Discordianism is now... Steampunk?

[stmae]

I like to sew things, and I am currently working on a ridiculous Halloween costume. I was searching online for buttons to add to a vest, and I found these really cool buttons that look like gears. They're appropriate for my costume, so I clicked to look at them in more detail. The description caught my eye:

JH98899 - Steampunk Gears Button - Nickel finish - 5/8". See our other metal Steampunk buttons, including gears, wheels, clocks, gadgets and flywheels in silver, copper and brass finishes. Picture these buttons finishing up your elaborate Steampunk garments, whether you are anachronists, salvagepunks, dieselpunks, pulp devotees, rakes, bounders, flâneurs, steampunks, neovictorians, demimondaines, Edwardian scholarly types, airship pirates, or a member of the asylum for the chronotemporally dislocated. Steampunk is a style of dress and/or lifestyle based in the worlds of Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Robert Anton Wilson and Alan Moore. It embraces the alternative possibilities of the Victorian England period, where steam power runs elaborately geared machines, women wear corsets and eccentric villains challenge the good guy with outrageous gadgets and inventions. Here is the Wikipedia Definition: Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. Specifically, Steampunk involves an era or world where steam power is still widely used-usually the 19th century and often Steampunk is a sub-genre of science fiction, alternate history, and speculative fiction that came into prominence during the 1980s and early 1990s. This technology may include such fictional machines as those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne or real technologies like the computer but developed earlier in an alternate history. Other examples of Steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" for such technology as dirigibles, analog computers, or such digital mechanical computers as Charles Babbage's Analytical engine. These are great for Steampunk, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek, Star Wars, Firefly, Stargate, Doctor Who, Science Fiction, fantasy, X-Files, Lord of the Rings, Serenity

...Robert Anton Wilson?

In case you'd like to see these buttons for yourself, here's a link to one of them:

http://www.amazon.com/Steampunk-Gears-Button-Nickel-Finish/dp/B004XU19BC/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&m=A1IY0P9H3N8IZK&s=generic&qid=1318360916&sr=1-6

There are several different styles, colors, and sizes. They're all sold by the Patterns of Time Amazon store.


--St. Mae, Discordian.com

[LMNO]

Since RAW was a futurist, I see no reason why he'd think steam powered anything would be a good idea.

[kingyak]

I'm trying to recall all the steampunk inventions in the Historical Illuminatus trilogy. I'm not having any luck.

[Cain]

LSD powered technology, maybe.  Steam-powered, hell no.

[LMNO]

Best I can do is Hagbard and the yellow submarine, but that had a massive fucking supercomputer on it, so...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Hahahaha what the hell?

Perhaps the person who wrote the copy was Discordian, and it's a wink and a nod.

[Telarus]

Hahahaha what the hell?

Perhaps the person who wrote the copy was Discordian, and it's a wink and a nod.

Hahaha. Good possibility.

Also, HI ST. MAE!

[Doktor Howl]

I am NOT fucking wearing cogs glued to my jacket.

END OF STORY.

[Doktor Howl]

Also, who the fuck made RAW the official Discordian spokesman?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, who the fuck made RAW the official Discordian spokesman?

I don't know, it's a bit puzzling. Perhaps because he's the most well-known Discordian writer?

[kingyak]

Also, who the fuck made RAW the official Discordian spokesman?

I don't know, it's a bit puzzling. Perhaps because he's the most well-known Discordian writer?

I think a lot of people honestly don't realize that the Illuminatus! Trilogy borrowed from the Principia, not the other way around. I suspect that's because a lot of people aren't that bright.

[Doktor Howl]

Also, who the fuck made RAW the official Discordian spokesman?

I don't know, it's a bit puzzling. Perhaps because he's the most well-known Discordian writer?

Because he ripped off Thornely, the same way he ripped off Leary for The Cosmic Trigger.  Then he writes 3 bad books, and now all of a sudden I'm a steam punk because someone ELSE used his image in some steampunk bullshit.

EATING THE MENU, ITR.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Also, who the fuck made RAW the official Discordian spokesman?

I don't know, it's a bit puzzling. Perhaps because he's the most well-known Discordian writer?

Because he ripped off Thornely, the same way he ripped off Leary for The Cosmic Trigger.  Then he writes 3 bad books, and now all of a sudden I'm a steam punk because someone ELSE used his image in some steampunk bullshit.

EATING THE MENU, ITR.

We might need to do something about it.

[Doktor Howl]

Also, who the fuck made RAW the official Discordian spokesman?

I don't know, it's a bit puzzling. Perhaps because he's the most well-known Discordian writer?

Because he ripped off Thornely, the same way he ripped off Leary for The Cosmic Trigger.  Then he writes 3 bad books, and now all of a sudden I'm a steam punk because someone ELSE used his image in some steampunk bullshit.

EATING THE MENU, ITR.

We might need to do something about it.

Well, the thing is, the steampunk crowd is the only NICE bunch I've met.  I can't blame THEM.

I'll blame St Mae, for bringing it to my attention.

[Suu]

RAW doesn't belong with that list of authors.

For multiple reasons aside from anachronism.