| MORTONSLIST.COM |
| VOL. 1, NO. 11 |
Messages from the Center of the Inner Circle
| September |
| 2007 |
In
This Issue:
What is the Inner Circle? The Inner Circle is the collective bodies and consciousness of all who have experienced Random Reality as presented in the game Morton's List: The End to Boredom. It serves the cause of the Random Reality Revolution by connecting players and encouraging the uninitiated to let chance into their lives. Currently, there are estimated to be over 50,000 active members of the Inner Circle, worldwide.
Morton's List on the Web MortonsList.com MySpace/mortons_list Wikipedia Everything2 The RPG Site Faygo Luvers Juggalo News MeetUp: Global Inner Circles Email: MortonsWeb@gmail.com
Send us Your Mug Shot! Inner Circle members! How would you like your picture in The Radius Volume 1? It's easy - just send us a pic! It's best if you also send your Name, Ninja Name, City/State/Country, Inner Circle (if any), and Morton's List Degrees/Title (if any). The more of this info you include the better your placement will be, but it's not required to be printed. Contributors to The Radius: Your pics will definitely be included, so please make sure to send us a good one (along with the info above). Any contributor without a pic will be assigned a generic one. If you're EVER submitted anything that made it into an issue of The Radius, you're a contributor and this applies to you. If you haven't submitted yet, you've got one more shot in October to get contributor status! Email pics and info. to the Editor.
Clarification The August issue of The Radius included an article titled "Karma vs. Drama: The Two 'dars." In said piece, the terms gaydar and jewdar were used lightheartedly to flesh out the meaning of the new words Karmadar and dramadar. The context did not adequately associate jewdar and gaydar with Karmadar (vs. dramadar), and further, the potential controversy associated with these terms was not acknowledged. One Inner Circle member was highly offended, an indication that others may have been as well, though not enough to bring their concerns to the editor. To make it perfectly clear, the staff of The Radius, Center and The Karmic Order of Twilight Lords are beyond all divisions of class, race, species, sex, pirate/ninja, gender, etc. etc. So much so that perhaps at times we forget that a large portion of the world is not. Absolutely no offense was intended and in fact quite the opposite. Some of our very best friends and lovers are Jewish (domestic & Israeli), gay, or both! Thanks to the Inner Circle member who brought this issue to our attention, and please, readers, always feel free to comment on our content and submit your own.
Submit to The Radius! Do you have a story, announcement, rant, editorial, photo, comment, review, poem, or report to contribute to this newsletter? Email submissions to the Editor. Articles and stories should be 200 to 1000 words - shoot for 500. October 2007 Issue DEADLINE Monday, October 1st Note: Submissions will be accepted based on quality and space/timing considerations. Submissions received by the first of the month will be considered for next month's issue. Submissions may be edited, and become the intellectual property of Center, the Karmic Order of Twilight Lords, and/or any of its partners, associates, assignees, etc., and may be used in any way they see fit, including but not limited to print publication.
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Contributors Thank you to the following individuals and organizations who contributed to this issue of The Radius (in no particular order):
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Adventurers of the Inner Circle,
Karma
Boost! Evolution.
The greatest contribution of the Western world to philosophy and
advancing our understanding of the Kosmos and our place in it. Not
just the biological evolution most of us think of as synonymous
with the word, but evolution
as a fundamental force of the Kosmos and everything and everyone
in it. Everything evolves. That is to say that through experience,
through trial and error, through living/existing, everything moves
towards something greater than itself. This Law of Nature is as
predictable as gravity, though much less apparent. It acts on vast
time scales, but also in our own daily lives. It is the ladder we
have been climbing since our birth, and once we see it for what
it is and realize we are on it, only then may we know where it can
and will take us. Last time we talked about nondual realization.
Now let us come full circle and look at what it all means and how
Morton's List and Random Reality fit into the great Kosmic
scheme of things. We all are the product of untold millennia of slow painful laborious biological evolution. It took quite a lot of time to evolve a being that could wake up to its own being and discover a whole other realm of existence that is both dependent upon yet transcendent of the biosphere. This is human world of the mind and thought, ideas, symbols and language: the noosphere. And it is here that evolution can be seen acting today.
Biological evolution of the human species is no longer a relevant
issue. Not
because we are devolving as some '80s bands would have us believe,
but because biological evolution occurs on a time frame that we
aren't built to deal with.
No one will wait around for 10,000 years let alone a million to
see or care what we evolve into physically. We've passed the stage
where that really matters. For us, the crux of evolution has moved
into the noosphere, and is even now taking us beyond into transcendental
states where our very ego and personal identity is becoming obsolete,
a hindrance to our further spiritual evolution. "If
there were no mutations, we would probably not even be as advanced
as a bacteria. Without mutation there is no change, no improvement
and maybe even no life." Morton's
List provides that important element of the unknown, through
its Quest and aptly named Mutations. It is a tool to be used to
introduce mutation at will when we feel the balance of our life
shifting too far towards stifling stability. It is not an end in
and of itself, but rather a tool to reach that end, an extra-dimensional
compass that always points towards the nondual, towards Karma. Its
arrow is the arrow of evolution.
Our own personal evolution from simple humans to beings beyond space
and time, beyond death, beyond paradox, confusion and fear. And
always and ever, beyond boredom.
The
Astonishing OddBall is a 360° Rainbow Dragon/Yin of the Earth
Adept, also specializing in Morton's List. He hails from Oshkosh,
WI where he lives with his girlfriend Sugar, a List of Life Adept
specializing in Cosmic Law, his dog Boulder, and cat Karma. OddBall
has been playing since 2002, and is co-founder of The Ninjas of
the Crimson M, as well as The Sons of Pandora. Each
month The Radius showcases photos and artwork created for a Quest
or connected to Morton's List. One photo each month will
be selected from among all the submissions for its exceptional flavor
and Karma. After
the Dust Settles
TIP: To increase your chances of publication, please make sure to proofread and spell check before submitting. We edit all submissions for length and grammar, and are more likely to publish pieces that require less editing. Most written pieces should be 200-1000 words, with 500 being average. Photos or other images (using the format guidelines for Pic of the Month) that compliment your writing are encouraged and will increase your chances of acceptance. Submission instructions and the deadline for the next issue may be found here. Is
the Global Inner Circle content to let The 8+ Sisterhood steal all
the heat? They're setting an excellent example, so follow it and
submit your story. In this issue read how the Sisterhood took their
group to the next level of organization, togetherness and fashion. Saturday Afternoon. After the Karmic Gathering Ceremony at the 8+ Lair, the Boulder took us for a ride. Three throws, from The List of Life to Rainbow Dragon, a Table symbolic of harmonious balance and joyfulness, and finally arriving at New Resolutions which brings the Inner Circle new hope by making vows to become better. We thought about this long and hard. Each of us already had career goals set pretty clearly. We then thought we should maybe stop messing around with Morton's List before we got to questionable Quests... but since we truly believe that the unseen forces working within Morton's List would only bring us what we needed, we ignored that thought and read the section again, suggesting we set short-term goals to accomplish by the end of the day. We liked that idea and went with it. Should we set group goals or individual ones? We decided on group goals. What goals could we accomplish by the end of the day that would make us better as a group? Then it hit us. We made a quick list of four things: 1) Go out and buy the same black, cool and comfortable outfit for each of us to wear on those Quests in which we might have to accomplish as a super tight team. We thought wearing the same outfits on such occasions would help us focus and bind us even closer together. 2) Go to a game store and make sure we each ended the day with our own Morton Boulder. We had one (came with the set); we needed three more. 3) Design a few simple logos for the 8+ Sisterhood (the ones you can now see in our pics section). You never know when we might need them (at the time we hadn't thought of a MySpace page yet). 4) And last but certainly not least, while we were at the computer, search online and "favorite" everything we could find on Morton's List and Inner Circle groups for us to read and study later on our own. Not surprisingly, shopping for the outfits was the most fun we had, not to mention we ended up buying a few more unrelated things as well, but mission accomplished! We all have an exact black outfit to wear if and when we need to. We had to go to two stores to get the three Morton Boulders we needed. But we did it! We each have one now, to carry, play with, and pray over. When we returned to the 8+ Lair, we gathered some images from the Morton's List web site and created a few simple logos. And we found a couple of pages online related to Morton's List, like the Meetup for the Global Inner Circle (though it took us until recently to join) and a couple of other Inner Circles we were glad to discover. All in all, we think we did become better as a group by the end of the day.
2007 Morton's List Tour de Chance
The
good people at Center are smoking a collective and metaphorical
cigarette after the Karmagasm that was Burning Man, the climax of
the summer 2007 Tour de Chance events. You can read all about that
below. Now all eyes are on ¡Devastacion! It's ready to rock
you like a Karmacane in December. Taking Karmic Gatherings to an
exciting new level, this 3rd
such event will set the precedent and many records for those to
come in 2008.
Each event will be one of the four Classes and up to one of the two
Types. Here is a list of all possible combinations:
In
preparation for the overhaul of MortonsList.com, all Tour de Chance
events are listed on MySpace/mortons_list. UPDATES
LATEST
WORD: After an intense Burning Man experience with ¡Devastacion!
host RamGog AKA Thug Je$u$, even more plans have been laid. What
do you know about a Rock Paper Scissors tournament? What do you
know about the first Ninja Clan Showdown at a Karmic Gathering?
Oh, it's on all right. Plenty of people flee to Miami and other
tropical paradises during the cold months, but how many ALSO experience
all this added flavor and Karma?
LATEST
WORD: Big Cheddar is working on an even better, more scenic location
that will melt your wigs! Hold tight for the official announcement.
Also there is speculation that a special hunt will take place for
the Karmic Banquet. Ever had moose? What about bear? We're not kidding
- this is the real pioneer shit you only read about! Empire of Nothing
Inner Circle member, Trevor, is working on a special native ceremony
involving Karmic herbs. Also, we're working hard to bring costs
down. The more ninjas who make the journey the cheaper it will be
for all. In total, this Karmic Gathering experience will change
your life.
Prepare to Pioneer a Once in a Lifetime Experience. Email
us to volunteer at The Karmic Gathering: AlasKarma
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