Jim, I'm not doing the "Surprise Me Eris", because I don't have to. My life is already rife with chaos, and while too much is still better than not enough, there's still sometimes too much.
If someone had told me this time last year that I would have been in the cardiac ward twice, had a brain virus, wrecked my motorcycle, and developed an unhealthy partnership with Big Pharma, I would have laughed. If someone had also told me that my relationships with my best E-buddy and a few of my close IRL friends would be severely damaged for reasons that nobody can properly explain, I'd have punched them out. If someone had told me that I'd be back with Maria, I probably would have been depressed by the notion that it was impossible...and if someone had told me that I'd take up stupid shit like bare knuckle boxing, sunroofing, and hanging out with real perverts, I would have just looked at them funny.
You may have noticed that in the Millions of Screaming Yahoos era, I was typically observing or caught up in weirdness, but was usually not really happy about the events that occurred. But that's not how it is now, Jim...Now I can't get enough, and my life has turned into a roller coaster ride of serious medical problems, cheap thrills, and debauchery, and I just have to see what's next. I can't help myself. I have become that weirdest of creatures, an adrenaline junkie.
So why should I ask Eris to surprise me? She already does it, each and every day. And I kind of like it. I know Maria does...Sure, she gets mad at some of the dumber things, but I can tell by the way she behaves that she's digging it hard.
So after four very close brushes with death in less than 365 days, I have to ask myself "What do I want to do with this life that I shouldn't still have?"...and I think you know the answer, Jim. Since I'm living on bonus time, the only proper thing to do is take more stupid chances, find ever-stranger things and people to get all weird with, and take this short time I have on this planet, AND TAKE IT TO THE WALL. MAKE them ask themselves "Who's afraid of Doktor Howl?".
Why else would I still be here, if not to surprise Eris? Be true to The Lady, and she'll be true to you. Asking her is both insufficient and unnecessary. Don't ASK for the weird, BE THE FUCKING WEIRD!
Ad fundum, jackass!
Okay for now,
Dok
Hell yeah!
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 04:08:12 PM
Don't ASK for the weird, BE THE FUCKING WEIRD!
Ad fundum, jackass!
Okay for now,
Dok
:mittens:
Long velvet evening mittens for that man!
:mittens:
Hell yes!
"Stare into the abyss, eventually the abyss stares back." - old saying
He that fights monsters should be careful not to become one - old saying
"He that makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." - HST
Quote from: Richter on March 04, 2010, 04:30:04 PM
"He that makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." - HST
That's a great quote.
Is NOT hst that say this amazing quote which is motto of Enrico's country, island nation of Salazore.
IS DR JOHNSON!
Damnit Enrico, you're right. Much as I wish to bludgeon you for uncited contradiction.
I am glad to know this, and I curse the heinous intolerance in this country.
Why, one day, back in college, a student tried to purchase a Salazorian flag to hang in his room for solidarity or irony. The flag vendor threw the opaque wrapped package at him and pulled a gun.
There is much to find laudable and inspiring in Salazor. Hussein was a pussy compared to the Generalissimo who provided "Hot Plate Special" (loose translation), to the entire UN General Assembly. Guess there's some shit THEY won't eat either.
Quote from: Richter on March 04, 2010, 04:30:04 PM
"Stare into the abyss, eventually the abyss stares back." - old saying
He that fights monsters should be careful not to become one - old saying
"He that makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man." - HST
"PISS INTO THE ABYSS, AND THE ABYSS WILL PISS BACK!"
- Doktor Howl
"Stare into the abyss, I wave back and say 'Hi'" -Richter
Quote from: Richter on March 04, 2010, 04:52:24 PM
Much as I wish to bludgeon you for uncited contradiction.
Ah, you show promise.
:mittens:
Yessir!
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 04:53:01 PM
"PISS INTO THE ABYSS, AND THE ABYSS WILL PISS BACK!"
- Doktor Howl
:lulz: someone needs to add this in their sig. Fucking awesome.
Hail Eris!
The fucking truth, Dok Howl!! Ever since I let that crazy bitch of a goddess into my life, she surprises me on a daily basis... sometimes good, sometimes bad... always surprising ;-)
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 04, 2010, 05:19:21 PM
Hail Eris!
The fucking truth, Dok Howl!! Ever since I let that crazy bitch of a goddess into my life, she surprises me on a daily basis... sometimes good, sometimes bad... always surprising ;-)
Bah.
Letting a God into your life is like letting "Bob" into your wallet. It's going to hurt, because they always grab more things that they said they would.
Chaos is what you DO, not something you GET.
Or at least it should be.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 06:32:50 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 04, 2010, 05:19:21 PM
Hail Eris!
The fucking truth, Dok Howl!! Ever since I let that crazy bitch of a goddess into my life, she surprises me on a daily basis... sometimes good, sometimes bad... always surprising ;-)
Bah.
Letting a God into your life is like letting "Bob" into your wallet. It's going to hurt, because they always grab more things that they said they would.
Chaos is what you DO, not something you GET.
Or at least it should be.
newsfeed.
:mittens:
Doc, this is an awesome piece. I joined this forum so that I might remember how to be weird again. Fucking amazing work.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 06:32:50 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 04, 2010, 05:19:21 PM
Hail Eris!
The fucking truth, Dok Howl!! Ever since I let that crazy bitch of a goddess into my life, she surprises me on a daily basis... sometimes good, sometimes bad... always surprising ;-)
Bah.
Letting a God into your life is like letting "Bob" into your wallet. It's going to hurt, because they always grab more things that they said they would.
Chaos is what you DO, not something you GET.
Or at least it should be.
I find that Chaos is something I do AND something I get... often the more chaos I cause, the less chaos seems to hit me upside the head, while the less chaos I cause, the more likely something will come flying out of the Void and knock me over like a spilled cart full of golden apples.
Quote from: Dr. James Semaj on March 04, 2010, 09:13:35 PM
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Doc, this is an awesome piece. I joined this forum so that I might remember how to be weird again. Fucking amazing work.
Thanks. I'm currently working on proving the inverse of LMNO's Axiom (the imposition of order creates a corresponding and greater amount of disorder), by applying weirdness to everything, to see if order gets generated.
Also, like I said, I should probably be dead now, so it would be a damn disgrace if I didn't act like today was my last day on the planet.
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 04, 2010, 09:14:24 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 06:32:50 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on March 04, 2010, 05:19:21 PM
Hail Eris!
The fucking truth, Dok Howl!! Ever since I let that crazy bitch of a goddess into my life, she surprises me on a daily basis... sometimes good, sometimes bad... always surprising ;-)
Bah.
Letting a God into your life is like letting "Bob" into your wallet. It's going to hurt, because they always grab more things that they said they would.
Chaos is what you DO, not something you GET.
Or at least it should be.
I find that Chaos is something I do AND something I get... often the more chaos I cause, the less chaos seems to hit me upside the head, while the less chaos I cause, the more likely something will come flying out of the Void and knock me over like a spilled cart full of golden apples.
So do unto others.
I'm not sure I believe that by imposing Disorder, order will follow... If I impose Disorder, only I can impose Order - thats only cause I got bored and stopped.
Though when others join in and its like a whirling vortex of shit, everyone is just verbally shitting until Peni gets involved.
Though I believe that if Order was imposed, Disorder will come, just not the reverse :)
Quote from: NotPublished on March 04, 2010, 09:21:08 PM
I'm not sure I believe that by imposing Disorder, order will follow... If I impose Disorder, only I can impose Order - thats only cause I got bored and stopped.
Though when others join in and its like a whirling vortex of shit, everyone is just verbally shitting until Peni gets involved.
Though I believe that if Order was imposed, Disorder will come, just not the reverse :)
There's only one way to find out.
Neutralism is the way to go!
Quote from: NotPublished on March 04, 2010, 09:24:13 PM
Neutralism is the way to go!
:crankey:
RUBBISH!:crankey:
TO THE WALL OR GTFO!
My judgement is leaning towards maybe and possibly.
Quote from: NotPublished on March 04, 2010, 09:32:37 PM
My judgement is leaning towards maybe and possibly.
Yeah, well, you could be hit by a bus tomorrow. Better have fun today.
No shit.
SHIT! Its hard being neutral how do those Taoist do it?
Can we reschedule the bus? =/
Quote from: NotPublished on March 04, 2010, 09:52:52 PM
SHIT! Its hard being neutral how do those Taoist do it?
Can we reschedule the bus? =/
Taoism is for monks and California hippies who move to Washington and Oregon and stink the place up.
Middle path, my ass.
:damnright:
Well first off :mittens: to the OP! RAH!!
I came to a similar conclusion regarding my life and chaos. I either embrace it as a fiber of my existance, or they can commit me because you can't run away from it. It's kind of like, I'm on the ride, I can enjoy or not, but it ain't stopping for me to get off.
Another thing I've noticed is when you do embrace the chaos, the weird, the until now unbelievable shit that really does happen, you draw others who are lost and drifting in their own weird chaos to you like moths to a flame. At that point, you have a choice. You can burn them, or nurture their inner weird, allowing them to explore it, perfect it.
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on March 04, 2010, 10:39:31 PM
It's kind of like, I'm on the ride, I can enjoy or not, but it ain't stopping for me to get off.
THIS.
Quote from: Khara on Hiatus on March 04, 2010, 10:39:31 PM
Another thing I've noticed is when you do embrace the chaos, the weird, the until now unbelievable shit that really does happen, you draw others who are lost and drifting in their own weird chaos to you like moths to a flame. At that point, you have a choice. You can burn them, or nurture their inner weird, allowing them to explore it, perfect it.
AND THAT.
KAI, ARE YOU LISTENING?
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live the dream, man :ECH:
You've made a good point. After all, even if we assume that Eris is the functioning mechanism of SME (rather than our headjunk), it is the willing (and unwilling, and ignorant) merehumanscum acting as Her hands. If we don't generate the high weirdness, it will need to be generated by accident -- and I'm not sure that's preferable.
I'm not doing this either. I don't want anymore surprises from Eris right now.
rah!
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:15:27 PM
Quote from: Dr. James Semaj on March 04, 2010, 09:13:35 PM
:mittens:
Doc, this is an awesome piece. I joined this forum so that I might remember how to be weird again. Fucking amazing work.
Thanks. I'm currently working on proving the inverse of LMNO's Axiom (the imposition of order creates a corresponding and greater amount of disorder), by applying weirdness to everything, to see if order gets generated.
Also, like I said, I should probably be dead now, so it would be a damn disgrace if I didn't act like today was my last day on the planet.
LMNO owns imposition of order leads to escalation of chaos?
Quote from: BabylonHoruv on March 10, 2010, 12:18:50 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 04, 2010, 09:15:27 PM
Quote from: Dr. James Semaj on March 04, 2010, 09:13:35 PM
:mittens:
Doc, this is an awesome piece. I joined this forum so that I might remember how to be weird again. Fucking amazing work.
Thanks. I'm currently working on proving the inverse of LMNO's Axiom (the imposition of order creates a corresponding and greater amount of disorder), by applying weirdness to everything, to see if order gets generated.
Also, like I said, I should probably be dead now, so it would be a damn disgrace if I didn't act like today was my last day on the planet.
LMNO owns imposition of order leads to escalation of chaos?
YES. DO NOT QUESTION IT. COUGH UP THE ROYALTIES, PLS.
I don't know how I missed this...but yes, I embrace the weird, even if it annoys me, and I am a student if not an out and out soldier for chaos. Because it's come and found me in ways I can't even describe, though I've shared quite a bit here, so y'all know how rough the road's been. Nosirreee, ain't no smooth sailing for ol' Jenne.
Anyway, no need to invite Eris to do her best, she's been riding me like her personal hobby horse for a good, long while now, and hasn't tired of me yet. I'm trying my damnedest, though, to turn that bitch around and enjoy the ride...
Quote from: Jenne on March 10, 2010, 01:55:51 PM
I don't know how I missed this...but yes, I embrace the weird, even if it annoys me, and I am a student if not an out and out soldier for chaos. Because it's come and found me in ways I can't even describe, though I've shared quite a bit here, so y'all know how rough the road's been. Nosirreee, ain't no smooth sailing for ol' Jenne.
Anyway, no need to invite Eris to do her best, she's been riding me like her personal hobby horse for a good, long while now, and hasn't tired of me yet. I'm trying my damnedest, though, to turn that bitch around and enjoy the ride...
:mittens:
I seriously suggest that quotes from this thread get included on the "Suprise Me, Eris" website that the person who started that thread is building, just to counterpoint the homogeneous Christaddict message. Also to drive some of LMNO's points in.
I also humbly submit "Avoid too much 'Surprise Me, Eris' and not enough 'Thank you, Mistress'."