The Gaper Spirit Animal

[Black]

i wonder if there's any way this thread could bite anybody in the ass

Nah.. He’s not a Scurfield, we are clear to worship.

[BigDaddy]

Our father who art in powder, GSA be thy name.

Your powder come, with ski pants undone on the slopes or even during apres.

Give us this day to powder ski and forgive us for not all donning climbing harnesses as we forgive those with only one go pro.

And lead us not into tempation of permanently closed areas but deliver us from gnarbage.

In the name of the GSA, the climbing harness, and the holy gopro, amen.

I don't think I've seen a thread that has delivered so consistently and with such high quality.... so f'n funny.



GSA is destined to appear in a TGR film. It has to be, if only as an apparition, of course. Please, make it happen.

[TBS]

i wonder if there's any way this thread could bite anybody in the ass

How? What is wrong with venerating a well-traveled individual for his contribution to winter sports stoke? Not slandering anybody, just exercising our 1st Amendment Rights. This guy never asked to be venerated either...


Well done Goldenshowers.

That said, I've noticed a Christian bias to the veneration here. We need to keep open minds here. Given his pants could well be saffron, not orange in color, GSA may be a monk of the Eightfold Path...

Anybody else developing an almost Pavlovian response to seeing orange/saffron pants in the field? Could it be?!?!? Nope-Damn!

[Sessiøn]

Just received mine today.

[flatNshallow]

Does the book of GSA say anything about GSA taking on a new human form once he realizes us lesser-beings have discovered him?? I have a feeling that this is not the last time GSA will be discovered in human form...

...could it be that The GSA only infuses virgin vessels with His revered Gape? That only an innocent, blissfully unaware of their gape is chosen the recieve His Gape and be the human incarnation of The GSA in the earthly realm?

This would explain the current GSA no longer blessing us with His Gape once self aware. Is this a conscious decission by the host or is it, perhaps, The GSA leaves His worldly host because once aware, it becomes impossible to for the host to properly channel the true Gape?

I believe true Gape can only manifest when one is completely oblivious to the presence of the Gape. I look to my past when I testified His holy Gape every time I hit the slopes. Indeed my gape became less and less His Gape as I became aware...

The GSA is eternal and will continue to bless us with incarnations, exceptionally pure manifestations should be worshiped discretely lest awareness dawn and His holy Gape can no longer abide in the now tainted vessel.

[pfluffenmeister]

. Given his pants could well be saffron, not orange in color, GSA may be a monk of the Eightfold Path...

hmmm, proper thought leads to proper (GoPro!) action?

[pfluffenmeister]

I believe true Gape can only manifest when one is completely oblivious to the presence of the Gape. .

very zen.

why polish the dusty mirror when no such mirror exists?

[biff chalupa]

Before you act, ask yourself . . .

[TahoeJ]

I'm guessing / hoping this will come in video form as a follow-up to her last one?

Lynsey Dyer is officially a devotee.
More to come.

[Buster Highmen]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agape

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agapism :

Agapism is belief in selfless, charitable, non-erotic (brotherly) love, spiritual love, love of the soul. It can mean belief that such love (or "agape") should be the sole ultimate value and that all other values are derived from it, or that the sole moral imperative is to love. Theological agapism holds that our love of God is expressed by loving each other. As the ethics of love, agapism indicates that we should do the most loving thing in each situation, letting love determine our obligation rather than rules. Alternatively, given a set of rules, agapism indicates to follow those rules which produce the most love.

In 1851, the English journalist and social researcher Henry Mayhew, discussing means to "a more general and equal division of the wealth of the country", characterized agapism as "the voluntary sharing of individual possessions with the less fortunate or successful members of the community" and as the alternative to communism ("the abolition of all rights to individual property").[1]

In 1893, the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce used the word "agapism" for the view that creative love is operative in the cosmos.[2] Drawing from the Swedenborgian ideas of Henry James, Sr. which he had absorbed long before,[3] Peirce held that it involves a love which expresses itself in a devotion to cherishing and tending to people or things other than oneself, as parent may do for offspring, and as God, as Love, does even and especially for the unloving, whereby the loved ones may learn. Peirce regarded this process as a mode of evolution of the cosmos and its parts, and he called the process "agapasm", such that: "The good result is here brought to pass, first, by the bestowal of spontaneous energy by the parent upon the offspring, and, second, by the disposition of the latter to catch the general idea of those about it and thus to subserve the general purpose."[2] Peirce held that there are three such principles and three associated modes of evolution:


"Three modes of evolution have thus been brought before us: evolution by fortuitous variation, evolution by mechanical necessity, and evolution by creative love. We may term them tychastic evolution, or tychasm, anancastic evolution, or anancasm, and agapastic evolution, or agapasm. The doctrines which represent these as severally of principal importance we may term tychasticism, anancasticism, and agapasticism. On the other hand the mere propositions that absolute chance, mechanical necessity, and the law of love are severally operative in the cosmos may receive the names of tychism, anancism, and agapism." — C. S. Peirce, 1893[2]

[TNKen]

Wonder if GSA will descent and appear to one of the more prominent mags to deliver the Ten Commandments of Gaperisms.

Make sure to carry your i-pad in case you are the chosen one. Or, you can just cut and paste.

I. Thou shalt have no other lords of gaper
II. You shall make no graven images of the lord of gaper or any of his possessions (oops)
III. You shall not take the lord of gaper in vain
IV. Remember the day of gaper and keep it holy
V. Honor the father and mother of your gaperness
VI. You shall not murder other gapers
VII. You shall not adulterate with other gapers
VIII. You shall not steal others gaperness
IV. You shall not bear false witness against your fellow gapers
X. You shall not covet your fellow gapers possessions, such as his digital outriggery, his gaper wife, his male equipment servants, his mode of transportation such as his donkey, ass or other beast of burden, or any other possession of your neighbor gaper

[TNKen]

^^^^ Now that's some funny shit right there ^^^^

[LeeLau]

i wonder if there's any way this thread could bite anybody in the ass

The GSA shall smite only unbelievers. Do not waver brother spook.

If thy art invested in a merger arb and thine spirit wavers, the GSA shall lobby for an antitrust objection

If thy spirit is weak, the GSA shall make the margin call. At 6am PST in the pre-market.

The GSA is the all-knowing perfect counterparty. Frontrunning, divine knowledge of orderflow and with unlimited collateral backstopped by Morgan Stanley and Mitsubishi Bank. He shall only bite only those who do not believe. In the ass of course.

We paid homage to the GSA at its last terrestrial siting today at the Holy Tracks of Rabbit. But our forlorn cries were ignored. No orange pants. No ostentatious backpacked shovel. And the holy trinity of Gopros (and Contour) did not appear to us through the S5, HST 48, high winds SW gusting from 80 - 100, 4F density snow that raged Whistler.

[tellybele]

I see the 'believe' sticker, but is anyone making the GaPer stiker in the GoPro style??

[TNKen]

Disparage the honour of GSA and be prepared to defend yourself before the Rabbit of Caerbannog

[dookeyXXX]

I got sucked into this thread this afternoon since I've been stuck home sick for a few days.
I rolled through the first 30 odd pages before I began to get bogged down with the usual fanfare that starts to creep into these types of awesome threads and threatens to derail them.

What I would like to know is:

1. Did anybody make t-shirts of that great illustration of the GSA, Polar Bear, and Eagle? That picture got loads of props, there were insinuations that a shirt was being made and then nothing.

2. Did anybody make the traditional bumpersticker (retangular) that read "I "Heart" GSA" and had the GSA's head in the form of a heart?

3. Did anybody make the oval "I believe" stickers?

4. What happened to the GSA - RAWR stickers?

5. Is there a GSA/Unicorn t-shirt?

6. Is there a poster of the GSA Guide with the bison and indian chief?

7. Is there any more product out there? And if so, how come nobody has aggregated all of it into a one-stop shop?

While this thread has, at times, approached a HoF nature, it seems a lot more disjointed than the legendary "Tall Tee" thread from a few years back, which actually set up a Cafe Press site where you can still to this day buy a myriad of shirts, stickers, and other accessories. Any plans to set-up a GSA Cafe Press (or like-minded site) page?

[Sinecure]

Dos GoPros is Gold!

In keeping with gshowers borrowing of a monotheistic religion's popular prayer. I give you the MOT version:


Hear, oh Alaska, the GSA is our God, the GSA is One.
Blessed be the Name of His maggot kingdom, now and forever.
And you shall love the GSA your God with all your harness and with all your skis and with all your GoPros.
And these words that I command you this powder day shall be on your Hestras.
And you shall teach them diligently to your children, and you shall speak of them
when you sit on a chairlift, and when you ski along the trail, and when you fall down and when you ride back up.
And they shall be as bindings upon your skis, and they shall be for goggles before your eyes.
And you shall write them on the lift towers of your resort and on your gates.
Amen

Stick that in your mezuzah and kiss it!

[SkiFaxon]

It's slightly disappointing that the shovel is not always attached to the pack. Seems like it's no safe. I'm struggling with the Erkel level if flooding going on with the full zip tech pants. Harness bunching em up?

[drdevon]

Harness bunching em up?

The great one (GSA) can call his shovel as Thor would his hammer.....and with the harness, is assured of never having a hernia.

[BigDaddy]

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Gaper Spirit is like the X-mas Spirit...


Just keeps giving and giving!




We so needed his unknowing, omnipresent guidance.

[powder11]

Thank you almighty GSA for blessing Whistler in ways otherwise unimaginable!

[BigDaddy]

Thank you almighty GSA for blessing Whistler in ways otherwise unimaginable!

Does anyone dare ask, Is GSA perhaps Ullr in the flesh???? Think about it.

[skibiker]

If he is free to ski this weekend I think he may return to Whistler Blackcomb or bless Mt. Baker with his presence.

[biff chalupa]

What I would like to know is:

no, jaypowhound, superstator, and the rest are no's. agapastic evolution going on right now . . . I just agapasmed.

[JayPowHound]

no, jaypowhound, superstator, and the rest are no's. agapastic evolution going on right now . . . I just agapasmed.

Shit. Dropped the ball and now im getting called out for it. I heart gapers sticker thread will be up tomorrow. Lost of busy excuses, yadda yadda yadda......