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I applaud this motion, and think the name you've selected will resonate well with other Discordians.

I am starting to have more faith in this project.  It's now expanded to three threads instead of just one. Many of our projects never make it beyond that point. 

My fread doesn't count. It died to death.

I wanted to add when I mentioned code, Cainad put a link to cryptography, but I actually meant code (word/meaning substitution, not letter substitution.  The latter is crackable with time, the former is easier to learn and, unless the people putting it together are stupid, is uncrackable at all).

Since this is the only thing that I think I can contribute to at my current level of skill (that being the level of "N00b who talks a lot"), should I start making a code system that we might use for in-the-field communication?

[code system]

Discordian example:  we have the emails of thousands of people who were interested enough in Discordianism to sign up to PD.com.  Perhaps we should utilize them?  Since few Discordians have "died" or "got lost" in our previous conflicts, this is not an issue we have had to explore much.  However, it does tie into recruitment, which I will touch on again at the end of this article.

I think this may be a resource worth exploiting. Many people may create an account and nose around a bit, but few will persist and become active members. Lurkers, however, may be more likely to become a legitimate Fourth Ring (or even New Wave Ring) if the network pokes back when they create an account. Even if we continue to treat them like the n00bs they are, interest will undoubtedly be sparked if we put the idea into their heads that "Yeah, this is an active group that is interested in your involvement."

Information security

Further improvements could include an agreed on code system, which would allow for public forums to act as message carriers without direct implication, as well as use of emails and specially created hidden forums to achieve goals.

It's probably repost, but for the benefit of those interested: http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/crypto/crypto/lanaki.crypt.class/lessons/

Let's not forget to use one of the biggest benefits of being discordian when creating all of this; Randomness! I'd hate to burn bridges because we went in underestimating things such as this.

Is there an easy way to clean up the messes we make?

Good point, actually. Half the point of Discordianism is that we don't get our panties in a twist when unforeseen variables screw around with plans.

[pat]

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/bip/3.php

Page 3, paragraph 4 in the BIP (this includes all available versions of it) has a typo:

And on the left, without economic freedom, social freedom was nothing, as money is a large pat of the social structure.

Have you ever noticed how cubicle workers and enraged rants about diction go hand in hand?

Anyone working in a cubicle for an extended period, I think, would begin to see brevity and efficient use of language as a greater virtue than, say, clean underwear. Soon Richter will abandon all use of idioms and figurative speech, and grammatical errors inherent in certain spoken regional dialects will irritate him until he finally crashes his head through the cubicle wall, roars, and eats the poor soul who happened to be sitting in the next cubicle.

[YES]

On the second reading I read it as the voice of the Machine/organism.

YES.

It's like the voice of HAL 9000, trying to convince you not to screw around with his wiring.

[Almost everyone's either apathetic or a fucktard.]

Well, that too, but most American Republicans would be shocked and appalled by The Economist. They'd probably call it liberal propaganda.

Remember, the American political compass stands at the magnetic North Pole. Names mean nothing, ideologies mean less. Almost everyone's either apathetic or a fucktard.

Can't I be both?

The certification costs extra. No discounts for double-dipping.

How about 'I DARE YOU TO IGNORE THIS SIGN'?

I guess seasonal illnesses attacked your school by storm.

We used to curse at each other in foreign languages. Foulmouthed little punks, we were... if you understood German or French.

[merely reacting to stimulus isn't a demonstration of your brain power.]

Somehow, Cram, you manage to take an old theme and reiterate it so that people's "ignore the loony" reaction is delayed long enough to get the message in there. Kudos.

Also:

And the average human has less than three original thoughts per week. Have you had one yet today? Really think now... and your precious opinions about things don't count towards the grand total - merely reacting to stimulus isn't a demonstration of your brain power.

Read The Prince of Nothing trilogy by R. Scott Bakker when you have some cash and reading time available. This is one of the most important themes in the whole story for at least one of the characters.

YEEEEAAAARRRGH! 

That was good. Don't forget that 'Alan' is more than happy to be extra productive until the cost of the tube installation has been offset. Can't let the company go bankrupt after paying to help 'Alan' feel so good about himself, after all!

A study is good for being accurate, but I didn't need one to tell me that America is clueless about politics. Without any formal definition or criteria for labels like "left-" and "right-wing," or "liberal" and "conservative," declaring yourself to be one or the other has practically no meaning in the States. A politician can really only use these labels in accordance with the uneducated opinions people have about them (i.e., Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter's followers, who only know the word "liberal" as a curse word) for manipulative purposes.

I'm beginning to wonder how much of a difference it would make if people like this guy ---> knew the difference between social conservatives and fiscal conservatives.

I'm a Republican, but I'm an anti-Neocon Republican so it sort of makes me an orphan.

So I'm guessing that you read The Economist?

Reading The Economist makes you Republican?

I just thought it gave you a first hand view of the idiocy of Thomas Friedman.

Well, that too, but most American Republicans would be shocked and appalled by The Economist. They'd probably call it liberal propaganda.

Remember, the American political compass stands at the magnetic North Pole. Names mean nothing, ideologies mean less. Almost everyone's either apathetic or a fucktard.

Is Huckabee the new breed of Republican religious fundamentalist, breaking with pro-corporate sentiment?

http://www.alternet.org/story/68057/

W. Bush made a lot of headway in his campaigns despite his shortcomings because he had a 'charming' personality and sense of humor. His loony Fundie base jumped on that bandwagon.

To hell with Mike Huckabee. Screw his religious nutcase credentials.

Or maybe not. Bring him in to the White House and let us play out this neo-conservative/evangelical fuckwit movement as quickly as we can.

I'm a Republican, but I'm an anti-Neocon Republican so it sort of makes me an orphan.

So I'm guessing that you read The Economist?