FOH Shower Thoughts

Julian The Apostate said:

I really wonder why people create fake personas on this forum. I actually enjoy being able to tell people how I actually think without having to pull any punches or giving a shit

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Is it irony that Foler solidarity'd this post?*



*I did not have this thought in the shower.

pharmakos said:

If we are living in a computer simulation, then cleromancy (I Ching, casting bones, reading tea leaves, etc) could have been a primitive means of determining future chaotic events by sniffing out random seeds of the universe's Pseudo Random Number Generator algorithm.

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When I had that^ idea I was (probably obviously to you lot) thinking about people who used to game the /roll RNG in EQ back in the day. Not sure who in my real life would be interested in this passage of fiction I ended up writing about the idea.

If you're into Plato or Gnosticism at all, note that it's also very inspired by Platonic and Gnostic creation myths.

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The sage leads the party to the inner chamber of his cellar. The place where he does his most important rituals. He begins explaining:

"Some mystics say our world is actually contained inside of a vast intellect. Not directly a consciousness stemming from physical existence like our own; not one that started out from chaos and is journeying towards righteous truth. But rather one that started from righteous truth and then created the contained chaos of our world. One whose existence is made up of concepts itself. One that created the concept of what a concept even is! At it's base form, in the beginning before our universe, it was made of the numbers and shapes and the essential tenets of logic. It was only once the firmament of those concepts occurred that all the other consequences of conscious existence, like joy and pain, came to be.

"But even tho to us our world appears to be chaos, if the world is made up ONLY of shapes and forms, if everything that exists flows from a perfectly logical intellect, then pure chaos can't actually exist. It just gets close enough to chaos that it can be hard to tell the difference.

"There are ways to suss out the order from the chaos, but it can be difficult. Especially when we are talking about something as big as the universe. With each individual part connected to each other part, it can be incredibly difficult to keep track of it all to the point where you can make predictions about anything. However, by analyzing the 'chaos' of a small, controlled event, through cleromancy, it can be possible to catch enough of a glimpse of the 'chaos' to be able to discern the order in it. And since it is all connected, once you see the velocity of the 'chaos' of the microcosm, it can become possibly to predict the 'chaos' of the macrocosm.

"You have to control as many of the factors around the cleromancy as possible, tho, to keep the ritual itself isolated from any unintended interference. So please, everyone, remain as still as possible as I cast these bones..."

[[Ritual description, plot stuff that y'all don't care about]]

"...you know, some sages say that our world itself, the seeming chaos that we live in, is actually the original eternal intellect's own cleromantic ritual. That our world just exists as an experiment for it, in all it's infinite wisdom, to suss out something that even it doesn't yet understand. [[Stealing Douglas Adams here ->]]. But they also say that, if any of us or the intellect itself ever does figure out what that thing is, then our universe will cease to exist and be replaced with something even more unexplainable. So be careful what you wish for if you choose to meditate on this idea at any point in the future, young one."

Going back to old posts here

Bandwagon said:

Aren't you a self described fatty fat? And you have an 8 inch hog? Dude, cut some weight and you could do geriatric porn.

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Nope, I have that reputation because of how much I hang out in the fast food thread, but I'm a healthy weight for my height. I've gained about 20 pounds since I posted that in the spring, but even with that weight I'm still 6'1" 200lbs.

And even then I'm constantly told I'm too thin when my weight comes up IRL, I honestly think my bulge makes me look skinnier than I am lol.

Bandwagon said:

Ohhhh, I think I was thinking of Phazael

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Phazael may have been the one that started the whole "pharmakos is a fatty" thing bahaha. My memory is shot tho so I might be misremembering.

Oh yeah someone else told me my fast food habit was why I had cancer

BTW if anyone cares while I'm doing this rare drop in, I beat my stage 4 seminoma after four years. Life has still been hell since tho. Last chemotherapy option I had offered me a 17% (1 out of 6) chance of survival and a 72% chance of life long nerve damage even if I roll that 6 on the first die.

Bandwagon said:

I didn't know anything about that med history, but glad to hear you're still upright!

If anything takes a turn for the worse for you, Gavinmad would really appreciate it if you could drag Chani2021 into the great beyond with you.

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Thank you kind sir.

Whose alt would Chani2021 be? Really weak attempt at making a believable newbie screenname lol. No one who is ever gonna stumble on this board at this point is going to be young enough to put the current year in their screen name lol. And maybe not even anyone anymore honestly. They haven't updated their stealth tactics since Scars of Velious apparently.

Everyone I see posting is at least a Silver if not a Gold donor. Is that why this board is still going? Everyone is pot committed?

Is Lightning Lord Rule still secretly suineg or did he let someone else take over the account to cover his tracks?

So LLR has a file of pictures of assholes that are labeled with names. I'd question how my life got to this point if I had that.