Introductions, part V: Don't Say We Never Warned You.

[hooplala]

Hello. I'm new to these forums. I found out about the Principia about eleven years ago. I don't remember which came first for me (I was reading the things that things I liked mentioned): disinfo.com, chaos magic, the principia, or Illuminatus!. For a couple years, I've been considering trying to evangelize on campus (NMU). Pamphletting for anarchism is fun, but I'm pretty sure evangelizing discordja would be more fun, more effective, and produce less pointless backlash. I've also been bouncing around the idea of a POEE monastery. My friends that were in on my original commune idea aren't down with Eris yet, but going for tax-exempt status is the crassest form of selling out I could think of, even worse than evangelizing in the first place. I don't remotely think it'll happen, but taking a few steps in that direction might be amusing.

PS: Holy verification methods, batshit! How many times do I have to tell this site that I'm not a cabbage, in order to post something?... 3? Where are the other two?

People need to exploit the hell out of the religion exempt status until it's finally repealed. As it should be.

[Doktor Howl]

Hello. I'm new to these forums. I found out about the Principia about eleven years ago. I don't remember which came first for me (I was reading the things that things I liked mentioned): disinfo.com, chaos magic, the principia, or Illuminatus!. For a couple years, I've been considering trying to evangelize on campus (NMU). Pamphletting for anarchism is fun, but I'm pretty sure evangelizing discordja would be more fun, more effective, and produce less pointless backlash. I've also been bouncing around the idea of a POEE monastery. My friends that were in on my original commune idea aren't down with Eris yet, but going for tax-exempt status is the crassest form of selling out I could think of, even worse than evangelizing in the first place. I don't remotely think it'll happen, but taking a few steps in that direction might be amusing.

PS: Holy verification methods, batshit! How many times do I have to tell this site that I'm not a cabbage, in order to post something?... 3? Where are the other two?

People need to exploit the hell out of the religion exempt status until it's finally repealed. As it should be.

See, this is EXACTLY the sort of Godlessness that has turned Toronto into a third-world nation.

[D351]

I feel thoroughly welcomed.

@Q, I'll be looking into doing some flyering on campus. I've still got to get rid of this massive pile of tochangeeverything.com pamphlets though. What I really want to do is get some legionnaires in suits to hand out flyers while infiltrating the fundies that hand out bibles on campus.

@Hoopla, I think it'd be pretty cool if a whole bunch of different groups started monasterys to get tax-free group housing. While religions shouldn't get special status, I'm also in favor of not giving the gubmint more money. It'd definitely be a win/win combo.

[hooplala]

Hello. I'm new to these forums. I found out about the Principia about eleven years ago. I don't remember which came first for me (I was reading the things that things I liked mentioned): disinfo.com, chaos magic, the principia, or Illuminatus!. For a couple years, I've been considering trying to evangelize on campus (NMU). Pamphletting for anarchism is fun, but I'm pretty sure evangelizing discordja would be more fun, more effective, and produce less pointless backlash. I've also been bouncing around the idea of a POEE monastery. My friends that were in on my original commune idea aren't down with Eris yet, but going for tax-exempt status is the crassest form of selling out I could think of, even worse than evangelizing in the first place. I don't remotely think it'll happen, but taking a few steps in that direction might be amusing.

PS: Holy verification methods, batshit! How many times do I have to tell this site that I'm not a cabbage, in order to post something?... 3? Where are the other two?

People need to exploit the hell out of the religion exempt status until it's finally repealed. As it should be.

See, this is EXACTLY the sort of Godlessness that has turned Toronto into a third-world nation.

Well, that and me stealing all the water.

I foolishly thought they would want it back... Forgot about bottled water. Hindsight is 20/20, right?

[Lament LLC]

Nate; scorpio

[lrevel]

Awhile back I googled, "I don't believe in anything". I don't know what I expected but I found a picture of a kindly looking old man that said, "I don't believe anything. Most people, even the educated, think that everybody must believe something or other, that if one is not a theist, one must be a dogmatic atheist, and if one does not think Capitalism is perfect, one must believe fervently in Socialism, and if one does not have blind faith in X, one must alternatively have blind faith in not-X or the reverse of X. My own opinion is that belief is the death of intelligence." I saved that picture and tucked it away in my hard drive.

I have been volunteering with the so called grassroots organization called the Green Party. I say so called because it is anything but grassroots, on the political spectrum it leans hard left. They fight things that are just impossible at this point in time. A big part of our economy here is our military base and the technology companies they employ; as much as I do not like it or agree with it that is the reality of the city I live in.

Both sides complain that there are apathetic people that do not fight for their rights, but what they are really saying is that there are a lot of people that we can convince to become as dogmatic as we are if only they were stupid enough to believe we have all the answers. Both sides believe they have the answers to everything but the reality is either one getting exactly what they wanted would be the end of our species.

I have come to the belief that as animals, our language and what we deem as consciousness is simply the result of our most primitive but beneficial tool, language. As such, we are literally fighting and killing each other over noises because we are too egotistical as a species to really admit what our language actually is.

I googled the name of that man trying to find more like minded people. Robert Anton Wilson. I found the Principia Discordia, read it, found your forums, and ended up posting here.

I like to live my life by an Alan Watts quote, "I am always sincere, but never serious".

Anyway I don't want to write a essay about how I got here so I figure this will be enough. Hello everyone!

[Erebus]

Hi, I'm an ideologically incontinent sucker, I embrace ideas too completely too often, but I dump the waste pretty quickly after making a fool of myself. I go psychotic pretty regularly and my experience with the Principia and many of its offshoot memes makes the episodes a bit more fun and tolerable. I might be here for community or I might not, I don't know yet.

[Doktor Howl]

Hello, new people.  Pool's on the roof. 

Nigel is out of town, you are safe from her combat-mockery for the moment.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Both sides complain that there are apathetic people that do not fight for their rights, but what they are really saying is that there are a lot of people that we can convince to become as dogmatic as we are if only they were stupid enough to believe we have all the answers.

Hey new guy, can I steal that sentence for use elsewhere? Because it's awesome.

[lrevel]

Yes of course you can!

[Cain]

I don't like all these new people.

This is a local forum, for local people, there's nothing for you here..

[Erebus]

Too late, you're my wife now.

[Cain]

 

[minuspace]

Is that a subpoena, or is it getting hot in here?

[LMNO]

Greetings to the recent arrivals!