Has this been addressed?

[Jasper]

Herimously?  Heh, hardly.  

[LHX]

laughter is great

but
creating is great as well

and creating something that can endure and laugh and create

well -- that just seems to take the cake



whatever you can think of that would be the most difficult thing that you can imagine doing is prolly something that you will have to learn how to do

not out of punishment
but
because you will eventually tire of doing all the other shit and find yourself feeling unfulfilled

[Jasper]

Dude, what's that in your avatar?  It's freaking me out.

To address your points-

The only really worthwhile things to me are things that require learning and discovery.  Nothing worthwhile is ever easy, as I say.

Creation is the noblest pleasure next to understanding.

[LHX]

now this is interesting

i want to hear what Cy has to say about L0LL3Rcaust vs. creation

[Cain]

I understood, Cybin.

I've confused myself though.  Is there some possible synergesis between seriousness and humorousness that combines the best of both into something new?

Herimous.  Humorous seriousness.

Someone who wrote a paper on Discordianism and the CotSG called this the "ha ha, only serious" condition.

[Cain]

Ah, here it is:

http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/neophile.html

[Jasper]

This is a good article.  I've read about half of it, will finish it later and proably even forward it to my parents as justification for not being Anglican.

[LMNO]

I would say that the Cosmic Giggle isn't the light, fluffy, ha ha kind of giggle.

I think it represents that Ultimate Horrible Troof, the thing that you laugh at to keep from screaming.

It is the giggle that Lovecraft heard, the sound that occurs when trying to prevent madness and horror.

The psychopatic giggle of the truly damned, damned to recognize the Joke we all play on ourselves, the joke hidden in the structure of the universe, the cream pie aimed for all of our heads.


The Cosmic Giggle doesn't seem to be a very nice thing, to me.

But still, you gotta laugh.  No, really.  You have to; it's mandatory.

[DJRubberducky]

I think the Cosmic Giggle is the Universe's way of playing Marco Polo with us.  Follow the sound of the laughter and you'll start finding out what it's really all about.

I don't believe we exist on this planet to be miserable.  I believe that when we're doing what we're really supposed to be doing on this gas-wrapped chunk of rock, we know it 'cause it makes us happy on a level that comedy and luxury do not.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I believe that when we're doing what we're really supposed to be doing on this gas-wrapped chunk of rock...

You really think we're supposed to be doing something? Who's handling the supposition?

[Jasper]

I would say that the Cosmic Giggle isn't the light, fluffy, ha ha kind of giggle.

I think it represents that Ultimate Horrible Troof, the thing that you laugh at to keep from screaming.

It is the giggle that Lovecraft heard, the sound that occurs when trying to prevent madness and horror.

The psychopatic giggle of the truly damned, damned to recognize the Joke we all play on ourselves, the joke hidden in the structure of the universe, the cream pie aimed for all of our heads.


The Cosmic Giggle doesn't seem to be a very nice thing, to me.

But still, you gotta laugh.  No, really.  You have to; it's mandatory.

I was having a meeting with myself in the shower about this, and I've decided that it is not a malevolent thing, any more than it is light and fluffy.  It is the echo from when Eris invented humor, and gave it to the monkeys.

I've also come to the thought that, you know that "I am chaos, you are free" speech She gave the prophets?  Well, I'd be willing to bet that humans were the last species on the list to recive that blessing.  Everything else on the earth seems to know it's free, but there are still lots of people who don't know.

[Cain]

Animals are free?  Maybe, but many of them have no sense of personal consciousness and so cannot be anything but true to themselves, working off of basic learnt behaviour and genetic input.

[AFK]

Free of what?

[Jasper]

I guess that might have been an unfounded proposition.  Animals are as free as they are, and have little capacity for more or less.  That makes them even less free, huh?

[Cain]

Yes, yes it does.