Epistle Two: On the Revolution.

[Junkenstein]

This place was so goddam different ten years ago.

The world in general was.

Wars in Iraq and elsewhere, Corporate fuckery went unchecked, X to prison pipelines were functioning at full flow, Maniacs were campaigning to get the US presidency, etc. etc. etc.

Oh wait.

Oh shit.

[Doktor Howl]

Who has put a gun to your head?

No, really.  Put aside your grand conspiracies, and tell me if anyone recently has threatened you with a gun.

Okay, it's been 15 years. 

The answer is "VERY YES."

[The Wizard Joseph]

Who has put a gun to your head?

No, really.  Put aside your grand conspiracies, and tell me if anyone recently has threatened you with a gun.

Okay, it's been 15 years. 

The answer is "VERY YES."

Someone recently brandished a gat at you? Or was it 15 year's ago?

I've been in my share of fights, one with the other holding a loaded gun pointed at me with about 4 feet of initial distance. We scuffled and the gun fortunately did not go off, but I got pistol whipped a bunch. I think he expected me to just fall over like in the movies. Dad interviened. This was a "family" matter that could have been tragic.

There's a cold feeling on the business end of the gun.  Your guts turn squirmy and the mind freezes for just a moment. One of my very worst memories, and I've been swarmed by bees. The next person to do it to me, under any authority, is in for a very wild ride.

I would rather be dead
Than live with a gun to my head

[Doktor Howl]

Who has put a gun to your head?

No, really.  Put aside your grand conspiracies, and tell me if anyone recently has threatened you with a gun.

Okay, it's been 15 years. 

The answer is "VERY YES."

Someone recently brandished a gat at you? Or was it 15 year's ago?

I've been in my share of fights, one with the other holding a loaded gun pointed at me with about 4 feet of initial distance. We scuffled and the gun fortunately did not go off, but I got pistol whipped a bunch. I think he expected me to just fall over like in the movies. Dad interviened. This was a "family" matter that could have been tragic.

There's a cold feeling on the business end of the gun.  Your guts turn squirmy and the mind freezes for just a moment. One of my very worst memories, and I've been swarmed by bees. The next person to do it to me, under any authority, is in for a very wild ride.

I would rather be dead
Than live with a gun to my head

The last time someone pointed a gun at me was 2013.

[The Wizard Joseph]

Who has put a gun to your head?

No, really.  Put aside your grand conspiracies, and tell me if anyone recently has threatened you with a gun.

Okay, it's been 15 years. 

The answer is "VERY YES."

Someone recently brandished a gat at you? Or was it 15 year's ago?

I've been in my share of fights, one with the other holding a loaded gun pointed at me with about 4 feet of initial distance. We scuffled and the gun fortunately did not go off, but I got pistol whipped a bunch. I think he expected me to just fall over like in the movies. Dad interviened. This was a "family" matter that could have been tragic.

There's a cold feeling on the business end of the gun.  Your guts turn squirmy and the mind freezes for just a moment. One of my very worst memories, and I've been swarmed by bees. The next person to do it to me, under any authority, is in for a very wild ride.

I would rather be dead
Than live with a gun to my head

The last time someone pointed a gun at me was 2013.

I'm guessing that "wasn't your first rodeo" so to speak?

[PinkTiefling]

Goddess! I lurk noore! I am here to proudly proclaim that I have not lost my grip on reality, only chosen to ignore the most current model in order to create my own! I am Otter Chaos, complete and devoid of my self-imposed filters. Hail Eris!

[The Wizard Joseph]

Goddess! I lurk noore! I am here to proudly proclaim that I have not lost my grip on reality, only chosen to ignore the most current model in order to create my own! I am Otter Chaos, complete and devoid of my self-imposed filters. Hail Eris!

 

[Doktor Howl]

Goddess! I lurk noore! I am here to proudly proclaim that I have not lost my grip on reality, only chosen to ignore the most current model in order to create my own! I am Otter Chaos, complete and devoid of my self-imposed filters. Hail Eris!

So what?

ETA:  In the interests of fairness, you think you're the only one?  You, my friend, are at the top of the rabbit hole.  It gets uglier and it gets meaner every day.  Ask anyone here.  I mean, still here.  This shit isn't good for you.  The only one that got out in time was Verthaine.  Everyone else is fodder.  Even me.

I am Doktor Howl, Bubba, and I been around.

[Doktor Howl]

Who has put a gun to your head?

No, really.  Put aside your grand conspiracies, and tell me if anyone recently has threatened you with a gun.

Okay, it's been 15 years. 

The answer is "VERY YES."

Someone recently brandished a gat at you? Or was it 15 year's ago?

I've been in my share of fights, one with the other holding a loaded gun pointed at me with about 4 feet of initial distance. We scuffled and the gun fortunately did not go off, but I got pistol whipped a bunch. I think he expected me to just fall over like in the movies. Dad interviened. This was a "family" matter that could have been tragic.

There's a cold feeling on the business end of the gun.  Your guts turn squirmy and the mind freezes for just a moment. One of my very worst memories, and I've been swarmed by bees. The next person to do it to me, under any authority, is in for a very wild ride.

I would rather be dead
Than live with a gun to my head

The last time someone pointed a gun at me was 2013.

I'm guessing that "wasn't your first rodeo" so to speak?

I refer to everything up until about 2015 as my misspent youth.   

[Doktor Howl]

Goddess! I lurk noore! I am here to proudly proclaim that I have not lost my grip on reality, only chosen to ignore the most current model in order to create my own! I am Otter Chaos, complete and devoid of my self-imposed filters. Hail Eris!

So what?

ETA:  In the interests of fairness, you think you're the only one?  You, my friend, are at the top of the rabbit hole.  It gets uglier and it gets meaner every day.  Ask anyone here.  I mean, still here.  This shit isn't good for you.  The only one that got out in time was Verthaine.  Everyone else is fodder.  Even me.

I am Doktor Howl, Bubba, and I been around.

Thing is, everyone thinks Discordia is happy children frolicking in the wild flowers and all that shit.  Except they're happy because they're feral and fucked up on cheap drugs, and the wild flowers are actually a trash heap in a vacant lot.  And one by one, they keel over from tetanus, while shrieking how special they are.

It's important to understand this:  Discordia hates each other.

It's also important to understand this:  In hell, you never look back.

It starts off as haiku games and three word story, word salad and cookies and pie bullshit.  It ends in terminal butthurt, smart people too fucking covered in scar tissue to function as a group or even as an individual beyond Fuck you, Jack.  Even if that "fuck you, Jack" is expressed only as sneering disdain or quiet contempt.

It's most important to understand THIS:  Discordia is bad for you.

Get out while you can.

[altered]

I told my friends that Discordia is what happens when you tell some of the brightest, most creative people on the planet that no one will punish them for their misdeeds, then watch them punish each other for those misdeeds for a decade.

[chaotic neutral observer]

Goddess! I lurk noore! I am here to proudly proclaim that I have not lost my grip on reality, only chosen to ignore the most current model in order to create my own! I am Otter Chaos, complete and devoid of my self-imposed filters. Hail Eris!

Welcome, new person!

If you tell me what reaction you expected from this your first post, I shall endeavour to accommodate you. 

[Doktor Howl]

I told my friends that Discordia is what happens when you tell some of the brightest, most creative people on the planet that no one will punish them for their misdeeds, then watch them punish each other for those misdeeds for a decade.

That's as good a description as I can imagine.

[The Wizard Joseph]

I told my friends that Discordia is what happens when you tell some of the brightest, most creative people on the planet that no one will punish them for their misdeeds, then watch them punish each other for those misdeeds for a decade.

That's as good a description as I can imagine.

Holy shit!

[LMNO]