A life
without disaster
is a life
without life.

WE BEGAN USING DICE to make decisions in our life as a teenager, before we had an idea in our head. So the practice preceded the idea. The ideas that explain why it might be a useful device to bring challenge and risk and variety into one's life came later, as we read widely in psychologies and philosophies that wondered why we humans aren't happier with our lot. We saw that surrendering my "self" to the whims of chance was similar to other "religious" ways of surrendering the self--to God or the Church or the guru. The goal was often the same: to detach oneself from taking seriously the things of this world. The difference was we see the goal as greater enjoyment of the things of this world while some of the religious traditions see earth as a "vale of tears" and want nothing to do with it. A dice person throws him or herself into life with all its risk: the ascetic withdraws into his cave--actual or psychological.