(via thesummerofmark)

(via nollpunkten)

THE SACRED CHAO

Tell everyone today is your birthday. Figure out how old you would be if you only had a birthday once every leap year. Act your age. Determine if you’re of legal age to drive, raise children, buy a gun, gamble, leave school, get a job, drink, get married, get drafted, sign a contract, vote, run for parliament or congress, have sexual congress, have sexual congress for money, retire, or walk across the street by yourself. Realize how silly having a legal age for everything really is, and how arbitrary it is, and how it doesn’t recognize the individual as an individual, and how it’s all culturally-biased ageism anyway. Forget about age limits, and do whatever you want. If you’re lucky, maybe you can convince them you’re too young to get arrested for doing any of the above (but don’t count on it).

(via existenceandidentity)

A Cunning Man, deep in the pocket of Greyface, once exclaimed to the Universe:

“I have no need of Gods! I possess the Power of the Gods!”

Eris, hearing this, dropped by and said to him:

“Oh Wise and Powerful One, I have heard you say you have the Power of the Gods. Can you do this?” and She grabbed a handful of dirt, pressed it together, and blew gently into it.

A spark formed, eating up the dirt in a fireball, and a beautiful and magnificent Phoenix erupted from Her hands, roaring into life and soaring off into the wide blue sky.

“Most certainly I can!” exlaimed the Cunning Man, and he bent to snatch up some dirt from the ground.

“Hey!” exclaimed Eris, “Use your own dirt!”

In the beginning there was VOID, who had two daughters; one (the smaller) was that of BEING, named ERIS, and one (the larger) was of NON-BEING, named ANERIS. (To this day, the fundamental truth that Aneris is the larger is apparent to all who compare the great number of things that do not exist with the comparatively small number of things that do exist.)

Eris had been born pregnant, and after 55 years (Goddesses have an unusually long gestation period — longer even than elephants), Her pregnancy bore the fruits of many things. These things were composed of the Five Basic Elements: Sweet, Boom, Pungent, Prickle, and Orange. Aneris, however, had been created sterile. When she saw Eris enjoying Herself so greatly with all of the existent things She had borne, Aneris became jealous and finally one day she stole some existent things and changed them into non-existent things and claimed them as her own children.

This deeply hurt Eris, who felt that Her sister was unjust (being so much larger anyway) to deny Her her small joy. And so She made Herself swell again to bear more things. And She swore that no matter how many of her begotten that Aneris would steal, She would beget more. And, in return, Aneris swore that no matter how many existent things Eris brought forth, she would eventually find them and turn the into non-existent things for her own. (And to this day, things appear and disappear in this very manner.)