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What an awesome collection of eclectic music.  Not sure how much will make it into my consciousness, but it is certainly mind expanding.

My submission to this is a band I've been very hyped about for the past year or so, Die Antwoord.
Here is an introduction to the band, self produced...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_pS46YRMIQ
And here is the video that brought them to my attention (also self produced)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc3f4xU_FfQ

Not necessarily Safe for work...

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/low_concept/2012/06/what_kind_of_muppet_are_you_chaos_or_order_.html

I think the world has waited too long for theories based on the muppets.

They don't count, not them. They're Temporary People. They live in houses they don't own, afraid to touch the walls and ceilings lest their Masters withhold their precious savings. They huddle together in sad little enclaves, dreaming wistfully of the day they can leave this place or defiantly claiming the space as theirs. Children call the refugee camp "home." It doesn't matter, they cannot stay. They are forever outsiders here, outsiders everywhere. They will roam the earth forever, wasting away without an education or meaningful employment. The fringes of society. Human refuse. Periodic sweeps of the affected areas are necessary to scare the criminal elements and remind the others of how gracious we have been in tolerating them.

Real People don't live like this. Real People have their own fortresses, white picket moats. Real People don't co-habitate with mice and roaches and roommates. They call the exterminator like the good lord intended.

So, we should eliminate refugee camps? 

I think she's mocking the perspective of the sheltered bourgeoisie.

My irony thingie is broken.

I upgraded to goldy, it bends alot, but doesn't break often.

No, we should liberate them!

It's all in the spin innit?

Aren't we all temporary people?  Or are some of us permanent people?

I only sleep with cockroaches so long as it is done with mutual respect.

The Golden Eagle has landed

Really, this sounds plausible to you?  It may show some things about the way people view money and other ways to view it than you are accustomed. But the story at it's base doesn't seem like a very accurate metaphor for how money was created.

The whole point of money is that it is an abstraction. Barter is inefficient for any large scale trading, so people created an abstract method to barter in bulk.  Gold was a good choice for this at the time because it was not easy for most people to amass or forge (both methods to keep people from just making more).  It has no intrinsic value other than what we have given it (for instance sometimes shells, that you can pick up on the beach, were used).

Eventually our ability to trade efficiently outstripped our ability to move gold around, so we made it out of paper, representing the gold.  And after that the inherently finite nature of gold caused problems when the amount of goods and services made the gold so expensive that only very rich men could have 'real' money.  So we broke the last physical barrier to free trade and made the money completely abstract.

Is this a bad thing? a good thing?  I'm sure both of those are true, according to the viewpoint from which you wish to take.

The original article oversimplifies the 'story' of money and exhibits a strong bias in my opinion.  First, they pronounce the only thing gov't was for, "In each community a simple Government had been formed to make sure that each person's freedoms and rights were protected and that no man was forced to do anything against his will by any other man, or any group of men. This was the Government's one and only purpose and each Governor was voluntarily supported by the local community who elected him."

I can't think of a single gov't, until the past two or three hundred years that was anything close to that.  Although our gov't is similar in scope, whether it has ever delivered on it is debatable, or at least has been debated ad nauseum.  Traditionally governments throughout history have tried to keep control of the money supply.  Partly to be able to control economy when beneficial and always as a way to maintain control of the society they represent.  Remember the story of Jesus and the moneylenders?  Judaism required that money for sacrifice to jehovah be in Israeli coin, but the romans outlawed the use of foreign currency.  The Jewish moneylenders then made money in the conversion.  How does this fit the original article?  Was it a conspiracy of the bankers?  Or an expected outcome of competing currencies in a volatile environment?

After dispensing quickly with how the 'money' system was developed, the article moves on to describe the nature of current economic woes.  It is interesting that the idea of taxing is brought up as having been designed to solve social ills in response to the problems of money.  I'm not completely sure, but the concepts of taxes and tribute weren't created exactly that way in the history I've read.

In conclusion, the original article, is a piece of propaganda that is dressed up like an allegorical story.

We're Discordians. If we can't do strife better than everybody else then really, what are we?

Discordians?

Or is this a trick question?

Just finished a collection of the Sagas of Icelanders.

The Razor, unfortunately, only gives a relative probability.  Sometimes the unlikely is true.

The Syādvāda appears also.  It is one of my favorite bits from the PD.

The nature of truth is far more difficult to discern than it appears.

In your heart...

Maybe if we put the barstool in a faulty incinerator and tried to determine if it got burned up or not?

There is nothing worse than trying to stir your coffee with a string.

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I thought the whole point was that it is a religion.  Weird Philosophy Book Club just doesn't have the same je ne sais quoi.

I think you really start going down the wrong path, if you are trying to get people to take Discordianism seriously. Although, I won't stand in your way. (especially if you're pissing)

I think it would be easier to determine what smells are not associated with her.

Perhaps, but date murder/raping yourself doesn't have the same ring.