KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

People said I was paranoid. 'They' said I was unnaturally pessimistic for someone so young. 'They' said I was wrong.

Now I hear about my bad attitude all the time. And how I've given up before I even tried anything.

Everyone has an opinion and everything thinks the information they're basing their opinions on is 100% accurate.

I know people who believe Glenn Beck wrote the Bible, or should have.

But only parts of the picture are being passed out piecemeal. The whole overwhelming puzzle has been dissected and fractured and glued together backwards so many times that there isn't a clear picture, even if you look through a kaleidoscope. Not one that gives answers. Not one that explains anything.

I don't see a difference from a parent who says they need your birthday money to pay bills and then buys booze with it and a bank that promises to give you lots of interest on your money if you give it to them - for a fee that costs more than the interest would be. Or a power company that shuts off your power because they had the wrong date (Oops, this is due on the 31st, not the 13th!) and won't turn it back on until you pay the $60 reconnect fee, oops and sorry.

Maybe I did give up. But I've been speaking my mind about a fucked up system since I was 8 and no one was interested then. Not enough are interested now.

Not the right 'enough', anyway. And this is America. Here, the majority rules. Whether majority is measured in numbers of people or highest cash value. And by God, that's what we asked for.

ETA: And I am paranoid. But I'm not a pessimist and I wasn't wrong.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I thought the lulz were part of the revolution...that's my philosophy, anyway: never get soo full of your own shit, you can't laugh at the stupidity. Life is an absurd comedy.

I feel like triggering laughter is a powerful tool in getting people to keep on. Poking, laughing, whistling in the dark. We can't howl all the time.

Yeah, I'm fucking pissed! I'm pissed and all I have is a marshmallow gun. So that's what I use. That's the weapon in my arsenal. You have a knife and a very bright flashlight. Cram has an endless series of costumes and jarring noisemakers. Cain has a Library of Congress in his head. So on and so forth.

Keep shining that light. We'll do what we can to help you keep fresh batteries in it but you gotta have patience. We're a rag-tag bunch of clowns and none of us has it figured out.

What you haven't figured out is that all that horrible shit you're seeing is what The People WANT.

If they didn't fucking want it, they wouldn't PAY for it.  That is the cold fucking reality of America - fuck, the WORLD - in the 21st Century.

And who am I to get between primates and their fake bananas?  Ho ho!  This is not my first rodeo.  Let someone else get themselves shredded.  I've had my fucking turn in the barrel.

Nothing is wrong. Or, to be more precise, nothing is any more or less wrong than it's ever been. Buncha big monkeys, scrambling for the top of the tree, shitting on all the little monkeys below. Nothing changes. Nothing has changed. Doesn't look like anything will change. Ever.

I used to think it could be changed, hell I used to think I wanted it to change but, since I worked out that staying the fuck away from the tree is the secret to not getting shit on, to not getting involved in the whole stupid - raining shit - clusterfuck that passes for civilisation in this neck of the woods, I've never enjoyed my life quite as much. Laughing at all the retards trying to dodge the falling excrement is a small part of that. The more of them that are rapidly turning brown, whining like fuck about it but making absolutely no effort to step a couple of feet to the side the louder I appear to be laughing.

So that's what's changed with me. I don't give a fuck about humanity anymore. I don't give a fuck if they somehow attain perfect freedom or sink to the bottom of the mire with their lungs full of sewage. When I first joined this board I cared. I wanted it all changed. Fixed. A planet full of bipeds but I could throw my life away pissing in the wind and my life is way to short and way too valuable to be pissed away like that. Fuck humanity, fuck the machine, fuck society and the loaded-dice games they try to get you to buy into. Before I die I'm pretty sure there'll be more wars, more politics, more brazen stupidity and more monkeys throwing shit at each other but it's old news. Seen it a hundred times. It's boring. I'm having too much fun to subject myself to boredom.

Sure, I depend on it all to a greater or lesser degree. You have to play the game but you don't have to follow the rules. It's much more fun if you don't but, personally speaking, I couldn't give a shit if anyone learns that or not because, once you do work it out, the ones who haven't become more or less irrelevant. They get on with their retarded shit and, occasionally, I'll tune in and laugh a bit.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So that's what's changed with me. I don't give a fuck about humanity anymore. I don't give a fuck if they somehow attain perfect freedom or sink to the bottom of the mire with their lungs full of sewage. When I first joined this board I cared. I wanted it all changed. Fixed. A planet full of bipeds but I could throw my life away pissing in the wind and my life is way to short and way too valuable to be pissed away like that. Fuck humanity, fuck the machine, fuck society and the loaded-dice games they try to get you to buy into.

Right with you on that one, at least at the moment. 

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

 

Damn that pedestal......

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Damn that pedestal......

I'm nobody's plaster saint.

[P3nT4gR4m]

So that's what's changed with me. I don't give a fuck about humanity anymore. I don't give a fuck if they somehow attain perfect freedom or sink to the bottom of the mire with their lungs full of sewage. When I first joined this board I cared. I wanted it all changed. Fixed. A planet full of bipeds but I could throw my life away pissing in the wind and my life is way to short and way too valuable to be pissed away like that. Fuck humanity, fuck the machine, fuck society and the loaded-dice games they try to get you to buy into.

Right with you on that one, at least at the moment.

Did you find a point, during the transition, where it really got to you? Reason I ask is cos I went through a lot of despair and shit until the penny dropped that my head was wrong. I was, in my own way, getting sucked into it all. Now that I'm over that I really can't imagine going back. Whole notion doesn't even make sense anymore.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So that's what's changed with me. I don't give a fuck about humanity anymore. I don't give a fuck if they somehow attain perfect freedom or sink to the bottom of the mire with their lungs full of sewage. When I first joined this board I cared. I wanted it all changed. Fixed. A planet full of bipeds but I could throw my life away pissing in the wind and my life is way to short and way too valuable to be pissed away like that. Fuck humanity, fuck the machine, fuck society and the loaded-dice games they try to get you to buy into.

Right with you on that one, at least at the moment.

Did you find a point, during the transition, where it really got to you? Reason I ask is cos I went through a lot of despair and shit until the penny dropped that my head was wrong. I was, in my own way, getting sucked into it all. Now that I'm over that I really can't imagine going back. Whole notion doesn't even make sense anymore.

All this morning, to be honest.  And it started over something really fucking silly.

I had posted yesterday about something that was pretty important to me.  Ratatosk jumped on and attacked me to repay some butthurt from years ago, then the thread got turned into an excuse for the more manic members to run off in all directions to prove their zaniness, then I was told I wasn't a people, which apparently was the height of hilarity.

And it hit me, about 8:30 AM, how is THIS any different than the way all the other assholes in the world treat each other?  Obviously, it isn't...And if Discordianism is really just the final excuse for assholes, then there isn't any fucking hope at all.

By 10:30, I was over the butthurt, and was just incredibly depressed.  By noon, I just gave up.  Fuck the monkeys.  Let them march in lockstep until they drown in their own shit.  That's their problem.

I feel much better now.

[navkat]

This is partially my fault. I didn't realize that thread was of that brand of importance to you and I made light of it. I thought you were on one of your loveable warpaths.

I feel like a dick now.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

This is partially my fault. I didn't realize that thread was of that brand of importance to you and I made light of it. I thought you were on one of your loveable warpaths.

I feel like a dick now.

Don't get wrapped around the axle about it.  Nobody took me seriously.  Even when I first explained that I was in fact serious, and then expressed butthurt at the end.  Hell, the last bit wasn't even acknowledged.  The butthurt is gone, as I mentioned earlier, and I'm not going to turn this into a 3 month bitchfest...Hell, I don't plan to mention it at all after today.

But I can't get away from the fact that nobody other than Nigel - not even Freeky - said anything about the mockery and derision that started at response one and continued for the rest of the thread, with the exception of RWHN.  Interestingly enough, he and I seem to have settled our differences.  So, yeah, this isn't going to be any sort of neverending volcano of spite.

But I know where I stand, now.

ETA:  Right in the bus station.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

Damn that pedestal......

I'm nobody's plaster saint.

I never meant to insinuate that, sorry. 

As for taking this thread seriously, I did take this seriously, I'm sorry my posts didn't make that clear. 

It's why I'm better at lurking as opposed to participation and why I'll go back to doing just that.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Damn that pedestal......

I'm nobody's plaster saint.

I never meant to insinuate that, sorry. 

As for taking this thread seriously, I did take this seriously, I'm sorry my posts didn't make that clear. 

It's why I'm better at lurking as opposed to participation and why I'll go back to doing just that.

Not this thread, Khara.  Another thread (uncomfortable topics: uncomfortable topics, here in apple talk).

This thread is nothing but a venting of the spleen, written when I was still steaming mad.

My plaster saint comment was in reference to the pedastle.  I'm not a saint on a pedastle, just as I am not a performing monkey.  Not slamming you, just saying.

[Freeky]

I don't know what to say. I'm sorry.

Uncomfortable Topics, it looked like another venting spleen about everyone rehashing, and Rat's reply, Ii was hoping it was not meant as mean spirited as it sounded. 

Fuck.  I'm sorry.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I don't know what to say. I'm sorry.

Uncomfortable Topics, it looked like another venting spleen about everyone rehashing, and Rat's reply, Ii was hoping it was not meant as mean spirited as it sounded. 

Fuck.  I'm sorry.

Of course it was as mean-spirited as it sounded.  It was rat.

But I'm kinda thinking we should all just let this drop, okay?

[navkat]

I try not to be a bag of assholes to others but I make mistakes. I'm sorry I failed to recognize a moment when you needed to be backed up. You've jumped in and taken the heat off (or just made me laugh) like a shitton of times since I blew in here in like '06 or '07 or whatever. Hell, sometimes, I feel like you're the only one who understands where the fuck I'm coming from so this really sucks that I failed.

I don't know what to say. I do give a shit. I don't know if that makes it any better but I hope you don give up on me.

[Freeky]

I try not to be a bag of assholes to others but I make mistakes. I'm sorry I failed to recognize a moment when you needed to be backed up. You've jumped in and taken the heat off (or just made me laugh) like a shitton of times since I blew in here in like '06 or '07 or whatever. Hell, sometimes, I feel like you're the only one who understands where the fuck I'm coming from so this really sucks that I failed.

I don't know what to say. I do give a shit. I don't know if that makes it any better but I hope you don give up on me.

Yes, this. 

You're always such a forceful personality, it's hard to imagine that you would ever want or need backup.