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Or Kill Me / Re: More of a complaint than a rant; it's about you.

« on: February 20, 2012, 05:30:19 pm »

Well sure. But from where im sitting its not even a good troll. Its spam. It doesnt even strike me as pinealism.

It was a GREAT troll. One of the most successful troll projects I've seen Discordians do. Your degree of annoyance (a year later) is proof. 

If anything, it sure amused the hell out of them. They're still chortling over the amount of rage that 100+ event invites produced. They were like, "I'm soooo sorry I messed up your facebook itinerary. Send us the doctor's bill." They LOVED being called "fake discordians" and "cabbages" because they strained some people's clicking fingers. It's the same exact thing as when a really real discordian comes here and tells how real discordians act. They ate it up and asked for more.


for the record, when this shit went down, I was mad as hell. I think I even blogged about it. It took a while before I realized I was acting like a cosmic shmuck.


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If you want to be serious,
don't take yourself seriously.
Be open to change,
and bold enough to be the butt of the joke.
 
When you walk with total certainty, 
your head high 
like a cosmic schmuck,
you are vulnerable to the old banana peel shtick.
 
When a schmuck slips,
their face becomes red with embarrassment. 
Eris showed them what they did not perceive.
And, be honest, it was funny.

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Or Kill Me / Re: More of a complaint than a rant; it's about you.

« on: February 20, 2012, 05:10:12 pm »

motherfucker! I've typed out this post three times now. Okay, third time's a charm.

You know cram being zany and shit is all fun and games until you log on to facebook and have to go clear out 100 + invites to fake events and then spend the rest of the night blocking the people involved. Those assholes? Cabbages. I may be a wanker but you wont be able to convince me that those people are worth my time either as a discordian or anything else.

What you're saying is "I don't find them funny," which is 169% valid. But as soon as you start to say that they're bad discordians because the way they practice Discordia doesn't amuse YOU, you're riding one of those smug high horses which, I hate to tell you, is actually a cow.

Remember that in POEE, the hierarchy is reversed: the more involved you get with Eris, the lower in the hierarchy you sink. For the most part, the Popes of our religion have never even heard of Eris. They are the MOST free of Discordian orthodoxy and dogma. Who am I to tell THE POPE how to relate to his Gawdess? This is one of those traps that Mal and Omar built to sabotage anybody claiming to be a "real" Discordian.

There is no "really real Discordia", and if one emerges, I'm categorically against it.

http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/Bad_Discordians

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Or Kill Me / Re: More of a complaint than a rant; it's about you.

« on: February 20, 2012, 04:28:04 pm »

I'm up to 70%. I thought the goal was 100!! 

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Or Kill Me / Re: More of a complaint than a rant; it's about you.

« on: February 20, 2012, 03:42:53 pm »

The trick is to be retarded the least amount of time possible.

FUCK

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Think for Yourself, Schmuck! / Re: Common Walls

« on: February 20, 2012, 03:29:54 pm »

x-post

We're immersed in time. So we rarely notice it or think about it. It's a forbidden topic -- the ellipses following a euphemism. We pretend that we're not drowning in time. We just doggy paddle down the mysterious river. Some photographs remind you. They show you a moment that has passed. A snowflake that has melted into a drop of water, refracting the light into a spectrum. The colors of buildings. The costumes of the actors. The shape of a car. The fonts on a sign. You don't have to go back very far before everything starts looking foreign. If you were to travel through time, even if you remained in the same city, you would be a foreigner. Sometimes that thought makes me very lonely. We have to face the mystery alone. The faces in the photograph look at you with knowing eyes. But they don't know, you know. Their mystery has melted. My mystery is now. I am writing it as I'm solving it. Mystery novelists say you should start with the ending and then work backwards. So I take a mental snapshot of the future. I'm looking at the fonts, the shapes of cars, the spectrum of color hidden in the white light. When you look at a photograph of the future, does it make you nostalgic for the present? Let's take a moment to drink it in and reflect. A bunch of foreigners gripping umbrellas form a line to immigrate.

..................................................................................

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Or Kill Me / Re: More of a complaint than a rant; it's about you.

« on: February 20, 2012, 03:02:40 pm »

Kinda like some facebook discordians? Oh man. Yeah- theyre basically cabbages disguised as discordians. Try explaining that to them though. Theyre less about the implications of discordia and more about the excuse to act retarded or so it seems.

I think you got it backwards. The excuse to act retarded? that sounds more like "enlightenment" every day. The implications of discordia? total wankfest

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Think for Yourself, Schmuck! / Re: [GROUP PROJECT / GASM] Refractions

« on: February 20, 2012, 02:56:38 pm »

We're immersed in time. So we rarely notice it or think about it. It's a forbidden topic -- the ellipses following a euphemism. We pretend that we're not drowning in time. We just doggy paddle down the mysterious river. Some photographs remind you. They show you a moment that has passed. A snowflake that has melted into a drop of water, refracting the light into a spectrum. The colors of buildings. The costumes of the actors. The shape of a car. The fonts on a sign. You don't have to go back very far before everything starts looking foreign. If you were to travel through time, even if you remained in the same city, you would be a foreigner. Sometimes that thought makes me very lonely. We have to face the mystery alone. The faces in the photograph look at you with knowing eyes. But they don't know, you know. Their mystery has melted. My mystery is now. I am writing it as I'm solving it. Mystery novelists say you should start with the ending and then work backwards. So I take a mental snapshot of the future. I'm looking at the fonts, the shapes of cars, the spectrum of color hidden in the white light. When you look at a photograph of the future, does it make you nostalgic for the present? Let's take a moment to drink it in and reflect. A bunch of foreigners gripping umbrellas form a line to immigrate.

..................................................................................

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Think for Yourself, Schmuck! / Re: [GROUP PROJECT / GASM] Refractions

« on: February 20, 2012, 02:30:15 pm »

Of course, QG! If I copyright a piece that I've posted here, I make sure the copyright is explicit. Anything else is creative-commons (I generally go with the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.)

my kopyleft notice: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php/topic,11808.0/msg,367394.html

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Principia Discussion / Re: Where does Discordia fit in 2012?

« on: February 20, 2012, 02:21:47 pm »

discordia is the fat lady singing -

every time i come back here at this point, it is always to say thank-you -

it takes a lot of discipline to create the most elaborate fireworks -

like it says in the old Sun Tzu books - "those skilled in the unorthodox are as infinite as heaven and earth, inexhaustible as the great rivers"

what's good, family?

hey man! long time no see
welcome back to the playpen


I see that Nonsense-as-Salvation Sun Tzu quote and will raise you a nonsense-as-salvation JESUS quote:

Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all.

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Random News Stories

« on: February 17, 2012, 05:31:14 pm »

http://www.waka.com/home/top-stories/Holmes-Sagging-Pants-Bill-Passes-Alabama-House-59-0-139465303.html

Alabama has a bill which imposes a $100-$150 fine for wearing "saggy pants"

I hope they also appoint a hall monitor to enforce the new state dress code.



reminds me of Louisiana's "thong law"

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Bring and Brag / Re: Love Poems to my Wife

« on: February 17, 2012, 05:02:02 pm »

powerful. mysterious. erotic.



no seriously though, those are great. Needs a sappy comic-sans style treatment!

Come over here, woman
That Ru Paul on TV has
Done got me Horny

Ow shit stop it ouch
Son of a bitch that hurt bad
Um, do it again

I am but a man
I cannot remember shit
Take off your shirt, please

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Techmology and Scientism / Re: UNLIMITED SHITTING ON GOOGLE THREAD :-D

« on: February 17, 2012, 03:01:24 pm »

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Aneristic Illusions / Re: Heartland institute documents leaked; reveals climate skeptic strategies

« on: February 17, 2012, 02:56:44 pm »

It's absurd that they're still pushing the "scientists are uncertain" meme? This is a Frank Luntz creation from the mid 90s that got out of control.

Frank Luntz doesn't even support it anymore! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yz8UwRsWPA - they're recycling 7 year old talking points. He says, "It's unfair to take a document that was written in 1998 and apply it in 2006."

It really underscores the lasting power of good communication.

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Principia Discussion / Re: Where does Discordia fit in 2012?

« on: February 17, 2012, 02:37:17 pm »

  I've got the droid eris. It's kind of a shitty phone.

but I didn't get it 'cause of the branding - I got it 'cause Eve was getting rid of hers 

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Principia Discussion / Re: www.kerrythornley.com

« on: February 17, 2012, 02:30:21 pm »

Ah, it's finally up! It was just a splash page for YEARS!

There was a call for submissions on the splash page - they were looking for any anecdotes, lost writings, or other Omarbilia. If anybody has anything about Hill or Thornely that's NOT on the site, you should pass it along!

I wonder if these guys are with the Thornley estate? I know they've been trying to index Kerry Thornley's stuff for a while.