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1.  No, I never run out of things to oppose.

2.  So, you oppose Discordians.  Or at least the ones that aren't really real Discordians. 

Wouldn't be PD if Guido didn't come by once a quarter to fill the belligerant drunk position.

1. You. You are different. While I maintain that the other fuckwits are frauds, you are simply beyond my ability to spot farudulance. The simple truth is that, even when I'm being honest, your posturing is less than mine, even in my own head; thus, I have no ground from which to call you, even with the infinite lever of drunken righteousness.

2. No. Try again. How can I possibly oppose that which I aspire to be?

7. The fact that, in the last two years, I've only posted while drunk doesn't make me wrong. At least not all the time.

I support opposing things.

So do I. I just don't feel the need to define who I am and what I'm doing by it. If the thing that you oppose ever should go away you'll lose part of yourself and be dimished by that. I just think that getting what you want should make one bigger/better/shinier rather than /sadder/pointless/more pathetic.

Any my original point was going to be that they're all fucking frauds and the only ones worth talking to are the ones who make use of all of that to underline the point. The rest are fuckwits. I just a bit distracted by the demon drink is all.

The artificial concept of no-relation is the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE.
-- Some dude.

I regret that we helped to redefine 'cool' from being an inner state of grace and rebellion to being an outward display of consumption and compliance.
-- Sam Smith, An Apology to Younger Americans

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
-- Nietzsche

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde

Being a Discordian is no excuse for being an asshole.
-- Rev. Verthaine


Here's the thing about Discordians: they're all fucking frauds.

That is to say, they're either rubbing mushy bits with frauds (and pretending that it's fulfilling), happily being frauds while wearing their religious party hats (so as to get the free booze), or they are pretensious wankers. Every person that I've ever come across who was proud to be a Discordian was proud almost solely because of whatever it was that they were rejecting and, invariably, their rejection was a focus of how they defined themselves. They all had plenty of reasons for opposing some norm or other; pain, bad relationships, emotional coping mechanisms, not fitting in, being teased as a child whose mother still made them wear shorts in their senior year at school... the list is long and trivial. Needless to say, they all defined themselves as 'counter culture', more by virtue of their oppostion to some cultural norm or other, rather than through any actual possession of even the minutest sliver of culture.

Robert Anton Wilson, whatever you may think of him, at least had one thing right. He respected (and created) Discordians that definied themselves through what they could make/build/do/understand rather than what they chose to oppose. Take Hagbard Celine and Emperor Norton. They weren't about throwing off the trappings of society, they were about adopting all the trappings that they could lay their hands on and screwing the rest of society for everything they could get. And more than that, they understood that you can't screw someone by sticking your middle finger up in the air in front of them. A lass, whom I happen to admire greatly, sent me an email some time ago in which she stated that anyone who wore Chuck Taylor's shoes did so as an expression of rebellion. I'm sorry? Come again?! By wearing the right labels, I can show everyone how much I reject cultural norms? What the fuck?! Oh, my God! Barbeque!

Sure, choose not to play the game. Choose to torment a cabbage. Make yourself feel good by proving to everyone how much they were right when they said that you didn't fit in. I'm the guy in the corner, wearing the suit and tie, drinking the cocktails that aren't on the list. Here's looking at you, hippie.

Luckily, he's a paramedic.

This just shows that the Divine Elements of the Universe have a survival instinct after all. That is strangely comforting.

I hear that meditation is good for soothing a troubled mind and spirit. Meditate on the following phrases:

"One is never enough."
"Yeah, I think that's a bit of Billy... no wait..."
"Bored now."

It's very very cold in here, Guido.
I think there is nothing much more dangerous than a hormonal Devil Squerrel.

Except perhaps a hormonal Devil Squerrel in heat.

I'm not sure the other side of the world is going to be far enough away...

And Squerrell is a teenager, which doesn't bode well for the world.

Is it cold in here, or is it just me?

Hey, Guido. How's it going?

(Threadjack)

Yeah, pretty good.

The job that I've been trying to lose for two years is ending in a couple of weeks. I have a new one, working for new and shiny people.

I got a silly haircut.

I am now too old to die young, having just turned 30. It was fun. I was in Bahrain  for a week or so. Those Arabs sure are kooky.

How are things with you and the clan? And everone else around these parts?

when did Guido reappear?

At a guess, Mon May 22, 2006 7:56 pm NZST. He isn't really around though and hardly even lurks these days.

Excellent stuff.  However
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Making_up_Oscar_Wilde_quotes

I do recognise about two thirds of the ones above as actual Oscar Wilde quotes (give or take a prarphrase or two).

Some of the made up ones are just as good though.

Uh... See LSD..

Good point.

LSD: 1938 (a fungus derivative.)
Morphine: 1803 ( a plant derivative.)
Heroin : 1874 (refined from Morphine so also doesn't count)

Wholly synthetic drugs:
PCP: 1926
Ketamine: 1962
Amphetamines: 1887

... so it hasn't been true since the 1880s.

Really, all drugs known to man are natural or derived and refined from natural sources, so that is a bad argument.

That hasn't been true since the 80s: Alexander 'Sasha' Shulgin.

Heh. I have the T-shirt that 181 came off..

d) Dead dinosaurs and other very very old bio-matter are chief ingredients of aforementioned crude oil. (see 'b' above)

AFAIK, Bush believes that oil is the product of bacteria that live deep below the surface of the Earth. He also believes that the oil crisis is being overstated because God has made the world such that oil it being produced at an approxiamtel equivalent rate to that at which it is being consumed.

Or he used to, at least.

Dear Bella,

Your colour of the day is 'kumquat'. Is that even a real colour? I thought it was a fruit.

Anyway -- what colou is it?

Guido.