ya know what wierd??

Question

How people say "omgosh tanning is so bad for you you can die from it!" okay ..but you could get in an car accident and die. There are many things you can die from. Theres always a chance.

oops i meant "ya know whatS wierd?"

Answer 1

Thats one of the stupidest arguments ever.

Of course you can get hit by a bus. Does that mean you want to stand in traffic carrying a big bullseye, because it "could" happen anyway?

You "could" put on a hundred pounds and be an enormous fata**. Does that mean you ought to eat every meal in a buffet restaurant and have double desserts?

Life is risky. Your job is to manage and minimize those risks for yourself and your loved ones. Tan if you want to, no one cares. Just Don't ask for taxpayer money to pay for your cancer treatments, okay?

Answer 2

"Wyrd" comes from the Old English word meaning "fate" which is, in turn, derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *wr,ti-, which meant "a turning". "Wyrd" is the root of Modern English "weird" and is also related to the Old English verb "weorþan", meaning "to become". In its literal sense, it refers to the past, or that which has become. In its wider sense, it refers to how past actions continually affect and condition the future. It also stresses the interconnected nature of all actions, and how they influence each other. The concept has some relation to the ideal of predestination. Unlike predestination, however, the concept of Wyrdness implies that while we are affected and constrained by our past actions, we are constantly creating our own Wyrd through how we respond to present situations, an idea that is also prominent in the concept of Karma. More simply, wyrd can be said to describe 'cause and effect' or 'antecedent and consequent' — a concept connected to the German word 'werden'.

Wyrd shows its most paradoxical side, and perhaps its most severe side when the realization dawns that no individual chooses to react to present situations free of Wyrd — no part of the Web of Wyrd (see below) is independent of another part — no one reacts presently without influences from our past experiences motivating us and shaping our reactions. Wyrd therefore holds all things in a "weave" of action and reaction that has no room for true "original" action or thought; all things arise with Skuld or necessity and move inexorably towards their fate or destiny, woven by the Norns. As the ancient poem "The Wanderer" states:

"No man lives till eve whom the Fates doom at dawning."
Wyrd was paralleled in early Nordic cultures where the word was rendered as urðr — also the name of the middle of the three Norns, who shape our lives out of the layers of the past, known as ørlög. The younger sister is called Verðandi, whose name also derives from the verb weorþan, which means "to be" or "come to be". The older is called Skuld, which means Debt.

The best way to fully visualize the concept of Wyrd is to use two common analogies: the Well of Wyrd, and the Web of Wyrd.