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Ugly Eris?

Started by Verbal Mike, February 19, 2008, 09:57:47 PM

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Verbal Mike

February 19, 2008, 09:57:47 PM
Just a thought - why are we accustomed to portraying She Who Done It All as beautiful?
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Verbal Mike

#1
February 19, 2008, 10:17:09 PM
This thought inspired a (very) short story I just wrote:

   Saint Verbatim was stoned one day, idly jacking off in the privacy of his own room, when Eris walked in on him. He clumsily zipped up and straightened up, as he recognized her immediately... But something seemed amiss.
   "My Goddess woman, you're hideous!", he exclaimed in shock.
   "I bed your pardon?"
   "You are bloody damned ugly. Gaah. What ever happened to the whole 'beautiful wicked woman' thing you had going?
   "Eh, I decided to shake off that meme."
   "Just like that?"
   "Goddess of Chaos and Confusion, remember?"
   "Yeah, but, I mean, damn. That's fucking hideous."
   "You're repeating yourself Verb."
   "Meh. Well, if you're here you must want something from me. I'd kinda like to get back to, you know..."
   "Nah, just wanted to startle you, shake things up a little, you know, whatever. Bye ass-wipe."
   "Bye, dog-face."
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hooplala

#2
February 19, 2008, 11:37:45 PM
Only modern Discordians describe her as beautiful.  The Greeks thought she was hideous.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

nostalgicBadger

#3
February 19, 2008, 11:45:53 PM
I suppose that since I view the existence of any god or goddess as a spiritual matter, and all spiritual matters apart from the physical realm, Eris exists in my mind as a concept or a feeling. Since I find the concept rather pleasing, I suppose Eris is rather pleasing?

It's true though that the Greeks thought she was ugly as sin.
meh.

hooplala

#4
February 20, 2008, 12:03:55 AM
Although, go look at that drawing of her thumbing her nose in the other thread...  I'd tap that.
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Cain

#5
February 20, 2008, 02:19:12 AM
Her appearance, like all the Greek Gods, is subject to change based on personal whim.  When personifying her worst aspects, yes she was hideous.  Equally, at other times, she could pass for Athena when on the battlefield or personifying competition between artists and traders.

Kurt Christ

#6
February 20, 2008, 02:24:38 AM
I'd say we (that is, Discordians) portray Eris as being beautiful because we find what she embodies beautiful, and we would imagine her as being rather ugly if we weren't enamoured with chaos.
Formerly known as the Space Pope (then I was excommunicated), Father Kurt Christ (I was deemed unfit to raise children, spiritual or otherwise), and Vartox (the speedo was starting to chafe)

Jasper

#7
February 20, 2008, 02:55:26 AM
I'd portray Eris as beautiful just because it's my BIP and I'll idealize if I want to.

hooplala

#8
February 20, 2008, 03:21:52 AM
Quote from: Dr. Felix Mackay on February 20, 2008, 02:55:26 AM
I'd portray Eris as beautiful just because it's my BIP and I'll idealize if I want to.




"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Cain

#9
February 20, 2008, 03:24:35 AM
"I'll just make up historically inaccurate shit because no-one will call me on it"

:x

Jasper

#10
February 20, 2008, 03:53:24 AM
Yeah, but honestly.  If you're not being paid to do art, the only reward is having something pretty afterwards.  I generally don't draw ugly things unless I'm in the mood to, which is rare.

Thurnez Isa

#11
February 20, 2008, 04:56:12 AM
I like Eris as beautiful cause I'm a pervert
Through me the way to the city of woe, Through me the way to everlasting pain, Through me the way among the lost.
Justice moved my maker on high.
Divine power made me, Wisdom supreme, and Primal love.
Before me nothing was but things eternal, and eternal I endure.
Abandon all hope, you who enter here.
Dante

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#12
February 20, 2008, 07:28:51 AM
I'll fap to that!
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

LMNO

#13
February 20, 2008, 01:22:26 PM
I think of Eris as an ugly bitch and I still fap to it!



:fap: :fap: :fap:

hooplala

#14
February 20, 2008, 01:35:45 PM
Wasn't that one of Diabo Salazar's old avatars?
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman
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