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Hi,

I've translated Chao te Ching in Greek, you can find all the chapters here. I've also translated various bits and pieces from our Bible, as well as whatever catches my fancy from Erisianism in general -- it's all contained in my 'discordianism' tag, here. Feel free to use/abuse them.

-S

Ευχαριστώ Σάββα!!!  Το βρήκες
Thanks -S!!! You found it
As you notice, I still did SQUAt on translating pd i'm useless

I like the idea of opera, but it doesn't work out so well in practice. It's just that they keep belting out their wobbley tones (...)

I asked an opera singer about those wobbly tones recently (because I don't see the point, either) - the explanation she offered is that the smooth, legato tone referred to as bel canto is pretty much a given: a singer has it or he/she doesn't. The other type of singing (the wobbley tones) can be developed a great deal by training.

I don't know how accurate that explanation is, but I liked it.

So they do it because they have to learn how? What? Why? Just because it's hard? You're not supposed to make music because it is hard to do, you're supposed to do it because it sounds good.

this!

Opera is to me nothing more than overdramatic soap operas with really really crap storylines 

I'm a Stravinsky fan, (even though I'm supposed to hate classical music so let's not mention this again)
I especially love Stravinskys firebird, and how better to play it than when he is conducting it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2geXJ5Oiq60

Also the rite of spring is great - they say it caused a riot when it was first performed:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/music/riteofspring.html

The Rite of Spring (Le Sacré du Printemps,) with music by Igor Stravinsky and choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky. The intensely rhythmic score and primitive scenario -- a setting of scenes from pagan Russia -- shock audiences more accustomed to the demure conventions of classical ballet. The complex music and violent dance steps depicting fertility rites first draw catcalls and whistles from the crowd, and are soon followed by shouts and fistfights in the aisles. The unrest in the audience escalates into a riot.

Write some science fiction - no total dystopias please
Or maybe just simply collect all your favourite things for everyone to see?

SHIT ON YOUR FACES.

MAKE YOUR DREAMS COMES TRUE.

STAY TRUE THRU YOUR PHASES.

SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT.

poem of the month to me!

On the plus side everyone's eyesight seems to have improved remarkably.

That's a plus.

The picture I find very annoying too, for all the good reasons already mentioned

granpa smith sent me the link for historia discordia a few days ago -  GREAT STUFF!! And really    about the copyrights argument (or is it  ?).  Junkenstein said it best:

It may be more accurate to say that some old discordians can't handle the future. At all.

Which is hilarious in so many ways I can't even begin to count.

YES, post of the day indeed!

Consensual use of mind-altering substances in non-human persons?

Confirmed.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/12/30/puff-puff-pass-young-dolphins-deliberately-chew-puffer-fish-to-get-high-with-each-other/

Correspondingly, sub-human primates of Madagasgar (BBC)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c96J7djnHIg

"He tries to woo her with his anal gland"  and that lemur's face in the end

Spending a week in Germany on the company dime.  Specifically, Frankfurt.  I will have about 5 days of Roger time while I do this, as this trip is basically a junket.  I will have a rental car and no intention of driving on a different side of the street or whatever people do in Europe.  And essentially unlimited credit, provided I can shoehorn it into "entertainment expenses".

What do I need to do and see?

I have major envy.

You got to go to Nashville.

I'm pretty sure there's no Music Row in Frankfurt.

I feel like A WHOLE OTHER CONTINENT trumps visiting anywhere in Tennessee.

Well, yes and no.  I've been in Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America, and spags are spags wherever you go.

But Germans build some kickass castles.  I can't deny that.

If you like castles and if you're planning to visit Heidelberg anyway (by the way I typed something wrong i think, Heidelberg is a bit less than an hour south of Frankfurt, not just 20 minutes), anyway, you should consider visiting Hornberg castle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornberg_Castle

That's about an hour to the east of Heidelberg but it's on the Neckar valley, which apparently is every castle lover's dreamland:
http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/mar/01/germany.walkingholidays

Most of these villages were fortified. The Neckar valley was like a corridor of castles. It wasn't just a question of a few walls and a big door. Each of these bastions was a stupendous, almost Disneyesque creation. Neckarsteinach had three of these fortresses, all built by thugs with names like "The Grand Wrecker of the Country". Hirschhorn had only one fortress but it was a particularly virulent orange, and dangled off the top of a hill.

and

I spent my last night at Hornberg Castle, as Twain had. It was once the home of robber barons (their family shield, I noticed, depicted a wolf devouring a sheep) but is now a hotel.

(Hornberg is also a museum - pardon the badly written article, it's just to give an impression of the area)

I'm pretty sure this is carnaval in cologne...

I remember this from a while back, I'm still keep an eye open for such a coathanger when in the hardware store

[The Scientologists now run it.]

[...] About the same time my parents received a whole gigantic stack of poorly xeroxed documents and articles explaining how evil the whole thing was, but I never really judged them to harshly. [...] Oh and all that literature that my folks gave me was put together by the Cult Awareness Network or something. The Scientologists now run it.

I'm not so familiar with Frankfurt but I heard the Senkenberg museum is worth visiting if you're into natural history. They have dinosaurs, a geopark etc:
http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=5256

If you're willing to travel, there's Heidelberg about 20 minutes south, which is a famed to be really beautiful:
http://www.heidelberg.de/english,Len/Home/Visit.html

If you're willing to travel even further, there's the volcanic area 2 hours northeast:
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/natural-sciences/environment/earth-sciences/global-geoparks/members/germany/vulkaneifel-european-geopark/

If I hear anything else about the area there I'll post.

Probability theory.

The probability of certain interactions. Though there is nothing to interact, the interaction is what makes the things that the -action is inter- to.
Though it is not really an action the way we normally understand action either. Nothing is acting, there is no cause and effect in the usual sense.
I'm quite confused about this subject, but that seems to be the norm.

Sounds like this "quantum logic" i've been reading about lately:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-quantlog/

At its core, quantum mechanics can be regarded as a non-classical probability calculus resting upon a non-classical propositional logic. [...] Some have argued that the empirical success of quantum mechanics calls for a revolution in logic itself.

I could not agree more! But this with my half knowledge of this field.

Here's also the wikipedia article about quantum logic, it's slightly less technical:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic

Still, continuity creeps in when we talk of intervals but it's not so serious there i guess. Anyway, it's all so exciting!

[not]

It's very much like being in the middle of an argument with a woman and out of the blue you start calling her "sweetie".

That is an excellent example. Not only do i understand it intellectually now, but emotionally as well. :cringe:

Yay!

I mean, it's just a cultural quirk, but I'm glad I was able to convey it.

I get that too, but for me that would be incredibly annoying if it came with that known sarcastic facial expression:


I did not mean it like that, but rather like this:


though I do apologise for unknowingly insulting you Roger.

that was a really good documentary!

and really funny
"and the males that were left were, to use scientific jargon, they were good guys"