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#1
Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Republicult™ On Parade
Last post by Abbot Mythos - Today at 09:09:09 AMFor decades, my rule of thumb has been that no matter how bad a 'Merican president is at his job, his approval ratings will not drop below 33.3%, or roughly 1/3 of the people polled. (I freely admit, my rule of thumb is little more than my opinion, based upon my observation of 'Merican politics.)
Still, given how unimaginably bad this POSOTUS is at his job, his aggregate approval rating has yet to drop to that level.
So, while I don't doubt there are a few members, here and there, who are becoming disillusioned enough to distance themselves from the Republicult™, I'm not optimistic there will ever be anything resembling a mass exodus. I'm more inclined to believe this cult will simply rebrand itself. Again.
Still, given how unimaginably bad this POSOTUS is at his job, his aggregate approval rating has yet to drop to that level.
So, while I don't doubt there are a few members, here and there, who are becoming disillusioned enough to distance themselves from the Republicult™, I'm not optimistic there will ever be anything resembling a mass exodus. I'm more inclined to believe this cult will simply rebrand itself. Again.
#2
Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Republicult™ On Parade
Last post by Pergamos - Yesterday at 04:34:21 PMMy roommate is a magat, he's loved Trump all the way, until he started driving up the gas prices with this foolish adventure in Iran. I don't think the inflation statement is something he noticed, it's pretty typical senile Trump rambling, but I can definitely see him alienating even his die hard fans at this point.
#3
Aneristic Illusions / Re: The Republicult™ On Parade
Last post by Abbot Mythos - Yesterday at 05:57:13 AMI think the Republicult™ would have reacted much differently to this statement, if a Democratic President had made it:
As per this article:
"Asked about the new report that the consumer price index in May had jumped 4.2% over the last year, the president took a surprisingly optimistic tack with the challenging news. Trump didn't dismiss the affordability issue as a "hoax" that was started by Democrats, as he has done previously. Nor did he claim that he was bringing down the cost of living.
Instead, after the government said that inflation spiked to the highest level since April 2023, Trump praised the numbers.
"You know what I really love?" Trump said. "I love the inflation.""
However, I'm not seeing any outrage among the brain-dead faithful. So, I'm taking the lack of it as just more proof that the Republicult™ really is a cult, in every sense of the word.
As per this article:
"Asked about the new report that the consumer price index in May had jumped 4.2% over the last year, the president took a surprisingly optimistic tack with the challenging news. Trump didn't dismiss the affordability issue as a "hoax" that was started by Democrats, as he has done previously. Nor did he claim that he was bringing down the cost of living.
Instead, after the government said that inflation spiked to the highest level since April 2023, Trump praised the numbers.
"You know what I really love?" Trump said. "I love the inflation.""
However, I'm not seeing any outrage among the brain-dead faithful. So, I'm taking the lack of it as just more proof that the Republicult™ really is a cult, in every sense of the word.
#4
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Ancient Astronomy as it pe...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - June 11, 2026, 08:48:37 AMQuote from: Omnidextrious on June 08, 2026, 05:28:03 PMBefore the dark ages, empires controlled the flow of knowledge, until the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. These non-interesting parts of History between the well documented established orders contained unbroken lineages of familial bloodlines and religious orders which absolutely kept secrets from the rest of us.Conspiracy theories are a defining feature of our Discordian mythology. It's one of the things that drew me to this religion, as I find many popular conspiracy theories to be highly amusing.
However, those of us who, for our amusement, occasionally claim the be members of the Illuminati, The Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria (A.I.S.B.) - the World's Oldest and Most Successful Conspiracy, need to be aware that not every force that drives civilization originally sprung from a conscious, organized conspiracy. I submit that describing how our various previous civilizations operated, and how our current one operates, is more difficult than that. And, believing in conspiracy theories can lead to paranoia.
#5
Aneristic Illusions / Re: UNLIMITED Trump thread, 20...
Last post by Doktor Howl - June 11, 2026, 03:45:00 AMThanks to DOGE, we have screw worms in our cattle again.
#6
Aneristic Illusions / Re: Ancient Astronomy as it pe...
Last post by Doktor Howl - June 11, 2026, 03:44:12 AMI just ate an entire block of cheese.
#7
Techmology and Scientism / Re: Scientific Proof of Republ...
Last post by Abbot Mythos - June 10, 2026, 07:49:52 AMIn the Republicult™, belief Trumps facts.
#8
Techmology and Scientism / Re: Ancient Astronomy
Last post by Abbot Mythos - June 09, 2026, 09:17:45 AMQuote from: Omnidextrious on June 08, 2026, 04:49:44 PMIt's ironic that it was the disaster of a shipwreck that brought this ancient device to the attention of posterity. Only a fraction of what we humans achieve survives for any length of time.Valid, thanks.
Focusing more on the Ancient Astronomy.
I'm dumbfounded by the Antikythera Mechanism. The mathematics and raw data collection involved in that must have been quite a feat.
#9
Aneristic Illusions / Ancient Astronomy as it pertai...
Last post by Omnidextrious - June 08, 2026, 05:28:03 PMUpon reading a discussion about Ancient Astronomy, I noticed a pattern that seems to corelate with Aneristic Illusions, which seems to be a disillusionment the status quo's narrative of steady historical progress and limited early capabilities.
The progression from cave people to modern people was not linear as we have all been brought up to believe. Real history shows repeated cycles of building knowledge, losing it, rediscovering it, and developing in different directions at different times and places. This seems to vibe super well with the concept of Aneristic Illusion.
Timeline:
Prehistoric (~10,000 – 3000 BCE)
>Stone Henge
Ancient (~3000 – 500 BCE)
>Antikythera Mechanism
>Mesopotamian and Egyptian
Global Empires (~300 BCE – 500 CE)
>Alexander the Great
>The Roman Empire
Islamic Golden Age (~800 – 1500 CE)
>Dark Ages
Renaissance (1500 – 1800 CE)
>Rediscovery of Greek and Roman knowledge
Modern Era (1800 – Today)
>Mass literacy
>Cumulative scientific methods
Within this chaos, seems to be a pattern of order that was not purely accidental. The entire time, the farming, agricultural class, was forced to adhere to the religiously aligned scholarly class which would tell them when to plant and when to harvest, else they would plant too early and wait too late to harvest.
I speculate that the systems and methods of such, at some point, went from a benevolent anarchistic collaboration to flat out being a mass global control and enslavement scheme between the ancient era and the era of mass conquest.
It seems like we are still enslaved to such a system today, as the trade secrets are the number one top priority of federal and international law enforcement. We commoners may know outlandishly more than the feudal peasants of the past, but our academic resources are still locked behind massive pay walls, and access to such material is highly controlled and monitored.
The novel concept that I will take the social risk of arguing here is that has never changed in the last 10,000 years, and much of the class structures from then still remain in one form or another. The more our elite scholars learn, the more they allow to trickle down on the lower class.
Currently, Islam censors any history contradictory to their religious beliefs, and that has been occurring since Mohammed himself most likely caused the dark ages.
Before the dark ages, empires controlled the flow of knowledge, until the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. These non-interesting parts of History between the well documented established orders contained unbroken lineages of familial bloodlines and religious orders which absolutely kept secrets from the rest of us.
The progression from cave people to modern people was not linear as we have all been brought up to believe. Real history shows repeated cycles of building knowledge, losing it, rediscovering it, and developing in different directions at different times and places. This seems to vibe super well with the concept of Aneristic Illusion.
Timeline:
Prehistoric (~10,000 – 3000 BCE)
>Stone Henge
Ancient (~3000 – 500 BCE)
>Antikythera Mechanism
>Mesopotamian and Egyptian
Global Empires (~300 BCE – 500 CE)
>Alexander the Great
>The Roman Empire
Islamic Golden Age (~800 – 1500 CE)
>Dark Ages
Renaissance (1500 – 1800 CE)
>Rediscovery of Greek and Roman knowledge
Modern Era (1800 – Today)
>Mass literacy
>Cumulative scientific methods
Within this chaos, seems to be a pattern of order that was not purely accidental. The entire time, the farming, agricultural class, was forced to adhere to the religiously aligned scholarly class which would tell them when to plant and when to harvest, else they would plant too early and wait too late to harvest.
I speculate that the systems and methods of such, at some point, went from a benevolent anarchistic collaboration to flat out being a mass global control and enslavement scheme between the ancient era and the era of mass conquest.
It seems like we are still enslaved to such a system today, as the trade secrets are the number one top priority of federal and international law enforcement. We commoners may know outlandishly more than the feudal peasants of the past, but our academic resources are still locked behind massive pay walls, and access to such material is highly controlled and monitored.
The novel concept that I will take the social risk of arguing here is that has never changed in the last 10,000 years, and much of the class structures from then still remain in one form or another. The more our elite scholars learn, the more they allow to trickle down on the lower class.
Currently, Islam censors any history contradictory to their religious beliefs, and that has been occurring since Mohammed himself most likely caused the dark ages.
Before the dark ages, empires controlled the flow of knowledge, until the collapse of the Western Roman Empire. These non-interesting parts of History between the well documented established orders contained unbroken lineages of familial bloodlines and religious orders which absolutely kept secrets from the rest of us.
#10
Techmology and Scientism / Re: Ancient Astronomy
Last post by Omnidextrious - June 08, 2026, 04:49:44 PM Valid, thanks. Focusing more on the Ancient Astronomy.
I'm dumbfounded by the Antikythera Mechanism. The mathematics and raw data collection involved in that must have been quite a feat.