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weird (adj.)

c. 1400,

• "having power to control fate", from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes,"

• from Proto-Germanic wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"),

• from PIE wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"),

• from root wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).

• For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

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Othering and randomness (www.reddit.com)

submitted 1 year ago by syncretik to c/weirdway

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I'd like to hear your perspectives on randomness. This question has implications for the understanding of othering.

Is true randomness possible?

If not, this would be a limitation of mind.

If so, it also feels like a limitation of mind (inability to predict/know the outcome of an event).

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[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago

Is true randomness possible?

Probably. A university in Australia is measuring the rise and fall of virtual particles in a vacuum and outputting a stream of numbers based on it. Conventionally speaking, that's pretty sound.

Whether or not either order or chaos is primordial has been a question since antiquity. Depends how you look at it. ☯️

On another level, taken personally you're essentially asking whether or not you can surprise yourself. Not sure if you'll get an acceptable response about that from an 'other.' If you did, why would you believe them?

Originally commented by u/Scew on 2022-08-04 16:37:16 (iivvkk9)