Mechanical Alchemy

[Triple Zero]

ok. it would makes sense that that would happen before the legal action. since it takes less resources.
although, probably all the phases would partly happen synchronously, i guess.

[P3nT4gR4m]

next step will be slander, it will be dubbed as "conspiracy nuts", "tinfoil hats", "extremist", "activist" or just plain "terrorist" (or some other negative connotations, depending on the medium/subject/topic/realisation). then, it will be perceived "dangerous", "illegal underground", "unhealthy", associated with all kinds of bad things.
if your underground network/media thing will get past these stages, you have accomplished quite a bit.

I should think that's mission accomplished as far as I'm concerned. When you get to the stage where government inc are picking up your advertising tab and placing you in the mainstream media then you're on the map. It's how punk worked back in the 70's they were the boogeymen and the anti punk propaganda came thick and fast. Result - a whole bunch of rebellious kids found an alternative to society, as advertised by society.

If we go about this with our eyes open we stand to exploit this factor a lot more deliberately than it generally is, in that we can actually help fuel the outrage, even engineer some of it by making wild accusations and reinforcing them to a point. 'Discordians eat babies!'

[Cain]

Which reminds me:

Dear Sir or Madam

I am sorry to have emailed you "out of the blue" as it were with this, but it was felt that the matter was serious enough to resort to mass emailing.  I was wondering if you knew anything of a quite frankly insane and dangerous religious cult calling themselves the Discordians? After having studied them and their "religion" for a long time, we feel the true nature of the threat should be made known, to all decent citizens, good people and those who believe in the rule of law.

Their cult is based around an ancient Greek goddess, a minor member of that pantheon called Eris. If you look to Homer and his Iliad, he describes Eris as a goddess of strife among men, a war goddess who reveled in the blood of mankind, the sister of the war god Ares and she unleashed demons of all sorts to plague mankind.

The other sources are barely better:

"To one place Eris (Strife incarnate) drew them all, the fearful Battle-queen, beheld of none, but cloaked in clouds blood-raining: on she stalked swelling the mighty roar of battle, now rushed through Troy's squadrons, through Akhaia's now; Phobos (Panic) and Deimos (Fear) still waited on her steps to make their father's [Ares'] sister glorious. From small to huge that Fury's stature grew; her arms of adamant were blood-besprent, the deadly lance she brandished reached the sky. Earth quaked beneath her feet: dread blasts of fire flamed from her mouth: her voice pealed thunder-like kindling strong men. Swift closed the fronts of fight drawn by a dread Power to the mighty work." - Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 10.51

"Not long since that first of goddesses [Dike goddess of Justice] had no throne even among men, but noisy riots and raging ruin of destroying Ares (War) and Eris (Strife), giver of pain, nurse of tearful wars, consumed the unhappy race of the creatures of a day." - Oppian, Halieutica 2.654

"But abhorred Eris (Strife) bare painful Ponos (Toil), and Lethe (Forgetfulness), and Limos (Starvation), and the Algea (Pains), full of weeping, the Hysminai (Fightings) and the Makhai (Battles), the Phonoi (Murders) and the Androktasiai (Man-slaughters), the Neikea (Quarrels), the Pseudo-Logoi (Lies), the Amphilogiai (Disputes), and Dysnomia (Lawlessness) and Ate (Ruin), who share one another's natures, and Horkos (Oath) who does more damage than any other to earthly men, when anyone, of his knowledge, swears to a false oath." - Hesiod, Theogony 226

There were never many Discordians, or Erisians as they were known, back in the old times of Ancient Greece. They were mad, glorifying chaos, disorder and strife wherever they went. One would expect such a cult to die out after Christianity took hold in Greece and Europe. Not so, sadly.

In the late 1950s, two American men resurrected the cult. Writing a book called the Principia Discordia (which, among other things, contains incitments to plant marijuana and disobey moral and legal laws, advocacy of pornography and blasphemy. They preach the destruction of all governments, religions and other "symbols of order". Covering it in an apparently nonesensical sytem of Dadaist nonsense, they taught their cultists to believe in nothing whatsoever other than chaos and strife, much in the way the Hashishim of Syria were indoctrinated. These aren't apparent to the casual observer, but Discordianism has layers of initiation to it. Links were even made by an infamous Discordian writer between their group and the way the Arabic Hashishim worked, his arrogance clearly showing.

As ludicrous as this may sound, it should be taken seriously. A piece of evidence of how well connected and willing they are to go to achieve their aims is in order, I imagine. One of the two founders of the modern cult, a wretch by the name of Kerry Thornely, was definitively involved in the Kennedy assassination plot. He knew Oswald intimately from serving with him in the Marines, and he involvement is a matter of record from DA Jim Garrison's files.

They prefer infiltration to overt action, as this shows. Rumour has it they are prominent in many leftist and anarchist groups and are often recruited from there, as well as some militias. Once indoctrinated, they often return to those groups, shaping their actions in order to further Discordian ends.

We hope that you do whatever you can to warn others of this threat. You don;t have to believe me, please, research for yourself and you will find out everything I have said is true. I can only hope that by warning the public at large and gaining their help we can somehow stem these madmen.  Please forward this email to everyone on your contact list, to help stem the problem before it gets any worse.

Yours sincerely
The Coalition Against Eris and Discordianism

[P3nT4gR4m]

That needs to be spammed to fundamentalist groups.

[Cain]

  One step ahead of yuo.  But I need more lists and contact info, so I can basically do it as one big spam.  BCCing them of course. 

[P3nT4gR4m]

How about a coalition against discordianism website? I'll see about authoring some testimonials from parents who's kids have attempted suicide or eaten the pet dog and stuff.

[Cain]

Could be done.  Probably should be one of those free sites I mentioned before, for that extra "crazy Christian cultists" effect.

However, I may rewrite it to look like a more sane Cult Awareness style release.

[LMNO]

[copy editor]

In the late 1950s, two American men resurrected the cult. Writing a book called the Principia Discordia (which, among other things, contains incitments to plant marijuana and disobey moral and legal laws, advocacy of pornography and blasphemy. They preach the destruction of all governments, religions and other "symbols of order". Covering it in an apparently nonesensical sytem of Dadaist nonsense, they taught their cultists to believe in nothing whatsoever other than chaos and strife, much in the way the Hashishim of Syria were indoctrinated. These aren't apparent to the casual observer, but Discordianism has layers of initiation to it. Links were even made by an infamous Discordian writer between their group and the way the Arabic Hashishim worked, his arrogance clearly showing.

Missing a close parenthesis.

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[Cain]

Thanks.  I was going to put it through a more thorough check anyway, as I think some of the grammar is dodgy in places.

[LMNO]

I'll give it another once-over, as well.