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Principia Entropius Book Two >>The Principia EntroHocusPocus
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Part Fifteen of 15
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"I do not have Faith, I have Expereince."
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"Break, break, break
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At the foot of thy stones, O Sea!
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And I would that I could utter
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The thoughts that arise in me!"
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---Tennyson
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Nomic is a game where the basis of the game (and
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the rules of the game) is to change the rules and
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collect points.
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The initial rules set makes it so each turn you
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get 1-6 points, regardless of events. But that is
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usually the first thing to be changed.
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Nomic is a sacred game of MOO... It first got published in
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Scientific American (which we secretly own and control, being of the
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progressive and scientifically minded type) in 1982... Basically you
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begin with a bureaucratic set of rules which allow you to proceed by
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altering and adding rules each turn. It therefore mutates into whatever
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seems appropriate.
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You can check out a copy of the rules in the Book of MOO unless
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it's been eaten by Woob the Magnificent, or in Douglas Hofstadter's book
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"Metamagical Themas"... Nomic is a substitute for Mao when nobody can
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figure out how to play THAT.
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* note: When the Author of this portion of the book said "We" he did not
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mean, "You".
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D'annunzian Motto:
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I have what I have given.
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"If I had a rocket Launcher, Some Sunnanbitch, would Die."
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---Bruce Cockburn Hippie Phuck,
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It was widely beleived that Hari! Om, was translated as "let us meditate
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profoundly and in peace", but through careful examination of never before
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seen Upanishads, it was discovered that it meant "hey, pull my finger.."
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+ + +
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When Writing a Book, I have to give you some guidelines, The first one
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is to Read other books, and take the ideas from them, and change them
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a bit, and claim they are your own. That is actually not good advice,
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but it is still a guideline.
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Okay, Also a snappy name, something that grabs the reader, right by the
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throat, like "De Amy Fisher Ala Potty Chunks and Buttafuckios Chrystal
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Dream Analysys new Age Bullcrapioso", You can see how the Italianizeing
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the name, lends a certain credibility to it.
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Then What you write, must be splendid, it must be genuine, it must be
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a thing of beauty, constantly changing and in flux, (especially if
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it were to be an Discordian Book).
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Then you must understand the concept of the MAGDEBURG HEMISPHERES. Two
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Hemispheres, which when put together and the air is pumped out, create
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a pnuematic vaccuum inside. Teams of Draft Horses are hitched to them,
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and they pull in oppissitte directions. The Horses cannot seperate the
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Information---This is Scientific Information, but its special, picturesque.
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You must single it out, DRAMATIZE....
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