What do you REALLY believe?

[Jasper]

your brain is used to flipping the image from your eyeballs to process it right side up, so when you directly perceive without using your eyes, the brain fucks it up...

That wouldn't explain why Neo sees an upright image made of upside-down symbols.

You realize you're discussing ad hoc theology with Discordians, right?

I just-

I want you to appreciate that.

[Luna]

I believe my apartment has a malignant little gnome who is currently hiding in his little gnome hole, clinging to my lost hex key, giggling to itself.

I hope my cats catch it and eat it.

[Elder Iptuous]

your brain is used to flipping the image from your eyeballs to process it right side up, so when you directly perceive without using your eyes, the brain fucks it up...

That wouldn't explain why Neo sees an upright image made of upside-down symbols.

yes it does.

[Phox]

I believe my apartment has a malignant little gnome who is currently hiding in his little gnome hole, clinging to my lost hex key, giggling to itself.

I hope my cats catch it and eat it.

That gnome is, in fact, the avatar of Jebus.

[Elder Iptuous]

I believe my apartment has a malignant little gnome who is currently hiding in his little gnome hole, clinging to my lost hex key, giggling to itself.

I hope my cats catch it and eat it.

god, i hate that guy!
that little fucker actually caused domestic distress last night when he hid the checkbook for several hours...
he eventually put it back in the little basket that my wife and i both looked in about five times, and we exchanged the strangest look...

[Don Coyote]

your brain is used to flipping the image from your eyeballs to process it right side up, so when you directly perceive without using your eyes, the brain fucks it up...

That wouldn't explain why Neo sees an upright image made of upside-down symbols.

yes it does.

Because of quanta or 

I believe my apartment has a malignant little gnome who is currently hiding in his little gnome hole, clinging to my lost hex key, giggling to itself.

I hope my cats catch it and eat it.

god, i hate that guy!
that little fucker actually caused domestic distress last night when he hid the checkbook for several hours...
he eventually put it back in the little basket that my wife and i both looked in about five times, and we exchanged the strangest look...

Shit like that is why I still believe in 'fair' folk. Fuckers would steal shit, and hide it right in front of me, in the first place I looked.

[Luna]

I believe my apartment has a malignant little gnome who is currently hiding in his little gnome hole, clinging to my lost hex key, giggling to itself.

I hope my cats catch it and eat it.

god, i hate that guy!
that little fucker actually caused domestic distress last night when he hid the checkbook for several hours...
he eventually put it back in the little basket that my wife and i both looked in about five times, and we exchanged the strangest look...

He is, appararently, afraid of being eaten by cats.  Key found, immediately after wish for gnome's gory death posted.

[Elder Iptuous]

your brain is used to flipping the image from your eyeballs to process it right side up, so when you directly perceive without using your eyes, the brain fucks it up...

That wouldn't explain why Neo sees an upright image made of upside-down symbols.

yes it does.

Because of quanta or 

due to the brain's ability to take a joke too seriously

[Doktor Howl]

I believe that people here are wasting their time arguing or masturbating furiously over dadaism, when there's 7 billion monkeys out there upon which to inflict SCIENCE.

I don't know why you're here.  I know I'm here to fuck with peoples' wiring, just to see what happens.

[Phox]

Right you are Dok. I am going to be inflicting people with something today. Not SCIENCE, but it wont be pleasant.

[The Commander]

I'm going to go out on a limb and assume there aren't any Baha'is on the board.  That's a shame...we have access to all the best Persian food.

[East Coast Hustle]

I knew a Baha'i kid when I was growing up in the islands. We were good friends until I moved to the states and lost touch with him. Kid was short, pudgy, wore glasses, and was incapable of tanning despite living in the tropical sun. Any two of these things would ensure a pretty rough childhood on STT, but all four of them combined to make his childhood absolutely brutal.

And if that weren't bad enough...his parents, in a misguided fit of attempted cultural acclimation, named the poor bastard "Jamaal".

It pretty much forced him to be a bad Baha'i and abandon pacifism. Kid was tougher at 9 years old than most grown men will ever be in their whole lives.

Which is to say, I know very little about it other than it's supposed to be completely pacifistic (or so I was told).

[BadBeast]

There's been plenty of "Bwaaw haws"  here though.

I thought Baha'i was like Wicca, for Hindus and Buddhists. But without the "skyclad" fixation.

[Telarus]

There's been plenty of "Bwaaw haws"  here though.

I thought Baha'i was like Wicca, for Hindus and Buddhists. But without the "skyclad" fixation.

Baha'i is an attempt to connect all of the "Great Prophets" (yes... ALL of them) into a single narrative (they were manifestations of some unique 'energy' or some BS), which culminated in Baha'iula the Last Great Prophet. Everything you like about massive 'monotheistic' Asian church congregations, no Rev Sun Yung Moon.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

There's been plenty of "Bwaaw haws"  here though.

I thought Baha'i was like Wicca, for Hindus and Buddhists. But without the "skyclad" fixation.

Baha'i is an attempt to connect all of the "Great Prophets" (yes... ALL of them) into a single narrative (they were manifestations of some unique 'energy' or some BS), which culminated in Baha'iula the Last Great Prophet. Everything you like about massive 'monotheistic' Asian church congregations, no Rev Sun Yung Moon.

But he's the most fun.... 


When I was maybe 10 my parents thought I needed to spend more time with a better quality of kids and forced me to join the church youth group. (Remember this is 1978 and I'm fairly certain they stayed home and got drunk) My very first meeting was a showing of two movies on the "moonies" of which there was a local branch in Winston Salem at the time.  The movie was of course done with extreme christian bias and made the "moonies" out to be satan trying to steal children off the streets and out of the malls and airports, public pools and libraries and force them into a cult to work and be sex slaves.  It actually showed these "moonies" grabbing kids from mall parking lots and shoving them into vans.

Needless to say it freaked me right the fuck out and I went home completely convinced these people were waiting behind every corner to grab me and make me a slave.

Never went back to a church youth group meeting again...