The new Threat

[Cain]

The New Threat

,ÄúAre we Discordians, or are we goddamn old ladies?,Äù- Deacon Avery, PFLD, after someone voiced concerns about the fallout of doing horrendous thing to the Baptists at a local festival.

Go contemplate your navel, you old fraud.
- Hagbard Celine, to the Dealy Lama

Right, I'm only gonna spew this once, so listen up!  I'm going to shatter another piece of Discordian Dogma, since I may as well go the whole hog with being a pain the ass to all Authority.  Firstly, Chaos may be the ,Äúnatural state,Äù of everything, but every time I look around there seems to be a suspicious amount of order.  Too much, in fact.

And yeah, I know the Aneristic Delusion, so you need not worry about me falling into that trap.  But the Aneristic Delusion holds that things are acting in ways that are contrary to the supposed order.  And this is all well and good, but we overlooked a vital point, something which is going to cost us badly, unless we catch on fast!

The Con is controlling the environment so that you can only act in a predictable range.  I'll let the implications of that sink in.  You know its true, they don't only pass laws but they are now making it impossible to break them through how they are enacted.  For example, they make it impossible to park over several places like a jerk by putting barriers in.  OK bad example, but very true.  They also are trying to make it impossible for the Chinese to view dissident sites by making them unaccessible (or shutting down porn sites through threat of legal action and fear of courts, for our American Faithful).  Add in the years of bizarre school training, teaching you how to butt kiss authority and never think for yourself, and you start to get the picture.  They've even started to use Chaos Theory for such Aneristic ends as controlling crowds and other nefarious, freedom opposed ends.

,ÄúYeah, thats great and all, but whats your point exactly,Äù you are probably asking.  My point, is that sitting on your ever widening fat ass and doing nothing will achieve exactly squat! You can go on about wu-wei, karma, the ,ÄúHistorical inevitability,Äù of your victory, hope for the X-ists to save you and it will achieve just as much as all the other do-gooders who try to visualize or meditate for world peace.  But those are lies, lies of the weak and hopeless, who would have you believe that anything else was impossible and that taking an active stand is futile.  These people are actively supporting the Con's greatest attempt yet to crush all resistance against them, and should be treated as the treacherous enemies they aid. 

Unless we willingly become the random factor in every equation, unless those of us who see whats happening act NOW, TODAY, then all could be lost.  Using lame philosophical justifications to stay out of trouble will give the Con time to play its final gambit, the actual erasion of everything bar ,Äúacts of Eris,Äù that could mess it all up.  And it has to be now, this exact second.  Unless you can make the commitment today, you will put it off forever.

A Discordian must necessarily be an activist in such an age...because one who isn't is just mouthing the words and memorizing the slogans while really working for the other side.  And being Discordant is more than just saying ,ÄúFnord!,Äù and spewing surrealist nonsense.  So-called Discordians who go on about their pineal gland and the mystical implications of the number five are stagnant, they haven't changed and are just exchanging one dogma for another.  In fact, they are following a dogma, the Discordianism of Thornley and Hill, someone other than themself.  Sure, it was original back in the day, but its got as tired as the ,Äúlone gunman,Äù patsy was in the 70s.

Even that old tyrant, Jehovah, didn't actually try to remove someone's will concerning what that sod saw as ,Äúgood,Äù and ,Äúevil,Äù. Now thats got to worry you.  The Con are going to lengths that even the insane, genocidal, jealous god of the Old Testament refused to do.  The removal of the ability to do evil, or what the Con considers evil at least (which are two quite different things in my book) is nothing less than the removal of the basis of freedom itself.

Freedom isn't about freedom ,Äúfrom,Äù, its always been freedom ,Äúto,Äù.  Freedom to go where one wants, be what one wants, act as one wants.  Freedom ,Äúfrom,Äù has always been the excuse of the worse tyrants, freedom ,Äúfrom,Äù evil Commie terrorists (Hitler), evil capitalist oppressors (Stalin), evil atheist oppressors (Pat Robertson).  That sort of ,Äúfreedom,Äù is contingent on the definition of the higher powers, and so only a privilege, not really freedom at all.  But it has the illusion and feel of it, which is what makes it so damn dangerous and insidious. 

And thats why it must be confronted, why new levels of unpredictability undreamed of by the Con's smartest Chaos theorists, its most hip gurus on alternative culture's, its most inquisitive double agents, must be found and used.  Once we become stale and definable, we have lost, we're known within a range, we're tagged and dead.

[East Coast Hustle]

preach it, brotha!

[jap]

What ho!

Terribly good work there.

[B_M_W]

Freedom isn't about freedom ,Äúfrom,Äù, its always been freedom ,Äúto,Äù. 

This is a damn fine statement.

[the other anonymous]

I am a goddamn old lady.

-toa,
will dye his hair blue to prove it

[Jasper]

I'm still learning the random factor way.  The trick is not getting caught and not getting anyone hurt.

[the other anonymous]

I'm still learning the random factor way.  The trick is not getting caught and not getting anyone hurt.

Pacifism is the luxury of those who have never had to defend themselves.

Harmless fun is the luxury of those who have never had to assassinate.

-toa,
doing it all for Jodie Foster

[Jasper]

I'll have my youthful notions of good, and you can have your strifely gonads.

[the other anonymous]

I'll have my youthful notions of good, and you can have your strifely gonads.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!



lol thread ruined

[Jasper]

[Fluffy]

Thhpppbpbpbpbp!!

[/Fluffy]

[maphdet]

Nicely put Cain.

Here's a question.
WTF are we suppose to do?

I sure hope that there is something that still can be done.
I have my doubts at times though...thats why I ask, what is it we can do?

Seriously, I am genuinly asking this.

[Triple Zero]

maphdet said:
> WTF are we suppose to do?

cain said:
> Unless we willingly become the random factor in every equation

1 - that's Operation Mindfuck we're talking about. google some discordian websites for "operation mindfuck" or "jake" for the classic examples.
2 - also there's thinking to be done. why is this going to work and what is the most effective way to do it.
3 - and there's propaganda, get out there talk with people. you can't fight for a cause that you can't explain effectively to others. there's loads of flyers to print around. print off the above piece. figure out what others are thinking and why they aren't always. combine with nr 1 and 2 above.

also anything except sitting on your arse waiting until it grows worse.

[maphdet]

maphdet said:
> WTF are we suppose to do?

cain said:
> Unless we willingly become the random factor in every equation

1 - that's Operation Mindfuck we're talking about. google some discordian websites for "operation mindfuck" or "jake" for the classic examples.
2 - also there's thinking to be done. why is this going to work and what is the most effective way to do it.
3 - and there's propaganda, get out there talk with people. you can't fight for a cause that you can't explain effectively to others. there's loads of flyers to print around. print off the above piece. figure out what others are thinking and why they aren't always. combine with nr 1 and 2 above.

also anything except sitting on your arse waiting until it grows worse.

Those are all fine points triple zero.
I do believe they have all been put to use through out time.
I dont know, maybe Im just being pessimistic about it.
*will do more thinking on the matter*

[Dell Ray]

If you were referring to me, I think you missed my point.  My point was, my parents are christians, who stole from the indians and the old people, gave to me and I in turn gave to the pagans..."what comes around goes around"...I think you took it way too seriously.  Besides, it was my first post and that's how you're going to welcome me?

My point was not to ruffle your tail feathers.

[the other anonymous]

Nicely put Cain.

Here's a question.
WTF are we suppose to do?

Hire a good publicist.

Seriously, I am genuinly answering this.

-toa,
loves him a good PR war