Family

[Thurnez Isa]

my fathers side is french/itallien - norman/italien if you want to be really correct
mother side is french/irish - though me and my mother never new her biological grandfather (despite the fact my grandmother had 3 kids with him)
I lived with fathers side of the family all my life

my mothers kind of a ditz - don't know her that well
but get along with her very well
my father worked all the time
get along with him fine - hes a big roman history buff - 
I was raised by my grandparents (fathers parents)
my grandfathers really cool
expecially when he drinks and tells his bullshit stories

person in my family im closest too is my little sister
I would bail her out of any situation she finds herself into
helped raised her when she was a baby and i was like five
im little overprotective - and still call her my "baby sister" either though shes older then many of you here

[Jenne]

No one has ever REALLY understood me, so if I expound on things Discordian-like, it's all the same "Just Jenne Gibberish" to them, anyway.

My husband, funny enough, has lived in a sort of chaotic order himself, so he probably understood this stuff almost before I was born.  *shrug*  I'm not sure how much he believes, but he does follow along with a BIP tautology all on his own.  He himself, though, believes too much in his own powers to break out, and I think he has yet to follow the logic straight into how much of an iron prison it really is.  Though, truth be told, you come from the depths of Hell like he has, and you have some bragging rights to be sure.

Myself, I don't worry about if someone understands me or not.  I've spent so much of my life caring if I'm understood that I've realized that it's virtually impossible, so I give as much as I think others WILL understand and leave it at that.  Otherwise, people are just turned off, mostly because it's coming from me, and they'll prejudge the message based on the messenger (I'm talking about friends and family here, not strangers/acquaintances).  I haven't toed the line that I grew up behind for so long that no one really expects me to live or speak within their memes any longer.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I hate the way so many people on the net say they are insane.

Yeah me too. Buncha fkin wannabe's. Insane for me is being locked up in an insane assylum, pumped full of largactyl and haliperidol, hallucinating and ranting and freaking out, like on an acid trip but for real. Unbalaced was what got me that perspective. Now that I've (for the most part) redressed the balance - I'm not deranged anymore but I still have the perspective. I can still explore insanity. That's insane to me. I earned it. People who wear odd coloured socks because it makes others think they're eccentric and refer to themselves as insane have no fucking idea what insane means.

[faust]

Well put, I wonder how many over at MW consider themselves insane?

[LMNO]

Who the fuck cares?


I'm re-jacking this.


If we can't explain/defend ourselves to our family, how can we expect to get the word to the larger population?

[LHX]

well

seeing as we were forced to come together in the first place, it suggests that other people would need to find themselves under similar pressure

added to which - there is also the aspect that those closest to you are least likely to listen


about all a person can do is stick to their guns and let their ways and actions speak for themself in this situation

and if we continue producing innovative creative material and our intentions are seen, it seems that the tide will shift eventually


in relation to family - the worst they can do is outcast you and reject you, and that has already happened to some people
so the next step is to move forward


forgiveness + wrath = teh win

[LMNO]

Speaking of which, LHX-- I just wanted to side-track this and say:

Go here
http://earfatigue.multiply.com/music/item/75


Listen to beats.

Choose one, and write Appropriate Lyrics, preferably not about how cool you are, how much money you have, or about bitches.



LMNO
-using a threadjack to get Operation DiscordianMediaAssault started.

[AFK]

OMFG!!!  THREADJACKER!!!!

kidding of course.

Please to be posting any results so that we may listen to them. 

[LMNO]

Well, step 2 is to get one of you computer geeks to create a video for it, and then beating YouTube to death with it.

[AFK]

I may be able to help with that.  It will depend on timing, etc.,  I did some video work in a brief stint in a former life. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

If we can't explain/defend ourselves to our family, how can we expect to get the word to the larger population?

We can't. We can only ever make sense to minority of enlightened or on-the-verge individuals, hidden in the flock. Doesn't mean we should give up tho.

[Thurnez Isa]

If we can't explain/defend ourselves to our family, how can we expect to get the word to the larger population?

who cares... really
Perhaps this is just me but i never felt the need to explain myself to others
i find i "connect" with people more when i let others be themselves and dont try to understand their motives, only try to understand their actions
either that or i have to get more then five hours of sleep a night

[Jenne]

If we can't explain/defend ourselves to our family, how can we expect to get the word to the larger population?

who cares... really
Perhaps this is just me but i never felt the need to explain myself to others
i find i "connect" with people more when i let others be themselves and dont try to understand their motives, only try to understand their actions
either that or i have to get more then five hours of sleep a night

IAWTC

[LHX]

Speaking of which, LHX-- I just wanted to side-track this and say:

Go here
http://earfatigue.multiply.com/music/item/75


Listen to beats.

Choose one, and write Appropriate Lyrics, preferably not about how cool you are, how much money you have, or about bitches.



LMNO
-using a threadjack to get Operation DiscordianMediaAssault started.

signal acknowledged

co-ordinates plotted

ETA TBD

[East Coast Hustle]

my fathers side is french/itallien - norman/italien if you want to be really correct
mother side is french/irish - though me and my mother never new her biological grandfather (despite the fact my grandmother had 3 kids with him)
I lived with fathers side of the family all my life

my mothers kind of a ditz - don't know her that well
but get along with her very well
my father worked all the time
get along with him fine - hes a big roman history buff - 
I was raised by my grandparents (fathers parents)
my grandfathers really cool
expecially when he drinks and tells his bullshit stories

person in my family im closest too is my little sister
I would bail her out of any situation she finds herself into
helped raised her when she was a baby and i was like five
im little overprotective - and still call her my "baby sister" either though shes older then many of you here

but the question is, what would their reaction be if you "came out of the closet" about your clearly dangerous and irrational discordian mindset?