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Started by Cramulus, May 22, 2007, 05:39:13 PM

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Cramulus

I decided to split off the "enough" thread to address this--

Quote from: LMNO on May 22, 2007, 03:10:07 PM
All this discordianism crap is pretty much breaking down into a few distinct principles:

Pattern Recognition.
Primate Territorialism.
Reality grids/filters.

What other things do you think are part of Discord's "core themes"?

High Madness / Weirdness has been mentioned.


I ask because when it comes time to rewrite the book on Discordia, it'd be nice to have a sort of checklist of what should be included.

P3nT4gR4m

Discordia is about being a movement, rather than being a part of a movement.

Discordia is about swimming with or against the shoal, depending on your whim and, maybe, the proximity of the nearest shark.

Discordia is about discord, for the hell of it, if you wanna.

But that's just anarchy. Pure, survival of the nastiest, anarchy.

It's discordians that make it what it is.

Discordia is about not being a discordian.

The name is not a definition, rather it's a statement.

"I am not definable. You cannot tell what I am by the word you would use to describe me. I do not fit in a box that small. I think and do the things I think and do, more by conscious decision than programmed response, a lot more than people who I would not describe as discordian."

I met these people through discordia (bitch with an apple brung 'em to me)

I'm Cybin and I am not a discordian.


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Quote from: SillyCybin on May 22, 2007, 05:56:32 PM
Discordia is about swimming with or against the shoal, depending on your whim and, maybe, the proximity of the nearest shark.

reminds me of one of those meme bombs "society is a sewer, learn to swim" or something
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e-prime disclaimer: let it seem fairly unclear I understand the apparent subjectivity of the above statements. maybe.

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Play
Chance
Disorder
Decentralized
Creation
Satire
Irony
Indeterminacy
Meta metaphysics

Come to mind.

Cramulus

what about

Chaos is a balance between Order and Disorder. Discordians seek balance. In present times, there is too much Order, so Discordians try to sow Disorder.

(tangent for the History of Discordia booklet: in what period of history would Discordians instigate Order rather than Disorder?)

Discordia, as a religion, is about coming up with your own answers about god, fate, the universe, and morality, rather than just adopting someone else's framework wholesale. In that, it does not exist on the same continuum as deity worship, agnosticism, and atheism.

cyberus

Quote from: Professor Cramulus on May 22, 2007, 06:11:51 PM
(tangent for the History of Discordia booklet: in what period of history would Discordians instigate Order rather than Disorder?)

Genghis Khan could be called a discordian in this sense.  When the norm for northeast Asia was warring nomadic tribes, he sought to unite under a common tribe, so food, and  basic necessities were more easily available, as well as increased defenses, etc.
The bun-sellers or cake-makers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but,which was worse,did injure them most outrageously,called them prattling gabblers,lickorous gluttons,freckled bittors,mangy rascals,shite-a-bed scoundrels,drunken roysters,sly knaves,drowsy loiterers,slapsauce fellows,slabberdegullion druggels,lubberly louts,cozening foxes,ruffian rogues,paltry customers,sycophant-varlets,drawlatch hoydens,flouting milksops,jeering companions,staring clowns,forlorn snakes,ninny lobcocks,scurvy sneaksbies,fondling fops,base loons,saucy coxcombs,idle lusks,scoffing braggarts,noddy meacocks,blockish grutnols,doddipol-joltheads,jobbernol goosecaps,foolish loggerheads,flutch calf-lollies,grouthead gnat-snappers,lob-dotterels,gaping changelings,codshead loobies,woodcock slangams,ninny-hammer flycatchers,noddypeak simpletons,turdy gut,shitten shepherds,and other suchlike defamatory epithets; saying further,that it was not for them to eat of these dainty cakes...

AFK

Quote from: Professor Cramulus on May 22, 2007, 06:11:51 PM
what about

Chaos is a balance between Order and Disorder. Discordians seek balance. In present times, there is too much Order, so Discordians try to sow Disorder.

(tangent for the History of Discordia booklet: in what period of history would Discordians instigate Order rather than Disorder?)

Discordia, as a religion, is about coming up with your own answers about god, fate, the universe, and morality, rather than just adopting someone else's framework wholesale. In that, it does not exist on the same continuum as deity worship, agnosticism, and atheism.

#1 needs to be fleshed out more.  Remember the distinctions of creative vs. destructive order and creative vs. destructive disorder. 

#2 is great if you lose the "religion" word. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Cramulus


Quote from: Rev. What's-His-Name? on May 22, 2007, 09:25:23 PM
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on May 22, 2007, 06:11:51 PM
what about


Discordia, as a religion, is about coming up with your own answers about god, fate, the universe, and morality, rather than just adopting someone else's framework wholesale. In that, it does not exist on the same continuum as deity worship, agnosticism, and atheism.


#2 is great if you lose the "religion" word. 


What else, then? I'm not trying to say that Discordia is a religion, as it's a religion to some people who follow it but not to others. But for those that do follow it as a religion, I want to make a distinction between Discordia's eclectic attitude, and that of "Discordians worship the Goddess Eris."

as we've said before, this is one of those things that's hard to crystallize because no one agrees on what Discordia is.

Maybe the following paragraph would contrast:

Discordia, as a philosophy, is about coming up with your own answers about god, fate, the universe, and morality, rather than just adopting an existing framework wholesale. In that, it does not exist on the same continuum as modernism, post-modernism, etc

AFK

works for me.  That's how I think of it, as a philosophy.  Religion entails deities and such and I think any actual worship of Eris is kind of silly.  But again, that's just my personal opinion on it.  Others are welcome to have theirs.

And as far as defining Discordia, I'm not sure you can ever really crystalize it in any really compact way.  I think the whole "think for yourself schmuck" kind of works against that.  Unless of course, all of the schmucks share the same thoughts. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

P3nT4gR4m

If you want to know what discordia is then ffs don't ask.

SRSLY!

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Quote from: cyberus on May 22, 2007, 09:09:23 PM
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on May 22, 2007, 06:11:51 PM
(tangent for the History of Discordia booklet: in what period of history would Discordians instigate Order rather than Disorder?)

Genghis Khan could be called a discordian in this sense.  When the norm for northeast Asia was warring nomadic tribes, he sought to unite under a common tribe, so food, and  basic necessities were more easily available, as well as increased defenses, etc.

Also, I don't remember if it was Genghis Khan, but I think it was... One of those crazy warlord fellows used to stack up the severed heads of his enemies into pyramids. Once the heads began to decompose, the decomposition process would cause them to glow in the dark.

Thus, huge glowing pyramids of heads. HUGE GLOWING PYRAMIDS OF HEADS!

This is all I remember from high school world history. It is all I care to remember. It is genius! I don't know if it necessarily counts as Discordian per se, but huge glowing pyramids of heads. Yes!
Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

P3nT4gR4m

If your huge pyramid of heads doesn't glow you've did it wrong.

I'm up to my arse in Brexit Numpties, but I want more.  Target-rich environments are the new sexy.
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High Altitude Haggis-Filled Sex Bucket From Beyond Time and Space.
Internet Monkey Person of Filthy and Immoral Pygmy-Porn Wart Contagion
Octomom Auxillary Heat Exchanger Repairman
walking the fine line line between genius and batshit fucking crazy

"computation is a pattern in the spacetime arrangement of particles, and it's not the particles but the pattern that really matters! Matter doesn't matter." -- Max Tegmark

Cain

Quote from: cyberus on May 22, 2007, 09:09:23 PM
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on May 22, 2007, 06:11:51 PM
(tangent for the History of Discordia booklet: in what period of history would Discordians instigate Order rather than Disorder?)

Genghis Khan could be called a discordian in this sense.  When the norm for northeast Asia was warring nomadic tribes, he sought to unite under a common tribe, so food, and  basic necessities were more easily available, as well as increased defenses, etc.

But isn't unification trying to impose a consensus and so part of the Aneristic delusion?

I mean sure, as a Mongol, I probably would have signed up for the pillaging and looting too, but I'd just as likely try to kill the Khan in his sleep.  And unlike another certain group of proto-Discordians, I wouldn't merely fuck up and kill his sons instead.

cyberus

Quote from: Cain on May 23, 2007, 09:51:49 AM
But isn't unification trying to impose a consensus and so part of the Aneristic delusion?

I thought that was the intended scope of the question.  To show a happenstance of a perceived lack of order, within which, by the introduction of aneristic principles, a better state of being was reached, is how I understood the question.
The bun-sellers or cake-makers were in nothing inclinable to their request; but,which was worse,did injure them most outrageously,called them prattling gabblers,lickorous gluttons,freckled bittors,mangy rascals,shite-a-bed scoundrels,drunken roysters,sly knaves,drowsy loiterers,slapsauce fellows,slabberdegullion druggels,lubberly louts,cozening foxes,ruffian rogues,paltry customers,sycophant-varlets,drawlatch hoydens,flouting milksops,jeering companions,staring clowns,forlorn snakes,ninny lobcocks,scurvy sneaksbies,fondling fops,base loons,saucy coxcombs,idle lusks,scoffing braggarts,noddy meacocks,blockish grutnols,doddipol-joltheads,jobbernol goosecaps,foolish loggerheads,flutch calf-lollies,grouthead gnat-snappers,lob-dotterels,gaping changelings,codshead loobies,woodcock slangams,ninny-hammer flycatchers,noddypeak simpletons,turdy gut,shitten shepherds,and other suchlike defamatory epithets; saying further,that it was not for them to eat of these dainty cakes...