Principia Discordia

1.   If there were robots disguised as people in our midst, you probably wouldn't realize it. Some of the people around you right now might even be robots!

2.   Benjamin Franklin, one of America,Äôs greatest presidents, wanted the national bird to be a turkey, not an eagle.

3.   Robots masquerading as human beings would have some idiosyncrasies which would allow us to distinguish them from human beings.

4.   If there were a LOT of robots in our midst, the idiosyncrasies would seem common, and thereby undetectable.

5.   In the same way that fashions catch on, some human beings would also display these robot quirks, thinking that they were normal behaviors.

6.   Item number 19 is a complete lie.

7.   Aliens who visit our planet might have trouble figuring out with whom they should make contact. They might ignore us completely! Instead, they might want to talk to important things like our cars, our corporations, or our internets.

8.   People who litter public spaces with their garbage are self-important pricks!

9.   People who lived on this planet a few hundred years age were antiquated and primitive because they believed in things like the sun moving around the earth, witchcraft, numerology, and that their outdated religion was the one true religion.

10.   If aliens visiting our planet looked like humans from the 1980s, all that crap would immediately come back in style as we tried to impress our guests. 1980s style would retroactively no longer be considered ,Äòretro,Äô, but ahead of its time.

11.   People who fill public spaces with their ideas are committing ideological litter!

12.   There are a group of human beings (?) who worship the recently named planetoid called Eris. They think that God is a crazy woman. Their evidence is that everything seems to be really really crazy all the time. That checks out, right?

13.   As a culture, we should be preparing for the Next Big Thing. Where do you think it's gonna come from, and what do you think it's going to be?

14.   The crazy Eris-worshippers mentioned above, called Discordians, are convinced that there are a lot of cabbages in our midst, masquerading as humans.

15.   People who live on this planet a few hundred years from now will think us antiquated and primitive for believing in things like atoms, electrons, gravity, and that any religion is the one true religion.

16.   Rather than trying to identify the cabbages, which are plentiful, Discordians try to identify the real human beings, which are increasingly rare.

17.   Human beings have some idiosyncrasies which distinguishes them from cabbages.

18.   If there were a LOT of cabbages in our midst, human idiosyncrasies would seem uncommon, weird, or strange. Some human beings would avoid displaying these quirks, thinking that they were abnormal behaviors.

19.   Item number 6 is absolutely true.

20.   One important human idiosyncrasy is the ability to think for oneself. Human beings can come up with new ideas, make their own decisions, and form their own opinions.

21.   Cabbages cannot do these things, so they borrow ideas, decisions, and opinions from the consensus. They,Äôre hard to identify because they sound just like everybody else.

22.   If the US Constitution does not permit people to make their own decisions about their lives, it,Äôs not worth the hemp it was written on.

23.   Even though this is all complete garbage, at least it killed some time, right?

motherfking MITTENS :mittens:

this is awesome

also, i want MOAR :-D

i love the way you intertwined several lines of reasoning, i think it helps avoid people getting their defenses up. at least, when i hear somebody begin stating a lot of little simple "facts", i expect him to be building up to some larger statement/conclusion, and one that i might not agree with, so i get increasingly nitpicky about the little facts. he intertwining sort of helps conceal this.
(compare with schopenhauer #4 (http://coolhaus.de/art-of-controversy/erist04.htm), #7 (http://coolhaus.de/art-of-controversy/erist07.htm), #9 (http://coolhaus.de/art-of-controversy/erist09.htm))

i need at least two more Things, because if i'm going to print this out, i'm leaving out 2. and 22., because over here nobody cares about Benjamin Franklin or the US Constitution :)

I've formatted it into a pamphlet, for ease of distribution.

Download it here. (http://www.4shared.com/file/14206779/326e60c9/23_Things_to_amuse_yourself_while_you_wait_pamphlet.html)

Can someone suggest some more art or clipart or what-have-you to spice up the interior / back panel?



EDIT: added a graphic, some general cleanup and rewording.

Robot conspiracy theory! New meme just occurred to me expanding on robot thing mentioned here. This has considerable potential for a parody conspiracy theory.

Outline Sketch:

Robots are synthesised at subatomic level so, by present day science* are undetectable.

Robots behave very similarly to real humans but have a much more limited range of cognitive responses. Robots behave in a very obvious 'automaton' fashion.

Estimated levels of infiltration range from one in every hundred million robots per human to one in every hundred million humans per robot

Robot origin (if existent) = unknown

Robot agenda (if any) = unknown

Threat posed by Robots + Agenda = inestimable

* implicit = robots are from the future


Anyone want to join me in a paranoid crusade to stir up bladerunneresque hysteria?

ZOMG I ALWAYS KNEW THIS WAS HAPPENING

HOW DO I KNOW YOUR NO ROBOT????

also, hasn't this already been done with lizard people and praying mantis peopple and aliens and and ? how did those crackpots do? ;-)

Yeah, I wanted to try a different spin. The traditional Discordian take is that people tend to be boring, so be different. I'd like to suggest that people are the interesting ones, its just that the robots are in the majority.

(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/discordman/wc221.gif)

My OBNOXIOUS JERK CABAL occasionally goes out in public in silly outfits to hand out pamphlet and flyers. One of our guidelines is to say something unrelated to the flyer to the people we're handing it to. 'Robots are among us' is a personal favorite.

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/Robotsfromthefuture.jpg)

aaaand that's going on the wall of my cube.

and I like where this is going

Quote from: Professor Cramulus on April 16, 2007, 05:01:01 PM

23 Things to Amuse Yourself While You Wait:

9.   People who lived on this planet a few hundred years age (ago) were antiquated and primitive because they believed in things like the sun moving around the earth, witchcraft, numerology, and that their outdated religion was the one true religion.

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(http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g115/vexati0n/robots.png)

*vigorously rubbing nipples*

omg this thread just keeps getting SEXIER

Quote from: Professor Cramulus on April 16, 2007, 05:25:27 PM
I've formatted it into a pamphlet, for ease of distribution.

Download it here. (http://www.4shared.com/file/14206779/326e60c9/23_Things_to_amuse_yourself_while_you_wait_pamphlet.html)

Can someone suggest some more art or clipart or what-have-you to spice up the interior / back panel?



EDIT: added a graphic, some general cleanup and rewording.

Downloaded, printed and folded for easy distribution to commence as soon as I leave this building.   8)

(http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/5839/catrobotpj3.jpg) (http://www.hiren.info/funstuff/funny-video-clips/boy-like-a-robot)

This is exactly the sort of thing we need.

EXACTLY.

Mittens to Cramulus, and the think-tank of imprisoned supergeniuses he seems to have locked in his rec room.

i agree, this is the the funnest b.i.p. bandwagon i've jumped on.

Page 2 (forgot about vex's)

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/RFTFstrip1.jpg)

That robot thing reminds me of an elementary school trauma I had.

What if you are mentally handicapped and visiting an integration class, but no one told you? So you just believe you,Äôre like the other kids. Would you be able to figure it out? Would at some point your parents say you,Äôre old enough now and explain to you that you,Äôre complete nuts?

I never came to any conclusion and thus decided to forget about the thought.

Quote from: SillyCybin on April 20, 2007, 09:06:18 PM
Page 2 (forgot about vex's)

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/RFTFstrip1.jpg)

:mittens:

(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/RFTFstrip2.jpg)

THESE would be cute in the magazine.  Just saying.

Great work, SC.

I agree.  We have to have a comic section. 

Yeah dude these keep kicking ass! I love the trippy happy faces


nitpick: spellcheck the word Excellent, last bubble

'Excelliant' chosen from a whole host of other possibilities to help signify alien language, subtly diferent from our own.

ah I see. It looks like a typo because its the only misspelling I caught. Might want to play it up a bit more.

Wouldn't it be funny if aliens arrived and they spoke in l33t or Tubular Surfer Dudespeak?

(http://freepatriot.com/imagewarehouse/sexy-alf.jpg)

By the way this comic is intended as a precursor to the lLollercaust manifesto. (kinda half finished) which I'll prolly work into the same format. I'm kinda hesitant about doing this, since it's somebody elses idea but, since I never heard anything about it other than the name I figure - What the hell - I like the word. It inspires a kinda mood in me that's fun to explore. I added the silent 'l' just so you know it's Cybin lLollercaust (think Crowleys Magique) and came up with this shit...

Welcome to the lollercaust, it's the last thing you'll ever laugh at. Everything after this will be a anticlimax, somewhere between a smile and a chortle but make no mistake the belly laugh starts now. Right now our evil minions are drunk behind the wheel of an information processing technology capable or processing fuck only knows how many million or trillion pieces of information per second and none of you bastards are making it out of here alive.

Right now we got an army of trained monkeys, ready to go up against any superpower, dictatorship, bananna republic and civilian population center that takes our fancy. And guess what? This aint no ransom note - our tubes have been fired up, the trucks loaded and this shit is coming your way in t-minus. Listen out for the sirens. When you hear the air attack warning, closely followed by the savage hooting of a million fully armed, fully trained and fully psychotic simians do not prepare to survive. Do whatever it is you feel like doing with the last couple of minutes of your life cos this is it, buddy. It's the end of the fucking world!

The guns are locked, loaded and aimed, guns so big you could ride an elephant along them, full off bullets to match - bullets that'll take out an area the size of a small country, in the blink of an eye and lay waste to an area ten times that in no more than a couple of weeks. There's a button that sets the whole thing off. It's a great big red flashing one, with a glass cover just like you see in the movies. The glass cover is locked and tamperproof but, here's the punchline - the button presses itself.

"Who the fuck would build such a machine?", you're probably wondering.

"Who are resonsible?"

The answer is simple

God are.

God have become aware that there are robots, disguised as humans, living amongst humans.

God are instigating the lLollercaust in order to expose the robots.

The lLollercaust will make all real people die laughing.

Only the robots will survive.

Those who are still alive after the lLollercaust will be punished by God's wraths.

A few scattered thoughts:

• Llollercaust reminds me of my old Spanish teacher saying TWO Ls LIKE A Y over and over again... like Yoyercaust. Mm, that's fun to pronounce. Maybe  Lawyercaust


• I'd play down the "this is going to make you laugh" angle, which personally makes me go "oh yeah??"


• robot infiltration is a great theme. I have a rant about how the Robot Revolution is going to be the sexxxiest revolution since Women's Lib. I should really pen that down.


• Tangent: I'd love to see more satire on the spelling of Magic with a K. Like a pamphlet advising Wiccans to start spelling it Wikkans or something, to differentiate their true paganism from the pop-pagan fad. Payghanism. Bhroomstix. Blessetbee.

Its spelt "Wykkans".  Because i is a letter of male oppression.

:mittens: for Silly!  Great work!  Keep up the lulz!

Quote from: Cain on April 27, 2007, 06:51:02 PM
Its spelt "Wykkans".  Because i is a letter of male oppression.

Oh hell yes it is!  I mean, it looks like a spurting penis and everything! :P

Quote from: DJRubberducky on May 01, 2007, 02:53:14 PM

Quote from: Cain on April 27, 2007, 06:51:02 PM
Its spelt "Wykkans".  Because i is a letter of male oppression.

Oh hell yes it is!  I mean, it looks like a spurting penis and everything! :P

:lulz: Freud woulda had a fucking field day with you

I give this thread


a  :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: :lulz: out of 5.

Propose all other threads are modded to look just like this one  :mrgreen: