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Has anyone played it?  Any opinions or suggestions?

I'm trying to read through the books right now.  So far it looks interesting.  It says it uses the Fate system which I'm not familiar with other than knowing that it uses fudge dice.  It's really big on group cooperative world building rather than leaving it all to the GM.

    I am curious about something I noticed while reading on the forums here. I went and read the BIP and PD to make sure I wasn't just hallucinating and I'm pretty sure I'm not at this point.

    First of all, to make sure I didn't totally misread everything, one of the general ideas in BIP is that each person sees everything from his/her own viewpoint which is based on his/her life up to that point. I see the world through my BIP, you see the world through yours and what we each see can be totally different, even if we are looking at the same things. The society one is raised in contributes a lot to the bars of the prison. We have the choice to just blindly exist in our BIP or to realize what it is and choose to change it to suit ourselves, adding in what we want and taking away what we don't want (in the BIP that seemed to be mainly mainstream societal gobblety gook).

    Ok, now if what I just stated is correct (or close to correct or not blatantly wrong and misread) then what I have been noticing is true. I debated for quite awhile over posting this, but I'm really curious about the correlation I'm seeing and I'm hoping that people can get past the term in about to use and address what I noticed. Here's the part I'm expecting to get flamed for. This concept is a basic one in some shamanic paths. I've known this and used this as my world view for years, long before I ever knew about Discordians. I'm curious why there is such disparagement for a system of thought that has such similarities. I'm also curious what the differences in thought on this concept might be since I couldn't puzzle that out while I was reading beyond the stress placed on mainstream societal issues in the BIP.