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Clergy to the Freaks
It’s a strange, chaotic world out there. It’s incomprehensibly huge and also so tiny it’s like your own personal cell. It’s miraculously beautiful and suicidally ugly. It’s both claustrophobically overcrowded and desolately lonely.
There are a lot of people – in this case I’ll use that nebulous “us” – who use weirdness, humor, and insanity as a means of coping. Perhaps lunacy allows some to achieve a sort of homeostasis, an equilibrium with the ubiquitious dynamics and pressures of modern living.
Over at the PD Forums we had a debacle yesterday. One of our newer members, Daruko, had a sort of “internet breakdown” when confronted by some opposition. It was both funny and hard to watch. The guy in question is a 25-year old father of two, who is “in dire need of some sillyness in his life.”
Somebody asked Tim Leary what to do after they had Turned On. He said, “Find the others.” And then they show up at our door.
Do Not Test Discordians
Lust, Groucho:47, 6007 YD
The Chaliceblog is currently showing a good reason not to test Discordians on the concept of whether Discordianism is a genuine religion or a parady religion: as if there is a difference.
This was the original post:
Yesterday night, I was organizing the books in our library. I put theCSO’s Discordian books in the fiction section.
He says they are theology.
If you’re not clear on what discordianism is, here’s a decent explanation.
My argument is that Discordianism strikes me as a parody of Catholicism. If “Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf” ran for president to highlight the absurdity of the American political system, then put out a book about politics, I wouldn’t put it in the politics section. So why would I put a book produced by paraody religion in “theology?”
His is that nobody died and put me in charge of deeming what’s a religion and what’s not.
To some degree, this is a stupid argument. He expressed surprise that I was so insistent that Discordianism not be treated as a valid theology and that I became so passionate about the matter. (I may relent and stick it in Philosophy.)
Part of my annoyance was that I had the Discordians confused with the Church of the Subgenius. I read up on the Subgenius Custody Case recently and while I agree with the general sentiment that the mother shouldn’t be penalized in custody matters for her religion, even if her religion is basically a parody. But I agree in the same halfhearted way that I agree with Happy Feminist that in a custody battle between a spousal abuser and a white supremacist, the white supremacist should win.
I’ll kid you not, y’all, the Cleveland Free Times’ description of these Subgenius events this woman was going to depressed the hell out of me. “Whee! Let’s take a guy named Steve and change his name to ‘Lord Jesus Christ’ and parody the ‘Passion of the Christ’ and there need to be dildos! Lots of dildoes! Why? Because Conservative Christians hate that and that inherently makes it worth doing!”
What the fuck is up with that?
It’s like how the first three minutes you spend at LandoverBaptist.com it’s hilarious, and then you realize how much time how many people have to put into that site and how much they have to hate Christians to make a site that extensive that is devoted to making fun of Christianity in the nastiest ways they can think of.
I’m sick enough of YRUU kids telling me all sorts of bitchy things about Christians that they learned from their parents. I can’t imagine the kind of hate the SubGenius woman’s son is picking up, all in the name of “humor.” Because we all know that humor is innocent and fun and NEVER has an undercurrent of nastiness beneath it. I’m not ignoring the relgious freedom aspects, I’m not advocating making these people stop. But I seriously think they need to grow up.
CC
This arrogance this post displayed naturally raised the ire of many Discordians, and for those it didn’t raise the ire of, it simply provided a prime oppurtunity for Lulz. Either way, a shitstorm erupted in the comments section of The Chaliceblog. As a direct result of said shitstorm Chalicechick posted the following remark in the Parody Relgions section of Sites In Focus:
Chalicechick Says:
January 14th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Advice to all bloggers: Don’t insult the discordians. It’s just not worth the trouble. The voice of experience.
There’s a lesson in this somewhere.
Open and Shut
Enlightenment can be a tough road.
Having an open mind does not mean an open highway bereft of tribulation and conflict. Indeed, so it would seem, it can increase both of those.
The knowledge and understanding of how limitations can choke. But yet, when others do not share or recognize this, one’s societal world, one’s social circles, can quickly become very limited. Or at the very least, strained.
This has become apparent to me as a parent. Watching my little girl, eager and wide-eyed with the world. A thirst to experience all that she can experience. No shame in sillyness. No inhibitions for idiosyncracies. Yet, when amidst others of her age, who have already begun to develop their blinders, it can be painful to watch. Because I remember what it was like, to be just a little different then all of the other straight and narrows. I remember the giggles. I remember the pointing. Being comfortable with myself, yet lonely as others decide that they are not.
And so I see it beginning with my little one, before she has even entered the public school system. To be sure, kids still like her, and play with her. To be sure, she still enjoys that which is deemed normal and traditional for a kid her age, and of her gender. And to be sure, I can see in her playmates the happy anarchy of childhood innocence is still there, and viable. But I can also see where they are being introduced and indoctrinated to the typical paths that so many others unquestioningly navigate. The hard and fast rules of what boys do and what girls do. The mantras of how to properly experience the universe we are in.Â
And so the tricky part comes. How to maintain integration without fostering isolation. How to cherish and champion individuality, and at the same time, teach companionship and comradery. To impart that though others may not jive with parts of the personality that their friendship is still valuable and vital.Â
It’s an odd thing. We are invariably social creatures. It is undeniable that at some level we all want to belong to something. To be a part of a collective of characters. At the same time, there are parts of our identity that will cause clashes, and sometimes, with those we most want to be friends with, or partners with, or lovers with. As an adult this is easy to understand and rationalize, and so too with time will it become obvious to my little one and others like her who are growing up now.Â
In the meantime, I make it my duty to keep that which may dull to not lessen her shine.Â
Discordians in History
Discordians in the Middle Ages
Discordians flourished between the fifth and fifteenth century. This was a period of great cultural, political, and economic change in Europe – change which Discordians violently shook like a collicy infant.
Discordian Writings
It it not known whether medieval Discordians were literate. They commonly wrote in the incomprehensible Zwack alphabet. Discordians held that most people, even nobles and priests, were too hunchbrained to make any sense of their baffling script. Contemporary cryptologists believe Zwack to be incomprehensible gibberish, but modern Discordians hold that these scholars are merely too hunchbrained to make sense of their baffling script.
The Inquisition
In 1478, the Spanish Inquisition was begun by King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile. Although it was not publicly revealed until after his death, one of Ferdinand’s advisors, Peter Pie the Pious, was a Discordian saint. St. Pie pushed King Ferdinand to seek out converts from Judaism and Islam residing Spain. The inquisition was originally intended as a distraction from St. Pie’s major project, sleeping with Queen Isabella. The inquisition rapidly got out of hand as zealots began burning heretics.
Despite his success with Isabella, St. Pie was saddened by these violent developments. He made a private apology to the Discordians of Spain, but it was lost on them as they were busy being burned to death. Wracked with guilt, he fell on his sword in 1490. His final words were “Fili Prius meretrix,” or “Bros before hos”.
Discordians in Colonial America: The Witch Trials
In 1692, Discordians invented the first game of SINK when the Queche Quidditch Qabal threw Goodwife Tabatha Croft in the Connecticut river. When the local constable demanded an explanation, Rev. Sandwitch of Bologna replied that they were testing to see if she was a witch. The constable thought this was such a good idea, he brought his wife to the river and tested her for witchiness. This meme spread and evolved until all the women in town were soaking wet. Later, they were burned at the stake.
Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Lail
Lulz is the law, lulz under Lail.
GASMGASM and the Good Word
The OMGASM Wiki has been updated to include GASMGASM – the Mission to spread news of OMGASM.
To be accurate, this post is actually a part of GASMGASMGASM - the mission to spread the word of GASMGASM.
Among other materials produced for GASMGASM is our entry on the Good Word…
 OMGASM is what is missing in your life.Participation is heroic in a sense that won’t be fully understood for a hundred years. It’s “fun”. It’s a “good cause”. It will help you get “slack”. It will change how you look at things. It will give you strength. It will give you a handjob.It will do all sorts of tango and wango magic on your life that will make you feel like it’s Spring after a long long Winter and the world is puddlewonderful anew.OMGASM is so much fun your guts will bleed honeyed joy into your stomach and you’ll get all sugar high and you’ll throw up pure bliss on everything. It’s so awesome you’ll just run, screaming, into the street, and get into a taxi naked. OMGASM is so fucking sticker-ridiculous your family will have to have an intervention.
While you are participating in OMGASM, your dead pets will see you, from their clouds, and purr or wag their tails or masturbate or crap on the rug or whatever Happy Thing they did in life. Every time you participate in a GASM, the Goddess Eris gets off while screaming your name. It’s like a spiritual guitar solo.
The world seems to be getting more boring and low-Quality. People are really starting to believe in this Bureaucracy garbage and take it seriously – it’s not just something they put up with from 9 to 5. We’ve gotta get this shit over with and bring the party that is Aftermath, damnit!
It’s hard, too. You could throw the most awesome party in the history of time, and people will still skip it to watch reruns of Friends. You’ve gotta be persistent. Most people won’t be receptive to the message. But there are people out there – people like you, who are waiting to make contact. It’s lonely to be weird in this big weird world, and all this nonsense we do is a beacon to people who are lost and lunatic, free thinking and free falling. So what’s the answer?
In an interview in the late 1960’s, Timothy Leary was asked, “So what do you do after you ‘Turn On’â€??? Tim answered, “Find the others…â€
The Parable of the Exploding Head
A woman named Carla was visiting her uncle in the City of the Dusky Mountain. Along the way she met a lizard. The lizard asked the woman “Are you sure you want to go to the City of the Dusky Mountain? For the road leading to that place is dangerous and filled with danger!”. But Carla was resolute in her decision, as she had made a promise to her uncle!
And then, her head exploded.
It was an awful mess, and the lizard got hit by a shard of Carla’s skull and was paralyzed in its left foreleg for the rest of its life.