Until I read this:
QuoteNews: Just 'cause this is a Discordian board doesn't mean we eat up dada bullshit
:emo:
Sorry you feel that fnordly.
Quote from: FedbeeeF on December 27, 2007, 08:51:49 PM
Until I read this:
QuoteNews: Just 'cause this is a Discordian board doesn't mean we eat up dada bullshit
:emo:
Did reading that make you unhappy? Why does it make you feel that way?
Quote from: Ratatosk on December 27, 2007, 08:58:20 PM
Quote from: FedbeeeF on December 27, 2007, 08:51:49 PM
Until I read this:
QuoteNews: Just 'cause this is a Discordian board doesn't mean we eat up dada bullshit
:emo:
Did reading that make you unhappy? Why does it make you feel that way?
You tell ME..... and I'll give you the nod
Because we'd all do well to hang ourselves?
:boring:
done. </life>
Well that certainly solves that problem.
Quote from: FedbeeeF on December 27, 2007, 10:29:22 PM
done. </life>
Ah, suicide, hairi kari, seppuku, offing oneself, the last hurrah, becoming an hero, ending it all, death of self, murder of self, achieving fame through infamy, masking autoerotic asphyxiation deaths for ages, hanging, self-injury, excessive risk taking behavior, poision, overdose, pure genius, pure brilliance, pure beauty.
Welcome to our sick and twisted world.
"If they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population."
-Ebenezer Scrooge
Quote from: FedbeeeF on December 27, 2007, 08:51:49 PM
Until I read this:
QuoteNews: Just 'cause this is a Discordian board doesn't mean we eat up dada bullshit
:emo:
Does this mean you'll be refraining from posting ridiculous bullcrap?
I hope everyone gets sad.
Quote from: FedbeeeF on December 27, 2007, 08:51:49 PM
Until I read this:
QuoteNews: Just 'cause this is a Discordian board doesn't mean we eat up dada bullshit
:emo:
There's no accounting for taste.
I used to be happy.
Now I am happy.
Later, I'll shake it up a bit and be happy.
Too bad that resolutions are too orderly, or I would make one to be happy, simply due to this topic. I still don't get half of it. Could someone explain the other half please?
Eh,
Forget chaos and order, just do what you wanna do.
Srsly.
QuoteUntil I read this:
QuoteJust 'cause this is a Discordian board doesn't mean we eat up dada bullshit
Well, just read more into it until you are happy...
'We' might eat up dada bullshit for other reasons,
~also~
Just 'cause this is a Discordian board doesn't mean 'we'
don'teat up dada bullshit either.
Anyway, for the statement to have any truth, you'd have to assemble a group which would respond to 'we' which may cause you difficulty in the first place around here.
And for those around here who like the dada crap, please remember that:
QuoteAll statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. A public service clarification by the Sri Syadasti School of Spiritual Wisdom, Wilmette.
The teachings of the Sri Syadasti School of Spiritual School of Spiritual Wisdom are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. Patamunzo Lingananda School of Higher Spiritual Wisdom, Skokie.
So get happy, boyo, illigitame non carborundum.
What if I don't want to be happy?
these days - i find i have been eating up the dada bullshit
it is a lot more savory than the non-dada bullshit
tho it is still bullshit
Why should you give a flying fuck what this board eats up? Does the fact that Discordianism has actually evolved a bit in the 40+ years since it was crapped out of some hippies' brains make you want to cry and castrate yourself in mourning? Good riddance; we don't need your crybaby genes in OUR pool, thank you very much.
Our word is not God's, not any more than the Bible or the Principia Discordia is. Think for yourself, for all our sakes.
Jesus, everyone just go put some lard on someone's doorstep.
Quote from: Nigel on January 07, 2008, 01:31:27 AM
Jesus, everyone just go put some lard on someone's doorstep.
:lulz: I feel happier already! Thanks, Nigel!
Quote from: Cainad on January 06, 2008, 08:18:13 PM
Why should you give a flying fuck what this board eats up? Does the fact that Discordianism has actually evolved a bit in the 40+ years since it was crapped out of some hippies' brains make you want to cry and castrate yourself in mourning? Good riddance; we don't need your crybaby genes in OUR pool, thank you very much.
Our word is not God's, not any more than the Bible or the Principia Discordia is. Think for yourself, for all our sakes.
Let's hug.
Quote from: Cainad on January 06, 2008, 08:18:13 PM
Our word is not God's,
Speak for yourself.
TGRR,
Mexica Rain God™.
I thought it was good :|
Quote from: barumunk on January 10, 2008, 09:30:26 AM
I thought it was good :|
Well, YUO WERE WRONG!
Wait, what did you think was good?
Kunst ist tot. Dada übermäßig alle.
Translation: (Art is dead. Dada super all.)
-Graffiti.
Dada super all! :lulz:
Yeah don't any of that stuff because it is terrible terrible terrible and horrible and more terrible too and and also more terribly horrible and such.
So, tentatively speaking, it's bad?
I don't really know how many universal statements can be applied to "we" on a discordian forum. I would assume that everybody having different beliefs about pretty much everything, discordianism itself included, is understood. Nevertheless, I've picked up on a little trick that I use when I am feeling down about things, a tactic which, as a matter of fact, I used just this evening when I woke up at ten o'clock, after a four hour nap, feeling groggy and a little pissed off about the two papers I have due tomorrow and a Monday deadline on a program which I really don't feel like writing:
First, I take a walk into the woods and find a nice, sturdy log. Then I wrote a little note that might look something like:
You have been logged.
Have a nice day. :)
and attach it to the log, which I then place on the neighbor's door step, knock, and leave.
Somehow, this always makes me feel better.
You and Nigel should talk.
yeah, well, same idea really. Some people use lard, some people use logs.. I guess.
And some people use punji pits.
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on February 08, 2008, 06:27:21 AM
I don't really know how many universal statements can be applied to "we" on a discordian forum. I would assume that everybody having different beliefs about pretty much everything, discordianism itself included, is understood. Nevertheless, I've picked up on a little trick that I use when I am feeling down about things, a tactic which, as a matter of fact, I used just this evening when I woke up at ten o'clock, after a four hour nap, feeling groggy and a little pissed off about the two papers I have due tomorrow and a Monday deadline on a program which I really don't feel like writing:
First, I take a walk into the woods and find a nice, sturdy log. Then I wrote a little note that might look something like:
You have been logged.
Have a nice day. :)
and attach it to the log, which I then place on the neighbor's door step, knock, and leave.
Somehow, this always makes me feel better.
:lulz:
best ninth post of 2008
Hello, Nostalgic Badger!
Once upon a time I was a member of a Badger Lodge, and I am slightly nostalgic for those days.
hello Nigel.
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on February 08, 2008, 06:27:21 AM
I don't really know how many universal statements can be applied to "we" on a discordian forum. I would assume that everybody having different beliefs about pretty much everything, discordianism itself included, is understood. Nevertheless, I've picked up on a little trick that I use when I am feeling down about things, a tactic which, as a matter of fact, I used just this evening when I woke up at ten o'clock, after a four hour nap, feeling groggy and a little pissed off about the two papers I have due tomorrow and a Monday deadline on a program which I really don't feel like writing:
First, I take a walk into the woods and find a nice, sturdy log. Then I wrote a little note that might look something like:
You have been logged.
Have a nice day. :)
and attach it to the log, which I then place on the neighbor's door step, knock, and leave.
Somehow, this always makes me feel better.
(http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a29/RWHN/RHWNSEAL.jpg)
Quote from: Cainad on January 06, 2008, 08:18:13 PM
Discordianism has actually evolved a bit in the 40+ years since it was crapped out of some hippies' brains
i dont think it really has
Quote from: smokngoat on February 26, 2008, 01:12:40 PM
Quote from: Cainad on January 06, 2008, 08:18:13 PM
Discordianism has actually evolved a bit in the 40+ years since it was crapped out of some hippies' brains
i dont think it really has
Please expound upon this point.
I don't know if Discordianism has evolved, but I would argue that Discordians have.
Quote from: Nigel on February 26, 2008, 06:21:21 PM
I don't know if Discordianism has evolved, but I would argue that some Discordians have.
E-Fixed.
Yeah, I'm the exact same as I was 40 years ago, dammit.
Quote from: FedbeeeF on December 27, 2007, 09:04:20 PM
Quote from: Ratatosk on December 27, 2007, 08:58:20 PM
Quote from: FedbeeeF on December 27, 2007, 08:51:49 PM
Until I read this:
QuoteNews: Just 'cause this is a Discordian board doesn't mean we eat up dada bullshit
:emo:
Did reading that make you unhappy? Why does it make you feel that way?
You tell ME..... and I'll give you the nod
Are you sure you were happy before?
Maybe you just don't see the point in anything, so you try to find it in pointlessness. You've temporarily remembered that life is pointless. Don't worry, you'll probably forget it again. Just try not to fnord think about it.
It seems to me that there is some confusion with people trying to define Discordianism as a belief system when, in my mind, it serves more accurately as a name for a certain type of thought pattern. The common factor among all Discordians, regardless of whether you eat up dada bullshit or practice chaos magic or what have you, is that we all believe what we choose to believe because we choose to believe it, not because it's "good" or "right" to society or to anybody else. Ergo, two Discordians may have entirely different belief systems, but both will have chosen those systems on their own, by their own reasoning, and are likely to give them up in favor of new ones the moment maintaining the old ones becomes impractical.
Discordianism, I think, is not like other religions - you do not convert to Discordianism, but you are born a Discordian. Those crazy bastards who wrote the Principia Discordia weren't creating anything, they merely gave it a name.
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on February 28, 2008, 02:00:41 PM
It seems to me that there is some confusion with people trying to define Discordianism as a belief system when, in my mind, it serves more accurately as a name for a certain type of thought pattern. The common factor among all Discordians, regardless of whether you eat up dada bullshit or practice chaos magic or what have you, is that we all believe what we choose to believe because we choose to believe it, not because it's "good" or "right" to society or to anybody else. Ergo, two Discordians may have entirely different belief systems, but both will have chosen those systems on their own, by their own reasoning, and are likely to give them up in favor of new ones the moment maintaining the old ones becomes impractical.
Discordianism, I think, is not like other religions - you do not convert to Discordianism, but you are born a Discordian. Those crazy bastards who wrote the Principia Discordia weren't creating anything, they merely gave it a name.
good points, all around good badgering.
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on February 28, 2008, 02:00:41 PM
you do not convert to Discordianism, but you are born a Discordian.
bit of a false dichotomy there, the nature/nurture one. Besides if discordianism is the way of thinking that you were born with i'm really impressed, cause most humans can't think until they are at least a year old(totally guessing at the exact time but you aren't born capable of thought).
Quote from: FedbeeeF on December 27, 2007, 08:51:49 PM
Until I read this:
QuoteNews: Just 'cause this is a Discordian board doesn't mean we eat up dada bullshit
:emo:
Boo hoo fucking hoo.
Go hang out with the Myspace Discordians, then.
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on February 28, 2008, 02:00:41 PM
It seems to me that there is some confusion with people trying to define Discordianism as a belief system when, in my mind, it serves more accurately as a name for a certain type of thought pattern. The common factor among all Discordians, regardless of whether you eat up dada bullshit or practice chaos magic or what have you, is that we all believe what we choose to believe because we choose to believe it, not because it's "good" or "right" to society or to anybody else. Ergo, two Discordians may have entirely different belief systems, but both will have chosen those systems on their own, by their own reasoning, and are likely to give them up in favor of new ones the moment maintaining the old ones becomes impractical.
Discordianism, I think, is not like other religions - you do not convert to Discordianism, but you are born a Discordian. Those crazy bastards who wrote the Principia Discordia weren't creating anything, they merely gave it a name.
RUBBISH!
"Bob" preserve us from Calvinist Discordians.
People are capable of thought from before birth, but they're not really capable of philosophical thought.
I think a lot of people are Discordians before they discover Discordianism, but that's because they have learned and/or developed a philosophy that is essentially Discordian already, and then when they encounter Discordianism it feels "right" to them.
Quote from: nostalgicBadger on February 28, 2008, 02:00:41 PM
you do not convert to Discordianism, but you are born a Discordian.
Discordians are forged in the fires of mental instability and militant subjectivism. Alcohol seems to help too.
Quote from: Regret on March 30, 2008, 11:33:43 AM
cause most humans can't think until they are at least a year old(totally guessing at the exact time but you aren't born capable of thought).
I'd say that you are at least 20 years off there.
Quote from: Nigel on March 30, 2008, 07:42:31 PM
I think a lot of people are Discordians before they discover Discordianism, but that's because they have learned and/or developed a philosophy that is essentially Discordian already, and then when they encounter Discordianism it feels "right" to them.
I've noticed this a lot too. I find that when I read a lot of Discordian lit. that it feels like it's stuff I already "knew" but didn't "know" that I "knew". If that makes sense.
Quote from: Nigel on March 30, 2008, 07:42:31 PMPeople are capable of thought from before birth
[citation needed]
at least, depends on what you count as "thought", but until the first year, a person may go through a couple of false starts / "reboots", making whatever they thought before that pretty much irrelevant.
but this is not really the point of the argument, so never mind.
Not to get too theological here, but the addage "Everyone is a Discordian*, whether they know it or not" seems to imply that even if they don't know about Discordia, they will still behave according to Discordian principles: The Eristic/Aneristic Illusions, Law of Fives, etc.
Or to put it another way, "we're all in Prison, even if some can't see the bars."
*Except TGRR.
Or we just think they are, because of the totalizing nature of those ideas, which we interpret through the Law of Fives etc
Either way, Discordians are obvioulsy a superior class of entity.
http://books.google.com/books?id=DbqXSdMHIh0C&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=cognitive+processes+in+the+womb&source=web&ots=f7qXcjfKqa&sig=cb4sT4JYGjoWBKK_huHhukVm1g8&hl=en#PPA2,M1
Can't read that much at work: what's the gist?
it talks about an experiment showing that newborn babies remember their mother's voice when just out of the womb and that they can perform simple conditioned tasks like pavlov's dogs or lab rats.
if you count that as "thought", i totally stand corrected.
Nope.
Quote from: triple zero on March 31, 2008, 06:00:23 PM
it talks about an experiment showing that newborn babies remember their mother's voice when just out of the womb and that they can perform simple conditioned tasks like pavlov's dogs or lab rats.
if you count that as "thought", i totally stand corrected.
It depends on if you think brain activity is thought.
Deep in thought:
(http://www.foxnews.com/images/139114/4_22_schiavo_terri2.jpg)
if thinking at the level of dogs is enough to be a discordian then all mammals are discordians. Pffff kids and animals are no more discordians then they are jewish, wiccan or a banana-sandwich.
Besides if all humans are born with this thought pattern, then its not a certain type of thought pattern but THE thought pattern of mammals.
come back after you learn how to stop contradicting yourself.
FTR, i said:
if you count that as "thought", i totally stand corrected.
i don't count it as thought, but i'm also just trying to avoid a semantics discussion about "what is thought"
because, really,
DETERMINISM
ATOMS
PHYSICS
QUANTUM
(*hides*)
Quote from: Regret on March 31, 2008, 07:35:24 PM
if thinking at the level of dogs is enough to be a discordian then all mammals are discordians. Pffff kids and animals are no more discordians then they are jewish, wiccan or a banana-sandwich.
Besides if all humans are born with this thought pattern, then its not a certain type of thought pattern but THE thought pattern of mammals.
come back after you learn how to stop contradicting yourself.
I was thinking the same thing. If everyone is born a Discordian, then who the hell are all these Cabbages I keep meeting?
Balance.
Not people. They are actual Cabbages, disguised as humans.
I mean, duh. Dont you guys read anything?
:lol:
Quote from: Cain on March 31, 2008, 08:30:59 PM
Not people. They are actual Cabbages, disguised as humans.
I mean, duh. Dont you guys read anything?
:coffeemonitor:
:potd:
Quote from: Regret on March 31, 2008, 07:35:24 PM
if thinking at the level of dogs is enough to be a discordian then all mammals are discordians. Pffff kids and animals are no more discordians then they are jewish, wiccan or a banana-sandwich.
Besides if all humans are born with this thought pattern, then its not a certain type of thought pattern but THE thought pattern of mammals.
come back after you learn how to stop contradicting yourself.
Come back after you learn to distinguish one poster from another.
Quote from: triple zero on March 31, 2008, 07:49:50 PM
FTR, i said:
if you count that as "thought", i totally stand corrected.
i don't count it as thought, but i'm also just trying to avoid a semantics discussion about "what is thought"
because, really,
DETERMINISM
ATOMS
PHYSICS
QUANTUM
(*hides*)
Newborn babies don't have any fewer brain cells than adults do; their brains grow because the cells themselves get larger. They have as much brain activity as adults do. They are thinking, just not in the same way we think because they lack language and experience. Comparing a human baby to a dog is really inaccurate.
For the record, *I* was not the person who said that everyone is born Discordian. I was just arguing that it makes no sense to declare that actual thought begins at the age of one.
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2008, 09:09:43 PMNewborn babies don't have any fewer brain cells than adults do; their brains grow because the cells themselves get larger. They have as much brain activity as adults do. They are thinking, just not in the same way we think because they lack language and experience. Comparing a human baby to a dog is really inaccurate.
For the record, *I* was not the person who said that everyone is born Discordian. I was just arguing that it makes no sense to declare that actual thought begins at the age of one.
actually they quickly have
more braincells than adults after they get born, because the first part of learning stuff involves growing a lot of braincells and also killing a lot of them.
this wasn't, however, what we were talking about. amount of braincells has nothing to do with the ability of thought (there's people functioning and reasoning pretty well missing about 90% of their brains).
also, i wasn't comparing a baby to a dog. i was just saying that the only thing the experiment demonstrated is that a newborn baby has at least the cognitive abilities of a dog. that is, being able to learn through simple conditioning.
i was arguing that the experiment stated in the book you linked proves nothing about a baby being capable of thought or not. because simple conditioning is not thinking.
I used to be happy...
UNTIL I SAW THAT VIDEO OF LMNO AND THE HORSE!
:x
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2008, 09:06:27 PM
Come back after you learn to distinguish one poster from another.
reread threat and point taken, apologies.
what horse? (im gonna Regret asking that)
Quote from: Regret on March 31, 2008, 10:14:28 PM
Quote from: Nigel on March 31, 2008, 09:06:27 PM
Come back after you learn to distinguish one poster from another.
reread threat and point taken, apologies.
:lulz:
Quote
what horse? (im gonna Regret asking that)
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1739698,00.html
there's a video of this which you shouldn't watch if you're easily freaked out.
I'm feeling much better, thanks.
Quote from: LMNO on April 01, 2008, 01:36:33 PM
I'm feeling much better, thanks.
The horse isn't though.