by RWHN

Welcome to the Prison,

It was the year 2006. I imagine it was another initiate to the principiadiscordia.com realm that started it all by saying something like, "Well, if you guys are so tired of the Principia Discordia, why don't you guys write something!" Well, maybe it wasn't exactly like that, but it sounds nice so I'll go with it. What's important is that a bunch of us got to the point where we decided it was time for us to take a stab at this Discordia thing. And so, the project was dubbed "PD06". There was a feeling amongst many at pd.com that while the subject matter of the PD was still important, the jokes were, by now, quite old and stale. We were interested in boilng down some of the ideas and putting them in a form where younger generations of Discordians could grasp onto them. (It's generally not advised to grab ANYTHING that is boiling. Turn your handles in.) We decided to circle around this idea of the Black Iron Prison that we had been discussing. LMNO's intro piece about the BIP really set the tone for what would follow.

And so we were off. Some people wrote new things, some found old things and added new bits to it. The inspiration was quite catchy and in a matter of days we had a pamphlet's worth of material. The next step was to put it together into a sexy and attractive package. The ever-crafty LMNO sacrificed his lunch hour to put it together and thus The Black Iron Prison: Discordia Revisited was born. Rev. St. Syn, KSC added an attention-grabbing graphic to the cover and it was released to the masses. Since it's completion we've continued to discuss various philosophies and ideas within the Black Iron Prison framework. Indeed, yours truly started up a forum dedicated to the Black Iron Prison subject matter. But it went kerplooey and so it now resides as a part of PrincipiaDiscordia.com. Professor Cramulus has since re-edited the pamphlet into a second version. Both versions, along with the other Black Iron Prison project materials, can be found at our wiki, which you can locate by directing your browser to www.blackironprison.com

And that's how it all went. I think. Toodles. -- Reverend What's-His-Name?