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Requesting Submissions for Intermittens 11: 'Post-truth and hyperbelief'

Started by Cramulus, January 03, 2021, 03:10:32 PM

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Cramulus

posted on behalf of the r/Discordian CoreDump


Calling all creative spags!

We're putting together yet another Intermittens (a web-published magazine of Eristic a-musings), and we could use your help to do it!  The theme this time is 'Post-truth and hyperbelief: What happens when truth stops caring about Truth?'.  Send submissions to

intermittens.submissions@protonmail.com or find us on discord: https://discord.gg/fyD675ZEb7

Submission deadline is 15 Chaos 3187 (15 January 2021). Late submissions may be accepted, but don't count on it!

All work must be released under a CC-BY-SA 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Proudly sponsored by the House of the Setting Podge (Formerly House of the Rising Hodge, since aquired.)







(you may be asking -- wasn't there an issue 11 of Intermittens already? Yes, but it was published by Lecherous Shithead, and included a ton of him planting self-promotional wankery into discordian history -- so fuck it, it doesn't exist)

if you want to join them on Discord, but the link expired, hit me up and I'll toss you a fresh one.

Cramulus


Doktor Howl

Let me see what I can come up with.

What's the deadline?
Molon Lube

Cramulus

January 15th, but I have a feeling that's more of a 'guideline'

MMIX

Quote from: Cramulus on January 04, 2021, 02:27:45 PM
January 15th, but I have a feeling that's more of a 'guideline'

unless you specify a year then the procrastinators will just procrastinate
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently" David Graeber

Doktor Howl

#5
I don't see the need to email from this machine, because of work reasons.  So here:

Dear Truth,

I know you and I have been together for a very long time, but I cannot keep living a lie.  I have found someone else...Well, more than just one someone else.  This is that polygamy thing you wouldn't agree to when I brought it up in 2016.  So I am leaving you for three others.

The first is named "Confirmation Bias" and she's wonderful.  She supports me in everything, and never argues with me. 

The second is named "Cognitive Dissonance", and she doesn't nitpick at me or remind me of every little detail of any given subject. 

The third is named "Revisionism," but my pet name for her is "Gas Lighting".  She tells me that I wasn't wrong when it seemed like I might have been, and what's more, she tells other people they were wrong or mistaken or just plain crazy when they bring up things I allegedly said or did.

While I feel bad about leaving you like this with so little warning, at least I'm not dumping you for someone younger.    These three have been around forever, and they do things for me that you never could.  I don't have to face any ugliness anymore, because they will dispose of it for me.  I don't have to do any soul-searching, because they tell me all the time that I'm certainly not the problem.

So I have to go. 

It's not me, baby, it's you.  You and your nagging ways.

Farewell,
America
Molon Lube

Cramulus

:mittens:

nice, rog

I relayed it to the group putting this together.

Doktor Howl

Molon Lube

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Doktor Howl

#13
I wish I'd known this was being hosted by [redacted].  I never would have taken part in it.
Molon Lube

Doktor Howl

Now I wish I hadn't written anything at all.
Molon Lube