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#1
Quote from: Nigel on May 02, 2011, 04:37:47 PM
Quote from: Dido on May 02, 2011, 09:39:57 AM
QuoteBut who am I kidding?  This is PD, so your job is to dig your heels in and show us all.  You'll last about a month, you'll be bitter as hell when you finally leave, but at least you will have appeased your e-penis, which has to be worth something, right?

Way to go.

So... everyone who used to hang out at PD back in the l00 years and is still around has a really, REALLY BIG e-dick?

I wondered why I came back. Must have been the virtual pheromones.

Why do you have to come waltzing in waving your dick and looking to pick a fight? So you can cry about being picked on? I don't get it.

So, saying that I used to 'hang out' here a couple of years ago, back in the zeros, or loo years, as my friends call them, equals picking a fight?

I am not crying, nor do I feel particularly picked on. I figured that FUCK OFFright now was just the cordial PD style that I remembered.
#2
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on May 02, 2011, 04:09:45 PM
Quote from: The Fred ⊂(◉‿◉)つ on May 02, 2011, 04:06:58 PM
There is a difference between being happy about something and acting like you are at a Superbowl victory party like a lot of people they keep showing on the news.
And the latter group of people are the ones the rest of the world will see. Rubbing it in people's faces and chanting USA! repeatedly will just inspire more terrorists to attack. Overzealous celebrations make the whole country look bad.

Did Germany look bad when the Wall came down?

LET. THEM. CELEBRATE.






Yep. They are happy, they have a right to be.

BTW, Suu, I'll just assume that you aren't really angry with me for wishing that peoples' emotions would not be abused as political capital. Because that's all I was saying.

Remember, the first thing I heard abou this was some twits opinion on how this was affecting the stock market.
#3
Quote from: Khara on May 02, 2011, 03:41:28 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on May 02, 2011, 03:22:22 PM
Quote from: Dido on May 02, 2011, 09:39:57 AM
QuoteBut who am I kidding?  This is PD, so your job is to dig your heels in and show us all.  You'll last about a month, you'll be bitter as hell when you finally leave, but at least you will have appeased your e-penis, which has to be worth something, right?

Way to go.

So... everyone who used to hang out at PD back in the l00 years and is still around has a really, REALLY BIG e-dick?

I wondered why I came back. Must have been the virtual pheromones.

See?  This is exactly what I was talking about.

Some days I wonder if we could use PD as proof the humans actually cannot be taught....

Yeah, that will teach them. Definitely.

#4
Quote from: Suu the Infallible on May 02, 2011, 12:33:04 PM
I almost feel like taking off to Manhattan on Wednesday morning after my classes are done and putting down 4 white roses instead of red. It's going to have to wait until September, though.

You and everyone else. And *you* will be totally sincere but *someone* will still be milking the event for what it is worth.

The good part is that political cynicism doesn't bring people back.  OBL will probably stay dead.
#5
Am there, am doing that. Hence my reading the news at this godless hour. Only, my serious writing is HP fanfic.

Ok, someone give this thread a CPR, please. It got hit by too much reality but that's no reason to let it die.
#6
QuoteBut who am I kidding?  This is PD, so your job is to dig your heels in and show us all.  You'll last about a month, you'll be bitter as hell when you finally leave, but at least you will have appeased your e-penis, which has to be worth something, right?

Way to go.

So... everyone who used to hang out at PD back in the l00 years and is still around has a really, REALLY BIG e-dick?

I wondered why I came back. Must have been the virtual pheromones.
#7
Amen to that. I woke up, read the news and banged my had on the table.

(And somehow that reminded me of good old PD.com)

Anyway, the important thing is that he had redyed his beard. Blood looks so much better around a dark beard.
#8
Oh, come on. If the Nato had only managed to kill Muammar instead of the least important of his sons it would have been a *perfect* weekend.

Do I really need  to insert smileys here?
#9
QuoteThe dollar rebounded from three-year lows and U.S. crude slid more than 1 percent on Monday on the back of news that a U.S.-led operation killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/02/markets-global-idUSL3E7G205020110502

The Financial Times page on the economic impact is currently down.


So you see it was not *for naught*.
#10
Or Kill Me / Re: Guest rant: Nietzsche's honourable war
October 25, 2008, 06:42:55 PM
amazing how intoxicating his language is, even when translated. however:

QuoteFourth: I only attack things when every personal quarrel is excluded, when any background of bad experiences is lacking.

of course. the sexism had nothing to do with his mother and sister and nothing at all with lou salome not fucking him.

QuoteOn the contrary, attack is in my case a proof of good will, sometimes even of gratitude.
calling the effect of wagner's work a spiritual plague was a very ...esoteric form of gratitude. and i hate to be siding with wagner because he was a spiritual plague.

QuoteI myself, and opponent of Christianity, in accordance with good manners, am far from blaming individuals for the calamity of millennia.

yes fritz. how true. things just happen, somehow. they manifest spontaneously, due to astronomical constellations or whatever. but they are not, i repeat, they are neither perpetrated by individuals nor  supported by them after the fact.

but i have to admit that i would not bother attacking him if i hadn't enjoyed his work as much as i did.

#11
Quote from: Cain on September 04, 2008, 03:31:22 PM
Note: I have not read beyond the second post.


Why is Discordianism still relevant in 2008?

Because I am the The Decider, and I have decided that it is.

Debate over.

Oh, alright then, some more evidence.

but how does the (very astute, imo) analysis following the above prove that you are teh decider???

:D
#12
Quote from: Dr. Payne on September 03, 2008, 10:36:45 PM
Discordia will always be more relevant to me personally than in any kind of "cause" or "movement".

Yes, things in society are fucked up, yes "everyone" thinks that "everyone" else wants things to be this way, and there is nothing that they can do about it as individuals. Yes, they are wrong.

But all of this means nothing to me.

I am not an activist, I don't go out of my way to try and convert people anymore. I used to, but then I thought it was mandatory or at least expected. Since I decided for myself that it wasn't, I don't do it. I don't expect people to wake up unless they want to do it themselves, I certainly don't expect it to ever make sense for them unless they do it in the hardest and unfunniest ways, but that may be my jaded and bitter inner self talking.

Discordia is not a movement, it is not a purpose, it is not a cause. It's a state of mind. A state of mind that connects a diverse group of people who wouldn't give each other the time of day if they met socially in other circumstances and didn't have the call signs Discordia offers, the "fluff" like 23, Eris or Principia Discordia.

I like that. I like talking to people who I normally would never talk to, who would normally never talk to me.


Discordia is at times an excellent way of tying some of us together to work on projects that normally would never be worked on, like Paths and Shrapnel, PosterGASM and some of the weird and wonderful art projects that have grown out of these forums.

I like that. I like working with people on plans and projects that may have some relevance to how I think about my life, or can help decorate it in a way that makes me question what decoration is.

Discordia will always be relevant to me in some way because of this. Its worth far outweighs the effort of getting anything back from it.

I like models, I like art, I like exploring the weirder aspects of our psyches, and the even weirder methods of exploiting what we find.

I like to laugh, hate, cry and love, as we as humans are meant to, not as we have been conditioned to. As I've only learned to do with some intense soul searching and some pain. Discordia has been the chair I've sat down in when I'm weary, the desk I've used to write some of the most personal and important things I've ever written, it has been the mirror in which I've seen what I am, what I was and what I want to be.

And I've learned to not care what others are thinking about it all, except in specialised circumstances, for example: when I feel like it.

I know what I've learned, I've learned to question what I know, and I've learned to learn more, always learn more.

For me, Discordia is a question, an answer and everything else in between, and it is so huge that I could spend a lifetime exploring it.

Is Discordia relevent? Certainly for me, maybe for you.


discordia is a reason that makes a random group of people focus on something.
as stated above, it bypasses the usual reason for banding together in humans, which is affinity.
instead of feeling an affinity for others we gather around the concept, which is so fuzzy as to allow many different interpretations and therefore attracts a rather diverse group of people. affinity creates groups where the reality tunnels of the participants are safe from interruptions.
groups around a more abstract cause tend to suffer from the lack of basic emotional affinity. such groups develop hierarchical structures in order to keep from dissolving. structures determine the flow and shape of thought and ideas. in a hierarchical group any idea, no matter where in the group it originated will have to pass through the top in order to be accepted, which will restrict the possible output of that group dramatically.

a group that gathers around the idea of disagreeing with each other and still manages to find a modus operandi, however chaotic, is more creative than a group whose output is always in the shape of the head of whoever is at the top.

in my opinion the relevance of such a focus or group does not depend on it happening in one epoch or the other. if it exists it has the potential to change any epoch.

damn i am preaching.
look what you made me do. ;-)
#13
Quote from: East Coast Hustle on June 26, 2008, 03:35:45 AM
Get the fucking sauce.

or don't get the fucking sauce.

I don't care.

but I will pull your eyeball out with a pair of tongs, batter it, deep fry it, and serve it with horseradish sauce the next time you order your fucking sauce on the fucking side.

enjoy your meal.

Beats the fairy stag grilled in the fat of infernal boars who hound the enemies of the Raven King (or whatever,  strange & mr. norrel by susanna clarke)
#14
Quote from: Cain on June 23, 2008, 08:18:30 PM
Now reading The Eternal Hermes by Antoine Faivre.  Between this and Trickster Makes the World, I am fairly convinced that Hermes is a viable Discordian deity in his own right.  Possibly more on that later.

That's the second Hermes in five minutes. Hm.

Now reading Modest_Witness@Second_Millenium by Haraway.
#15
England isn't. Poor fluffy unicorns.