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Principia Discordia => Or Kill Me => Topic started by: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PM

Title: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PM
It has been awhile since I came here.  But now, I realize why I left: there is no purpose.

You all talk of how sucky the world is, moaning about your lives and constantly re-itterating how terrible the world is.  You're trapped in a web of Pragmaticism, looking at the big concept of "The World" through a microscope which is your life.  You know, when I first came here, I was truly intrigued by what seemed to be a genius school of thought.

But the truth is: you're pointlessly hurting yourselves.  Popping an instinctive bubble your brain has made to make life wonderful-seeming.  But if your personal life is good, you'll find a problem in your country, or the world, or something.  Searching for another problem you can't fix just to remind everybody, you were right and Logic is all there is.

If Logic is truly all there is, you might as well kill yourself-- you'll find no solace in it, real or not.  My only real advice being: scrap everything but the pinealism and the recipes on here.  The Principia Discordia was written as a joke, as "how to escape whatever you want", not as a political dogma nor as a guide to living.  You can eat hot dogs on Fridays-- but the original concept Mal-2 was probably aiming for has been so far distorted, and it's modern-day replacement is rehashed so often on here, there's no discussion.  "This is the truth-- if you don't like it, suck it. " 

But-- Idealism and dreams are lost.  You  :horrormirth:abandon any hope for a better future, whining about how bad things are on this site which considerably few people know of.  So please.  Life is an abstract painting: stop looking for the goat you were told about.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Freeky on February 07, 2010, 11:14:37 PM
Well, what are you doing right now?



:?
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Salty on February 07, 2010, 11:14:49 PM
Quote from: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PM
It has been awhile since I came here.  But now, I realize why I left: there is no purpose.

You all talk of how sucky the world is, moaning about your lives and constantly re-itterating how terrible the world is.  You're trapped in a web of Pragmaticism, looking at the big concept of "The World" through a microscope which is your life.  You know, when I first came here, I was truly intrigued by what seemed to be a genius school of thought.

But the truth is: you're pointlessly hurting yourselves.  Popping an instinctive bubble your brain has made to make life wonderful-seeming.  But if your personal life is good, you'll find a problem in your country, or the world, or something.  Searching for another problem you can't fix just to remind everybody, you were right and Logic is all there is.

If Logic is truly all there is, you might as well kill yourself-- you'll find no solace in it, real or not.  My only real advice being: scrap everything but the pinealism and the recipes on here.  The Principia Discordia was written as a joke, as "how to escape whatever you want", not as a political dogma nor as a guide to living.  You can eat hot dogs on Fridays-- but the original concept Mal-2 was probably aiming for has been so far distorted, and it's modern-day replacement is rehashed so often on here, there's no discussion.  "This is the truth-- if you don't like it, suck it. "  

But-- Idealism and dreams are lost.  You  :horrormirth:abandon any hope for a better future, whining about how bad things are on this site which considerably few people know of.  So please.  Life is an abstract painting: stop looking for the goat you were told about.

:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

I did laugh. Thanks.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 08, 2010, 12:13:44 AM
Quote from: Joh'Nyx on February 07, 2010, 11:13:02 PM

So what do you propose we do?

Live an enjoyable life.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Salty on February 08, 2010, 12:17:55 AM
So, this is how you enjoy your life? Compartmentalizing a group of varied, angry people who have no purpose, and few people pay attention to, telling them that their ideas suck, that they should kill themselves?









:lulz:
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: NotPublished on February 08, 2010, 12:21:17 AM
 :lulz:

Doesn't stop me from enjoying life
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Eater of Clowns on February 08, 2010, 12:23:41 AM
Seems far less foolish to make mistakes about the world based on one's own life than it is to make mistakes about a "site which considerably few people know of" based on one's poor understanding of it.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Freeky on February 08, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 07, 2010, 11:14:37 PM
Well, what are you doing right now?



:?

I don't think my question is going to be answered. :lulz:
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Salty on February 08, 2010, 12:27:14 AM
I
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 08, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 07, 2010, 11:14:37 PM
Well, what are you doing right now?



:?

I don't think my question is going to be answered. :lulz:

Why would it be? It wasn't an enjoyable question. BE MORE ENJOYABLE FREEKY.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Freeky on February 08, 2010, 12:57:54 AM
Quote from: Alty on February 08, 2010, 12:27:14 AM
I
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 08, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 07, 2010, 11:14:37 PM
Well, what are you doing right now?



:?

I don't think my question is going to be answered. :lulz:

Why would it be? It wasn't an enjoyable question. BE MORE ENJOYABLE FREEKY.

I can't, I'm too busy being depressing and popping my protective happy thought bubbles and being serious! :x
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: NotPublished on February 08, 2010, 01:02:18 AM
I think we need to watch either Desperate Housewives or go out for Mexican.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Freeky on February 08, 2010, 01:04:33 AM
Fuck you, my mom died from watching Desperate Houswives and my Grandpa died from going out for Mexican!  :argh!:
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Salty on February 08, 2010, 01:05:13 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 08, 2010, 12:57:54 AM
Quote from: Alty on February 08, 2010, 12:27:14 AM
I
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 08, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 07, 2010, 11:14:37 PM
Well, what are you doing right now?



:?

I don't think my question is going to be answered. :lulz:

Why would it be? It wasn't an enjoyable question. BE MORE ENJOYABLE FREEKY.

I can't, I'm too busy being depressing and popping my protective happy thought bubbles and being serious! :x

Tsk, tsk. You should try harder Freeky, like this fellow:

*warning! don't click if you, understandably, have trouble with children in agony...Uh, I mean children failing to live an enjoyable life.*
http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab46/Altyvision/starving-child-sudan.jpg
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Freeky on February 08, 2010, 01:11:06 AM
Quote from: Alty on February 08, 2010, 01:05:13 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 08, 2010, 12:57:54 AM
Quote from: Alty on February 08, 2010, 12:27:14 AM
I
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 08, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 07, 2010, 11:14:37 PM
Well, what are you doing right now?



:?

I don't think my question is going to be answered. :lulz:

Why would it be? It wasn't an enjoyable question. BE MORE ENJOYABLE FREEKY.

I can't, I'm too busy being depressing and popping my protective happy thought bubbles and being serious! :x

Tsk, tsk. You should try harder Freeky, like this fellow:

*warning! don't click if you, understandably, have trouble with children in agony...Uh, I mean children failing to live an enjoyable life.*
http://i848.photobucket.com/albums/ab46/Altyvision/starving-child-sudan.jpg
:sad:

THIS IS APPROPRAITELY HORRIBLE FOR SRS FORUM.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Salty on February 08, 2010, 01:11:17 AM
Sorry, I felt compelled to hurt you and myself.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: NotPublished on February 08, 2010, 01:12:03 AM
LEAVE CHRIS CROCKER ALONE~!!!!
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Salty on February 08, 2010, 01:13:17 AM
Dear god! Don't let a little thing like starving children keep you from living a 24/7 Unicorn-laced Joyfest. *confetti*
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Freeky on February 08, 2010, 01:15:34 AM
Quote from: NotPublished on February 08, 2010, 01:12:03 AM
LEAVE CHRIS CROCKER ALONE~!!!!

WE CAN'T LEAVE HIM ALONE, WE MUST MAKE EVERYONE IN THE WORLD AS MISERABLE AS WE OURSELVES ARE!
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Salty on February 08, 2010, 01:15:51 AM
Stop it all of you. Start playing sink and making outlandish cookie recipes.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Salty on February 08, 2010, 01:17:22 AM
Jesus. Is everyone else as drunk as I am?
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Storebrand on February 08, 2010, 01:19:00 AM
I'm working on it.   :D
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Freeky on February 08, 2010, 01:20:16 AM
Quote from: Alty on February 08, 2010, 01:17:22 AM
Jesus. Is everyone else as drunk as I am?

I was a couple days ago.  :D
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: NotPublished on February 08, 2010, 01:21:33 AM
No, I'm being depressing .. its such joy!

And I was 2 days ago also :D
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 08, 2010, 01:45:34 AM
Quote from: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PM
It has been awhile since I came here.  But now, I realize why I left: there is no purpose.

You all talk of how sucky the world is, moaning about your lives and constantly re-itterating how terrible the world is.  You're trapped in a web of Pragmaticism, looking at the big concept of "The World" through a microscope which is your life.  You know, when I first came here, I was truly intrigued by what seemed to be a genius school of thought.

But the truth is: you're pointlessly hurting yourselves.  Popping an instinctive bubble your brain has made to make life wonderful-seeming.  But if your personal life is good, you'll find a problem in your country, or the world, or something.  Searching for another problem you can't fix just to remind everybody, you were right and Logic is all there is.

If Logic is truly all there is, you might as well kill yourself-- you'll find no solace in it, real or not.  My only real advice being: scrap everything but the pinealism and the recipes on here.  The Principia Discordia was written as a joke, as "how to escape whatever you want", not as a political dogma nor as a guide to living.  You can eat hot dogs on Fridays-- but the original concept Mal-2 was probably aiming for has been so far distorted, and it's modern-day replacement is rehashed so often on here, there's no discussion.  "This is the truth-- if you don't like it, suck it. " 

But-- Idealism and dreams are lost.  You  :horrormirth:abandon any hope for a better future, whining about how bad things are on this site which considerably few people know of.  So please.  Life is an abstract painting: stop looking for the goat you were told about.

We didn't actually ask for your advice, come to think of it.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on February 08, 2010, 02:29:11 AM
Quote from: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PM
It has been awhile since I came here.  But now, I realize why I left: there is no purpose.

You all talk of how sucky the world is, moaning about your lives and constantly re-itterating how terrible the world is.  You're trapped in a web of Pragmaticism, looking at the big concept of "The World" through a microscope which is your life.  You know, when I first came here, I was truly intrigued by what seemed to be a genius school of thought.

But the truth is: you're pointlessly hurting yourselves.  Popping an instinctive bubble your brain has made to make life wonderful-seeming.  But if your personal life is good, you'll find a problem in your country, or the world, or something.  Searching for another problem you can't fix just to remind everybody, you were right and Logic is all there is.

If Logic is truly all there is, you might as well kill yourself-- you'll find no solace in it, real or not.  My only real advice being: scrap everything but the pinealism and the recipes on here.  The Principia Discordia was written as a joke, as "how to escape whatever you want", not as a political dogma nor as a guide to living.  You can eat hot dogs on Fridays-- but the original concept Mal-2 was probably aiming for has been so far distorted, and it's modern-day replacement is rehashed so often on here, there's no discussion.  "This is the truth-- if you don't like it, suck it. "  

But-- Idealism and dreams are lost.  You  :horrormirth:abandon any hope for a better future, whining about how bad things are on this site which considerably few people know of.  So please.  Life is an abstract painting: stop looking for the goat you were told about.

If you come here and get the idea that Discordianism is about logic, then you should revisit gradeschool English classes.

I was once like you. I thought this place was full of meanspirited, washed-up, bitter old people with nothing better to do than sit at a computer and bemoan the sorry state of the world. But I was wrong, and so are you.

See, like it or not, THE WORLD IS A SHITTY PLACE. Everybody you meet, anywhere, will tell you that's true if you press them hard enough. They will always disagree on why it is shitty, and what can be done to fix it (and these disagreements are a large part of what makes the world continue to be shitty). But the simple fact that life sucks and the world is shit (and getting worse!) is probably one of the few things that all of Humanity can agree on. So in a way, here at PD, we are celebrating the accidental unity we all share as Humans.

But on a much deeper and more important level, what you find here is that people aren't just pissing themselves with dread over the next legislation that's gonna come barreling down the tracks as we are tied to them or the next great adventure in tragedy Humankind is on the brink of. We just take not of those things, talk about it over tea or whatever, and then we SCREAM with LAUGHTER.

We recognize that, although subjectively life might induce a sane person to cringe and snap, it is ultimately the most hilarious thing that has ever, ever crept across the black starscape of the Cosmos. We are incredibly lucky to witness Life, especially Humanity. For example: the way Nature strives and strives for millions of years to achieve perfection, only to end up with us... how can you not find that hilarious? And every day, the punchline grows and becomes more profound and maddening.

Most things in the universe aren't even aware of their own existence! We, on the other hand, have the opportunity not only to be aware of what is going on, but to sit back and watch it unfold. And -- and -- to actually help it along! It's an incredible gift!

So what you see as a blind, stale community full of bitter misanthropes, is actually a thriving community full of people who are overwhelmed by the sheer delight of living in this Modern Age. But, you are an asshole, so we couldn't really expect anything else. Not that we would want anything else anyway, since you're just adding to the fun.

Cheerio!
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Eater of Clowns on February 08, 2010, 02:37:55 AM
Vex, that was fucking glorious.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Freeky on February 08, 2010, 04:14:50 AM
:mittens: for vex!
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: NotPublished on February 08, 2010, 04:23:30 AM
It took me a good two reads to fully appreciate and understand what vex wrote :mittens: Very beautiful!!
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: hooplala on February 08, 2010, 06:55:27 PM
Quote from: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PM
It has been awhile since I came here.  But now, I realize why I left: there is no purpose.

You all talk of how sucky the world is, moaning about your lives and constantly re-itterating how terrible the world is.  You're trapped in a web of Pragmaticism, looking at the big concept of "The World" through a microscope which is your life.  You know, when I first came here, I was truly intrigued by what seemed to be a genius school of thought.

But the truth is: you're pointlessly hurting yourselves.  Popping an instinctive bubble your brain has made to make life wonderful-seeming.  But if your personal life is good, you'll find a problem in your country, or the world, or something.  Searching for another problem you can't fix just to remind everybody, you were right and Logic is all there is.

If Logic is truly all there is, you might as well kill yourself-- you'll find no solace in it, real or not.  My only real advice being: scrap everything but the pinealism and the recipes on here.  The Principia Discordia was written as a joke, as "how to escape whatever you want", not as a political dogma nor as a guide to living.  You can eat hot dogs on Fridays-- but the original concept Mal-2 was probably aiming for has been so far distorted, and it's modern-day replacement is rehashed so often on here, there's no discussion.  "This is the truth-- if you don't like it, suck it. "  

But-- Idealism and dreams are lost.  You  :horrormirth:abandon any hope for a better future, whining about how bad things are on this site which considerably few people know of.  So please.  Life is an abstract painting: stop looking for the goat you were told about.


Hey thanks for painting the entire board, full of about a billion posts, into one lame rant.  Nothing you wrote about applies to me, you don't know me, and would be smarter to not pretend you did, so thanks for nothing, you bag full of douche.

Did you actually read any of the posts on this forum before typing up your verbal barf?  Or do you just like the sound of your two fingers mashing pointless keys?  

Don't talk to ME about looking at an abstract painting... turn that mirror back on yourself, amigo.

Go away.  Read a book.  Be better.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Salty on February 08, 2010, 07:07:14 PM
Speaking of mirrors. You may want to use those provided by INTERACTION with INDIVIDUALS instead of projecting your fail onto a some figment of a collective.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: hooplala on February 08, 2010, 07:12:10 PM
Quote from: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PMMy only real advice being: scrap everything but the pinealism and the recipes on here. 

Can't.  Stop.  Laughing.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: LMNO on February 08, 2010, 07:13:17 PM
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=24073.0
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: hooplala on February 08, 2010, 07:18:03 PM
Law of Fives.  Both a blessing and a curse. 

Quote from: Hoopla on February 07, 2007, 09:33:19 PMthe Hairless Apes were both Free and Trapped simultaneously, just as EIEIO, the Goddess of All had intended. EIEIO, the Great Kaos, had sent Zaurn the Grey to the Hairless Apes to both free and ensnare their minds: giving them the gifts of speech and communication so that they may be able to form thoughts and thus become more than they are;, while at the same time having these thoughts bind and constrict their ideas, through endless labeling and defining so that it takes true imagination and magick to break beyond.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Cramulus on February 08, 2010, 08:35:25 PM
Quote from: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PM
It has been awhile since I came here.  But now, I realize why I left: there is no purpose.

You all talk of how sucky the world is, moaning about your lives and constantly re-itterating how terrible the world is. 

We ALL do?

I see conversations occurring between friends. Like all friends, we talk about human issues. This includes both joy and suffering.

Many of us want to change the world - discussing its flaws is more productive and incendiary and inspirational than the alternative.




QuoteBut the truth is: you're pointlessly hurting yourselves.  Popping an instinctive bubble your brain has made to make life wonderful-seeming.  But if your personal life is good, you'll find a problem in your country, or the world, or something.  Searching for another problem you can't fix just to remind everybody, you were right and Logic is all there is.

I'm missing the point. How should "we" be acting? And please be specific - I may be a member of a community, but I am an individual first. Should I be more complacent with my life? Should my goal to be a bliss-ninny, cheerfully ignorant of tragedy?


QuoteIf Logic is truly all there is, you might as well kill yourself-- you'll find no solace in it, real or not.  My only real advice being: scrap everything but the pinealism and the recipes on here. 

yes, scrap our friendships

scrap the times we've met up in real life and ran through the streets giggling and stapling posters to every inanimate object (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3iiK8VkvEA)

scrap any new ideas or projects we've worked on together

scrap our emotions and sympathy for each other

scrap the collective identity we've been brewing one soul at a time

scrap any new interpretations of Kerry and Greg's pristine masterpiece

scrap the art, the music, the video

scrap the analysis

scrap the fun and games


we are the BAD DISCORDIANS (http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/Bad_Discordians), you've been warned about.

QuoteThe Principia Discordia was written as a joke, as "how to escape whatever you want", not as a political dogma nor as a guide to living. 

if you think the principia discordia was about ________, go back and read it agian.


if you think discordia is about the principia discordia, go back and do it again.


if you think Eris gives a shit that I am not being "true" to your interpretation of some book from the 60s, go fuck yourself again.


Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: hooplala on February 08, 2010, 08:41:15 PM
:mittens:
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: . on February 08, 2010, 08:44:43 PM
OP: This is a place for people to get away from the norm. Meaning that we can come here to complain about everything that has gone on without having to hear people bitch back about us being too pessimistic or whatnot. What is reflected on this board only reflects what they want you to see. If you really don't like this then I suppose you need to go find your "Happy Forum, with Rainbows and Candy Canes." Good luck. Because with the internet it's DAMN hard to find a place where people are just positive all the fucking time.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: NotPublished on February 08, 2010, 08:47:59 PM
Can't wait for OP to respond
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: LMNO on February 08, 2010, 08:50:22 PM
I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed...
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 08, 2010, 08:59:03 PM
Quote from: NotPublished on February 08, 2010, 08:47:59 PM
Can't wait for OP to respond

He lacks the glands required to respond.  This was a drive by "WAAAAH".
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: hooplala on February 08, 2010, 09:01:10 PM
5 bucks on Daruko.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: NotPublished on February 08, 2010, 09:01:41 PM
Oh .. well OP is a bit of a hypocrite then :(

OH I finally read the first line properly ... Another one of those No point in anything people?  :x :x :x

Guess there won't be any responses afterall....
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 08, 2010, 09:05:58 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on February 08, 2010, 09:01:10 PM
5 bucks on Daruko.

Pay up.  It's not him.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: hooplala on February 08, 2010, 09:29:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 08, 2010, 09:05:58 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on February 08, 2010, 09:01:10 PM
5 bucks on Daruko.

Pay up.  It's not him.

Ah ah ah... don't forget... he's a proxy WIZARD.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Cramulus on February 08, 2010, 09:36:52 PM
shh--every time you accuse somebody of being daruko, you are rewarding daruko.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 08, 2010, 09:40:12 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on February 08, 2010, 09:29:04 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on February 08, 2010, 09:05:58 PM
Quote from: Hoopla on February 08, 2010, 09:01:10 PM
5 bucks on Daruko.

Pay up.  It's not him.

Ah ah ah... don't forget... he's a proxy WIZARD.

Uh huh.  I tracked his IP a while back.  It's legit.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: hooplala on February 08, 2010, 09:47:13 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on February 08, 2010, 09:36:52 PM
shh--every time you accuse somebody of being daruko, you are rewarding daruko.

Point.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Bu🤠ns on February 08, 2010, 10:00:04 PM
I've found that the amount of enjoyment I feel is directly proportional to the amount of awfully awfuls of which I'm aware.  I'm sick right now but generally I'm feeling pretty decent and reasonable.  That's because I know in the back back back of my mind there is the mere potential for the most awful things to happen.  They don't HAVE to happen but their shear possibility is enough.  In contrast to that, I'm feeling pretty damn alright.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Cain on February 08, 2010, 10:35:06 PM
Quote from: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PM
It has been awhile since I came here.  But now, I realize why I left: there is no purpose.

EET IZ MEANINGLESS!
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QuoteYou all talk of how sucky the world is, moaning about your lives and constantly re-itterating how terrible the world is.

Well, lets be honest: I'm the one who mostly talks about what a shit condition the world is in.  Ever wonder why?  Could it be that I have a deep and abiding interest in how the world works and what is going on, and it just so happens much of what goes down out there is bad, or nasty, or horrible or whatever?  And yeah, I did moan about my life for a while, but to be fair, I got shafted bad.

QuoteYou're trapped in a web of Pragmaticism, looking at the big concept of "The World" through a microscope which is your life.

What is this Pragmaticism of which you speak?  I assume you mean Pragmatism, but I want to make sure.  And even then, that doesn't make much sense.  I'm also pretty sure "the world" doesn't work in the same way as this rather dull, if slightly seedy country town.  No, I'm pretty sure the rest of the world is, by and large, much more difficult, dangerous, heartbreaking, horrormirthy, hilarious, exhilarating and murderous than what exists here.  Believe me, the world would probably be a morally better, if duller place, if it reflected my current surroundings.  No urban guerrilla warfare, black flag ops, secret prisons, or dodgy diamonds for YUO.

QuoteYou know, when I first came here, I was truly intrigued by what seemed to be a genius school of thought.

That may have been your mistake.  This is just warmed over Beatnik nonsense, with a dash of Taoism, Zen and Dada.

QuoteBut the truth is: you're pointlessly hurting yourselves.  Popping an instinctive bubble your brain has made to make life wonderful-seeming.

You seem to be confusing wonderful with "good".  A few philosophy lessons will no doubt beat that out of you in due time.  Wonderful is derived from "wonder", which can mean astonishment, admiration or doubt.  I feel all three of those on a daily basis.

QuoteBut if your personal life is good, you'll find a problem in your country, or the world, or something.  Searching for another problem you can't fix just to remind everybody, you were right and Logic is all there is.

I was right all along anyway.  Papal infalliability.  And...logic?  You really aren't up on how this forum views certain things, especially logic.

QuoteIf Logic is truly all there is, you might as well kill yourself-- you'll find no solace in it, real or not.

You seem to have quite a bugbear about logic...I'm pretty sure whether or not logic is all there is, its not worth killing yourself over.  And "solace"?  Who wants solace?  Apart from Christians and hippies and New Agers and really tired parents of newborn children, naturally.  Why do you assume those of us here especially want solace?

QuoteMy only real advice being: scrap everything but the pinealism and the recipes on here.

Your advice has been given all the merit it is due, and so ignored.  LMNO-PI is a masterpiece of meta-post-surrealist-fiction.

QuoteThe Principia Discordia was written as a joke, as "how to escape whatever you want", not as a political dogma nor as a guide to living.

Because I see a lot of that here, really.  Also look at you, reading the mind of Thornley and Hill.  Impressive.

QuoteYou can eat hot dogs on Fridays

I do anyway.  Well, if I have any, and am feeling lazy.  You can get them for less than a pound at the nearby store, and only take a few minutes to cook.  Perfect lazy food.

Quote-- but the original concept Mal-2 was probably aiming for has been so far distorted

OH NOES!  We are not being sufficiently faithful to the original concept of Mal-2!  Which, as I recall, you just dismissed as "being written as a joke".  So we either don't take it seriously, or take it too seriously, which is it?

Quoteand it's modern-day replacement is rehashed so often on here, there's no discussion.  "This is the truth-- if you don't like it, suck it. "

Funny how quick people are to proclaim a singular viewpoint as being "the truth".  :lol:  No evidence, no attempt at structuring an argument, just plain assertion.  Very amusing.

QuoteBut-- Idealism and dreams are lost.

Have you checked down the back of the sofa?  I know this much, they're always in the last place you look for them (lol, tautology).

QuoteYou abandon any hope for a better future

Oh, not any hope.  Just most of them.  But they weren't really that good anyway.

Quotewhining about how bad things are on this site which considerably few people know of.

I'm not sure why that is relevant.  I'm just going to assume that was a jab of some sort.

QuoteSo please.  Life is an abstract painting: stop looking for the goat you were told about.

I'm sure this sounded deep when you committed it to this post, but its not, really.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Cain on February 08, 2010, 10:42:38 PM
Oh, wait, you're the Prius driving jazz lover, aren't you?  Nevermind.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Freeky on February 08, 2010, 11:21:58 PM
You know what? I call  :troll:
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: tyrannosaurus vex on February 08, 2010, 11:28:14 PM
But we do some of our best work in response to trolls.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Cramulus on February 08, 2010, 11:48:38 PM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 08, 2010, 11:21:58 PM
You know what? I call  :troll:

nah, I think he's being honest

his pattern finding mechanisms have locked onto a target. He thinks we're doing it wrong because (I assume) he expected Discordians to act in a certain way and we don't. I'm glad we're not that predictable.


ThisIsMyName.StopAsking : , you might actually really dig the MaybeLogic forums (http://www.maybelogic.net/)? They're a bit more tuned into the feel-good Discordia vibe.



Anyway, despite all this clannish jabbering,  :wink: I hope you stick around. You'll find that although we disagree about a lot of things, this community is actually really positive about creativity and original thoughts.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: LMNO on February 09, 2010, 01:48:01 PM
Life is unfair, wear a helmet.
The wise spag wears a helmet, but also drops hammers.

Anything could be a punchline.
Even the wise spag gets punched.

Chaos never ends! 
Even its vacuum has a presence.
To struggle against it
is like pissing in the wind.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Jenne on February 09, 2010, 02:40:01 PM
TIMNSA, I think just about every poster here has your reaction at some time or another.  But then, like prodigal sons, they come home.  *shrug*  It is what it is.  You don't have to be here, no one pays you.  To tell a forum full of active posters to wipe their content is, well, hyperbolic at best and just shitty at worst.  This is time I spend away from my everyday (very fucking BUSY everyday) pursuits...it's going to end up important to me.

So you don't like it/us/being here.  So go away.  Go find somewhere else to hang, Dude--why stick around a place that makes you feel bad?  What a waste!

...your OP makes me think, though, that you haven't really read enough to know what this group of cats is about.  I think you should be reading more...there's tons in here.  Silliness, heartbreak, art, political commentary, history, literature...more silliness.  And I don't mean the zomg23pineal crap either.

So go, go have fun somewhere.  Go get your jollies where it counts.  Makes sense for you, rather than shit-kicking it here.

...but you'll be back.  They all come back.  At some point or another.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Kai on February 09, 2010, 03:35:16 PM
Quote from: Alty on February 08, 2010, 12:27:14 AM
I
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 08, 2010, 12:24:53 AM
Quote from: Mistress Freeky on February 07, 2010, 11:14:37 PM
Well, what are you doing right now?



:?

I don't think my question is going to be answered. :lulz:

Why would it be? It wasn't an enjoyable question. BE MORE ENJOYABLE FREEKY.

No, see, what he's saying is "Be more entertaining, the way I like to be entertained. For me"
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Kai on February 09, 2010, 03:43:29 PM
Quote from: Jenne on February 09, 2010, 02:40:01 PM

So go, go have fun somewhere.  Go get your jollies where it counts.  Makes sense for you, rather than shit-kicking it here.

...but you'll be back.  They all come back.  At some point or another.

They do, too. All come back, I mean.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on February 09, 2010, 04:05:14 PM
Quote from: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PM
It has been awhile since I came here.  But now, I realize why I left: there is no purpose.

You all talk of how sucky the world is, moaning about your lives and constantly re-itterating how terrible the world is.  You're trapped in a web of Pragmaticism, looking at the big concept of "The World" through a microscope which is your life.  You know, when I first came here, I was truly intrigued by what seemed to be a genius school of thought.

But the truth is: you're pointlessly hurting yourselves.  Popping an instinctive bubble your brain has made to make life wonderful-seeming.  But if your personal life is good, you'll find a problem in your country, or the world, or something.  Searching for another problem you can't fix just to remind everybody, you were right and Logic is all there is.

If Logic is truly all there is, you might as well kill yourself-- you'll find no solace in it, real or not.  My only real advice being: scrap everything but the pinealism and the recipes on here.  The Principia Discordia was written as a joke, as "how to escape whatever you want", not as a political dogma nor as a guide to living.  You can eat hot dogs on Fridays-- but the original concept Mal-2 was probably aiming for has been so far distorted, and it's modern-day replacement is rehashed so often on here, there's no discussion.  "This is the truth-- if you don't like it, suck it. " 

But-- Idealism and dreams are lost.  You  :horrormirth:abandon any hope for a better future, whining about how bad things are on this site which considerably few people know of.  So please.  Life is an abstract painting: stop looking for the goat you were told about.

Skipping the past few pages to be amazed at how quickly this prodigal genius has, in barely over two months (a chunk of which, he/she admits, was spent away from this site), distilled the entirety of everything everyone here has said in the years the forum has been in existence. That's a hell of a lot of reading to pull off in less than two months. Furthermore, he's managed to tell us what our opinions and viewpoints about the world are, which is a relief, because I was getting awfully confused about what my own ideas were.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: East Coast Hustle on February 09, 2010, 04:50:32 PM
Quote from: ThisIsMyName.StopAsking on February 07, 2010, 11:05:02 PM
It has been awhile since I came here.  But now, I realize why I left: there is no purpose.

You all talk of how sucky the world is, moaning about your lives and constantly re-itterating how terrible the world is.  You're trapped in a web of Pragmaticism, looking at the big concept of "The World" through a microscope which is your life.  You know, when I first came here, I was truly intrigued by what seemed to be a genius school of thought.

But the truth is: you're pointlessly hurting yourselves.  Popping an instinctive bubble your brain has made to make life wonderful-seeming.  But if your personal life is good, you'll find a problem in your country, or the world, or something.  Searching for another problem you can't fix just to remind everybody, you were right and Logic is all there is.

If Logic is truly all there is, you might as well kill yourself-- you'll find no solace in it, real or not.  My only real advice being: scrap everything but the pinealism and the recipes on here.  The Principia Discordia was written as a joke, as "how to escape whatever you want", not as a political dogma nor as a guide to living.  You can eat hot dogs on Fridays-- but the original concept Mal-2 was probably aiming for has been so far distorted, and it's modern-day replacement is rehashed so often on here, there's no discussion.  "This is the truth-- if you don't like it, suck it. " 

But-- Idealism and dreams are lost.  You  :horrormirth:abandon any hope for a better future, whining about how bad things are on this site which considerably few people know of.  So please.  Life is an abstract painting: stop looking for the goat you were told about.

I think you were looking for the Gaia Online (http://www.gaiaonline.com) forums.

Fucking twatwaffle.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Eater of Clowns on February 09, 2010, 10:37:20 PM
The world is a terrible place.

So long as one terrible thing happens, it has to be recognized as such.  Otherwise you compromise on how much terrible it takes.  Any terrible is too terrible.  One kid starving while excess foodstuffs are destroyed is too many - if that occurs and you don't call the world terrible you're essentially saying that this kind of thing is okay.

I doubt you'll read through five pages to get this far, and that's precisely the problem with the OP and perfectly describes your mistaking the world for being a decent place.  You aren't looking past the surface.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 10, 2010, 12:45:37 AM
Hey OP

You're right, this board could use some more joy. Get in here and write something that makes people happy and optimistic.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: . on February 10, 2010, 02:19:46 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 10, 2010, 12:45:37 AM
Hey OP

You're right, this board could use some more joy. Get in here and write something that makes people happy and optimistic.

:lulz:
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on February 10, 2010, 03:18:09 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 10, 2010, 12:45:37 AM
Hey OP

You're right, this board could use some more joy. Get in here and write something that makes people happy and optimistic.

:mittens:
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: E.O.T. on February 10, 2010, 07:53:36 AM
IS THIS

          What generated the 'show of hands' thread?

I DON'T

          See what "logic" has to do with any of this.

RECIPE SUGGESTION OF THE DAY:

          After the bratwurst/ sausage are flame grilled to satisfaction, place in a covered simmering pot of cheap pilsner & onions. Eat 45 minutes later.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: East Coast Hustle on February 10, 2010, 05:10:03 PM
:facepalm:

Jesus H. Fuck, dude. Is there a point to your insistence on willfully trying to piss the rest of the board off?

:troll:
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: E.O.T. on February 10, 2010, 05:19:28 PM
Quote from: Emerald City Hustle on February 10, 2010, 05:10:03 PM
:facepalm:

Jesus H. Fuck, dude. Is there a point to your insistence on willfully trying to piss the rest of the board off?

:troll:

EXPLAIN, PLEASE

          What you're talking about

PLEASE

          Be specific.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 10, 2010, 05:46:03 PM
I can't even get mad at retarded fatass engineer boy, these days.

E.O.T. is okay in my book.  What he's doing is really no different than post scripting, and I did that for 8 years.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: LMNO on February 10, 2010, 05:48:45 PM
All I can say is that shortly after he started posting, I made the decision not to read anything he posts, and I informed him of this.

All in all, it's been a neutral-to-enjoyable experience.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 10, 2010, 06:54:27 PM
I, too, am posting about how I am not reading anything he posts.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: LMNO on February 10, 2010, 06:57:56 PM
The difference, of course, is that I wasn't posting in reply to anything he has written, but in reply to ECH and the Doktor, instead.


The point being exactly what you have been saying all along:  That "if you don't like it, don't read it."  I'm unsure why you want to give me shit about that.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 10, 2010, 06:58:45 PM
This isn't going to end well.

If the fighting starts again, I'm fucking off to do rotten things to Von Melee and John the Bastard.

Um.  Gonna do that anyway, come to think of it.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: LMNO on February 10, 2010, 07:00:14 PM
What's weird is that I'm in agreement with her on this one.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 10, 2010, 07:45:41 PM
Quote from: LMNO on February 10, 2010, 06:57:56 PM
The difference, of course, is that I wasn't posting in reply to anything he has written, but in reply to ECH and the Doktor, instead.


The point being exactly what you have been saying all along:  That "if you don't like it, don't read it."  I'm unsure why you want to give me shit about that.


Man, I'm not being bitchy. Just poking fun 'cause you've said this like four times now. :lulz: Let's not let it turn into anything beyond light-hearted ribbing, OK?
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: BabylonHoruv on February 11, 2010, 02:01:18 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 10, 2010, 06:54:27 PM
I, too, am posting about how I am not reading anything he posts.

I'm posting about how I don't read anything YOU post.  Cause it looks like an abstract painting.  And it isn't avant guard
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 11, 2010, 02:26:47 AM
I'm posting about how I didn't read Babylonhoruv's post because it looked like it might have been some kind of art, and the most avant-garde form of art is ignoring art.

It's like performance art, but on the internet.

If you want to be part of this groundbreaking artistic and political movement, you'll ignore this post.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: MMIX on February 11, 2010, 03:34:58 AM
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/goblinhill/630x600ftperforma2.jpg)


  the rest is silence . . .



          or not
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Salty on February 11, 2010, 03:40:24 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 11, 2010, 02:26:47 AM
I'm posting about how I didn't read Babylonhoruv's post because it looked like it might have been some kind of art, and the most avant-garde form of art is ignoring art.

It's like performance art, but on the internet.

If you want to be part of this groundbreaking artistic and political movement, you'll ignore this post.
NOOOOOOOO! My hackness is confirmed! I am now undeniably passé.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 11, 2010, 06:49:24 AM
Quote from: MMIX on February 11, 2010, 03:34:58 AM
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a289/goblinhill/630x600ftperforma2.jpg)


  the rest is silence . . .



          or not

Whaaaaaat is happening in that picture?
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: E.O.T. on February 11, 2010, 08:04:32 AM
DUH. I think it's obvious. Gray mat is lava.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Captain Utopia on February 11, 2010, 05:04:21 PM
Quote from: E.O.T. on February 11, 2010, 08:04:32 AM
DUH. I think it's obvious. Gray mat is lava.

  Where is the "OR"?  Don't leave me hanging like this!

AND

  I hate this thread, and am going to un-read every post in it to show you all.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Doktor Howl on February 11, 2010, 05:12:41 PM
This thread does not exist, so I can't possibly be posting in it.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Captain Utopia on February 11, 2010, 05:18:41 PM
I didn't just un-read that.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: NotPublished on February 11, 2010, 08:42:52 PM
You just soo didn't. Thats fetch
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: nuclearcabbage on February 12, 2010, 10:42:37 AM
oh fuck!

gray mat!

this thread made me happy for some reason

Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: nuclearcabbage on February 12, 2010, 10:49:31 AM
oh!

i was looking up some shit about abstract art a few hours back..

something about evolving beyond the physically sensible and into the abstract and symbolic..

eventually even further into a sort of transcendent and/or cosmic expression....

not sure if any of this even matters/makes "sense" at this point.
i do think its pretty cool that this thread is called Staring at an Abstract Painting...

staring at some conceptualizaaation...some thoughtsss
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 12, 2010, 09:56:15 PM
Quote from: E.O.T. on February 11, 2010, 08:04:32 AM
DUH. I think it's obvious. Gray mat is lava.

:lulz: Despite my plethora of small children, it took me a while to get that.
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Bu🤠ns on February 13, 2010, 07:29:23 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 12, 2010, 09:56:15 PM
Quote from: E.O.T. on February 11, 2010, 08:04:32 AM
DUH. I think it's obvious. Gray mat is lava.

:lulz: Despite my plethora of small children, it took me a while to get that.


I totally :lulz: because my 3 year old girl runs around with her brother going "DON GO IN TO THE LAVUHH!"
Title: Re: Staring at an Abstract Painting
Post by: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on February 13, 2010, 08:09:03 PM
Quote from: Burns on February 13, 2010, 07:29:23 AM
Quote from: Calamity Nigel on February 12, 2010, 09:56:15 PM
Quote from: E.O.T. on February 11, 2010, 08:04:32 AM
DUH. I think it's obvious. Gray mat is lava.

:lulz: Despite my plethora of small children, it took me a while to get that.


I totally :lulz: because my 3 year old girl runs around with her brother going "DON GO IN TO THE LAVUHH!"

My kids don't really play that game. I used to when I was a kid, but other than the youngest pretending the black squares in the kitchen were lava once a few years ago, they just don't really do it.

My kids are weird.