LDD Sermon 7

[Cain]

 

Did NOT want that mental image.

Also, it sounds good, but unfortunately most of the Discordian infighting went quite the opposite way.

[LMNO]

sombunall.




LMNO
-was a lead fighter for the cookies and pie brigade.

[Cain]

Nah, you stated you were an Erisian.  That was never p+c.  p+c was.....crap, basically.  Erisianism, as you laid it out, was different.

[LMNO]

Point.



I have a bad memory.


And I lie a lot.

[Cain]

And you took the name that would have been used for the very Discordian-esque Erisian Revival Sect (bringing back the dark side of Neo-Paganism).

[B_M_W]

I feel I have been consistent in my agreement to participate in The Network, Media Division.

Granted, no one's been leaping up to help me out [looks at ECH and LHX], but all the same, I'm here.

Thats true, I'm sorry.  No-one else has looked into that, however, bar Neutrangrot.  Even Syn has not got back to me.

I just started a new blog. Calling it Pseudo-Buddhaodiscordo-pastafarian, and posting my reverse brainwashing rant right now. Is that a start?

Sounds good to me.  Are you going to put more stuff on, and links to other Discordian sites?  I've found bloggers than interlink and post comments on other blogs tend to get read more as well, if you are looking to promote it.

Im new to the idea, and I guess I have a bunch of back rants I can post, including "The Process of Sustaining", and I have lots of little tidbits here and there that could make good posts.

Yes, I am going to link to others, including yours. If we truly want to make this "Discordian Network" work, this has to be as far reaching as possible. Sorry if I didn't respond to your ideas sooner, but I loved your stuff on open source warfare, and this is about as open source as we can get. No, not all the stuff that I will put on there will be discordian (Process of Sustaining being notable in that) but it will be towards the heart on the ideal of discordianism...well, like LMNO said:

When someone says "I identify as Discordian," or whatnot, that is a short, buzz-wordy way of saying, "if you want to know who I am and what I am about, you're gonna have to ask me directly.  I am not a definition in a book, I am not a collective, I am not a broad brushstroke of society.  I will not be sorted, filed, stamped, briefed, de-briefed, or numbered."

Thats the kind of stuff I'll put on there.

[Cain]

Sounds good.  Of course, try and link to some of your favourite non-Discordian blogs too.  For example, Neil Gaiman's excellent blog, whatshisname Rushkoff etc etc and remember to try and comment on there.  Every comment is in effect advertising for your own blog.

[LMNO]

For the record, that last bit that BMW quoted is a poorly-remembered quote from "The Prisoner".


Just in case anyone thought I was that clever all by myself.

[B_M_W]

For the record, that last bit that BMW quoted is a poorly-remembered quote from "The Prisoner".


Just in case anyone thought I was that clever all by myself.

Whatever. You said it, so its as much yours as anyone elses. It got the job done.

[East Coast Hustle]

I feel I should apologize for my lack of contributions as of late, but IRL keeps demanding most of my creative energy and free time. However, I'll be happy to do what I can in regards to the distribution and "marketing" of anyone else's projects, and I'll be able to reach a demographic that is currently unrepresented in our ranks. Anyone with any ideas geared towards implementation in developing nations should feel free to get in touch with me for whatever assistance I can render.

[Cain]

Hmm.  Thats true.  We havent really considered outside of Europe or North America, have we?  I thought briefly about China and Japan, but only based on past culture.  We'd need to take a different tact maybe, in presentation in such countries.

[East Coast Hustle]

it makes sens, though. our message is geared to warn our target audience of the horrible things that await them at the end of their path.

the people in most of the rest of the world are ALREADY THERE. They don't need to be convinced that something's wrong, they just need to know that there might be something they can do about it.

[Jasper]

As it's been pointed out, everyone hears the battle-cry but no one sees the armory.  All the activism is either jaded or lazy or both, and they're our main force.

[BADGE OF HONOR]

I haven't got a good goddamned excuse.  Now that I can leave my house I should be.  But I'm not. 

I'll just say that part of the problem is we are all widely separated, isolated except for the connection of the internet.  And humans are social creatures, much as we proclaim to love privacy and independence.  We are much more likely to do something if there's at least one other accomplice.  Many of us do not have accomplices.  Many of us are shy about recruiting accomplices. 

I'm really goddamned lazy, is what it boils down to.  And I'm not really sure just what effort would reward me with.  I could rant, I suppose, but we've all seen what that does:  jack shit.  I could put up posters, and I have, and they've all been torn down within a day.  I know nothing about making the internet prettier.  I know no one who would gleefully go down with me in a blaze of subversion.

And finally I ask myself, what would anything actually do?  Is it really going to change the world?  Is making someone's day a little more interesting going to save our civilization?  I agree that life as we know it is going to shit, but as already stated I'm waiting for that day so I finally have a good excuse to kill myself.   From where I stand the only two options are to passively stand by or try to help it along as much as I can.  I can't imagine life ever being good except in a small, personal way, and I'm not sure how much I should worry about other's small, personal spheres. 


That probably wasn't very coherent but that's my story.

[Cain]

Sounds fair to me.  But I have family in Utah and from the sound of it, the whole state (bar the secret tunnels in SLC) is a lost cause.