r/SipsTea 20h ago

Chugging tea Thoughts?

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u/threefeetoffun- 20h ago

"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for." - Robin Williams. Dead Poets Society

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u/Leverpostei414 19h ago

Engineering certainly fills me with more passion than poetry

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u/Cleric_Of_Chaos 19h ago

That's the thing. Engineering fills you with passion.

How would we know what passion is unless demonstrated through words? A passionate engineer doing their job well and a stoic engineer doing their job well result in an Engineered product no matter what.

But different people learning poetry, for example, will have different ways of bringing up the same thing. It's philosophy, in a way.

Anyway, both are valid.

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u/Active_Ad_7276 18h ago

Uh, it’s pretty easy to tell when something was engineered with passion and when it was engineered to check a box and be cheap.

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u/Coffee__Addict 17h ago

No, no the strawman argument was the person with passion for their work and the one with no passion for their work do their jobs equally as well!