Frequently asked questions..

[Nephew Twiddleton]

This is why I hate you all. This was a perfectly good bitch thread and you have all turned it into something useful.

Bastards.

Don't worry, I'm sure it will get back to business as usual ITT

[Adios]

hawk, are you saying HaggisFY is a time traveler?

Quite possibly! The only to be sure is to disect it. It there are blue spots on the heart then yes.

[Triple Zero]

Order and Disorder are two ways of 'seeing' something. If you collect 15 random things in your house and then try to order them into two groups... there will likely be many, many possibilities...

32767, to be exact.

[PopeTom]

According to the Joshua Norton Cabal, every Man, Woman and Child is a Pope of the Discordian Movement... but then, they also named their cabal after a guy that called himself the Emperor of the United States, so who knows if they were right, or just crazy.

The Joshua Norton Cabal was right, this is why they are/were crazy.

[memy]

I remember I was in Signet one day (gifted education class) and we each got a bag of m and ms. The teacher told us to arrange them chaotically. I gave her my best "what the hell" look as she sat back with an evil grin.

Around me the other kids were putting each candy so that they weren't near another candy of the same color. That's not chaos, that's segregation. Others just opened the bag and let them dump out, all accomplished. It could have come out ordered, though! And they didn't even do anything to the candies!

I then proceeded to take my fist and beat the shit out of the bag until the candies weren't m and ms anymore.

Sometimes chaos is just a forward transformation you just can't undo. Not necessarily destruction, mind you. Just the only logical fate for all things that are sewn: an unravelling.

Or something. That's not where chaos comes from, that's where it goes.

[Telarus]

You example would still have held if you had then melted the chocolate and poured it into a bunny mold. Good catch on the non-reversible nature.

I'll get back to the questions later.

[hooplala]

I remember I was in Signet one day (gifted education class) and we each got a bag of m and ms. The teacher told us to arrange them chaotically. I gave her my best "what the hell" look as she sat back with an evil grin.

Around me the other kids were putting each candy so that they weren't near another candy of the same color. That's not chaos, that's segregation. Others just opened the bag and let them dump out, all accomplished. It could have come out ordered, though! And they didn't even do anything to the candies!

I then proceeded to take my fist and beat the shit out of the bag until the candies weren't m and ms anymore.

Sometimes chaos is just a forward transformation you just can't undo. Not necessarily destruction, mind you. Just the only logical fate for all things that are sewn: an unravelling.

Or something. That's not where chaos comes from, that's where it goes.

I would argue that those who just emptied the bag actually had it right.  But I admire your aggression.

[memy]

The only problem I really have with the bag emptying isn't that it's not chaotic. I mean, chaos comes from chaos, order comes from chaos, and all that jazz.

But it could be fixed. The candies could just be rounded up again and put back in the bag for a second toss just like the first.

With my attempt, each toss would feature increasingly altered candies. Not only are they tossed for the universe to arrange, but they are changed by me in the process for the better.

Either way it tastes nice.

[hooplala]

The only problem I really have with the bag emptying isn't that it's not chaotic. I mean, chaos comes from chaos, order comes from chaos, and all that jazz.

But it could be fixed. The candies could just be rounded up again and put back in the bag for a second toss just like the first.

With my attempt, each toss would feature increasingly altered candies. Not only are they tossed for the universe to arrange, but they are changed by me in the process for the better.

Either way it tastes nice.

The bolded sounds suspiciously like a form of order to me.  

[Triple Zero]

but if chaos is the undefined state from which both order and disorder can emerge, wouldn't the proper zen-like solution be to leave the bag closed?

[LMNO]

The M&Ms were put in a state of order before you even received the bag.

[Elder Iptuous]

wtf happened here?
i thought this thread was a designated place to bitch about a relatively unknown person who is bitching about being bitched about?

now it's about candy complexity theory, or something?

[Adios]

The M&Ms were put in a state of order before you even received the bag.

Therefore the only correct answer would be to throw the unopened bag on the floor in a high traffic area.

[Adios]

wtf happened here?
i thought this thread was a designated place to bitch about a relatively unknown person who is bitching about being bitched about?

now it's about candy complexity theory, or something?

Beat you to it.

[LMNO]

The M&Ms were put in a state of order before you even received the bag.

Therefore the only correct answer would be to throw the unopened bag on the floor in a high traffic area.

I still like Mang's solution best.