I have forgotten what anime I took this picture from, but it was not nearly as pious as it looks. And neither am I, unfortunately.

I have noticed with some unease that the Chaos Node, despite its name, tends to contain more and more religious / spiritual / metaphysical entries. If you put the ruler on this, as we say in Norwegian (a phrase meaning “extrapolate”) , it won’t be long before this is an all-out religious / spiritual blog. While that is not a bad thing in itself, it is far from an accurate representation of my life. The whole autobiography aspect that has run through the Chaos Node since its early days in 1998, is now in danger. But more importantly, there is a direct threat of hypocrisy. Because I am not actually that religious and spiritual. Although it seems to be seeping into me, it is nothing like completely taking over my life. I think. Yet.

I am still playing computer games almost daily. Mostly The Sims 3, and a little City of Heroes.  These days I am also reading a (would-be) SF novel. It is admittedly a Mormon SF novel, but I am definitely not a Mormon (although I suppose I vaguely aspire to an actual latter-day saint, if these are the latter days – anyway, I am not there, and I don’t think most of them are either, except in the most generic meaning). Remind me to review it if I finish it (which I intend to do). Mormons in space! Less absurd than absurd theater. Probably. I haven’t finished it yet.

I even watch some anime. I should review them. That would show you. They are not of the pantsu (underwear) type, but that could be because there are no good anime of that type recently, I suppose. It certainly need not be about me. Did you know there was a half-season animated series about underwear a couple years ago? It followed a bunch of girls and their underwear as they established an underwear club at school. I actually started watching it, but it really wasn’t that interesting. Or I may be growing old. Who knows. Probably not, I did not think a lot about underwear when I was young either. Well, I did occasionally think about my own, but that was pretty much it.

Anime are my main source of pictures, though. Sometimes a series is not all that amazing, but it has pictures that illustrate things I tend to say. Also, people will google for anime pictures and come to the Chaos Node.  Serves them right! ^_^

I used to write about economics on a fairly regular basis, you know. But you (the collective you) didn’t listen to my warnings. Actually, I guess the Collective You didn’t even know that I existed, but there were other voices as well, and the Collective You didn’t listen to them either. And so things went to Niflheim in a nutshell, as it keeps doing to this day. I guess I could write more about it, but I have no hope that it would make a difference. In fact, very few things would make a difference in macroeconomics anymore, short of a big war, an asteroid collision, or a decent number of legions of angels, things on that scale.

And without things on that scale, the World of Spirit is actually the most interesting thing in my life right now. Not the most pleasurable, really, although the absence of spirituality would be unspeakably horrifying. But it’s not exactly fun… well, not all of the time. But is is grand. It is epic. It is for all purposes unlimited in so many directions. It is awesome. So even though I should keep my mouth shut and listen and learn, it tends to boil over. Because it is interesting AND important and useful for everyone.

But I’ll try to keep it from taking over the blog.  At the very least I am bound by honor and decency to not pretend I am some sort of actual practicing saint.