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<blockquote data-quote="amuller" data-source="post: 92482" data-attributes="member: 2749">Ehh whatever....I read the article... eh whatever.Doesn't really slam D&amp;D, Tolkien or computers. She just tries to point out that people use fantasy worlds to escape the real world.To quote my dear sister &quot;uhhh duhhh&quot;people have been escaping with fantasy since they started telling the stories of Gilgamesh (sp?) and The Illiad.To me just more of these social scientists trying to look relavent by pointing out the very obvious.If, she is implying this is bad, (im not even sure she is) then I beg to disagree. Plato conjected that there is the real and an ideal world. While we live in the real one, we must make and effort (IMHO) to strive toward the ideal. Further, escapism is necessary when the world we live in is painful and hurtful. The key, of course, is to use it in our struggle in the real world, not to fall victem of addiction and get lost in the fantasy.Oh well my two cents.AJBTW where they hell are there 856,000 web sites dedicated to Tolkien. I WISH I could find that many, what fricking search engine was she using??????</blockquote>

[QUOTE="amuller, post: 92482, member: 2749"] [b]Ehh whatever....[/b] I read the article... eh whatever. Doesn't really slam D&D, Tolkien or computers. She just tries to point out that people use fantasy worlds to escape the real world. To quote my dear sister "uhhh duhhh" people have been escaping with fantasy since they started telling the stories of Gilgamesh (sp?) and The Illiad. To me just more of these social scientists trying to look relavent by pointing out the very obvious. If, she is implying this is bad, (im not even sure she is) then I beg to disagree. Plato conjected that there is the real and an ideal world. While we live in the real one, we must make and effort (IMHO) to strive toward the ideal. Further, escapism is necessary when the world we live in is painful and hurtful. The key, of course, is to use it in our struggle in the real world, not to fall victem of addiction and get lost in the fantasy. Oh well my two cents. AJ BTW where they hell are there 856,000 web sites dedicated to Tolkien. I WISH I could find that many, what fricking search engine was she using?????? [/QUOTE]

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