[UA] Risking it - Sunbjectivity or objectivity?

[Patrick O'Duffy]

----- Original Message -----
From: "James O'Rance" <jorance at hotmail.com>

But is the risk subjective (based on what the entropomancer can possibly
know about the situation) or objective?

If the risk must be objective, then you could take the argument to its
extreme and argue that entropomancy is impossible without entering
situations that involve the Uncertainty principle. Even when you're playing
Russian Roulette, either the gun will fire a bullet or it will not. The
universe "knows" which will happen, and so there is no risk - there is
certainty.

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Isn't this covered in the rulebook, on page 136? There's a discussion about
how magick operates at least partially on subjective meaning, partially on
'objective reality'. An example is given that if a pornomancer performs a NG
sex ritual that she believes has never been performed before - but she's
_wrong_ - then she doesn't get a major charge.

By the same logic, if an entropomancer performs an action that he thinks is
risky - but unbeknownst to him, it isn't, because the gun is empty or
whatever - he gets no charge.

--
Patrick O'Duffy, Brisbane, Australia

What are you fucking looking at? What? You think I'm one of the nutless
freaks you peddle your watered-down gnat's piss to? One of your mental
barflies gone bad? I'm a fucking journalist! I am working!

 - Spider Jerusalem, TRANSMETROPOLITAN #34



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