Indoctrination of the young

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Fine, you crank:

"Italian dressing sucks unless you shake it."

But then again, I think anyone who read the rest of my comment could have inferred the meaning based on the words that preceded and followed (what us Buddy Holly types call "context") and it would've been a missing tie rather than a full derail. Plus, you could do 2 minutes of reading and learn Heraclitus' small body of recovered work is quite aligned with some of the philosophies of Discordianism, directly referenced by RAW on one occasion, and enrich yourself a touch.

That is, if you can find time around your busy schedule of yelling at clouds and freebasing Mylanta.

Wearing Buddy Holly glasses does not make you a "Buddy Holly type". A Buddy Holly type would be loading his shit in a badass old car with fins and going to some club to play songs about girls and make people get up and fucking DANCE. Which has nothing to do with people who wear Buddy Holly glasses with a trilby.

FFS.

[Trivial]

Let me put it this way.

I really enjoy making people uncomfortable. I particularly enjoy making them uncomfortable with their own ideas and beliefs. Of course, when you come right down to it, it isn't really that I make people uncomfortable, as much as that I draw attention to inconsistencies within their own behavior or belief systems, which causes cognitive dissonance, which causes discomfort. They're really making themselves uncomfortable, I'm just manipulating conversations in a way that highlights those contradictions so they can't be ignored.

Is that a bad thing? Well, no, not necessarily.

Am I kind of a dick? Yeah probably.

Eris is the kind of villain I identify with. She doesn't so much cause wars, as manipulate situations in such a way that human desire and and greed causes wars, unless the humans involve really examine what's happening and decide not to.

Is that a bad thing? Not necessarily.

Is Eris a villain? Yeah, pretty much. She is the instigator of strife, the catalyst for conflict.

Once tempers have flared it takes very mature people to step back from an incendiary situation or conversation and go "Hold on a sec... what's really happening here?" and in general, humanity lacks that maturity. In a sense, then, every occurrence of strife is also an opportunity for growth, albeit one that seems to be rarely exploited.

Quite frankly a lot of people need people like you around.  I've seriously changed precisely because there were folks I hung around with that pointed out inconsistencies in my beliefs.  It made me think.  I wouldn't say I grew up sheltered but people were always so polite that several things never were mentioned. 

Basically it took me feeling like an idiot a lot to realize I was an idiot.  Funny how that works.