Jenifer
I have loved your last two posts - they resonate very beautifully for me - I
think maybe the streams and torrents of discourse are like blood flowing (and
the extraverts' need for noise) in the OS corps. You and me (a lurky introvert
- I would bang on about silence in OS but oddly it doesnt transalte!) are maybe
just two of 100s in teh OS list who benignly get sprayed as the flow passes
I will risk a pebble (most of mine drop straight to the silt unnoticed) - which
is (hopefully uncontroversial) that we are in a complex system here (life) and
all frames are intriguing - how we make them, get stuck by them, cant see them,
dont know they are there, misunderstand each others', have endless renaissance
and revitalisation - like Hollywood remakes - sometimes you wonder - why? But
if it sells/belongs to a new crew. Actually, lets have a controversy (chewy
word)
Anne
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From: Jenifer Toksvig <[email protected]>
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Sent: Thursday, 24 October 2013, 18:50
Subject: Re: [OSList] OST / Gaming
Re: [OSList] OST / Gaming
Dan: I have no spiritual beliefs. Honestly, I don’t even know what that is.
I think sometimes people make connections with one another, and sometimes
people make connections with themselves, for all kinds of reasons. I think
we’re all ultimately self-concerned, for all kinds of reasons.
Trying to explain those things through story is part of connecting. Trying to
define those things through story is partly rejecting.
I like OST because it is not story, but rather, it is the way things are. It
neither connects nor rejects.
It isn’t interested in me. It doesn’t ask me to be interested in it.
It is not possible to challenge it, or bend the rules, or break it. Nor can I
see a reason why anyone would want to.
Frankly, I am always surprised that there is anything to talk about on the OS
list. I return here after a break, and think: why are you people not just
sharing recipes?
It’s not like I’m surprised people don’t get it. I’m just surprised people want
to add to it. Sometimes I want to say “Seriously, what are you *discussing*?
It’s OS. Now, who knows a good warm winter stew recipe?”
It is what it is. So is life. I will live, and things will happen, and I will
die, and that is what it is. It’s not possible to challenge it, or bend the
rules, or break it. Nor can I see a reason why I would want to. If you like:
Life isn’t interested in me, and it doesn’t ask me to be interested in it.
I have no spiritual beliefs. Honestly, I don’t even know what that is.
Jen x
Jenifer Toksvig
www.acompletelossforwords.com
The Copenhagen Interpretation
www.thecopenhageninterpretation.co.uk
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