Because I love you all.

[Cramulus]

the amazing thing is that people really are that weird. Eris made the Internet so that we could all discover this beautiful fact. We're in the Strange Times, and everybody wears their batshit on their sleeves now. It's like the human meat show at any public beach. Sometimes you're popping 16 boners, other times it's like UGH IS THAT ROGER?

[Wolfgang Absolutus]

Perhaps I should be more clear. What I mean to convey is that the world would be different if people were this weird outwardly rather than saving it all up and putting it on the internet or keeping it in the privacy of their homes. Maybe not better, but certainly more honest.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

the amazing thing is that people really are that weird. Eris made the Internet so that we could all discover this beautiful fact. We're in the Strange Times, and everybody wears their batshit on their sleeves now. It's like the human meat show at any public beach. Sometimes you're popping 16 boners, other times it's like UGH IS THAT ROGER?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I don't even. People are so strange on the internet. The world would be different, if people were just as strange in real life.

We are.

[Don Coyote]

Perhaps I should be more clear. What I mean to convey is that the world would be different if people were this weird outwardly rather than saving it all up and putting it on the internet or keeping it in the privacy of their homes. Maybe not better, but certainly more honest.

People are that weird, or weirder IRL....

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Perhaps I should be more clear. What I mean to convey is that the world would be different if people were this weird outwardly rather than saving it all up and putting it on the internet or keeping it in the privacy of their homes. Maybe not better, but certainly more honest.

How would you go about being "outwardly weird"?

Being that guy on the bus who smells like pee and yells about sentient Cheetos and masturbation?

What if I was just sitting next to you on the bus being totally weird but not saying anything. Could you tell?

[Chairman Risus]

Perhaps I should be more clear. What I mean to convey is that the world would be different if people were this weird outwardly rather than saving it all up and putting it on the internet or keeping it in the privacy of their homes. Maybe not better, but certainly more honest.

How would you go about being "outwardly weird"?

Being that guy on the bus who smells like pee and yells about sentient Cheetos and masturbation?

What if I was just sitting next to you on the bus being totally weird but not saying anything. Could you tell?

I think your Nixon mask and death-grip on his thigh would give it away.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Perhaps I should be more clear. What I mean to convey is that the world would be different if people were this weird outwardly rather than saving it all up and putting it on the internet or keeping it in the privacy of their homes. Maybe not better, but certainly more honest.

How would you go about being "outwardly weird"?

Being that guy on the bus who smells like pee and yells about sentient Cheetos and masturbation?

What if I was just sitting next to you on the bus being totally weird but not saying anything. Could you tell?

I think your Nixon mask and death-grip on his thigh would give it away.

[Wolfgang Absolutus]

Err. I think my meaning is not being properly conveyed. Normal is usually defined as behavior that would be socially acceptable. What I am suggesting is that in the status quo many of us put on masks and fulfill roles that are defined as "normal" which is separate and different from how  we are on the inside. On the inside many of us are quite different from these facades and would be considered weird or abnormal in the status quo. So my previous comment is more precisely that the world would be quite different if everyone stopped putting on the facades they wear in order to meet colloquial definitions of normalcy. Though this interpretation of the world is perhaps flawed.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Err. I think my meaning is not being properly conveyed. Normal is usually defined as behavior that would be socially acceptable. What I am suggesting is that in the status quo many of us put on masks and fulfill roles that are defined as "normal" which is separate and different from how  we are on the inside. On the inside many of us are quite different from these facades and would be considered weird or abnormal in the status quo. So my previous comment is more precisely that the world would be quite different if everyone stopped putting on the facades they wear in order to meet colloquial definitions of normalcy. Though this interpretation of the world is perhaps flawed.

I think it has validity, but at the same time there is the consideration that on some level masks are a necessary aspect of human existence, especially if you look at them not as a fake identity type of mask, but as a selective identity type of mask. For example, with my kids I mask off the parts of me that might be inappropriate or disturbing for children to see in their mother. Professionally I mask off the parts that are not relevant or appropriate in a workplace. Socially I mask off most of my maternal and professional identities.

That said, holy shit there is a thread around here somewhere that I think you'll love. BRB.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Here here here I think you might like this: http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=22460.0

[Wolfgang Absolutus]

Thanks Dude ill check it out

[LMNO]

Err. I think my meaning is not being properly conveyed. Normal is usually defined as behavior that would be socially acceptable. What I am suggesting is that in the status quo many of us put on masks and fulfill roles that are defined as "normal" which is separate and different from how  we are on the inside. On the inside many of us are quite different from these facades and would be considered weird or abnormal in the status quo. So my previous comment is more precisely that the world would be quite different if everyone stopped putting on the facades they wear in order to meet colloquial definitions of normalcy. Though this interpretation of the world is perhaps flawed.

But how am I not myself?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Err. I think my meaning is not being properly conveyed. Normal is usually defined as behavior that would be socially acceptable. What I am suggesting is that in the status quo many of us put on masks and fulfill roles that are defined as "normal" which is separate and different from how  we are on the inside. On the inside many of us are quite different from these facades and would be considered weird or abnormal in the status quo. So my previous comment is more precisely that the world would be quite different if everyone stopped putting on the facades they wear in order to meet colloquial definitions of normalcy. Though this interpretation of the world is perhaps flawed.

You go ahead and call attention to yourself.  While you're being beaten up by the cops, I'll be putting bumper stickers on their squad car.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Err. I think my meaning is not being properly conveyed. Normal is usually defined as behavior that would be socially acceptable. What I am suggesting is that in the status quo many of us put on masks and fulfill roles that are defined as "normal" which is separate and different from how  we are on the inside. On the inside many of us are quite different from these facades and would be considered weird or abnormal in the status quo. So my previous comment is more precisely that the world would be quite different if everyone stopped putting on the facades they wear in order to meet colloquial definitions of normalcy. Though this interpretation of the world is perhaps flawed.

But how am I not myself?