Using Dice to decide

[freescorfr]

Luke Rhinehart's piss take on psycho-theory, "The Dice Man", is over 30 years old. I don't know how many Lit people know it. It was cult and classic in it's time - perhaps it still is in some circles.

It is one of the funniest books I have read and full of "truth".

The hero, a psychiatrist decides to live by the dice - to make his life decisions on the throw of a dice, by listing for himself six options. So I think, if I took the dice today, I might

1. Drive to the loch and climb Ben Lomond.
2. Stay off Lit for a week.
3. Fly back to Normandy and resume marital relations.
4. Go swimming with my sister and my daughter, cook them a meal and help in the garden.
5. Try to seduce my sister-in-law.
6. Murder my rich aunt for her inheritance.

Is this a road to personal freedom? For the six options ,you choose, from your imagination, a range of possibilities. The dice makes your decision morally neutral. All you do is make the firm commitment to live by the dice.

What would your six be for today?

 

[Black_Bird]

1) Kick my brother out.
2) Quit my job and become a writer for a living.
3) Join the Airforce.
4) Rejoin christianity.
5) Start my own religion
6) Try to beat the world record for the loudest belch.
7) What would Holden Caulfield Do? (WWHCD)
8) Make it fashionable to make references to D&D.

... I know that's eight... but I rolled an eight on my nifty eight sided die that I play D&D with. I'm on a mission.

 

[Sillyman]

1. Give up all my wordly possessions and hitchhike to California.
2. Go out to the mall tomorrow and randomly hug people.
3. Go to a church and cry on the alter.
4. Steal a car and lead the police on a high speed chase until having a spectacular crash.
5. Walk to the store and buy the ingredients to make choclate cheese chicken.
6. Post at Lit and do nothing.

Well, lookee there 6. I always did roll high.

 

[Problem Child]

1. Ignore ppman

2. Buy a RealDoll

3. Attempt cold fusion in my bathtub.

4. Give Mr. Bum a new refrigerator box to live in.

5. Get into origami in a big life-altering way.

6. Move across the U.S. and not work for the next three or four months.

 

[superlittlegirl]

1. take this time to masturbate
2. eat the chocolate mousse that's in the freezer
3. tell my ex-girlfriend that I want her back
4. seduce my ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend
5. place an ad in the Village Voice to find a sugar daddy
6. make a phone call and have a quarter oz. of cannabis delivered

Actually, I like all of these. I really would need a die to decide.

Oh, Sillyman-- juicygirl and I are in a RV on the way to California as we speak. (In the SRPG board. You should check us out if you roll a 1.)

 

[cymbidia]

1. give up chocolate raspberry sex for vanilla sex - for a month

2. do 100 tummy crunches twice every single day no matter what

3. call my crazy sister Karen and try to resume a somewhat "normal" relationship with her even if it means i have to listen to a half-hysterical recounting of every single thing anyone in the world has ever done wrong to her, real or imaginary, since she was born

4. buy some new music tomorrow, something calming to gently ease the thoughts of people like my crazy sister Karen from my mind

5. go look for a job in a serious and meaningful manner

6. finish putting all the books away - the unpacking faires are obviously not going to do it


Hmmm. I'm not sure i like any of mine and some of them, well, i'd have a "do over" if the die landed on that number.

 

[freescorfr]

These are good. Part of the rationale is submission to the
" Never to be questioned principle, that whatever the die dictates I will perform."

The dice are therfore the ultimate liberator and no worse, and often better perhaps, than human judgement.

 

[DéjàNu]

Just finding the 6 things to choose from will take me all day so I cant play.

 

[bluespoke]

Luke Rhinehart's piss take on psycho-theory, "The Dice Man", is over 30 years old. I don't know how many Lit people know it. It was cult and classic in it's time - perhaps it still is in some circles.

It is one of the funniest books I have read and full of "truth".

The hero, a psychiatrist decides to live by the dice - to make his life decisions on the throw of a dice, by listing for himself six options. So I think, if I took the dice today, I might

1. Drive to the loch and climb Ben Lomond.
2. Stay off Lit for a week.
3. Fly back to Normandy and resume marital relations.
4. Go swimming with my sister and my daughter, cook them a meal and help in the garden.
5. Try to seduce my sister-in-law.
6. Murder my rich aunt for her inheritance.

Is this a road to personal freedom? For the six options ,you choose, from your imagination, a range of possibilities. The dice makes your decision morally neutral. All you do is make the firm commitment to live by the dice.

What would your six be for today?

Do (1), commit (6) there and bury the body before coming down and doing(4) followed by (5). Then do (3) and tell us all about it before doing (2)

 

[SINthysist]

1. Make some money
2. Earn some cash
3. Sell some stock
4. Buy a bond
5. Friday night, nap all day, collect Coors cans by the Roadside at night
6. YARD SALE!

 

[sabbathstorm]

(1) Make a final decision between school and work
(2) Take the time to finish a story I started so long ago
(3) Throw caution to the wind and tell a certain someone to be here tomorrow
(4) Get my dragon tattoo
(5) Limit my posting on Lit
(6) Get my paperwork together and send off my application to the Canadian Navy

 

[p_p_man]

My six:

1. Apply for American citizenship
2. Go and live in the South Seas
3. Make a million pounds sterling in the next 5 years
4. Ignore Problem Child
5. Ask my friend Ellen to marry me
6. Fuck next door's wife

The Dice Man - great book.

 

[Gord]

1 Buy old Kent Road

sorry wrong game

2. Get G/f to move in

3 Just give her a set of keys

4 dont give any keys atall and change locks

5 chuck her and start again

6 chuck her and say moving to Maldovia to study Zen Buddism

 

[Gord]

Re: My six:

1. Apply for American citizenship
2. Go and live in the South Seas
3. Make a million pounds sterling in the next 5 years
4. Ignore Problem Child
5. Ask my friend Ellen to marry me
6. Fuck next door's wife

The Dice Man - great book.

I am sure you would get lots of sponsors from Lit if you wanted to move - that could be a new thread who will sponsor PP man on his imminent move to the states - if you throw 1

 

[p_p_man]

Re: Re: My six:

I am sure you would get lots of sponsors from Lit if you wanted to move

Some Literoticans have already tried, but I can't get a Green Card on political grounds.

Can you believe that?

Me? Political?

Anyway hope flies high in Madonna's breasts...

 

[bluespoke]

Re: Re: Re: My six:

Some Literoticans have already tried, but I can't get a Green Card on political grounds.

Can you believe that?

Me? Political?

Anyway hope flies high in Madonna's breasts...

p_p_man, are you now or have you ever been a member of the communist party.

Or have they stopped asking that question now! LOL

 

[Guest]

1-Renew my passport witch is three years out of date.
2-Read a good book.
3-Eat something.
4-Smoke a joint and do fuck all.
5-Get a job.
6-Make my bed.

 

[LovetoGiveRoses]

1 - Go back to my life as of a month ago and my infatuation
2 - Move forward with my "new" life
3 - Throw caution to the wind, follow my heart and move west
4 - Start a new work career in a startup company
5 - Really focus on work and RL and stop playing so much on lit
6 - Spend 24 hours a day on lit and let everything else get screwed up.

 

[freescorfr]

I notice my daughter - who is 20 - has picked up the book and has got well into it in the last hour. Maybe I'll leave some dice around while I'm in London and watch my back when I return.

Living by the dice is certainly one way out of a rut.

Maybe p_pman, when he has moved to the States will prevail upon Bush to quit using the dice for a while, or at least to give himself a range of more imaginative options.

 

[Dhalgren]

Okay wait..

If you list your options then let a die choose one for you..
okay yes, you've given it to chance (karma) but since you made the list from within your own head...how is it you have no moral obligation simply because you rolled a die?


Side note:
I once rolled five dice..each landed on six.