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Wonderful deduction on your part Abbot Mythos. I'm incredibly impressed

I think I'd enjoy trying my hand at some genuine Erisiana. Would definitely be fun

Now, I'm no expert, and there's very little in any record of that wild ride of a a wedding to indicate when it happened, but there's some clues and Discordian-style leaps of logic we can make to get closer to an ideal time for the holiday.

First- we know that the wedding took place on an "auspicious day"

Second- we know Peleus was Thessalian, so that narrows down our good days

Third- it was probably a civic holy day, as the leader of a power such as Thessaly probably couldn't be seen as a part of specific rural cults.

From this, we get the 12 civic holy days of Thessaly's calendar.

It's lunar calendar, unfortunately, but we'll get to those issues later.

But there's one holy day on it I think would fit the best.

Think, why was Eris not invited to the wedding in the first place?

There's certainly bigger issues between the gods than a little bit of strife and chaos.

Hell, if everyone else was invited, Violence incarnate and the concept of Disease were rocking up, hardly good vibes for such a day.

Unless the date of the wedding, and one of the more famous guests, particularly opposed the presence of the Goddess. A date celebrating a different goddess, with a very devout cult in Thessaly, a civic holiday, and a historical link with the bride, who was so diametrically against Eris being there she got her uninvited, so she and Zeus could plot their own beginning to the Trojan War.

Themis, who even here on this forum we have named Aneris.

But weddings, like all things, cannot wholly exist in the realm of Aneristic illusion, and Our Lady, Holy Wedding Crasher, showed up to get the party started.

On Aneris's own holiday:

Themistia, a most "auspicious day" indeed.

Now, Themistia is in the Thessalian month of Themistios, and which with a lunar calendar would be either over September/October, or November/December.

But that's fine, that leaves us with either the end of Bureaucracy, or the beginning of Aftermath.

Thus, I throw my hat in the ring.

The Original Snub, the beginning of it all, is not exactly a Genesis story. It's an unapologetic interruption.

Though it does not quite fit with our law of Fives lore directly, I believe that the Orginal Snub should be celebrated on the 73rd of Bureaucracy, at midnight, with an explosion of discord.

Our very own extra new years. 

It seems we've got a guest moon for the next hot minute, everyone say hello to 2025 PN7, our new quasi-satellite!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_PN7

I won't deny it it's part in chaos as a whole, however, but it is not its totality

And here we once more see the optimism in pretending destructive order is the natural state of chaos

Had a fun neuro textbook with a section called "This is Your Brain on Endocanibinoids" with a shit ton of fractals in the background

So I'm a bit of a William Blake scholar, but it's been a while since I've revisited my dear friend's works, being before I was introduced to Discordianism.

I have now found myself with some free time, and access to many books on the subject of Blake's particular brand of madness, and find myself drawing many parallels to the ideas of the Black Iron Prison that I think would be interesting to pursue.

My question is this, would anyone here be interested in a work like that, or would even wish to participate in such "research" with me, to create some kind of profane composition.

And, if you are interested, what parts of the BIP and/or Blake would you like to see featured? Or even beyond the BIP perhaps, into general Discordian irreligion.

Yes! Great work

The gave one to Kissinger, there's not that high a bar

I totally forgot about that one. And, after you brought it to my attention, I remembered that Obama certainly hadn't done anything to deserve his so soon after his inauguration.

So, now I'm not feeling quite as good about the sociopath-in-chief's chances of being rejected.

thanks

Always good to have the historian on hand to keep things adequately pessimistic

[A Nobel Peace Prize for Trump? World leaders are lining up]

A Nobel Peace Prize for Trump? World leaders are lining up

Well ... Neville Chamberlain was never awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for his historical, herculean effort to stop WWII. And, that was even though his half-brother had already received one.

Just sayin'.

The gave one to Kissinger, there's not that high a bar

Checked to see if I had done this, realized I hadn't, and immediately decided to jump at the chance to talk for the sake of talking.

In any case, first heard of this lot about 3 years ago, started checking the forum out a year back, and made an account somewhere along the way so I could more effectively be fake deep. It's a better place to be than most.

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I find it hard to believe this will cost any Republican politicians any votes in the 2026 elections. But, it's fun to watch the sociopath-in-chief squirm because he's suddenly lost control of the MSM narrative. I guess producing a reality TV show is not always as personally rewarding as it looks.

It's hard to ignore the man behind the curtain when he's flopping around like a dead fish, screaming all the while

Unfortunately for a fascist regime that produces reality TV performances for its adoring, shit-eating MAGAt followers, this show appears to have been a ratings bust. Now, the official TV rating numbers aren't in yet, but the video footage clearly shows near empty bleachers along the parade route. And, I haven't seen any estimates of the parade crowd size above 10,000 people.

I know myself and quite a few others were able to register for tickets and then simply not show up, among friends we were able to block out about 50 seats for everyone from Ben Dover to Homme Orange

Went to a No Kings protest today. Turnout was about 1500, which is pretty good for my podunk little town.

Only had a couple yahoos shouting obscenities at us from their cars. I pointed and laughed at them.

Fun stuff.

Hell yeah