Krimel said:
So like Dave you don't get what this means? Chaos is not a state of complete
disorder. It is more like the field of possibility. Order emerges from it. It
is neither orderly nor disorderly. It is both. ...
dmb says:
I don't get what this means because "chaos" is NOT a state of complete
disorder? Oh. Okay. Sorry.
It's just that I always thought "chaos" meant exactly that. Some of the blame
has to be given to those darn dictionaries, which are really are so confusing
these days. For example, mine says "chaos" is a noun and that it means,
"complete disorder and confusion". So naturally, I thought that's what you
meant when you used the term. Now I see that "chaos" refers to the field of
possibility from which order emerges. It is NOT complete disorder. Instead,
"chaos" is neither orderly nor disorderly AND it is both orderly and
disorderly. Right, I've got it now and it makes perfect sense to me.
The confusion was caused by my own lack of imagination, by my own lazy habit of
leaning on standard meanings and definitions. Obviously, those hacks over at
the dictionary factory are a bunch of weasel-word spewing bullshitters. It's
almost as if their whole reason for being was to confuse people about the
proper use of terms. It's like they just don't give a damn about human
communication. It's almost like they take pleasure in creating a state of
confusion and disorder. I wish there was a name for the state of complete
disorder and confusion that they've created.
Oh, I know what to call it; a dictionary!
dictionary |ˈdik sh əˌnerē| (abbr.: dict.)noun ( pl. -aries)
complete disorder and confusion : snow caused dictionaries in the region.
Anyway, thanks for taking time to straighten me out, Krimel.
Moq_Discuss mailing list
Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc.
http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org
Archives:
http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/
http://moq.org/md/archives.html
