{"id":76,"date":"2008-05-12T21:14:42","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T05:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/cain\/kallisticon-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T21:15:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T05:15:58","slug":"kallisticon-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/12\/kallisticon-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Kallisticon 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a secure location beneath New Alamut,<br \/>\nLeft Coast, Turtle Island, Earth<br \/>\nFool&#8217;s Day 2008<\/p>\n<p>Discordians, Dysnomians, Erisians, and others of much ilk&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Get up! (Get on up!)<\/p>\n<p>KallistiCon 2008 is coming &#8211; June 20-22!<\/p>\n<p>Every year this millennium, we&#8217;ve gotten together in the Bay Area in California. We&#8217;re not just rehashing gags from the Principia &#8211; we&#8217;re moving forward, practicing chaos in the world.<\/p>\n<p>For the last seven years, we&#8217;ve eaten and drank together, we&#8217;ve made friends with strangers in traffic, we&#8217;ve had rituals and blessings, we&#8217;ve been weird in public, and we&#8217;ve been human with each other. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve found the freaks who thought they were the only ones, and taught them &#8211; and ourselves &#8211; what tribe is supposed to mean.<\/p>\n<p>Some of you will say: &#8220;But Discordians are supposed to be disorganized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Didn&#8217;t you know that&#8217;s just a put-on?<\/p>\n<p>Some of you will say we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing it wrong, and only you know the right way to follow Eris.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s OK. Just quit talking about it and start doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Some will no doubt repeat the tired cliche: &#8220;We Discordians tend to stick apart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course we do, but sticking apart is more fun when we do it together.<\/p>\n<p>Throw out your old memes. Greg and Kerry are gone, Bob Wilson is gone, Camden Benares and the other old-timers are gone. Let&#8217;s honor and respect them. Let&#8217;s learn from their lives and their teachings. But let&#8217;s stop trying to be them.<\/p>\n<p>The Principia is your grandma&#8217;s Discordia. Being an inside joke on the net is your daddy&#8217;s. What&#8217;s yours? And who are you doing it with?<\/p>\n<p>gabba gabba<br \/>\nwe accept you<br \/>\nwe accept you<br \/>\none of us<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kallisticon.com\" class=\"linkification-ext\" title=\"Linkification: http:\/\/www.kallisticon.com\">http:\/\/www.kallisticon.com<\/a><br \/>\nJune 20-22, 2008<br \/>\nRedwood City, California<br \/>\nRSVP by June 15!<br \/>\nContact: email <a href=\"mailto:stmae@discordian.com\" class=\"linkification-ext\" title=\"Linkification: mailto:stmae@discordian.com\">stmae@discordian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a secure location beneath New Alamut, Left Coast, Turtle Island, Earth Fool&#8217;s Day 2008 Discordians, Dysnomians, Erisians, and others of much ilk&#8230; Get up! (Get on up!) KallistiCon 2008 is coming &#8211; June 20-22! Every year this millennium, we&#8217;ve gotten together in the Bay Area in California. 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