(March 22, 2017 at 4:11 am)Esquilax Wrote: Greatness is an opinion relative to the values of the person evaluating the given thing. To you, a shiny new bar of gold might be pretty great, but if I drop you in the middle of the desert the greatness of that gold is overshadowed by that of a simple bottle of water. How great a thing is is directly proportional to the current needs of the person doing the evaluating, it's not an inherent part of the object itself.
There's a story somewhere about a rich businessman on his deathbed, who chooses to divide cheques for his millions between strangers chosen randomly from phone books. They are all overjoyed at this sudden, anonymous windfall, but then come to find it's not the blessing they imagined. One of them, for instance, runs into trouble trying to convince people that the cheque is real, ending up in prison and losing his home and friends. Finally, he can't even give it away for a glass of water on Skid Row.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
