[OSList] OST / Gaming

[ANNE BENNETT]

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 <never at acompletelossforwords.com>
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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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