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could it be that these chaotic elements of human interaction have their basis in the chaotic elements of mathematics?


hard fast numbers can be seen as a fallacy or inconsistency in and of themselves

yeah I don't think so. Math and numbers are man-made.

Of course the thing about fractals is that things up close look just like things far away. If you understand how monkeys mate, you basically understand how humans mate. The patterns found in real life are also found in mathematics, but I don't think one arose from the other.

the practicality of SAT scores is debatable


toss those same kids in a steel cage match and the outcome might be different

But how should I raise my kid if I want him to win the Nobel prize AND wrestle bears? 

Yeah, I'm going there.

The Pineal Gland is a little pea-sized thing deep inside your brain. Until the 1960s, nobody really knew what it was for.

Descartes (who was doing his damnedest to connect the mind and the body) called this mysterious gland the "seat of the soul". This is why the Pineal Gland is sometimes compared to a gospel choir singer's butt. Get up off your pineal gland and SING - for grand old Discordja!

The pineal gland is associated with the sixth chakra, Ajna, also known as the third eye. The third eye is open to dreams and imagination, but not the physical world. Some people think that if you wake up your pineal gland, you can learn ~telepathy~. Some people believe that a hemaphrodite deity named Ardhanarishvara (bless you!) lives there. This is supposed to symbolize the unity of subject and object, of self and the world, of this and thou and that. But Discordians know that Ardhanarishvara is actually just a bisexual Eris Discordja. Get nasty with that hottie, Discordja!

The Pineal Gland produces melatonin, a juice which gets you into the circadian rhythm. You activate yourself during the daytime and slow yourself down during the nighttime because the deity that lives there is trying to balance you out. Trying to make personal sense out of these cycles. (That's imposing a grid of order on chaos, ya dig?) Most people have a lopsided pineal gland, which is unfortunate, because it means they're never really in the Now, they're tipped towards some other part of the rhythm. Maybe they're waiting for the good part of the song? But they're missing this part!

But when you get in synch with the rhythm, that seat of the soul rhythm, you're gonna be overcome by the music of ERIS. you're gonna snap your fingers to the gospel of ERIS. You're gonna throw your hands up in the air and PRAISE ERIS. You're gonna yell TESTIFY and HAIL ERIS and ALL HAIL DISCORDJA.

Because the new day is coming - the new wave is coming - the revolution is coming and it's not against anybody.  If anybody, it's against who you were and for who you will be. They've got us conned into thinking that a revolution is a fight, and can you win or lose or chicken out. But it's not a battle, it's a change. And it doesn't end in victory or defeat - if the revolution succeeds, it doesn't end at all.

The revolution isn't against, it's for. It's for you, and it's for me, and it's for all of us all singing gospel and it sounds like a mess because we never practice and we never harmonize. But it's a great mess like John Coltrane would make, like ad lib would make, like improv would make. Like Eris Discordja is snapping her fingers with the rhythm and she says take what you like, leave what you don't. Be who you are, and be who you're not. Take her lead, because you're gonna be Eris and she's gonna be you. And All Hail Eris, 'cause she Hails You Too.

 

Vive la Revolution!

quick factoid from a Psychology of Education class I took:

Kids who were spanked score significantly lower on the SATs than kids who were never spanked.

It has something to offer, true.  The key is packaging.  I think the basic concepts would be very appealing to a young person, especially one who's feeling he/she's losing their way, or drowning in their community or society.  At the same time, a kid isn't going to want to look too geeky, thus the packaging comment.  Kids still want to impress other kids, especially the opposite gender.  Kind of hard to do if you are seen as the Wizard of Wierd. 

suggestion:

I vote for option three, with the caveat that it's not necessary to destroy everything we have in order to build anew. We can evolve without starting from scratch. That shared history, those tired old memes, those ancient in-jokes, they're part of us and our tumultuous identity.

Yeah, we're gonna have to grow up past the 60s, past the PD, past Wilson, past the Black Iron Prison eventually, but I'm gonna keep my feet planted right here - worshiping Eris.


Call me crazy, but I want to see a popular Discordia. I want it to be a choice that average shmuck's actually heard of. And when it gets all full and sick with bobbies I'll be the first one to assassinate the polyfather, but right now we're so far out on the lunatic fringe you only meet other Discordians at crazy pagan festivals and that's neither my venue nor my type.

Cause I do think Discordia has something to offer to today's youth. There's a growing culture of bored, apathetic, restless kids who are fascinated by rebellion but don't know how or why, they just keep ducking and covering behind rebel memes like fashion and "counterculture", whatever that is.

is he really an emo-tard?

yeah. All the drama kids were.

Only if it's free.

that guy went to my high school btw

They can be viewed with CDisplay, a small program used to view comic books. You can download a copy here.

Glad you're digging it! That makes it worth it that I almost threw my monitor out a window while trying to upload all this stuff.

[Batman: Hush]

Nope - but if anyone's interested, I do have

*Batman: Hush - in which batman fights superman, among other people.

*Frank Miller's 300 - very short - only like 5 issues I think.

& a few others, but I'm at work right now and don't have access to my harddrivez

Okay - opinion poll
I'm borrowing both The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep right now. Which do you think I should read first?

I dug Prometheus Rising as well. I'd been listening to a lot of Wilson's mp3s about the 8-circuit model and Prometheus summed it up very well. But to compare it with Illuminatus is kind of an apples/oranges comparison since one is fiction and one is nonfiction.

I'm still looking for that damn quarter.

Incidentally, I had been a Discordian for about 6 months when I randomly picked up Illuminatus at the bookstore because I thought it had a cool cover. When it turned out to be about Discordians, I pretty much freaked out.

I just finished reading Phillip K Dick's Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, which is the first PKD I've ever read. Very enjoyable, but I'm still not comfortable with his explanation of what was really going on. Next: Do Androids Dream Electric Sheep?

I am very intrigued by the term "semantic HTML"


I'm interested to see where you're going with this. Personally, I think it might be better to look at web pages in terms of Quality, which is a union of content and style.

Don't forget bathroom graffiti. The ultimate form of communication.


"LMNO is a fag"
     "ur a fag!"
"don't be a homophobe, fag"

etc