Why I am here /\

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

How did I end up here?

I know this was started somewhere else by someone else and if I could find it, I would bump it, but my eyes are tired from whatever bug I picked up.  Since we have been debating to death, or at least to several people's great annoyance, what it means to be whatever we are, I shall start at the beginning.

I am adopted.  That may seem like too much of 'starting at the beginning', but it helps to explain some things.  My father comes from German lineage, my mother from Czechoslovakian.  My birth parents were Irish, Scottish, French Canadian, Indian(Native American), German and Dutch.  So although no one would go, OMG, that girl is adopted, I don't really look like any of my family.  I may have felt out of place anyway, but we shall never know.  I never felt like anyone understood me growing up.  I later learned my birth mother was 13 when I was born, so I am sure I would not have been better off if I had not been adopted, so this is a resentment that is pretty much gone.

We didn't go to church much, Easter, summer bible school, that kind of stuff.  Methodist, I think.  Then my parents divorced and got remarried, within a week of each other.  My step father was a church goer, Church of Christ or some such.  We went to church most Sundays for a long time.  I lived with my dad when I was in Junior High, I got involved with the church there, Methodist again, I think.  Mostly I liked the youth group.  The leaders were a young married couple.  They spoke to us plainly about the stuff in the bible.  They told us about the 'judge not, lest yea be judged' and the 'let your yeas be yeas and your nays be nays' those are two lessons I keep with me.  Plus, they were smart enough to have bible study on Sunday and fun stuff on Wednesday.  If you didn't show up for bible study, you didn't get fun night.  

For the next ten or fifteens years I pretty much went into a downhill spiral.  There was the math club, drama, band in high school, those were some of the high points.  I shall skip the low points.  If anyone thinks they need to talk about a substance abuse problem, PM me and I would be glad to chat with you.  Then I started going to AA and some other anonymous meeting type things.  Then I went to college.  I explored a lot of religious and spiritual ideas.  I talked to people, I learned stuff in classes, I read books.  I found that a lot of the pagan religions annoyed me in the same way that Christianity did, lots of ritual.  

I was talking with someone from here the other day, and I think the first time I was on the internet was 1993 and the first time I read the PD was 1997.  I didn't go to Eris, she came to me.  There wasn't a day when I said, "Wow I don't think there is nearly enough chaos in my life, I think I'll pray to some crazy goddess that represents chaos and discord, yea that's what I want!"  I was discouraged from the crap I saw in other "organised" religions.  And the less than organised ones as well.  The kinds of people who want to shoot an abortion doctor who terminates a pregnancy in the 13th week, but won't give any sympathy to a women has a spontaneous miscarriage during the same gestational time frame.  

I decided over time that Eris makes more sense.  Most religions have some sort of godhead thingy that says, "humans screwed up and that is why I do these stupid things to you, to pay you back for screwing up."  With Eris, you just know there is going to be chaos, nobody's fault, that's just life, which makes more sense.  Also, I have a mean sarcastic sense of humor, got that from my dad.  I also have the inate ability to pin down what is going on with people.  I don't do it on purpose, in fact I find myself biting my tongue so as to not hurt people's feelings.  Depending on who it is and how badly they have pissed me off.  I'm a little bit of a prankster but, I have learned that revenge is a dish best served cold.  You can end up with a better opportunity and the poor sap is not expecting it as much.  

So I ended up here because:

1  I don't like people to tell me what to do.
2  I don't like religions with rigid rules, or any rules, really.
3  I like the internet.
4  I like to converse with intelligient people, intellectual people, and interesting people.
5  I like to debate.
6  I like cookies and pie and lots of other kinds of fun.
7  I like the mathematical properties of Chaos.
8  I like the Principia Discordia , the book itself.  I think it is a great mixture of stupidity, hilarity, insight and pranksterisms.

[Ben]

I grow up in America.  What more need I say?

[Horab Fibslager]

i cam ehere because i heard they weren't discordian enough for a fella at 23ae. needless to say it was a good ol time. decided to stick around as a result of that little adventure. i coem ehre ebcause it's funny sometimes, and there aer cool peopel who sometimes like what i say. i enjoy biking, binge drinking, and long walks under intensely psychadelic sunsets.

i've been discordian 10 years now,  in a variably dynamic manner, and i rip off alto of stuff from other places.


i come here for the pie.

[agent compassion]

I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

I came here to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum.

I love that movie, even though Rowdy Roddy is not in his usual kilt.  Plus, the stuff you see with the glasses on, those are kind of like the fnords, no they aren't, yes they are

[East Coast Hustle]

why am I here?

simple.

my dial-up connection is too slow for me to watch streaming porn videos.

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

why am I here?

simple.

my dial-up connection is too slow for me to watch streaming porn videos.

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[agent compassion]

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[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

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[Ben]

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[agent compassion]

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[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

Zemon,
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[agent compassion]

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[Ben]

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[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

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