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TESTEMONAIL:  Right and Discordianism allows room for personal interpretation. You have your theories and I have mine. Unlike Christianity, Discordia allows room for ideas and opinions, and mine is well-informed and based on ancient philosophy and theology, so, my neo-Discordian friends, open your minds to my interpretation and I will open my mind to yours. That's fair enough, right? Just claiming to be discordian should mean that your mind is open and willing to learn and share ideas. You guys are fucking bashing me and your laughing at my theologies and my friends know what's up and are laughing at you and honestly this is my last shot at putting a label on my belief structure and your making me lose all hope of ever finding a ideological group I can relate to because you don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about and everything I have said is based on the founding principals of real Discordianism. Expand your mind.

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Started by hooplala, January 23, 2009, 05:43:32 PM

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Quote from: Telarus on April 14, 2009, 09:43:12 PM
Bleeding into Bucky Fuller's work there Rurouzaru.

"Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system's separate parts or any subassembly of the system's parts. There is nothing in the chemistry of a toenail that predicts the existence of a human being."

actually, the word "emergence" refers to pretty much the same thing.

interesting nonetheless, I keep meaning to read more of bucky's stuff.

i just don't see why he has to lead it in with a useless (and false) statement like "synergy is the only word ...", while the point of the paragraph is to point out the wonderfullness of synergy (or emergence), not that we only have one word for it (we dont, and even if we did, what's the point? in some languages there's lots of concepts you cannot fit in just one word)
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e-prime disclaimer: let it seem fairly unclear I understand the apparent subjectivity of the above statements. maybe.

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