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TESTEMONAIL:  Right and Discordianism allows room for personal interpretation. You have your theories and I have mine. Unlike Christianity, Discordia allows room for ideas and opinions, and mine is well-informed and based on ancient philosophy and theology, so, my neo-Discordian friends, open your minds to my interpretation and I will open my mind to yours. That's fair enough, right? Just claiming to be discordian should mean that your mind is open and willing to learn and share ideas. You guys are fucking bashing me and your laughing at my theologies and my friends know what's up and are laughing at you and honestly this is my last shot at putting a label on my belief structure and your making me lose all hope of ever finding a ideological group I can relate to because you don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about and everything I have said is based on the founding principals of real Discordianism. Expand your mind.

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Take a Breather

Started by AFK, February 20, 2012, 01:11:30 PM

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AFK

A key to keeping sane in this existence is building and maintaining sanctuary.  Whether it be physical or mental, providing a shelter from the tumult is important for stability and survival.  Not a sanctuary completely shut off from the outside world.  Not a place where you wash your hands of the negativity that is in a seemingly endless state of transpiration.  Indeed, it should be a room with a view.

For we will need to leave this sanctuary to join others as they throw down.  As they take up arms to push back against that order which would pen us all into windowless cells.  So we need to be aware of what is going on. 

But we need to take care of the self to protect the self and preserve the self.

Selflessness begets selflessness.

(which doesn't preclude those moments that call for an immediate action of risk to preserve the precious life of a loved one.)

And then we can do nothing to help others.
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Kai

If you take sanctuary in your principles, it doesn't matter how much the world changes, those will remain the same. Set up your core around anything else, and it's bound to be disrupted at some point.
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. --Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

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Quote from: ZL 'Kai' Burington, M.S. on February 20, 2012, 03:27:32 PM
If you take sanctuary in your principles, it doesn't matter how much the world changes, those will remain the same. Set up your core around anything else, and it's bound to be disrupted at some point.

And this is the crucial failure of the United States since 2001.  Earlier, really, but that's when we completely walked away from even pretending we have core values as a nation.
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"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
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