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My ninth grade history teacher taught us about Jesus as a real person...
Should I sue?

You should have the textbooks that teacher banned and burned. 

traditional solutions - if not always the best usually the urckiest

So, why don't we run with it?  What would happen if you took TFY,S to it's logical conclusion?

My first thought is an entire society that does nothing but archive bibliographys...

but surely the opposite would occur - all books would be burned because

"A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads."

[quick reality check {maybe} yes I know that its not a damned paradox just a timely enjoinder to keep you wits about you when being assailed by weasel words - and the weasels who wite them and that's not weasy to say

 . . .  my understanding is that there is quite enough non-biblical evidence to show that Jesus was a real historical character but I get a distinct vibe from your post that you would find the task disturbing  - that said . . . millions of people over two millennia have believed  in the historical Jesus as presented in the gospels both biblical and otherwise [or acted as though they believed, or pretended that they believed, or re-written to their own preference and then 'believed']. Our whole damn society, and it pretty much doesn't matter which one you belong to or which ones you descend from, is shot through with Jesusism so it really is totally irrelevant what the "truth" of the matter is, the effects of Jesus's words historical or fictional are there in plain sight for anyone to see.

[snip]if I had to choose one of the Big Three Gods,[snip]

Curly Moe or Larry -

or are you suggesting the people of the book have corralled themselves three different deities . . .?

and did you notice how I circumcised your quote there, didya, didya?

. . . I could be a great artist if I , you know, just actually produced some art . . .

I had to look up Gershwin's Law real quick... then,






_{PS: looking back on it, I think this post hit me harder because I had to look up Gershwin's Law.}

It's one of my favorite songs... I think I even filked it recently around here somewhere...

damn - and I followed that thread with bated breath too http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=20800.0
but I still managed to miss that cute skit

I'd like to hear about this room you dwell in and how you've changed it.

She ran into the bathroom in that loose limbed reckless way that kids her age have - a wild excited flail of  7 or 8 year old limbs and a mindful of music and performance and the physical joy of dancing. But the room was too small, way too small for all that youthful elan. The world brought the full weight of its inertia onto the fragile fluttering fingertips. Agonised, shocked and without any suitable language to adequately express the shitfuckdamnedness of the pain she took the only retaliative action she could think of. The wall was obviously male so, taking her mother's advice on what to do with males who do unacceptable things to small girls she kneed it as hard as she could in the balls!

There was a brief moment of catharsis before the calm and then the eerie shock that her kneecap was not broken as she had expected, in fact it scarcely even hurt, but there was a small knee shaped hole in the wall.

Many years have passed but I have never got over the horrified shock of discovering that walls are not necessarily solid as my childish self had assumed, but can be hollow and not at all as substantial as they appear to be. Since that day I have lived in a world where I am constantly aware of the yawning gap under my feet when I am on an upper floor, where stairs are nightmarish and likely to disorient me, especially the ones with open treads, and lifts make me shudder. Even historic buildings with a track record of over a thousand years of seemingly timeless solidity could fall on my head at any moment because – well, nothing is ever as exactly what it seems to be, is it?

I quite literally broke down the wall of my BIP and I have had to live with the consequent vertigo.  It has made for an interesting life, for sure. From that day on I have placed my faith on one thing only: Gershwin's Law – It ain't necessarily so . . . Could this be any help to anyone else? Who knows, but as an afterthought I did end up lecturing in University and the one thing I really wanted my students to grasp no matter what course I was teaching them was to keep singing Gershwin's Law in the back of their minds. I think it helps.
 

It may be best to simply drop this discussion then... generally speaking that seems to end these kinds of shitstorms. I agree with Cram, I've never seen the OP of a thread like this 'win' whatever 'win' may mean.

Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail, there's only make. John Cage

    so what are you making today . . .

Looks like the Daily Mail and Sun and the rest finally got what they were asking for.

Here's your war on crime, suckers.  Its all fun and games until your little Johnny is put through simulated drowning by corrupt cops in order to make him confess to things he didn't do, right?

I spit on the inhabitants of this country.

reckless waste of saliva ITT

[learn that its already happening]

Oh holy fuck.


Yeah, Rog nailed that one.

We'll have it here learn that its already happening in the states by this time next year, at the outside.

I mean the list Skieth asked for.

. . . no need to be so defensive - I'm not trying to troll you. I've got to say though grinning about the very idea of essential discordian reading has much enlivened an afternoon otherwise memorable only for dusting vacuuming and mislaying one of my dogs

you didnt know about the links posted by Fomenter and Cain, and also not heard about Schopenhauers Art of Controversy, and you're trying to write an article about fallacies?

I really would suggest you read the Art of Controversy. It's not very long, rather entertaining (IMO) and pretty useful.

Actually I will add it to that "essential discordian reading" list.

" essential discordian reading " - now that's funny . . .

See, I'm familiar with this "Natural Law" movement:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Law_Party

I actually voted Natural Law in one election. Kinda like spoiling your ballot paper but the giggle you get is better

Yeah, science allows for god as long as you can fit god to science and not the other way around.

WTF - surely science doesn't disallow god because he is an historical myth and therefore totally outside its field of interest and scope of competence?

in that case I would KILL for that meal

MMIX
had bread and butter for lunch, it was nice bread and butter but, hot damn, sheep and couscous . . .  drools