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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1680 on: January 27, 2013, 02:21:19 pm »

Chaos is randomness. Chaos has the advantage because it's so random, half the time it's order.

How does that logic work? Because
humans
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1681 on: January 27, 2013, 02:21:50 pm »

Chaos and order can coexist. Imagine a universe so chaotic that everything is mixed perfectly. It is therefore perfectly uniform and ordered.
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1682 on: January 27, 2013, 02:26:05 pm »

shall we take the philosophy class to the ooc thread ;)

its cool and all, but there might be a better place.
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1683 on: January 27, 2013, 03:03:04 pm »

Chaos and order can coexist. Imagine a universe so chaotic that everything is mixed perfectly. It is therefore perfectly uniform and ordered.
It depends on your definition of chaos and order. A maximized entropy mean a perfectly uniform and unchanging (and unlivable) universe. Is it order? Is it chaos?
If it's order, then chaos is non-uniformity right? But isn't "everything contained in its own little corner" a definition of order as well?

Let's make an analogy. A bocal of clear water and a drop of black colorant.
When both are perfectly separated, we call the system ordered.
The fragile instant where the drop is not entirely mixed, when we can observe beautiful forms of black within the water, we call chaos.
But when both are perfectly mixed, making a bocal of grey water, is it perfect order or absolute chaos?
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1684 on: January 27, 2013, 03:06:01 pm »

maybe its also like Taoism. or maybe it is entropy... (I will take this ooc)
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1685 on: January 27, 2013, 03:08:40 pm »

Chaos and order can coexist. Imagine a universe so chaotic that everything is mixed perfectly. It is therefore perfectly uniform and ordered.
It depends on your definition of chaos and order. A maximized entropy mean a perfectly uniform and unchanging (and unlivable) universe. Is it order? Is it chaos?
If it's order, then chaos is non-uniformity right? But isn't "everything contained in its own little corner" a definition of order as well?

Let's make an analogy. A bocal of clear water and a drop of black colorant.
When both are perfectly separated, we call the system ordered.
The fragile instant where the drop is not entirely mixed, when we can observe beautiful forms of black within the water, we call chaos.
But when both are perfectly mixed, making a bocal of grey water, is it perfect order or absolute chaos?
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1686 on: January 27, 2013, 03:31:22 pm »

Order cannot be Chaos, but Chaos can be Order.

Say there's a one in one hundred chance of a box of marbles having all the marbles perfectly aligned in any given pattern. That one-hundredth of the time, it will be ordered, and thus, if chaos is applied, it can be ordered. However, if you have a stack of bricks, it is ordered, and being order, will not change into chaos on it's own.

Thus, Order can accomplish nothing on it's own, for it wishes for nothing to be accomplished. Similarly, Chaos can do anything, but doesn't do anything, because it's desires shift endlessly. Only a combination of the two can achieve one's goals.
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1687 on: January 27, 2013, 03:47:02 pm »

Order cannot be Chaos, but Chaos can be Order.

Say there's a one in one hundred chance of a box of marbles having all the marbles perfectly aligned in any given pattern. That one-hundredth of the time, it will be ordered, and thus, if chaos is applied, it can be ordered. However, if you have a stack of bricks, it is ordered, and being order, will not change into chaos on it's own.

Thus, Order can accomplish nothing on it's own, for it wishes for nothing to be accomplished. Similarly, Chaos can do anything, but doesn't do anything, because it's desires shift endlessly. Only a combination of the two can achieve one's goals.
Just so as this doesn't go entirely OOC, this logic means there must be a spy or order/chaos god in the nine.....
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1688 on: January 27, 2013, 03:51:08 pm »

So chaos is a process, and order a state? Sounds legit. Seriously.
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1689 on: January 27, 2013, 03:51:43 pm »

To further complicate this discussion, there's also the concepts of Organized Chaos and Chaotic Order - where both elements are present but in different levels of precedence.
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1690 on: January 27, 2013, 03:53:04 pm »

To further complicate this discussion, there's also the concepts of Organized Chaos and Chaotic Order - where both elements are present but in different levels of precedence.
The GM has spoken!!!!! Now back to relevance perhaps.......
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1691 on: January 27, 2013, 04:04:06 pm »

I am done with the derailment (sorry :'c) last thing in it, that if not order/chaos, then order/war get things done in eot? done now.
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1692 on: January 27, 2013, 07:24:39 pm »

We derialed so bad the GM joined us. This is truly Bay12.

Anyway, as for our little baby child. We must provide for it. It's an it, as there's no second member of the species to base gender off of.

We tell it that it is our shining creation, the first of a race that was brought to sentience through the power of chaos, and gifted with the abilites we have given it to succeed and thrive.

That states that it was an accident, sort of, while making it sound a precious thing. Which it seriously is. This is one of the most beautiful things Chaos can do.

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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1693 on: January 27, 2013, 07:35:03 pm »

We tell it that it is our shining creation, the first of a race that was brought to sentience through the power of chaos, and gifted with the abilites we have given it to succeed and thrive.

That states that it was an accident, sort of, while making it sound a precious thing. Which it seriously is. This is one of the most beautiful things Chaos can do.
Sounds good. Also, use our Chaos-SenseTM or something to determine if she/he/it has any gender, and if so which it is.
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Re: You are a new God
« Reply #1694 on: January 27, 2013, 07:46:46 pm »

I think I might be for giving full racial status to this thing, so amazing.

We should produce a few more for kickstarting purposes, say 6. Then we can test them and send them to scout.

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