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Unfortunately, our dear Count Binface lost the election.

Fortunately, the investigation into Farage reopened pretty much the moment he was sworn in once more.

Wonderfully, Count Binface received nearly a third of the vote.

The ads have been particularly enjoyable, a novel experience across the board on that account

Group grief counseling sounds like a good idea, actually.  I might look into that.  Less generic TV-therapy bullshit and more actual pain sharing with other hurting people might really help.

Groups for shit like this have always left me better off than anything 1-1, kind of gives you a place that automatically acknowledges that yeah, it was real, and it fucked me over.

Also makes it easier to think about, cause you talking helps the others talk and vice-versa. It's easier to work on things when other people are working on things too, and all that.

Not sure if anyone here looks at UK politics all too often, but essentially, Nigel Farage, the main frontman for Reform UK (Formerly the Brexit Party) has decided to attempt to prove the people are behind him by "stepping down" and triggering a by-election for the parliamentary constituency, which he will also be running in. No other major party is touching the shitshow with a ten foot pole, meaning theoretically he would have an uncontested feel good victory in order to distract from some of the scrutiny he's been under for various reasons (largely undisclosed gifts and possible bribes). He would be running uncontested, however someone without any major party backing has decided that a one-person contest wouldn't do. Thus, the main competitors in the Clacton by-election are of course an absolute joke of a man, and the honorable Count Binface, who has pledged to build at least one affordable house, and not be Nigel Farage. Despite 87% of Clacton voting Reform in 24, in the polls Binface is doing better off, with Nigel doing worse than the option of electing neither. However, no matter who wins the election, I would like to thank Count Binface for making it so that now, the leader of Reform UK will always be remembered as the man who ran against the trash can, and be haunted by the closeness of that competition.

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