NOTHING IS TRUE, EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED

The title of this little piece comes from, or rather is attributed to, Hassan i Sabah, the Old Man of the Mountain, who ran a Islamic cult of sorts in Persia in the Middle Ages. He gave us the word “assassin” after his followers, who, being fed copious amounts of hashish, were known as “hashishim.”

Anyway, it is one of those nice sayings that is true even though it makes no logical sense, because by being true, that means something is true and the phrase “nothing is true,” is logically invalid. Which just goes to show how little logic is worth. Aquinas’ writings, for example, are masterpieces of logic and total nonsense at the same time. But I digress.

In BDSM, nothing really is true. Everything is a matter of choice and style. There are things which may be agreed upon in certain groups, but there is no reason why people not in those groups should follow them except in the fevered imaginations of the group members who live under the glamour of being “right.” And they can be ignored with impunity. Just go off and start your own group and let them sputter.

You don’t have to be safe. Danger is the stuff that makes life interesting.

You damned better not be sane, because sane people are really boring.

And you don’t even have to worry about consent if you can get away with it, but that is something I don’t recommend because the paperwork if you don’t can be a bitch. But that proviso only applies to physical contact interaction. If you are doing mind-control stuff, like my psionics, everyone is fair game and there are few things more fun, albeit doing it takes a lot of practice, than giving someone an orgasm when they don’t want it and have no idea where the hell it is coming from. We are seriously, and factually, looking forward to the day when enough of the coding in the brain is revealed that we can make an elf transmitter with a microwave carrier which when pointed at a person on the street will give them all the sensations of a flogging without anyone actually touching them!

So in Chaos BDSM we recognize the fact of social and personal relativism. Whatever you and your partner want to do is right for you and your partner. No one else even exists.

Whatever way you organize your group is right for that group. No other group matters.

And you can change the way you do things at will. You can be Chaos one day, (YAY!) and be Formalist (HISS! BOO!) the next and something in the middle on alternate Tuesdays.

Whatever you feel at the moment is right for the moment. Whatever you desire for the moment is right for the moment and the moment is in constant change, constant flux.

Recognize the flux, run with it and play with it.

Everything is permitted!