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Going to be going through the whole airport system today to get home to Tucson.  Looking forward to seeing a few of you guys at the Meet Rack. First round is on me.

Recently, a new member named "Krez" joined our forum, proved his identity with random facts about Tucson, and was still accused of being Pop-Tart. Krez is not Pop-Tart. Pop-Tart would not send creepy PMs.

WTF? One, were my PM creepy? I only sent them to people I came across who said they are from Tucson, where I used to live. Two, why would this perso know anything about my PMs?
This is one of the reasons why I don't say much, if I can't contribute something I keep away from the keyboard. I thought I would introduce myself in the introduce yourself thread because I had just found the forum and thought it would be polite. I am my own type of Discordian. Not a "true Discordian" or even the same type of Discordian I was when I started. It seems that there are a lot of people here who have thought the same thoughts I once had, read many of the same books I once had, played the same jokes I once had. Being a Discordian let me keep myself when I was in the military and not be brainwashed. We have at least one thread that binds us but we all pull in different directions. That is fine. I will just sit here, listen, and contribute when I feel like it like a Zen Discordian and let the world and the forum do whatever it will do.

This is why I have been reading about binary economics. I just wish it would become part of the national debate. it may or may not work. All I have read has been positive or simply dismissing it as something outside of the current system. I it won't work I would at least like to know why it wouldn't work.

I have the Nanny Ogg cookbook at home also. I will try to remember to post the recipe when I get home if someone else hasn't done it by then.

Big enough that when we finally got to the Judiciary square metro stop there were people crowding at least a block away trying to either get to a point where they could see something or get out of the mass of people. I have no way of telling really. When we went around back we were able to get a little closer on that side but still couldn't get onto the mall.

I don't think we will know until after the election. and even then we probably still won't know. For me it was just one big crowd.

It was a series of technical issues and not understanding the best way to put on a live show. It appeared to me that they had TV producers doing the planning when they should of hired some big time rock show producers. If they hires the same people that produced Obama's Inaguration they would of done a better job, technicaly. But I had to realize that it was a rally and not a show. Think about MLK's speach on the mall many years ago. They didn't have "jumbotrons" or line aray speakers. they had bull horns and bigger crowds. It isn't about the show.

Because there is a drive to make models of the universe in one's own head and personality drives us to make those models uneque or drives us to follow a well established (I don't say correct) model that has been accepted by some portion of the thinking universe. As a thought experiment this is great.  It is a Zen Koan. It seemes suceptable to falling into thought loops though. like finding the number 23 all over the place because you are looking for it and the processes of how the brain work reinforce the finding such patterns. As a thought experiment this can lead to levels of complex thoughts on all types of subjects (just like trying to talk in E-prime) but the brain is a fairly low power processor and the programing often falles back to simple binary pattern recognition of things being one thing or the other. The model of something can be seen in the model of something else but they are still both models. Of course all we preceve is just a model of the universe so picking this one is just as valid as any other. It is a pretty model after all.

Well I was there. Really couldn't see or hear a thing. If there were other Discordians there I wouldn't of been able to tell. It would be like looking for a specific bit of hay in  hay stack. The signs and banners were sureal. All somewhat Eris inspired. But the crowds were huge and the loudspeakers sucked and there were only a few small "jumbotrons" that most people couldn't see. People were in their halloween costumes. Everyone who watched it on TV got a much better view of the whole thing. We were stuck in the Metro (DC's subway) going the wrong direction to get to a station that the train's wouldn't be already packed. We ended up there an hour late.

All in all I realized something. My ego just can't take going to a rally to be part of the masses. This was my first rally (and probably my last) and I went as if I was going to a concert or some such entertainment event. I wanted to see a show and having worked in AV most of my working life I was used to the idea of putting on a show and making it so people could see and hear that show. That wasn't what this was about and I shouldn't of expected that. This was about getting as many people in one place as possable to make a point to everyone else not there. It wan't that the show was there for me (and everyone else there) the masses were there as part of the show for the rest of the country. Like I said, my ego didn't like that very much. I still don't know what happened on stage or what was said.

You'll be great Payne. Just be open, fair, listen to your staff AND CRUSH THEIR SPIRITS AND SPINES WITH AN IRON FIST WHILE GLEEFULY BRAYING LIKE A MANIAC!

Nah on a serious note, you'll get right back into it man It's like riding a bicycle or fucking an octopus. You'll feel a bit wobbly for a bit, then it'll all come back to you.

My staff is going to consist only of me.

Perhaps my employer has done some internet research on me and gleaned my true nature?

I too am a staff of 1. Just remember at work, Reality is what you can get away with. I have been here almost a year and in that time I have given myself my own office with two computers and a TV (the only offices bigger and better belong to the top exec's) and got them to pay me for my time on my commute. Now I just sit and watch netflix or now read this forum waiting for something to happen for me to fix. It is real because I got away with it.

That would be him.

With all the things with the economy going on I decided to reed up about our current system assuming that our system of capitalism was well defined. Apparently not. I happened across this book online and it has been really interesting. It was written as an argument against Communism but in fact equally argues against our current haphazard form of Capitalism. I think it is a good read. It isn't Conservative or Liberal (even though socially the author would be considered a Conservative) but something that goes sideways from that whole argument. I know that there are at least a few of us that like it "sideways"
The book is fee online as a PDF here
http://www.kelsoinstitute.org/download.html

I'm strappin on my nad kickin boots.

Yall gonna make me use em?


AUNUS! WOOD!

WOO WOO!

Dok,
Can't get ANYONE to kick him in the junk, these days.

So that is why you mentioned poptarts in PM. It did seem odd (but in this crowd how could I really tell).
Still... hope to see all you Tucson people sometime between the 25th and the 1st

My wife and I will be attending. Anyone want to get together beforehand to put up some posters and make some fun banners?

From what I read it isn't normal Alzheimer's. It is a type that affects what he preceives and the example that he gave was how he would be at the keyboard and not be able to find the w key. He would know that it is there and where it should be but he will look and it is just not there. Something that really sucks for a writer.