Chaos is a Learning Experience

[B_M_W]

In the last two weeks I have had a long crossing with Our Lady of Perpetual Discord. Either I crosses her path, or crosses my fingers, or crosses my eyes at her, or she was just bitchy about something I did or didn't do, or thought about doing. Or she just wanted me to learn some cool fun stuff, and so she forced me to learn the only way she knows. Through Chaos.

I am usually a pretty computer literate fellow. I know my way around the Win XP OS better than most. I can find almost anything I need using google. I have picked up most of the tricks that can be used in such a system.

But over the past few months, I had become increasingly aware of an itch forming in the back of my mind. This itch grew and grew without me realizing, until it was so strong I was unable to contain it. So I gave in, like the passive person I am. That itch was...

Obsession.

And Im not talking the normal "I think about it constantly, and spend all my freetime doing it." No, no. Its never like that for me. Obsession to me is always "I think, eat, breath, sleep, and DREAM it until I am so exausted that the Obsession itch wears out".

And this is a reacurring thing. One month it was calculus, another it was geology. I spent a whole six weeks pondering Lichens last fall. (Which are actually pretty cool, but thats another story).

This particular itch happened to be: Open Source software, and especially, Linux. Ah, the Unix God-Kernal Linux, how I did worship thee.

Anywho, Linux and open source became my life. I was...entranced by its non-corporate beauty, its non-binary programming, and especially, its amazing skills and non-error sensibilites.

Like I said earlier, I think these obsessions are the Crazy Lady's doings. They turn my life upsidedown as I am wrapped in her embrace of discord. I forget to eat for days at a time. Or drink. And I also find myself running to the toilet just before I burst. But the Chaotic Obsession drives me.

Which is where I come to the point of my rant
Wait, theres a point
Yes there is a point.

I have discovered over the years that, the times where I learn the most, are these times of Chaos, of obsession. Chaos FORCES  a person to learn. If you don't learn, you have a hard time surviving. Chaos is the way Eris teaches us all how to survive.  True, if we fail to listen, to become enveloped and learn, we probably don't lose our body, mind or both immediatly. Instead, what  those who have seen with Goddess' help to be an amazing, beautiful and humourous Multi-verse, is seen as a dull and ugly speck of humourless existance.

This obsession phase is over. But I hope Our Lady of Perpetual Discord brings another round soon.

~Yurito Sakari~

The Wannabe Buddhist Monk

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Or she just wanted me to learn some cool fun stuff, and so she forced me to learn the only way she knows. Through Chaos.

Nice post.  However, you erred in the above sentence.

FACT:  Eris doesn't care about humanity.  Look at what she did to us, just because some of the other Gods snubbed her.  She doesn't care, in fact, she doesn't even realize we're here.

[Ben]

She doesn't care, but there are little spots of utopia in her womb, and wtf do I know about death?

[Cain]

Like I said earlier, I think these obsessions are the Crazy Lady's doings. They turn my life upsidedown as I am wrapped in her embrace of discord. I forget to eat for days at a time. Or drink. And I also find myself running to the toilet just before I burst. But the Chaotic Obsession drives me.

I always find that vaguely annoying, when you forget to eat.  And the toilet thing too, been there.

[Guido Finucci]

FACT:  Eris doesn't care about humanity.  Look at what she did to us, just because some of the other Gods snubbed her.  She doesn't care, in fact, she doesn't even realize we're here.

Revered-end,

You continue to be blinded by your own misanthropy. Let it go.

G.

[Irreverend Hugh, KSC]

Or she just wanted me to learn some cool fun stuff, and so she forced me to learn the only way she knows. Through Chaos.

Nice post.  However, you erred in the above sentence.

FACT:  Eris doesn't care about humanity.  Look at what she did to us, just because some of the other Gods snubbed her.  She doesn't care, in fact, she doesn't even realize we're here.

Right on.

Which makes Her the best deity to talk to and/or/about.

For fuck sake! You think I actually want deities to care and to interfere with our lives? I mean look at history and shit.

[gnimbley]

Actually, I think she does care, if only because Zeus told her not to.
But that doesn't mean she is actually going to do anything
because of that. You're still on your own.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

Or she just wanted me to learn some cool fun stuff, and so she forced me to learn the only way she knows. Through Chaos.

Nice post.  However, you erred in the above sentence.

FACT:  Eris doesn't care about humanity.  Look at what she did to us, just because some of the other Gods snubbed her.  She doesn't care, in fact, she doesn't even realize we're here.

She didn't do it, that's the beauty of it.  She threw an apple, 3 goddesses couldn't agree, the head god was a chicken shit then throw in a horny human male    At any point, if any one of the other players had been more mature than a 3rd grader we wouldn't have had the Trojan War.  All because of an apple.  She is the wings of the butterfly in the Amazon that creates a record number of hurricanes in Florida.  Kallisti!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Or she just wanted me to learn some cool fun stuff, and so she forced me to learn the only way she knows. Through Chaos.

Nice post.  However, you erred in the above sentence.

FACT:  Eris doesn't care about humanity.  Look at what she did to us, just because some of the other Gods snubbed her.  She doesn't care, in fact, she doesn't even realize we're here.

She didn't do it, that's the beauty of it.  She threw an apple, 3 goddesses couldn't agree, the head god was a chicken shit then throw in a horny human male    At any point, if any one of the other players had been more mature than a 3rd grader we wouldn't have had the Trojan War.  All because of an apple.  She is the wings of the butterfly in the Amazon that creates a record number of hurricanes in Florida.  Kallisti!

She knew all that when she tossed the apple.  A whole civilization was destroyed because she got snubbed.

I can dig that.  But please don't tell me she's benevolent.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

FACT:  Eris doesn't care about humanity.  Look at what she did to us, just because some of the other Gods snubbed her.  She doesn't care, in fact, she doesn't even realize we're here.

Revered-end,

You continue to be blinded by your own misanthropy. Let it go.

G.

Misanthropy?  We're talking about a Goddess, not people.

[agent compassion]

She didn't do it, that's the beauty of it. She threw an apple, 3 goddesses couldn't agree, the head god was a chicken shit then throw in a horny human male. At any point, if any one of the other players had been more mature than a 3rd grader we wouldn't have had the Trojan War. All because of an apple. She is the wings of the butterfly in the Amazon that creates a record number of hurricanes in Florida. Kallisti!

Of course Eris knew they'd fight, duh, why else did she put the intentionally vague "Kallisti" on the apple instead of "For the Bride?" She was testing them, and they flunked big time.

 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

She didn't do it, that's the beauty of it. She threw an apple, 3 goddesses couldn't agree, the head god was a chicken shit then throw in a horny human male. At any point, if any one of the other players had been more mature than a 3rd grader we wouldn't have had the Trojan War. All because of an apple. She is the wings of the butterfly in the Amazon that creates a record number of hurricanes in Florida. Kallisti!

Of course Eris knew they'd fight, duh, why else did she put the intentionally vague "Kallisti" on the apple instead of "For the Bride?" She was testing them, and they flunked big time.

 

Chef told me to say:

"AND1!!"

[Cain]

She knew all that when she tossed the apple.  A whole civilization was destroyed because she got snubbed.

And words cant express how much I aspire to that level...I'm not destructive for destructions sake, honest...

I kind of view her as a giant deity cat. Like with most cats, you will be mostly tolerated so long as you amuse it.  Mostly, as this wont stop them having an occasional nibble of your fingers when you get complacent.  However, the worst is normally saved for others.  I say normally, because like with cats, you can never tell....

[The Good Reverend Roger]

She knew all that when she tossed the apple.  A whole civilization was destroyed because she got snubbed.

And words cant express how much I aspire to that level...I'm not destructive for destructions sake, honest...

I kind of view her as a giant deity cat. Like with most cats, you will be mostly tolerated so long as you amuse it.  Mostly, as this wont stop them having an occasional nibble of your fingers when you get complacent.  However, the worst is normally saved for others.  I say normally, because like with cats, you can never tell....

If Eris is a cat, mankind is a chew toy.  Ignored except when being savaged.

[Ben]

She didn't do it, that's the beauty of it. She threw an apple, 3 goddesses couldn't agree, the head god was a chicken shit then throw in a horny human male. At any point, if any one of the other players had been more mature than a 3rd grader we wouldn't have had the Trojan War. All because of an apple. She is the wings of the butterfly in the Amazon that creates a record number of hurricanes in Florida. Kallisti!

Of course Eris knew they'd fight, duh, why else did she put the intentionally vague "Kallisti" on the apple instead of "For the Bride?" She was testing them, and they flunked big time.

 

Chef told me to say:

"AND1!!"

!!!!!1She is thee one and only Goddess.  All the other Gods and Goddesses are just figments of HER [spongebob voice]imagination[/spongebob voice]  They're all just HER pawns.  We are all HER playthings, and SHE's a mean little child who likes to break HER toys.