Ordo ad Chao

[Cassandra]

Salutations

The Crucial Information:​

My name is Cassandra and I like semicolons: ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

That set aside, I also like semichaos; green is a pretty color.

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Latin, and Entomology are all interesting.

I live in a place with a swamp; it contains frogs.

I had a dream last night about a plague.

That is all; Cassie.

 

[Cogwulf]

Actually that green is rather aesthetically pleasein. Hello

 

[Adymus]

That's fucking cool.
you're fucking cool.

 

[preilemus]

well, what sort of music do you like?

 

[Da Blob]

Welcome!

Was a dream about a plague of green semi-chaotic frogs?

 

[Claverhouse]

Welcome.

We rather wish for ab than ad; yet semi-colons are cool, and green is my favourite colour.




Claverhouse

 

[Cassandra]

That's fucking cool

you're fucking cool.

I'll take your word for it. Most people find me rude and not ginger *

*Doctor Who reference

well, what sort of music do you like?

A ton of random stuff, mostly
Classical: Shostakovich; Piano played by Vladimir Horowitz (Chopin, mostly);Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven; Beethoven’s Seventh; Holst’s The Planets; Metamorphosis by Philip Glass; Glassworks by Philip Glass
Non-Classical: Mad World by Gary Jules; Doctor Who Theme Tune; Robot Song by Flight of the Conchords ;She Blinded Me With Science by Thomas Dolby; Data’s “Life Forms Song” …if you’re a geek, you’ll know

Welcome!

Was a dream about a plague of green semi-chaotic frogs?

Oooo, that actually sounds fun; this dream wasn't fun. It was a plague that turned your skin orange and plastic-y, gave you fluid-filled lungs, turned your eyes sickly opaque yellow, killed you in two days time. It traveled by air, water, anything. I hid in a room with my sister, but she didn't listen to me and left to give food and water to the ill, became infected. I couldn't let her back in because she would infect me, this made my dream-person feel horrible because she would die in more pain without food, water, or care. But I admitted that it was illogical to let her back in because then we would both die. Yeah...not as much fun as the green semi-chaotic frog dream; I'll instruct my subconscience to dream about that next time.

Thanks for the welcome.

Welcome

We rather wish for ab than ad; yet semi-colons are cool, and green is my favourite colour.




Claverhouse

Green Semicolons of Semichaos are then the overlords of us all.
It has just occured to me that the above would be a great band name...

About the ab v. ad...yeah, it's "ab" in my signature...tyyy1ypo. Come to think if it though, I like the "ad" better. It makes the phrase "order to chaos" instead of "order out of chaos"...really I cannot pick. I guess because I like semichaos; pure order or chaos is bad.

Nice to internet-meet you, Claverhouse.

 

[Cassandra]

Actually that green is rather aesthetically pleasein. Hello

Green is pretty cool, ya.

...

In other news, I have no idea why it's separating the quotes in my post incorrectly; perhaps it is only on my computer...

If you (read: anyone who reads this) could be in any M.C.Escher drawing, which would you choose?*
*This is my "get to know you" question

 

[SEPKA]

"Cassandra" was what I intended to use as my forum name because I use that in some other forum but I changed right at the last minute. For a moment there I thought I was posting and wondering why is it so different from me!

 

[Latro]

Interesting that translators take your little title (I googled it) and make it "to boldly go where no man has gone before." It's literally "to the same [place] to which no one has gone before." The "go" is fair, and the "where" is fair, but the "boldly" is simply an addition by the translator to make it emulate familiar text. I wonder why they do that.

Incidentally as I recall ordo ad chao doesn't work since the accusative of chaos is I think chaos.

 

[Deleted member 1424]

A doctor who fan hmmmm?
Is that where 'Cassandra' comes from?

If you (read: anyone who reads this) could be in any M.C.Escher drawing, which would you choose?*
*This is my "get to know you" question

or perhaps this one.

 

[SEPKA]

I thought Cassandra is a reference to the mad Greek prophet who predict everything correctly but nobody believe her, then she was eventually killed.

 

[Cassandra]

Interesting that translators take your little title (I googled it) and make it "to boldly go where no man has gone before." It's literally "to the same [place] to which no one has gone before." The "go" is fair, and the "where" is fair, but the "boldly" is simply an addition by the translator to make it emulate familiar text. I wonder why they do that.

Incidentally as I recall ordo ad chao doesn't work since the accusative of chaos is I think chaos.

I agree, they translate it falsely because they want it to be a familiar phrase...still, I think it's cool. I will add "boldly" to it if I can figure out how. Adverbs aren't my favorite.

As to ordo ad chao...I had meant it to be "ordo ab chao", as my signature is...but could you explain to me further why "ordo ad chao" doesn't work? Thanks.

 

[Cassandra]

A doctor who fan hmmmm?
Is that where 'Cassandra' comes from?

I DENY ALL! I am not from Gallifrey. Wish I was... Now you've made me all sad inside.

 

[Deleted member 1424]

I thought Cassandra is a reference to the mad Greek prophet who predict everything correctly but nobody believe her, then she was eventually killed.

Well there is more than 'Cassandra' in this world. I was just curious if she related to a skin wall hanging.

Spoiler

I DENY ALL! I am not from Gallifrey. Wish I was... Now you've made me all sad inside.

Well if it makes you feel better, I'm actually an alien.
I'm also fairly sure that someone on the forum is building a time machine.

 

[Cassandra]

Nah, Cassandra is actually my name.

Now, I don't want to be the Cassandra in Doctor Who...besides the meeting the Doctor bit.

Strangely...it does make me feel better that you're an alien. An INTP alien? Double points.
Ahh...I see you're from "Gliese 581 d"...a planet? Something else?

...

Nice Escher drawings. If I were you I would pick the first so there would be more places to roam around in. But, then again, living in a fractal pattern in a water drop on a leaf would be pretty awesome. I personally like this one:

Spoiler

 

[Sapphire Harp]

Welcome to the forum, Cassandra. It's nice to see someone representing another shade of color about the place.

But, that aside, I get the feeling you're going to be a nice contributor here - so, please. Stay awhile.

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I thought Cassandra is a reference to the mad Greek prophet who predict everything correctly but nobody believe her, then she was eventually killed.

No no... Cassandra was a Trojan princess. She was predicting the fall of Troy the entire time but, cursed as she was, no one would believe her.

Cursed, incidentally, for refusing to have sex with Apollo after he gave her the gift of prophecy... "Let this be a lesson to you all - if a deity gives you a gift and then propositions you, it's very dangerous to refuse."

...So, Cassandra, you can give us unbelievable prophecies, right? Is that one of your party tricks?
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[Cassandra]

Indeed. Or at least I can fake it. I wonder why she never thought of telling them the opposite of what was going to happen...but I guess Apollo probably thought of that.

Unbelievable (and Embellished) Prophecy:

When you see the five lights in the sky, when you see the frogs all die;
When you see the one who melts copper on the clouds with an electric sun;
That is when you must run beyond the light, beyond the orbs that circumnavigate;
At this time, the iron core will become solid iron once more, and color will drip from the lines.

 

[Artifice Orisit]

When you see the five lights in the sky, when you see the frogs all die;
When you see the one who melts copper on the clouds with an electric sun;
That is when you must run beyond the light, beyond the orbs that circumnavigate;
At this time, the iron core will become solid iron once more, and color will drip from the lines.

Five new visible things in the sky (satellites, spacecraft?), the natural environment is dying if not indeed already dead (climate change, or such), somebody is using fusion reactors to power a laser based missile shield (USA's star wars program), now everyone must escape this planet, go beyond the orbiting satellites, because the Earth’s core has gone cold, solidified, and without the magnetic field protection it provided against radiation the earth is doomed to become a lifeless wasteland.
...
"color will drip from the lines" What's that about?
The loss of colour diversity in human bloodlines perhaps?

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

Is it better to be always right and never believed or always wrong and always believed?

I, sadly would pick the first. It's an INTP curse to want to always be right. I'm not sleeping with Apollo to be right AND believed however I will sleep with Aphrodite just for the fun of it.

Oh and uhmmmm....welcome to whoever I'm supposed to be welcoming

 

[Cavallier]

Ah, I see the bats like you. That is good. I shall like you as well.

 

[Anthile]

Oh well, even more ominous Latin titles now. Thank <deity>!
Besides from that there is not too much to say, I'm afraid. Welcome and all that stuff...
Wait, are you a Green Lantern?

Oh and my favourite Escher is this one:

 

[ifelloverboard]

Does as the herd and bows.

 

[Latro]

I agree, they translate it falsely because they want it to be a familiar phrase...still, I think it's cool. I will add "boldly" to it if I can figure out how. Adverbs aren't my favorite.

As to ordo ad chao...I had meant it to be "ordo ab chao", as my signature is...but could you explain to me further why "ordo ad chao" doesn't work? Thanks.

Declension of "chaos" in Greek can be found here:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/χάος
Transliterating, we get:
Chaos
Chaeos
Chaei
Chaos

In Latin we use the accusative for "ad", so it winds up being Chaos.

Also, in your new title you put an adverb in between a preposition and a noun. This is a rare example of something that you're actually not allowed to do syntactically; occasionally poets pull that to deal with meter but you REALLY should keep your prepositions and nouns together.

 

[Cassandra]

Well, shoot. I tend to avoid adverbs because I always put them in the wrong place.

Ad eundum audaciter quo nemo ante iit, is probably better. I find latin interesting, it is my current topic to explore, but I've just begun taking classes in the actual writing/speaking bit this year. So I'm still in exploration phase and no where near being good at it yet.

On a related note, I might do better on the grammar test this week. One problem/help is that I have already taken spanish for 6 years. It helps, becaue it is derived from latin, but it hurts in that I often revert back to things that look or sound more like spanish when trying to write or speak it.

I get the feeling you've taken latin for quite a bit longer?

........

And as to the fake prophesy thing, I tried to pick unrelated things so it wouldn't have a meaning, but apparently I failed. Humans (including me) always find meaning in everything, which is probably for the best. But, that's a good thing:

"Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye. The richness of human life is that we have many lives: we live the events that do not happen (and some that cannot) as vividly as those that do: and if thereby we die a thousand deaths, that is the price we pay for living a thousand lives."

~Jacob Bronowski, The Reach of Imagination