A Message from the Oaqui: Fun and the or a Force

(This is a collaboratively drawn representation of a or the Oaqui, produced by several as yet unnamed players during a game obviously known as Redondo. This site and those associated with it claim no actual correlation between the embedded, self-justified image on the left and anything having to do with the or a Oaqui.)

The following was not faithfully transcribed:

Dear Other:

We temporarily interrupt this blog for a message from me and/or us, the Oaqui. We had other choices, but we preferred this one, because we (royal and not) are and is personally in touch with a vast and powerful force. We (royally speaking) don't know if it's THE force. But it sure is a. A force of such power that it could almost completely absorb the Royal we by and into.  We have discovered that we have royally, and for some time been joining something larger than ourselves. Something that makes the royal us go beyond ourselves, and into the world.

And now we are told that you have experienced the same thing!

Which is why we have to interrupt this blog. So we can share. With you. Personally.

You and your dog know already know about the force of fun, for example.

When you are having fun together, you are both absorbed by the same force. Your dog manifesting sheer doogy energy, absolute doggy joy. You, in your turn, joyfully, breathlessly running after the ball. Playing together. Absorbed in something you both understand as "fun."

This force of fun is one that we are royally sharing in, and that is sharing in us - parents and children, neighbors with strangers, animals with humans. This force of fun that we join and are joined by is available to us just about anywhere we look or listen to or breathe deeply in or lie on the ground to watch.

If you were a psychologist you might classify the Fun Force as something like "intrinsic reward" or "intrinsic motivation." If you were a philo-mathematician, you might call it "autotelic" - something we do that rewards the doing of it.

It's not like we really have to win or finish even. When we are having and had by what we all know as "fun" what more could we ask except to get to do it over and over, get better at and in and with it? It's the play what is the thing. The play of. The play between.

Now, if you happen to be one of those people who is, in fact, making things more fun, or if you simply care about making things more fun, if you are even dimly aware of the force of fun in your life and world in general, well then, might I royally suggest that you make yourselves known to your other selves as soon as possible. Because it could very well result in more fun. For me and/or us

We everso royally recommend that you add your name to The Fun Force. A Facebook Group. 

Yours, mine and ours,

The Oaqui

Oaqui Linguistics - a Primer

The Oaqui ("oa" is probably pronounced "wa", "qui" is most likely pronounced "cky", as in "wa cky") was or were first introduced to the world through the virtual writings of the person currently identified as "Major Fun."

For all Major FUN actually claims to know about the actual identity of the Oaqui, Oaqui could refer to a singular and/or plural, male and/or female and/or cosmic being. This is because: 1. the Oaqui communicate only by email, and 2. the Oaqui language make/s no distinction between singular or plural, masculine or feminine, young or old. It is the Oaqui apotheosis to be seen as not only one with the many, but also many with the one. In this manner, the Oaqui is/are oft considered the true manifestation of me\we-ness.

And for all we know, there might be no such person or group as the Oaqui. Major FUN might have made the whole thing up, just for the fun, and the depth of it.

 - also by The Oaqui

as told to Bernie DeKoven, funsmith