I'm looking for one page or one quote from the Principia that sums up Discordianism, like John 3:16 for Christianity. "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" sums up Christianity in a nutshell. Do we have any quotes like that? :?
Nothing is true, everything is permitted
or
A conclusion is simply where you stopped thinking.
"Nothing is true, everything is on fire."
and
"Money talks."
"Think for yourself, schmuck".
"I've shat myself. I'm comfortable with this."
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"...And on other days, it just rains."
"Everything fell apart, and no one did much of anything."
"Black sheep are still sheep." or "Think for yourself, schmuck."
Or as is amply demonstrated in this thread, "Ask 5 Discordians a question and get 7 different answers."
"King Kong died for your sins" is closest in literal meaning
Faust's lines are for the people looking for a quick, general understanding. However, to fully understand Discordianism, a few moments of intense analysis of Doktor Howl's lines may enlighten you. In-fact, you can understand Discordianism with Faust's lines. But you can demonstrate it for others by repeating Doktor Howl's lines to yourself, over and over again. :lulz:
To become a Discordian leader, repeat Doktor Howl's lines while trying to lick your elbow. :lulz:
And then there's this:
"Wipe thine ass with what is written
and grin like a ninny at what is Spoken. Take
thine refuge with thine wine in the Nothing
behind Everything, as you hurry along the Path."
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"This book is a mirror: When a monkey looks in, no philosopher looks out."
"One thing led to another, and pretty soon it started to rain".
"Quotes are for suckers"
Book of Twid 0:00
"You have locked yourselves up in cages of fear, and now you complain that you lack freedom; Verily I say unto you, not even all the sinister ministers of the Illuminati, working together in their multitudes, could so entwine the land with tribulation as have your baseless warnings"
-Epistle to the Paranoids 1:1,5
"Shit. Fuck. DAMN."
"Oh. Well, then stop."
My favorite has always been
"Reality is the original Rorschach."
"Yes I'm crazy, but I'm crazy because it's true."
I think we're all ignoring the obvious.
"Do not pull yellow tab." If I learned nothing else from the Principia (and I didn't), I learned that. Nothing good can come of pulling ANY tab, let alone the yellow one.
that is indeed a good piece of advice.
I pulled the yellow tab.... look at me now, and beware.
Quote from: Hoopla on December 01, 2014, 03:13:33 PM
I pulled the yellow tab.... look at me now, and beware.
Yep. Turned ya Canadian.
I still think Malachi 2:3 sums up Judeo-Christianity better than John 3:16.
(Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.)
"this shit happens"
And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus.
If we expand beyond the Principia to include the SubGenius canon, I'd suggest"
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we know that "...any inanity spouted by a SubGenius at any given time automatically becomes part of orthodox SubGenius Liturgy." It is one of the single greatest Tenets, for by its own very token one can also deny it later. It is erasable. For instance, a guilty SubGenius speaks an Inanity which later proves anti-nonprofit. He can then insist, "No, I didn't say that. It was merely my 'image'...my 'id' took over temporarily." Logically, then, nothing that a SubGenius says is any more or less true and consecrable than any other thing he just happens to utter - even (and especially) if they are contradictory
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Actually, strike that, the Principia said it better:
QuoteAll statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on November 04, 2014, 02:38:18 PM
"Think for yourself, schmuck".
I'm sticking with this one, partly because it seems to be both the most important and the least heeded, as this thread is a testimonial for.