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Started by Malaclypse the Tertiary, July 24, 2005, 09:14:19 AM

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LMNO

#165
March 03, 2008, 06:29:12 PM
GO SHOVEL SOMETHING, SPAG!
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AFK

#166
March 03, 2008, 06:39:38 PM
I need to find a cabal of Discordian freaks who enjoy frolicking in the snow and invite them to my house.  Any of those around here?   
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

Cramulus

#167
March 03, 2008, 06:43:11 PM
I tried to send some, but bad news: The Freaky Freezy Cabal all froze to death while trying to find your house. I believe their remains were found in your back yard, after the glacier melted.

AFK

#168
March 03, 2008, 06:53:28 PM
Quote from: Professor Cramulus on March 03, 2008, 06:43:11 PM
I tried to send some, but bad news: The Freaky Freezy Cabal all froze to death while trying to find your house. I believe their remains were found in your back yard, after the glacier melted.

LIES!!!!  The glacier has not melted yet. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

LMNO

#169
March 03, 2008, 06:55:16 PM
Quick question:


To where will it all go whence it melts?

AFK

#170
March 03, 2008, 06:56:59 PM
You guys who've been around for a couple of years might remember the thread I posted shortly after I bought my house, when the washing machine went splodey and flooded my basement. 

My guess is it will be something like that.
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

LMNO

#171
March 03, 2008, 07:02:26 PM
RWHN puchases a sump-pump, ITT.

AFK

#172
March 03, 2008, 07:11:21 PM
Oh, I have a sump pump.  I just don't know if it's going to be able to deal with that kind of volume. 
Cynicism is a blank check for failure.

hooplala

#173
March 03, 2008, 10:50:25 PM
Quote from: mungojelly on March 03, 2008, 05:38:16 PM
My cabal is recently called Dysnomianism.  It's only a cabal as recently as this paragraph, having once been a workshop series entitled Reality Break, before being a subsect of Discordianism and later a splinter religion.  Dysnomianism has not yet had any converts, as converts are generally obtained by holding onto some metaphysical or practical consistency & then cramming it into the brains of passersby.  Dysnomianism is always changing.  Dysnomianism is not changing right now.  Now it is again.  (One can only keep up with Dysnomianism at a healthy jogging pace, and it is always changing direction.)

Dysnomianism might be found one day under your kitchen table, pretending to be a mote of dust.  You might sweep it up and start to throw it into the trash, but before it struck the can it would have transformed into a late-night jam session in a deep south jazz club.  Dysnomianism doesn't peform encores.  It doesn't perform at all.  It isn't a religion, or a subsect, or a jam session.  Dysnomianism is presently a half-formed concept creeping into your mind's eye's peripheral vision.  Now it's gone.

There is nothing called Dysnomianism.  There is a goddess, let's call her Dysnomia Daughter Of Eris, and she inspires a mystery cult, let us call it Those Who Follow Dysnomia.  Whereas the act of being a Discordian-- let us forget for a moment those who are so foolish as to believe there is something so tangible as a discordian belief system-- the act of being Discordian is to invent something so fun that it couldn't possibly be true and then to believe it for the fuck of it, the act of being one of Those Who Follow Dysnomia is the act of taking everything you actually believe in your heart of hearts, with which you will not part for any reason, and fitting it for a pair of concrete shoes.  Dysnomia takes no prisoners, because by the time you are captured, your ideas of freedom and control themselves are shredded wisps streaming from the smashed remains of what you once thought was your paradigm.  You will wish that she had only questioned your reality once at once, as Eris so tamely does, instead of questioning it all the way down, all the way downtown, the final turtle made into turtle-soup.

There's something called Dysnomianism, again.  It's a Discordian Cabal.  It's something you can understand; now it's not.  It's a black hole of thought, unyielding, not in this for any purpose, not even lulz.  Dysnomia is the doubt which rests, solid as a rock, behind all shifting veils of certainty.  Everyone is a Dysnomian, for just this sentence.  Now it's back to being just me.  Existence is what happens when you do the same thing more than once in a row; Dysnomianism does not exist.  You are not welcome.  You are of course welcome, and you may join, but you will not succeed in pinning it down.

I like it.

We should probably all be starting our own religions rather than re-hashing Hill and Thornley's hobbies . . . and so, please join the First Church of the Green Door!
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#174
March 03, 2008, 11:56:11 PM
I already did that, it's called the Church of Unliteral Truth and it's sweeping the city.

Coming soon: The Book of Unliteral Truth.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

hooplala

#175
March 04, 2008, 02:41:15 AM
What's your angle?
"Soon all of us will have special names" — Professor Brian O'Blivion

"Now's not the time to get silly, so wear your big boots and jump on the garbage clowns." — Bob Dylan?

"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" — Walt Whitman

TheLastLump

#176
March 04, 2008, 04:42:42 AM
"It's a dog-eat-dog world, Jesus, please holla back..." -The Game

doughboy359: Don't be angry cause you're a heretical pagan, we'll still accept you if you convert. Doughboy, on being a Catholic.

The Good Reverend Roger

#177
March 04, 2008, 04:55:24 AM
The whole "I am the owner and sole member of my Cabal", and "This Cabal has existed for all of 5 minutes", etc, is getting to be one horribly overused joke.

Just saying.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
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"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Jasper

#178
March 04, 2008, 04:57:08 AM
I am Cabal.
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Mesozoic Mister Nigel

#179
March 04, 2008, 05:31:59 AM
Quote from: Hoopla on March 04, 2008, 02:41:15 AM
What's your angle?

I'm too tired to explain the whole unliteral truth thing tonight, but I'll try to remember to do it tomorrow.

I do have a question about the whole "plugging your cabal" thing though: why? What is the point, exactly? Surely no one wants random strangers to join?
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."

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