Rant 95
Kallisti
"Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots."
-Hagbard Celine
"She is your Goddess!"
-Ancient Scrawl found in ruins of Melos
"Discordians don't drink to escape problems. They drink to create problems."
The ancient Greeks snubbed Eris repeatedly and for this, they eventually found a loss of the freedom that was theirs. First to tyrants, despite the best efforts of those Athenian democrats who tried to get their fellow citizens to rally around the idea of personal freedom. (Now Eris, already had a longstanding miff with the Greeks because they instituted patriarchy. "Men," She said to me once "know nothing about the true joys of poptarts.") Then to the Romans, because they forgot who maintained them against the earlier war against the Persians. Then, even then, they would not acknowledge Eris. Even if they had tried to, by this point, Eris decided to play in other games, and just to really rub it in She punished them with Christianity for hundreds of years. Hell, even the disgrace of being conquered by the Turks wouldn't shake their masses out of their torpor, so that was that. "They were victims of indigestion, you know," as Eris has pointed out. The Greeks, not surprisingly, had (and have) no lost love for Eris, so they always wrote about Her as being this malicious chaotic troublemaker who would bring ruin on anyone's head just for the spite of it. But we modern Erisians know better, especially since even if we get indigestion from time to time, we have medicine to help us out. (And don't count the Greeks out, they have done no worse than other ethnic groups.)
Humankind is forever trying to find deities or ideas (which may as well be deities, even the atheist ideas) that will take care of them and explain all of those Damned Things that somehow refuse to fit into the neat and ordered cosmologies or political theories or economics or religious doctrines. Eris doesn't demand nor expect that sort of attitude from Her "followers." In fact, co-conspirators is a better descriptive term for those who worship and/or revere Eris. With a knowing wink and a laugh She turns on the pineal gland to get you to learn how to do it for yourself. She gives us all sorts of wonderful rites and rules and catmas knowing full well how trained we are to receive such "scriptures" and religious or ideological effluvia. But Her revelations are irreligious and irreverent in ways that make us open up and never trust anything ever again but our senses and our own minds. (Some of you already know this and if you are one of those sorts, you should probably seek out some elder Discordians for your next illumination.)
In this day and age it is different however. It seems that neophiles are popping up more often than ever before and Eris is watching. (Does that make you feel better, or does that frighten you? Or does it make you laugh? Or some other thing? None of the above is also a valid choice.) Humankind has somehow developed Damned Thing freethinkers by the thousands. (Don't get ahead of yourselves, those of us on the freethinking side are still outnumbered...vastly.) Yet there is still this matter of the Prettiest One and the Golden Apple.
Neophile thinkers and doers are popping up all over the place. By all gods, look around. Who would have thought that polytheism would have ever made a comeback? And then there is quantum physics and the lunacy of cognitive therapy. Explain those things. Despite this, the neophobes are fighting harder than ever to maintain their hold over the way things are. If reality is what we can get away with, those fuckers have been getting away with the appearance of controlling reality for far too long now. Thankfully, the neophobes mostly attack and kill one another, but never forget that you neophiles are their ultimate target. They see your nice shiny apples and they want some of your pie. So....what is to be done about that? Throw your apples to them. Let them have it. (But you already know this.)
The stupid people who run this planet's major predator bands (the corporations, the governments, the monotheist religious groupings, etc.) have not stopped fighting over the first bobdamned apple in the first place. Read up on your Homer. It's all there. Then read one of the international newspapers. Then read them both simultaneously. Now....I'll wait.......
Do you see now how they fight and squabble and attack and whine and cuss and all that? Just like all those idiot Olympians, huh? Maybe the Pagans were onto something there. (Or maybe they were just victims of living in that barbaric age before the internet was invented by Thoth and his pals Prometheus and Mercury. Of course you know that She What Done It All gave them the idea in order to tip the world's balance to the Aftermath.
She told me her reason. "Hot dogs become really cheap during the Aftermath," She said. I don't know if I can buy that story but I'll let it stick because who doesn't like cheaper hot dogs?)
They (the neophobes, not the hot dogs, though I suspect both categories anyway) have never learned that we are all Prettiest Ones. And Eris is the Prettiest One. Their jokes are no longer funny and we demand compensation for having to endure centuries of their maladaptive behaviors and self-perpetuating learning-disability loops (also known as "beliefs"). The apple is your own damned mind. The Prettiest One is what you do with it. Don't miss out on the symbolism and start worshipping and groveling beneath the finger that points out the ways. Walk the ways. (And we have many silly ways to help you figure out the most lunatic styles of walking, if you wish to be enlightened that way.)
Our Goddess has never demanded you follow any sets of rules or dogmas (unless She is fooling you, of course). Hell, She doesn't even mind if you don't believe She exists, unless you snub Her. (A too thin line to walk upon, but only for those who aren't Discordians.) And She believes you exist, regardless. Now, does knowing that She exists make you feel more or less secure? Liar!
July 18th, 2005
-Irreverend Hugh, KSC
These are the main points I picked up. Your milage may vary.
1 Patriarchy sucks. As near as I have been able to figure out, that's where the trouble started.
2 The physicists and the mystics are meeting around the back.
3 For those of you who don't believe in Eris, that's OK, she believes in you.
4 Hot dogs are the food of the goddess, even better when the price goes down.
5 We may get inundated with new people looking for Eris, or discord, or just for some fun. How are we going to react(or was that your other rant, you wrote too much all at once during a period of time that I was having a major migraine attack, I sure am glad it went away before you starting posting again) :shock: :? :twisted: :wink: :D
Nice post, hugh.
I dig your style.
years of feminist propaganda make me say that iarchy sucks instead of patriarchy
Quote from: Anonymousyears of feminist propaganda make me say that iarchy sucks instead of just patriarchy
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also not being logged in snubbed is me
I HATE CHEAP HOTDOGS!
GOOD POST.
Quote from: Eldora, Oracle of AlchemyThese are the main points I picked up. Your milage may vary.
1 Patriarchy sucks. As near as I have been able to figure out, that's where the trouble started.
2 The physicists and the mystics are meeting around the back.
3 For those of you who don't believe in Eris, that's OK, she believes in you.
4 Hot dogs are the food of the goddess, even better when the price goes down.
5 We may get inundated with new people looking for Eris, or discord, or just for some fun. How are we going to react(or was that your other rant, you wrote too much all at once during a period of time that I was having a major migraine attack, I sure am glad it went away before you starting posting again) :shock: :? :twisted: :wink: :D
That was a good concise paraphrasing. You wanna do the powerpoint presentation?
Quote from: Irreverend Hugh, KSC
That was a good concise paraphrasing. You wanna do the powerpoint presentation?
I'll take stabbination instead, thanks :shock:
the fact that humanity evolved into a generally patriarchal society is really just nature's way of rectifying an imbalance. In the vast majority of other species, the female of the species is the dominant sex, in many cases going so far as to eat their males after mating.
now, I'm sure I'll catch hell for saying this, but isn't it possible that our evolution of a male-dominated society has allowed us to become dominant and aggressive enough to establish ourselves as the dominant species on the planet, thereby making our patriarchy responsible for the fact that we have even advanced enough to contemplate whether or not patriarchy is a good idea?
it certainly raises some interesting questions.
although, there is another school of thought that holds that our society is only a patriarchy in name, and that the females were just smart enough to let us think we're in charge so we go marching off to absorb swords/arrows/bullets in the name of whatever cause strikes our fancy while they stay behind the scenes and manipulate events to their favor.
I'm not sure which I think is correct, or that the two concepts are even mutually exclusive, but I know this for damn sure.
women have ALOT of power, and will continue to do so as long as they control 100% of the pussy.
8)
Quote from: Classic Turdwill continue to do so as long as they control 100% of the pussy.
8)
Cheers to that mate!!
Quote from: Classic Turd
I'm not sure which I think is correct, or that the two concepts are even mutually exclusive, but I know this for damn sure.
women have ALOT of power, and will continue to do so as long as they control 100% of the pussy.
8)
you'll be wanting to read the Param Sutras i'm writing.
tantric sutras for solitary practice. i'm researching a phenomena called
khoot ka bhut, 'the ghost vagina.'
I wanna read it too
actually, i was wondering if you'd wanna be a field researcher???
Oh my
tell me more
It ain't me
It's the people that say
Men are leading the women astray
but I say that the women today
are smarter than the men in every way
Thats right, the women are smarter :twisted:
if women are smarter than men, dogs are still smarter than women.
least you can train a dog to put the lid down
mum's the word buckaroos.
Quote from: Malaulleast you can train a dog to put the lid down
you can train lots of people to do that too. you can even train someone to train people for you if you're good enough at it.
but you gotta be a good trainer first. :twisted:
you can even train people to be good in bed.
still think dogs are- on the whole- smarter. (note the order: man>woman>dog,
if you hadn't...)
Quote from: DonkeyotayIt ain't me
It's the people that say
Men are leading the women astray
but I say that the women today
are smarter than the men in every way
Thats right, the women are smarter :twisted:
Please tell me the Harry Belefonte version was the one going through your head and not... you know...
Oh, and Mal, I think the Param Sutras would be a good first assignment for the Illuminaughty.
Quote from: MalaulQuote from: Classic Turdwill continue to do so as long as they control 100% of the pussy.
8)
Cheers to that mate!!
See You When Tea is Hot.....
The theory works for me.
Quote from: DonkeyotayIt ain't me
It's the people that say
Men are leading the women astray
but I say that the women today
are smarter than the men in every way
Thats right, the women are smarter :twisted:
We know which side our bread is buttered on, don't we?
i butter both sides. it's sloppier that way.
Quote from: N'yo B?©, Terrorist Zenjai butter both sides. it's sloppier that way.
It's all about whatever keeps the boat afloat.
[Brando]
Get the butter...
[/Brando]
Quote from: LMNO[Brando]
Get the butter...
[/Brando]
Ouch!
Last Tango in Paris.
i prefer Last Mango in Paris
Quote from: LMNOQuote from: DonkeyotayIt ain't me
It's the people that say
Men are leading the women astray
but I say that the women today
are smarter than the men in every way
Thats right, the women are smarter :twisted:
Please tell me the Harry Belefonte version was the one going through your head and not... you know...
Oh, and Mal, I think the Param Sutras would be a good first assignment for the Illuminaughty.
(http://home.infostations.com/cyberman/jerry.jpg)
Not Harry, but it rhymes with him
Oh, you dirty hippie bastard...
Quote from: LMNOOh, you dirty hippie bastard...
Hippies= white people who mispronounce all of the sutras.