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Well, because, and I realise this may come as something of a surprise, IRL is actually somewhat more civilized than your high school gym class.

And, somehow, that just made me feel better about humanity.

Well, no, because emotions are part of being human; the good AND the bad.


The name of the game is balance and self-regulation.  It isn't healthy to bottle sadness or anger when it is an appropriate natural response to an event or phenomenon.  By that same token, it isn't healthy to wallow in horror and woe.


And I'm old AND as fucking happy as can be. 

That's the golden rule im trying to break! Fuck the balance! Humans dont actually NEED to be sad or angry, and either way it doesnt satisfy any needs whatsoever! In fact, I dont even want to be human anymore! I want to go BEYOND HUMAN, and this is the way im gonna do it ;D

Why this assumption that emotions are positive or negative at all?

The positive one are the ones I like and the negative ones are the ones I dont like ;D

That's all very well and good to tell me how you define positive and negative. This does not tell me why.

And, as Rev. What's-His-Name? said, there isn't anything "beyond human." We don't have any dogs that are beyond dogs or cars beyond cars. Changing temperament doesn't make one better or superhuman. If that's the case, the Stoics have us beat by years.

Well, no, because emotions are part of being human; the good AND the bad.


The name of the game is balance and self-regulation.  It isn't healthy to bottle sadness or anger when it is an appropriate natural response to an event or phenomenon.  By that same token, it isn't healthy to wallow in horror and woe.


And I'm old AND as fucking happy as can be. 

That's the golden rule im trying to break! Fuck the balance! Humans dont actually NEED to be sad or angry, and either way it doesnt satisfy any needs whatsoever! In fact, I dont even want to be human anymore! I want to go BEYOND HUMAN, and this is the way im gonna do it ;D

Why this assumption that emotions are positive or negative at all? And even if it were the case, wouldn't going beyond human require to move past all human emotion?

Is this like a pen-and-paper RPG or a video game one? Because there seems to be a lot of quick time events.

Whilst wandering around my mother-in-law's home, I got to thinking about the nature of a "religion" that two pot-smoking teens started in a bowling alley. Is it possible not to take such a movement seriously enough? If it hadn't been going on for over 50 years, would we take it with the passion (or involvement if passion is too strong of a word) we do today?

Personally, I realized that if someone came up to me and told me all about this joke religion that "follows" Eris, which was some Greek goddess that helped start the Trojan War, I would have chuckled, but wouldn't have thought much of it.

I think about silly things, I suppose, but I was curious if anybody else thought it was possible to be not serious enough about Discordianism.

(Let's not tackle the idea of being too serious about it. I've seen that conversation play out before. Of course, this one may have, too, but I can't find it.)

I say, 95% of Discordians that day should declare themselves Republican or some other Conservative item. It's a lame play on the whole "left" thing, but whatever.

My wife writes news for a parenting site and she covers a lot of the child crimes and abuse. I went to study journalism and did a lot of research into similar crimes. This may be bad, but I wasn't shocked by this at all.

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So, it's been awhile since I've written some total shit and had it torn apart from the community, so here it goes.

I'm No Discordian
So, you want to be a Discordian, huh?

Don't even bother. It isn't something you want to be.

Why? Well, it's simple: it's not as easy as it looks.

Look, when I first joined Discordia, I did it for all the wrong reasons. I was pissed at the Establishment. Christian jerks were damning me to Hell. People were blind sheep.

Most importantly, I wanted to be different.

Oh, that. Different. That's what drove me and, odds are, drove many to Discordia's arms. We wanted to change the world. And to do that, all we had to do was sit on our asses and wait.

Except, we forgot a detail. We became what we raged against.

Sitting on are asses, we became part of the Establishment. We damned people to the land of Thud. We were following influential Discordians, a herd of black sheep following a whacked-out shepherd.

In sum, we were just like we were before. No less different.

Face it. You're a Discordian because you wanted to seem weird. No shame in that. That was another reason I joined.

However, let's think for a second.

Did the Establishment do anything to us? Never harmed me. All the Christians I knew never once said I was going to Hell. And everyone I knew was quite out of their minds.

Were we really pissed at anything? I think we made it all up.

Sure, there's more to Discordianism than meets the eye. But that's the problem with most of us. We see the damn posters, but do we hang any of them up? We vow to make the day weirder, but by lunchtime, we've all but forgotten about this.

And then, some of us have the balls to take Discordia too seriously.

What a laugh.

There's always someone fighting about what makes a "real" Discordian, usually by people who thought it meant being totally offensive and a complete dick.

Well, I'm not going to lie. I'm no Discordian. But I'll still carry the flag.

Who knows. Maybe I'll be leading my own little herd one day.

Until then, I'll just think of other people's original thoughts.

P.S. Of course, I could also be the only idiot here without a fucking clue. That's been know to happen.

Well, I have to say, as an aspiring novelist myself, I'm jealous as all hell. It's a great concept for a story and, if I wasn't in a rush, I would have read it more in-depth, but from what I've read so far, it's a wonderful start. I'll give it a full read when I've got the time.

Anything by James Joyce (and by anything, I mean Finnegan's Wake and Portrait of a Artist as a Young Man) is not worth reading.

You could be horribly mistaken.

Could be, but I'll never find out, or ever care.

Anything by James Joyce (and by anything, I mean Finnegan's Wake and Portrait of a Artist as a Young Man) is not worth reading.

Because I'm not suffering the delusions of being any good: http://twitter.com/SprehhanBoli

Who is that person?
Don't know, but I guess it's good
Hooray for something...

NT: 90s revisited

You know, if one person can made teenage necrophiliac romance popular, and all by making the main characters teenagers, then something tells me someone could right a story making Nazism all the rage again, so long as they make emo-ish teens the leads.