Poll
Question:
Why are you here?
Option 1: Operation mindfuck
votes: 2
Option 2: Cookies and pies and fun
votes: 3
Option 3: To start a revolution
votes: 1
Option 4: 7|-|!5 |=0|2|_|/\/\ |20x0|2z j00!!
votes: 2
Option 5: I was just reading the book and accidentally clicked the forum link
votes: 5
Option 6: Where did all the fractals go?
votes: 2
How did I end up here?
I know this was started somewhere else by someone else and if I could find it, I would bump it, but my eyes are tired from whatever bug I picked up. Since we have been debating to death, or at least to several people's great annoyance, what it means to be whatever we are, I shall start at the beginning.
I am adopted. That may seem like too much of 'starting at the beginning', but it helps to explain some things. My father comes from German lineage, my mother from Czechoslovakian. My birth parents were Irish, Scottish, French Canadian, Indian(Native American), German and Dutch. So although no one would go, OMG, that girl is adopted, I don't really look like any of my family. I may have felt out of place anyway, but we shall never know. I never felt like anyone understood me growing up. I later learned my birth mother was 13 when I was born, so I am sure I would not have been better off if I had not been adopted, so this is a resentment that is pretty much gone.
We didn't go to church much, Easter, summer bible school, that kind of stuff. Methodist, I think. Then my parents divorced and got remarried, within a week of each other. My step father was a church goer, Church of Christ or some such. We went to church most Sundays for a long time. I lived with my dad when I was in Junior High, I got involved with the church there, Methodist again, I think. Mostly I liked the youth group. The leaders were a young married couple. They spoke to us plainly about the stuff in the bible. They told us about the 'judge not, lest yea be judged' and the 'let your yeas be yeas and your nays be nays' those are two lessons I keep with me. Plus, they were smart enough to have bible study on Sunday and fun stuff on Wednesday. If you didn't show up for bible study, you didn't get fun night.
For the next ten or fifteens years I pretty much went into a downhill spiral. There was the math club, drama, band in high school, those were some of the high points. I shall skip the low points. If anyone thinks they need to talk about a substance abuse problem, PM me and I would be glad to chat with you. Then I started going to AA and some other anonymous meeting type things. Then I went to college. I explored a lot of religious and spiritual ideas. I talked to people, I learned stuff in classes, I read books. I found that a lot of the pagan religions annoyed me in the same way that Christianity did, lots of ritual.
I was talking with someone from here the other day, and I think the first time I was on the internet was 1993 and the first time I read the PD was 1997. I didn't go to Eris, she came to me. There wasn't a day when I said, "Wow I don't think there is nearly enough chaos in my life, I think I'll pray to some crazy goddess that represents chaos and discord, yea that's what I want!" I was discouraged from the crap I saw in other "organised" religions. And the less than organised ones as well. The kinds of people who want to shoot an abortion doctor who terminates a pregnancy in the 13th week, but won't give any sympathy to a women has a spontaneous miscarriage during the same gestational time frame.
I decided over time that Eris makes more sense. Most religions have some sort of godhead thingy that says, "humans screwed up and that is why I do these stupid things to you, to pay you back for screwing up." With Eris, you just know there is going to be chaos, nobody's fault, that's just life, which makes more sense. Also, I have a mean sarcastic sense of humor, got that from my dad. I also have the inate ability to pin down what is going on with people. I don't do it on purpose, in fact I find myself biting my tongue so as to not hurt people's feelings. Depending on who it is and how badly they have pissed me off. I'm a little bit of a prankster but, I have learned that revenge is a dish best served cold. You can end up with a better opportunity and the poor sap is not expecting it as much.
So I ended up here because:
1 I don't like people to tell me what to do.
2 I don't like religions with rigid rules, or any rules, really.
3 I like the internet.
4 I like to converse with intelligient people, intellectual people, and interesting people.
5 I like to debate.
6 I like cookies and pie and lots of other kinds of fun.
7 I like the mathematical properties of Chaos.
8 I like the Principia Discordia , the book itself. I think it is a great mixture of stupidity, hilarity, insight and pranksterisms.
I grow up in America. What more need I say?
i cam ehere because i heard they weren't discordian enough for a fella at 23ae. needless to say it was a good ol time. decided to stick around as a result of that little adventure. i coem ehre ebcause it's funny sometimes, and there aer cool peopel who sometimes like what i say. i enjoy biking, binge drinking, and long walks under intensely psychadelic sunsets.
i've been discordian 10 years now, in a variably dynamic manner, and i rip off alto of stuff from other places.
i come here for the pie.
I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.
8)
Quote from: agent compassionI came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.
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I love that movie, even though Rowdy Roddy is not in his usual kilt. Plus, the stuff you see with the glasses on, those are kind of like the fnords, no they aren't, yes they are :wink:
why am I here?
simple.
my dial-up connection is too slow for me to watch streaming porn videos.
8)
Quote from: Se?±or Limpiowhy am I here?
simple.
my dial-up connection is too slow for me to watch streaming porn videos.
8)
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Quote from: eldora_avalonHow did I end up here?
1 I don't like people to tell me what to do.
2 I don't like religions with rigid rules, or any rules, really.
3 I like the internet.
4 I like to converse with intelligient people, intellectual people, and interesting people.
5 I like to debate.
6 I like cookies and pie and lots of other kinds of fun.
7 I like the mathematical properties of Chaos.
8 I like the Principia Discordia , the book itself. I think it is a great mixture of stupidity, hilarity, insight and pranksterisms.
1. Why do yuo hate America(tm)?
2. You in the wroooooonnnnnng place, babe.
3. Ungh?
4. Okay, how can anyone argue with that? (We're also [i[startlingly good looking[/i].
5. Okay.
6. Ungh?
7. Math = reality.
8. Then you'll LOVE the Book of the Subgenius and Revelation X.
Quote from: The Good Reverend RogerQuote from: eldora_avalonHow did I end up here?
1 I don't like people to tell me what to do.
2 I don't like religions with rigid rules, or any rules, really.
3 I like the internet.
4 I like to converse with intelligient people, intellectual people, and interesting people.
5 I like to debate.
6 I like cookies and pie and lots of other kinds of fun.
7 I like the mathematical properties of Chaos.
8 I like the Principia Discordia , the book itself. I think it is a great mixture of stupidity, hilarity, insight and pranksterisms.
1. Why do yuo hate America(tm)?
2. You in the wroooooonnnnnng place, babe.
3. Ungh?
4. Okay, how can anyone argue with that? (We're also startlingly good looking.
5. Okay.
6. Ungh?
7. Math = reality.
8. Then you'll LOVE the Book of the Subgenius and Revelation X.
1 I don't hate America, I also stay away from situations where people will annoy me with their rules. Like I obey the speed limit so I do not have to talk to policemen, and to keep my insurance down, not because some stupid sign has a stupid number on it.
2 hehehe, my point is, there is a rule to not believe what you read, which negates all other rules, so I can always argue that any rule that may exist, also may not exist, hehehe
3 This forum is on the internet, duh, if we were all pen pals, I would be soooo out of here.
4 hehehe
5 I got an OK out of TGRR, w007
6 I love the silliness that is here, sometimes laughter really is the best medicine.
7 w007
8 I haven't gotten there yet, but if there mere mention of them got to people, they must be really good :twisted:
And it was long about 4 that I realised it was a bad idea to have a numbered list at the bottom, what was I thinking :shock: :roll:
Wow what a great post.
Made me about why I'm here too. Imma gonna have to contemplate that some.
Quote from: eldora_avalon
1 I don't hate America, I also stay away from situations where people will annoy me with their rules. Like I obey the speed limit so I do not have to talk to policemen, and to keep my insurance down, not because some stupid sign has a stupid number on it.
2 hehehe, my point is, there is a rule to not believe what you read, which negates all other rules, so I can always argue that any rule that may exist, also may not exist, hehehe
3 This forum is on the internet, duh, if we were all pen pals, I would be soooo out of here.
4 hehehe
5 I got an OK out of TGRR, w007
6 I love the silliness that is here, sometimes laughter really is the best medicine.
7 w007
8 I haven't gotten there yet, but if there mere mention of them got to people, they must be really good :twisted:
And it was long about 4 that I realised it was a bad idea to have a numbered list at the bottom, what was I thinking :shock: :roll:
1. If that makes you feel better, okay.
2. I just ignore any rules, social conventions, or biological imperatives that annoy me.
3. So you say.
4. MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
5. RAH!
6. Actually, the best medicine is still pennicillin. I checked.
7. RAH!
8. Everyone hates the subgeniuses. They probably have good reason to hate us. We don't play well with others, though that might be hard to believe.
1 Yes it does
2 I do more or less the same, but I suspect I do it with a tiny bit more compassion than you do
3 Yes I do
4 Have you been drinking?
5 sweet
6 Not if you're allergic
7 DifEq makes me go ooooo....
8 Do they let actual geniuses into this subgenius club you speak of?
Quote from: eldora_avalon1 Yes it does
2 I do more or less the same, but I suspect I do it with a tiny bit more compassion than you do
3 Yes I do
4 Have you been drinking?
5 sweet
6 Not if you're allergic
7 DifEq makes me go ooooo....
8 Do they let actual geniuses into this subgenius club you speak of?
2. Probably.
4. No.
8. The term "subgenius" has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence.
Okey dokey, artichokey 8)
The first page! My eyes! Argh, need to wake up!
Quote from: KenseiThe first page! My eyes! Argh, need to wake up!
I've been saving up. Wait until you try to read Mr Clean's life story, at least I put some blank lines. Of course, his story is much more entertaining. This was just a synopsis of my spiritual journey that got me here /\ to this forum.
Im going to have to run it through a leet translator, thats how bad it is. :shock:
Quote from: KenseiIm going to have to run it through a leet translator, thats how bad it is. :shock:
you can skip the l337 stuff, if you want. That was mostly AC and I flirting. I think that other guy was speaking l337 in a foreign language, so if you figure out, let me know.
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I can read that once I look at it long enough. The other type is much easier though.