report post Posted October 3, 2002 Well, I could be wrong, but I believe that they could very well be referring to an episode called The Prime Mover. In it, a gambler discovers that his friend (Buddy Ebsen) has telekinetic powers, and decides to exploit that for his own personal gain. At the end, he puts all of his money that's he won, on the line and fails to listen to his friend who tries to tell him that his telekinetic powers have left him (of course he was making it up, in hopes that his friend would come to his senses). So, I think that they mean that if you were to keep living indefinately, the human psyche would eventually be gone, much like what happened in this episode of the Twilight Zone. Once again, I could be off, but that's just how it looks to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
