Net, do you think there's a way to publish a forum thread like a conversation?

here's some stuff which could work, if there's a way to format it properly. I've included either a link to the post, or an edited C&P of the post. Let me know what you think. Triple Zero, maybe you could draw this up as a comic, and leave large spaces to paste in the text?

---Cram

Intro post:

http://we.dontexist.net/index.php?topic=14.msg24#msg24

I have found that Discordians all seem to share a similar sense of humor and irreverence, and subcultural references.

Discordians fall into one or more of the following categories:

pranksters

hackers

occultists

I see Discordianism as being the juncture between these three groups, where their interests overlap. I don't see that changing in the next ten years.

The big impact I've seen over just the last couple of years is this whole social networking explosion. The mandate used to be, "find the others." We didn't know who our compatriots were - Discordians usually aren't obvious in a crowd - and a lot of us thought we were the only Discordians out there. Before I got online, I thought I was the only one who fell into Illuminatus! and realized I'd been a Discordian all along. The internet swiftly and happily proved me wrong on that point.

Now it's even easier to find the others. We've been working hard on finding each other for the last few years, and now we've built these big forums and powerful networks.

The big question I think the next ten years may answer is, "now that we've found each other, now that we've built these networks... what are we going to do about it?"

I think the next ten years will give rise to more big Discordian projects and gatherings, like OMGASM and KallistiCon and even this Masquerade. I think we'll see more publications and more networked mindfucks across the country, more meetups and convocations.

-St. Mae

I think Discordianism is much more than that, and that's what you'll see. We forget that there was a point to all this nonsense, that it was about personal freedom, an intellectual and cultural renaissance, an underground think tank. It was about seeing things from different perspectives, getting away from black and white thinking, from "I'm right and you're wrong." It was about true Illumination, about knowing what's really going on and how you fit into to all the ordered chaos.

Discordianism is great for pranksters, so-so for hackers, and really rather lame for occultists. I think we'll see a revival of actual purpose, and maybe somebody will actually get the vision that Greg Hill, Kerry Thornley, Robert Anton Wilson, Robert Shea, Hakim Bey, Harold Lloyd Randomfactor, Camden Benares and the rest actually had. A few people have, but very few. There's more to Erisians than pranks and hacks and pseudoreligious nonsense.

But most Discordians don't get it. Look for the Discordians who do get it. They are the future. They are our future.

And more pretentious nonsense.

-Rev Loveshade

I don't think that reducing it to pranks and hacks and pseudoreligious nonsense is what I was referring to. Those are avenues to the same goal, the visions we're all slouching towards like rough beasts. I think we're talking about the same thing by different names. It's somewhere in that triangulation between what you do and why you do it, and what you're hoping for.

I'm not sure that most Discordians don't get it either, though for a lot of us it's a dreamseed rather than a grown leafy idea.

-St. Mae

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http://we.dontexist.net/index.php?topic=14.msg1438#msg1438 - Nigel