Is Discorianism an ideology?

[East Coast Hustle]

maybe its not our place to convince anybody of anything


the alternative, of course, is to assemble a barrage of material

eventually somebody will wonder how it gets done and what kind of people are behind it all
and they wonder why they cant do it themselves

... and then we offer to sell them it if they build us a nice big comfy temple.

Copyright infringement suit from Reverend Stang in 3...2...1...

[hunter s.durden]

Cain, your thoughts on this subject feel incomplete.

Please expound.

[AFK]

maybe its not our place to convince anybody of anything


the alternative, of course, is to assemble a barrage of material

eventually somebody will wonder how it gets done and what kind of people are behind it all
and they wonder why they cant do it themselves

I think it is our place to convince "anybody" but not "everybody."  Or, at the very least provide some comfort to the other asshats out there that think like us but don't realize there is an "us" they can hang out with and share ideas with.  The mindsets that we all share, can tend to be isolating and talking about barstools, prison cells, chaos, etc., isn't always the life of the party. 

Plus, there may be a few on the edge and to quote the wiseman Lando Calrissien:
"maybe we can take a few of them with us."

[LMNO]

Aw hell.  Maybe we should just admit that we're all intellectual effetes, who enjoy self-congratulating philosophical handjobs on internet forums.

[AFK]

You're probably right, except, I don't know what an effete is so I think that rules me out. 

Oh wait, dude, I know you didn't mean it, but look up effete on dictionary.com.

Check out the first definition. 

But I can dig the other definitions in relation to what you are saying. 

[LMNO]

What, you think I actually check to see if my vocabulary actually makes sense?


Heh.

[AFK]

 

[Cain]

Cain, your thoughts on this subject feel incomplete.

Please expound.

In what way?

[hunter s.durden]

Well that is what an ideology is meant to be (screw e-prime for now).

How the world is, how we want it to be and how we get from one to another.  I think on 1 and 3 Discordianism is strong, but 2 is where it unravels because, as Netaungrot says, there are too many strains of Discordianism.

I'm not sure if this answers the OP. Are you saying it is an ideology, but a shitty one without a clear prescriptive view? Are you saying that it's only an ideology if we want it to be? Are you saying it can't be, because it doesn't meet criterion 2 strongly enough?

[Cain]

Later.  I feel pretty faint.  Need food...or something.

[LHX]

i think some people here are gonna end up making a lot of money some how some where


they will still be generally cranky and annoyed as this society crumbles
but
they will have material wealth


call it a hunch

[LMNO]

I call dibs.

[LHX]

i am here looking for ways to improve my situation

its the only reason i do anything

[Jasper]

Psychologists have performed tests that indicate there might be a link between altruism and intelligence.

[Triple Zero]

Psychologists have performed tests that indicate there might be a link between altruism and intelligence.

the one takes advantage of the other?