I just found this shit too when looking in my post archives, from 2006...
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Or Kill Me / Re: Cain contra Robert Anton Wilson
« on: October 28, 2006, 05:09:48 PM »
Robert Anton Wilson isn't the problem, it's the people that take him seriosuly or think he's a figure head in this thing of ours(which he is, but that's cuz people made him that way.) I first came across Prinicipia Discordia after reading the Illuminatus, and I really can't say it's completely changed my life(either books) but I'm still growing and expirienceing things with an added discordian perspective, so I have to thank RAW. As far as I can tell, RAW was only trying to get a point across in Illuminatus, but he did it in a very confusing, entertaining, and downright ridiculous way(which I love, but not everyone does.) When I read the part where George first discovers the "truth" of the robot when he was being illuminated by Hagbard, I took it to heart. There's SO many authors, philosophers, socioligist, etc. that talk about conformity and all the limitations and problems it could bestow on a person or group, but reading Hagbard talk about the robot presented it in totally original and oddily understandable fashion.
Second, if your pissed about RAW giving a definintion to Discordianism, then create one that's completely opposite. When it comes to Discordianism, there is no Dogma or law except for the ones people impose on it. Keep the people guessing. When asking someone what Discordianism is, they may say...
"There a religion that believes Humor is the key to salvation"
"They believe that all religions, miricles, and phenomina can be explianed through quantum physics"
"I think they believe aliens run the planet and will return in like 400 years or something"
"They have these really weird sex rituals which consist of massive orgies and artificial straw berries"
"Oh, they beileve farting alot will guarentee them safe passage to the next world."
"There just crazy"
And the best...
"I have no fucking clue."
You see, all these answers are true, but technically none of them are true. HA, isn't that beautiful.
Isn't somthing with no name, the same as somthing with many names that are all valid AND invalid.
BTW, wtf does it matter what thornley and hill believed or practiced. They created this monster with the intent of letting in run loose, they're in the same boat as the rest of us now.
In summation, RAW didn't do anything. As a matter of fact he did the only thing a discordian could do and came up with his own theory of how people work and/or should work, but not once, did he ever claim his theory was right or absolute. The fault lies with the dogmatic student, not the sage.
EDIT: Nothing I just wrote is true, but all of it is. Dig?
I am proud of this post. I know you people think, "Well of course you are, IT'S YOUR POST!" But honestly when I found this I had no idea I even posted it. I was too fucked at the time with psychological and recreational (that means drugs) problems. I fucked up so bad in so many aspects of life, but I'm 23 now, btw, and I have time. But when I look on these old posts, it sort of makes me scared and confident at the same time. I mean, look at this post above, I wrote that shit when I was 17 years old, and even now I think it's awesome. Fucked in many ways, of course, but true and awesome nonetheless. I just hope others that come this way can develop the same sense of confidence -false confidence- many will call it, but what do they know?
They've already submitted to dumb happiness, or desperate nihilism.