ATTENTION, DISCORDIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD!
Hello! For those who don't remember I am Peterson, a discordian from Brazil. We were in a chat room yesterday and had an idea: why don't we create the first discordian olimpic games? It would be a competition, but not about sports - it's all about MINDFUCKS!!
The idea - for now - is to have a worldwide competition by city: a group (or even an individual) representing the city where it lives. The competition would have categories - like the ancient game "sink", a mindfuck involving music, whatever - and there's a new system to define the winner (if there's meant to be one).
The system works like this: There is a group in A city, a group in B city and a group living at city C. Then the A group does a mindfuck - and of course, provides a way to prove it, like photos or videos - and then the other competitors check it out. Then the B group does another thing - but although they were good, in order for a mindfuck to actually win, it has to be FUCKING GOOD - let's suppose C group does something REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEALLY fantastic. What is considered to be really fantastic? That one thing which makes A and B look and think "ok, I admit: C group won" - that's the spirit: when all the competitors agree that one group won the competition, it has won the competition.
The date thought to be the start of everything would be October 20th - this is because this day is actually the 1st of Aftermath, and that's why the name - right now, but that could also change if we have a really really nicer idea - is The Aftermath Games + it's variations, so we get to celebrate the end of Bureucracy. But hey, what do I mean by "variations?" - I mean that the name is changeable to anything that resembles it - and in any other language, like The Aftermath Tournament, Jogos da Pós-Matemática or The Pós-Математика Games!
All of this is a brainstorm: nothing is really concrete and we'd like to know if you are excited about this; we still have to have ideas about the categories and stuff, but that's quite an skeleton, innit?
OH YES, and that's IMPORTANT: Everyone is invited. Many of us are discordians so we hanged around the mithology but everybody can get in the ride. Subgenii, shimonians, it doesn't matter at all - no limits to fun =)
So, what do you think?
Also important: for those who have twitter, I'm posting about this with the #aftermath tag =)
Would you mind if I eat it?
Go! :)
I'm intrigued by this idea. Only problem is that I'm the only Discordian within a 100 mile radius. Will individuals be allowed to compete?
Also, #aftermath is too common to be able to follow on Twitter. Try picking a less common name or make something new up. Acronyms work really well too.
He seems like such a happy enthusiastic chap, this Peterson fellow. :mrgreen:
we should figure out a way to do discordian olympics online... task footage, voting.
better to use the ice skating scores for teh votage.
Relatable:
http://www.aws-om.com/forum/index.php
Poor bastard has yet to discover that people who spend a lot of time on the internet are unwilling to make a lot of irl effort.
Quote from: Iason Ouabache on August 07, 2009, 02:48:29 AM
I'm intrigued by this idea. Only problem is that I'm the only Discordian within a 100 mile radius. Will individuals be allowed to compete?
Also, #aftermath is too common to be able to follow on Twitter. Try picking a less common name or make something new up. Acronyms work really well too.
Discordian individuals SHOULD compete! :)
We think #aftermath is strange enough. You're going to see a lot of german weird tweets with that tag, and we think people ARE in the game, they just didn't realize it yet!
In the meanwhile, you can use the name you want, as Peterson said.
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 05:15:08 AM
Poor bastard has yet to discover that people who spend a lot of time on the internet are unwilling to make a lot of irl effort.
It's quite sad that you think like that...
Quote from: dudektria on August 07, 2009, 12:37:32 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 05:15:08 AM
Poor bastard has yet to discover that people who spend a lot of time on the internet are unwilling to make a lot of irl effort.
It's quite sad that you think like that...
It's quite sad that it's the truth.
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 04:57:17 PM
Quote from: dudektria on August 07, 2009, 12:37:32 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 05:15:08 AM
Poor bastard has yet to discover that people who spend a lot of time on the internet are unwilling to make a lot of irl effort.
It's quite sad that you think like that...
It's quite sad that it's the truth.
Since when there is such a thing as THE truth? =)
Yes, individuals are invited, anyone is invited to play - play as they can. We (I believe most of us) have, unfortunately, other things to do which take us time, we cannot dedicate ourselves entirely to this like people who play sports in the olimpics, but we have weekends and free times and holidays and stuff, so we can still have some fun =D
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 04:57:17 PM
Quote from: dudektria on August 07, 2009, 12:37:32 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 05:15:08 AM
Poor bastard has yet to discover that people who spend a lot of time on the internet are unwilling to make a lot of irl effort.
It's quite sad that you think like that...
It's quite sad that it's the truth.
Maybe things are different in Brazil...?
Maybe!
Also it's olympics not olimpics just FYI.
Maybe things are different in Brazil...?
This is not a Portugese message board.
But if it was, just think of all the gorgous Brazilian asses that would post here!
What the fuck is a gorgous!!!!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_759kw4tdeUI/SNUyuAQY2zI/AAAAAAAAASY/hz519YgpO_Q/s320/Speak%2BEnglish%2Bor%2BDie.jpg)
Go to Brazil and find out.
I always wanted to hike the Appalachian Trail.
Argentina =/= Brazil!
:argh!:
Okay fine, the Ozark Mountains. Picky, Picky!
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 08:13:30 PM
This is not a Portugese message board.
Or even a Portuguese one.
Yeah I was crying over my misspelling, not your pointing out of it.
It had some meta-lol.
Sorry for the misspelling too - olympics =)
Quote from: Peterson Spaceport on August 08, 2009, 05:43:47 AM
Sorry for the misspelling too - olympics =)
I'll forgive you what with being so god damn perky and English not being your first language.
I once worked with a Very Hawt Brazilian lad named Pedro, He was also quite sunny of disposition, a really nice guy. And his ass looked good in his work uniform (unflattering on 99% of our staff .. so a major achievement) dude was a joy to work with.
mmm Pedro's arse....
OLÁ!!!!!!!! or something. i dunno.
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 08:13:30 PM
This is not a Portugese message board.
And it's "portuguese", not "portugese" , just FYI :)
C'mon, let's party! Take it easy, have fun! We're just trying to invite some folks & stuff, do you know what I mean! Let's have fun!
yes! fun!
ok what I just wanted to mention, what we learned from the AWS:OM project, which was also a competitive game with the participants divided up into teams, and they had to create fake news stories for disinformation and spread them:
before the game started, we had a few test runs with all the participants, I think we all worked together, brainstormed some and somehow created 3 fake news stories, injected them into the blogosphere, and 2 of them were successfully picked up by other media and created more buzz, you could even say one of them went viral! (what the third, failed story was I forget :) )
anyway, so that was a huge success.
after that, we divided into teams, and got brainstorming on how to spread disinfo.
that was when everything broke up, there were not enough "leaders" to draw the teams, and nothing much really happened anymore.
so, in that respect, even though I like the idea of discordian olympics, if you want a project like this to be a big international success, maybe it's got a better chance if you make it cooperative, rather than competitive.
that's my idea.
Humm Yeah, I got your point, but I think there're a few differences between the two projects;
First, the teams are naturally divided: each one represents its city, and there's a thing that happens here (at least) which is: if you find a discordian in your city, then it's fun to meet and hang out, so usually people know the others nearby, which makes the part of teaming up less complicated.
Also, the fact that Rio de Janeiro team or Sao Paulo team may have more people than my city or others such as Salvador, Vitória, putyourcityhere doesn't necessarily mean disadvantage. Sometimes they don't find much time to do things, and also a good idea doesn't need a big group to breed.
Furthermore, we don't mean this to be public, hit the media or anything; for us it'll be a great success if lots of people come in and play - and international if lots of people from different countries come and play EAHeahaeHaehae =)
I'm pretty sure my girlfriend and I are the only two Discordians in Yonkers. But I might be wrong. Still though, we'll be happy to compete with your hot brazillian asses.
Quote from: dudektria on August 09, 2009, 02:04:07 AM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 08:13:30 PM
This is not a Portugese message board.
And it's "portuguese", not "portugese" , just FYI :)
Actually it's Portuguese.
Quote from: Cramulus on August 10, 2009, 07:42:29 PM
I'm pretty sure my girlfriend and I are the only two Discordians in Yonkers. But I might be wrong. Still though, we'll be happy to compete with your hot brazillian asses.
Actually it's Brazilian.
Quote from: ✡ Rabbi ✡ Fred ✡ on August 10, 2009, 09:14:28 PM
Quote from: General Stuart on August 10, 2009, 08:45:51 PM
Quote from: dudektria on August 09, 2009, 02:04:07 AM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 08:13:30 PM
This is not a Portugese message board.
And it's "portuguese", not "portugese" , just FYI :)
Actually it's Portuguese.
AKTUALLY ITS PORTUGUÊS :gheyforum:
AKTUALLY ITS AKTUWALLY
Quote from: ☠ Suu ☠ on August 10, 2009, 09:19:43 PM
Quote from: ✡ Rabbi ✡ Fred ✡ on August 10, 2009, 09:14:28 PM
Quote from: General Stuart on August 10, 2009, 08:45:51 PM
Quote from: dudektria on August 09, 2009, 02:04:07 AM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 08:13:30 PM
This is not a Portugese message board.
And it's "portuguese", not "portugese" , just FYI :)
Actually it's Portuguese.
AKTUALLY ITS PORTUGUÊS :gheyforum:
AKTUALLY ITS AKTUWALLY
AKTUSKWANLLAY ITS LIEK UR MOM
ACTUATLAYTLAWEYTAL;WEITYHA'WLEGHALGHA
Will there be synchronized jaking?
Quote from: ✡ Rabbi ✡ Fred ✡ on August 10, 2009, 09:21:46 PM
Quote from: ☠ Suu ☠ on August 10, 2009, 09:19:43 PM
Quote from: ✡ Rabbi ✡ Fred ✡ on August 10, 2009, 09:14:28 PM
Quote from: General Stuart on August 10, 2009, 08:45:51 PM
Quote from: dudektria on August 09, 2009, 02:04:07 AM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 08:13:30 PM
This is not a Portugese message board.
And it's "portuguese", not "portugese" , just FYI :)
Actually it's Portuguese.
AKTUALLY ITS PORTUGUÊS :gheyforum:
AKTUALLY ITS AKTUWALLY
AKTUSKWANLLAY ITS LIEK UR MOM
NO YUO
erm.. its monday.
I like the idea, though as pointed out earlier people are lazy, plus they may not have a lot of time at some points, so having a big time frame would be good. I think I may need to recruit some people.
I love the Brazilian Discordians.
I even wrote some rants for them that Peterson translated.
TIA.
Also I don't know of any discordians in my city.
Hell, I only know of four others in the Netherlands, Regret, Agrippa, Lady Purpleris and a friend of mine that lives kinda far away.
Although there were about 20 people on the Dutch Discordian Hyves group (like a facebook group) last time I checked. I should see if any of them live near me, funny I never got the idea to check that :)
Also, Regret, we should pimp that hyves group! It is boring and fail and we should fill it with goodies and bring the funk. Or hell, perhaps even start a Dutch discordian forum? I know some more cool people that might be interested, even though they wouldnt call themselves discordian, much.
Hyves itself is so incredibly fail holding discussions there is going to annoy me to no end. I think the best thing we can do for the Discordian hyves is to just fill it with (perhaps translations of) essays, rants, links to poster PDFs, Intermittens and all that. Most of that shit eventually leads to PD.com anyway :)
(PS if you reply to this, quote it in a new thread I don't wanna jack the Olympic Games)
Does anyone know other discordian forums and/or "places to interact with discordians" in other languages, such as italian, french, german, spanish, russian ones?
not sure about other languages, but I've compiled a list of Discordian websites and communities here:
http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/Discordian_Websites_and_Communities
Quote from: Cramulus on August 11, 2009, 08:42:51 PM
not sure about other languages, but I've compiled a list of Discordian websites and communities here:
http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/Discordian_Websites_and_Communities
Thanks, I'll have a look =)
found some more:
http://hot-dog.dyskordia.org/linki_en.html
Hello! I'm back!
Meanwhile I've created a blog about #aftermath. It's in portuguese, but you can access it here:
http://jogos.deliriocoletivo.org/
In this particular post we're organising ideas for categories and etc:
http://jogos.deliriocoletivo.org/2009/08/16/olimpiadas-de-pos-matematica-quando-o-que-cuma/
I'm going to translate the ideas so far, and if you have anything to say just post it here and I will translate there =) Orr, if you want to, you can comment directly there.
The date:
Starting at Aftermath 1st and ending at Aftermath 50th
Basic System of Competition:
1) Mindfuck is done and documented using Photos or Videos - except in specific cases listed below.
2) The blog is notified about the mf with links to its content in Youtube, vimeo, flickr, picasa, whatever.
3) A post is created about it and
4) The winner in a category is that one which causes enough impact to win by unanimity.
Categories:
Classic Mindfuck - plain simple uncategorized mindfuck
Auto-Mindfuck (or should I say Self-Mindfuck?)
Artistic Mindfuck - involving art in some way
Politics Mindfuck - involving politics
Religious Mindfuck - about mainstream religions
Unreligious Mindfuck - about underground religions, like ours! =)
Cacophony Mindfuck - a cacophony gathering
Psychogeography Mindfuck - a story about a "psyhogeographistic" - definition of psychogeography: the art of getting lost in a city or urban area by wandering around & trying to find out new places, choosing which way to go based on intuition and feelings.
Happy Something Day - Invent something unusual to celebrate on a day and celebrate it.
These categories are special ones because have specific criteria to determine the winner:
Hoaxes - (idea inspired by this PDforum thread, btw) create and disseminate a hoax. The most famous wins (and yes, there is already talks about this being an exception; we could make this collaborative and create a crossing-borders hoax)
Sink - The biggest thing to be sinked
23 #1 - The biggest quantity of 23's in a single photo.
23 #x - The largest collection of photos including the number 23
Puns - the biggest quantity of 'newish' puns
Sign In the Petition! - Try and convince people (not by the internet, however! Real signatures!) to sign in agreeing on something absurd. The winner is the one who has more signatures.
Any other idea? Any idea to further improve those? =)
Ha! I really like those ideas! Nice work :D
i dont think theres a chance on competing with
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=12170.0
on the pun category.
¿perhaps start some sort of "Guinness Mook of Records" for special cases like these?
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 04:57:17 PM
Quote from: dudektria on August 07, 2009, 12:37:32 PM
Quote from: BADGE OF HONOR on August 07, 2009, 05:15:08 AM
Poor bastard has yet to discover that people who spend a lot of time on the internet are unwilling to make a lot of irl effort.
It's quite sad that you think like that...
It's quite sad that it's the truth.
If it's true for budgie of honor, it's true for EVERYONE.
I think this is a great idea, pinealism notwithstanding.
We've created a weird notalwaysworking twitter bot in order to monopolize the #aftermath tag on Twitter (yeah, we're quite mad :P). Come on check it here: http://twitter.com/aftermathbot
So, if you tweet the #aftermath tag, you're gonna be retweeted (and maybe your soul will be lost forever, that's a possibility).
That ship sailed a long time ago. I live in Maine afterall.
let the games begin ???????????? i think its cool i can compete whit al the discordians in holland
about 40 i now of
than we also need antums .
and colors and so on.....................
Quote from: countess on September 11, 2009, 12:05:13 PM
let the games begin ???????????? i think its cool i can compete whit al the discordians in holland
about 40 i now of
than we also need antums .
and colors and so on.....................
Hey, if you're a discordian in Dutchspaglandistan (Holland), you should get in touch with Triple Zero, especially if you know 40 others.
Trip was talking about this when he visited Edinburgh last month, saying he wishes there was more of a viable network in Europe, especially Holland.
I think she got here from following my tweet about http://bit.ly/discolympics
As for an anthem, I dunno, the Wilhelmus is maybe a bit boring, I think we should pick http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuZ59CUBkwY because it shows our wonderful Dutch values, and the power of our RAGE which helps for running the fear into those Americans!
Our colour will be orange, though. Like the carrots. It is already associated with the Netherlands and it is also one of my favourite colours.
Hi!
as Aftermath 1st approaches, there's still one thing left to consider: how could we possibly do some kind of opening ceremony? We could hold parties around the world (here in the south of Brazil we have a Oktoberfest as well and we're planning on going there) or we could have any other idea.. For example, we could light up some flares (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flare_%28pyrotechnic%29) at the same time.. Well, I don't know, we need ideas =)
Also, I've translated the post about the inner workings of the games:
http://jogos.deliriocoletivo.org/2009/09/18/aftermath-explanations-and-categories-english-version/
I'm also notifying them (http://discordia.inchaos.org/) and them (http://dyskordia.org/contact.php) about it =)
Hey hey hey!!
The guys from Bulgaria answered the message - twice - and they said:
QuoteSounds fun. I'll try to get some bulgarians in it :)
Later:
QuoteUhm, by-the-way, I maintain the bulgarian site, but currently I live in Denmark. Do I need to contact some fellow flappers from Denmark, or just go flap with the other bulgarian dude (or two, or free maybe, hope to find five)
So we'll perhaps have bulgarian and danish people playing!! =D
TELL THE BULGARIANS TO DO SOMETHING WITH THEIR AWESOME DISCORDIA TRUCKS OR ELSE :argh!:
http://www.discordia.bg
It may sound odd and mysterious, but I haven't seen those trucks yet in Bulgaria. I've seen a non-dog-pooping sign in Denmark, though
(http://195.149.248.189:8080/2009-09-22/87e88e63c337bc22005a9cd212ab47b1_120x90.jpg)
I saw one on the German autobahn once. It was big and yellow with purple lettering. It freaked me the fuck out.
According to their site they called themselves that because they split off (schismed?) from another big transport company cause they thought they could do things better their own way.
Anyway, if you live in bulgaria, DO something with it!
HEAhAEHAEhAE lol! They could sink one AEHAEHEAHeaheA
I wanna sink an UFO :aww:
This shit starts NOW! GO!
Hi all!!
As you all have noticed if you keep up with the discordian calendar, the #aftermath has begun. I've made up two videos calling out for action - obviously doing them is most for fun, because they don't *actually* make you wanna act, and I don't know if I have the imagination or cinematographic resources to do so in a video, but anyway, here they are:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7JAR3RJGGM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASsb441o888
(The first video says in the end "First Aftermath Tournament", and then "from Aftermath 1 to 50"; "It was just a paper boat. What will you sink?". The second is a bit ambiguous in translation and might mean "It's about time!" as well as "It has already begun!". I actually meant slighty more the second interpretation. Also, the second clock in the video is a saint-discordian clock, in which the day has 10 hours instead of 24. I believe I've posted this here, haven't I?)
But I believe that perhaps what is needed is an actual first mindfuck to start off. Well, there is one too!!!!! It comes from a city in the south of Brazil called Florianópolis (I understand this is potentially complex to pronounce if you're not a Portuguese-speaking person; the city is widely known as Floripa, which sounds a bit better I guess) - and this is the city I live in. There were three of us in the streets and our intentions were actually very different in terms of what to do; but not to worry, we'll keep on trying to do better things in days to come...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxfHa2l-vmw
In this video, I show photographs of some things we did in a big supermarket (the title of the video is "Fun in the Supermarket") and when I mean big please think proportionally; Floripa is not even half the size of São Paulo, which probably is not half the size of New York or something.. Lucifer certified "The Secret" book (and told the buyer "see you soon"). And in the video bit, I've declared Rev. Schneider Knight of Avignon (which is a micronation Rev. Beraldo created when he declared his apartment independence from Brazil) in presence of the glorious.. Max Steel knights. Also, the message with the blue dog (Alysson), which is not readable in the video, said "Alysson is a dog in seek of freedom. Can you help him?" - he was actually among boxes of policemen toy.
It is also important to note we're not suppose to take photos inside the supermarket. Or record videos. Or do anything besides buying, I guess...
BUMP cos this guy emailed me and imma harass him in Brazil.