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Just wondering how many of you out there are familiar with the pricipica discordia, and if there any nations/regiosn based on the ideals therein.

I was recently leant a copy of the book.... it may have changed my life (if only slightly)

I used to dig Discordia, like in high school. Still kind of do.......I'm just kind of weirded out by the people that take it too seriously. I mean, that kind of defeats the whole point of it, no?

I'm just kind of weirded out by the people that take it too seriously.
Just like any ideology, no?

But true that does kind of defeat the purpose. WHich is I think what I like so much about it... it allows for self satire and extreme flexibility... as well as utter chaos

Not knowing what it was, I just did a quick search for this "Discordia".

From what I could gather, I can only assume it's a sort of lighthearted nihilism that's practiced by bipolar schizophrenics with ADD.

;-)

nunuk, that's an excellent analysis!

I think most nations under Discordia would eventually fall (or rise, depending on how you looked at it) into an "anarchy". I've had two nations in my region become anarchy because both made choices on issues that involved little to no government intervention. Oddly enough, anarchy nations tend to have very high levels of civil rights, economy, and politcal freedoms. The downside is a horrible crime rate (which I feel is as important as the other forementioned factors).

Oh I don't know, my nation is doing OK for absolutely no social intervention - though I am keeping an eye on business ;)

Fnord.

hail eris. All hail discordia

Government is anarchy's way of creating more anarchy :)

Join ye The Region of Thud, if you can figure out how... ;)

Disocordians are now on the FBI's watch list I am not kidding..so can i join?

Disocordians are now on the FBI's watch list I am not kidding..so can i join?
Of course you can, we're a non-prophet, irreligious disorganization, so we dun really keep track of our members...

Part Five The Golden Secret


NONSENSE AS SALVATION

The human race will begin solving it's problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously.

To that end, POEE proposes the countergame of NONSENSE AS SALVATION. Salvation from an ugly and barbarous existence that is the result of taking order so seriously and so seriously fearing contrary orders and disorder, that GAMES are taken as more important than LIFE; rather than taking LIFE AS THE ART OF PLAYING GAMES.

To this end, we propose that man develop his innate love for disorder, and play with The Goddess Eris. And know that it is a joyful play, and that thereby CAN BE REVOKED THE CURSE OF GREYFACE.

If you can master nonsense as well as you have already learned to master sense, then each will expose the other for what it is: absurdity. From that moment of illumination, a man begins to be free regardless of his surroundings. He becomes free to play order games and change them at will. He becomes free to play disorder games just for the hell of it. He becomes free to play neither or both. And as the master of his own games, he plays without fear, and therefore without frustration, and therefore with good will in his soul and love in his being.

And when men become free then mankind will be free.
May you be free of The Curse of Greyface.
May the Goddess put twinkles in your eyes.
May you have the knowledge of a sage,
and the wisdom of a child.
Hail Eris.

Hmm, so its 2005- should we look forward to an erisian intervention this year? perhaps may 23?

Sounds creepy

It was Nonsense that got us here...it is Nonsense that can...what was it...

Disocordians are now on the FBI's watch list I am not kidding..so can i join?

Sure.

It's a real shame the original description for our region couldn't be used because it was too long, it was a real beauty...

as can be heard in quivering Whispers echoed through the most arcane of halls... "and five days prior to this occasion the apostle the elder malaclypse shall Walk the streets bearing a sign for all literates to read thereof: 'doom', as a Warning of forthcoMing doom to all men impending. and he shall signal this event bY Seeking the poor ANd distribuTing to tHem pReciOus mao buttons and the world shall know the region of thud for these five sPecIal days. but untill the reCkoning of these dAyS we are not and cannot be a destination for just anYone, fated to remain smaLl and elUsive and largely unknown for the Moment ignorance and stupiDity rear their ugly, plague-ridden heads, the regiOn of Thud ceases to be. it becomes somethiNg differEnT, something... ordinary. be ye not lost among the precepts of order in the region of thud"

Not knowing what it was, I just did a quick search for this "Discordia".

From what I could gather, I can only assume it's a sort of lighthearted nihilism that's practiced by bipolar schizophrenics with ADD.

;-)

Well...
You've got the bipolar and the ADD bit right here...
:D

HEY LOOK!
A chicken!

"If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe."
--Kerry Thornley

I love that quote.

"If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe."
--Kerry Thornley

I love that quote.

Yay for funny people!!

Discordianism is more like DMT, in my opinion...
Marijuana doesn't let you see the machine elves from heaven.

"If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe."
--Kerry Thornley

I love that quote.

The Second Oswald...cool

The Second Oswald...cool

YAY!
That was your 666th post!
Oh noes, Armageddon is coming!
Quickly, post again to avert it!
:)
Or dance a pants-free leprechaun jig of happiness.

And it was refering to the Kennedy Assination too....eerie...

And it was refering to the Kennedy Assination too....eerie...
:eek:
I KNEW IT ALL ALONG!
The Antichrist murdered John F. Kennedy!
And then Jesus danced the pants-free jig of leprechaun happiness.
And Chef Brian reminds you to bath daily in ketchup... catsup... cat soup?

:eek:
I KNEW IT ALL ALONG!
The Antichrist murdered John F. Kennedy!
And then Jesus danced the pants-free jig of leprechaun happiness.
And Chef Brian reminds you to bath daily in ketchup... catsup... cat soup?
Y'know, it's funny that we were just discussing psychoactive hallucinogens...

Unite? Foolishness, disunity is where it's at.

Token discordian random self-referencing response.

Unite? Foolishness, disunity is where it's at.

Think it as more of an orgy instead of a unity

Think it as more of an orgy instead of a unity

Fair enough.

Fair enough.
i want answers! i demand nothing!

i want answers! i demand nothing!
I DEMAND A LACK OF ANSWERS!

What was that from again...
One of the Hitchhiker trilogy/quadrilogy by Douglas Adams. I forget which.

I DEMAND A LACK OF ANSWERS!

What was that from again...
One of the Hitchhiker trilogy/quadrilogy by Douglas Adams. I forget which.
I demand a lack of lack of answers!

I demand a lack of lack of answers!
I'll demand that too while I'm at it!
I'm hungry.
I DEMAND A GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH!
Make payable to Jesus Christ.

I'll demand that too while I'm at it!
I'm hungry.
I DEMAND A GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH!
Make payable to Jesus Christ.
Q. When is post modernism not post modernism?
A. When its post modernism.

Q. When is post modernism not post modernism?
A. When its post modernism.
I'd have to say my posts are fairly modern...
At least the ones I posted recently.
The posts in my front yard are old though.

I'd have to say my posts are fairly modern...
At least the ones I posted recently.
The posts in my front yard are old though.

There are only two houses in my entire town (that I know of) that have 50s style white picket fences, one is my friend Ben's house, and the other is about a block from there.

There are only two houses in my entire town (that I know of) that have 50s style white picket fences, one is my friend Ben's house, and the other is about a block from there.

I don't have a picket fence. I have 4 wooden posts.
It was an experiment. It was very interesting too. Assuming you find figuring out whether the snowplow guy will put up another post if you put one up yourself interesting.

i Find This Extremely Interesting

I'll demand that too while I'm at it!
I'm hungry.
I DEMAND A GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH!
Make payable to Jesus Christ.With Harold you get pie. :D

All hail Harold.

I don't have a picket fence. I have 4 wooden posts.
It was an experiment. It was very interesting too. Assuming you find figuring out whether the snowplow guy will put up another post if you put one up yourself.

I was just saying, because I thought it interesting that there were so few white picket fences when they used to be so popular, but now you've gotten me all confused.

You put up a wooden post, not attachted to anything, and with no purpose other than seeing if the snowplow guy would put up another one? What effect does the post have on the snowplow guy's job, and what effect does putting up a second post have? Or a third or fourth for that matter?

It doesn't snow here. It has snowed here twice in the last 24 years and never more than an inch, but lucky me it snows foot after foot about 2 and a half hours away so I can get all the snow I need to survive. Where I used to live it snowed feet each year, which is nice for a year or two, but then it gets kind of depressing, so I guess it's good I only lived there for two years.

And now that I'm done with my condenced life story by snow I'm going to go back to not playing my game.

Not too long ago I was wondering what became of the subgenius, turns out nothing, chugging along quite nicely. whatyaknow....

I was just saying, because I thought it interesting that there were so few white picket fences when they used to be so popular, but now you've gotten me all confused.

You put up a wooden post, not attachted to anything, and with no purpose other than seeing if the snowplow guy would put up another one? What effect does the post have on the snowplow guy's job, and what effect does putting up a second post have? Or a third or fourth for that matter?

It doesn't snow here. It has snowed here twice in the last 24 years and never more than an inch, but lucky me it snows foot after foot about 2 and a half hours away so I can get all the snow I need to survive. Where I used to live it snowed feet each year, which is nice for a year or two, but then it gets kind of depressing, so I guess it's good I only lived there for two years.

And now that I'm done with my condenced life story by snow I'm going to go back to not playing my game.

The snowplow guy puts up posts with orange painted tops on the corners of properties so he doesn't end up driving onto somebody's lawn.

Putting up posts didn't do much. I put one up that had no orange top, and it disappeared and one with an orange top appeared. I put another one with an orange top right next to it, and it stayed there.

I then decided to put one in a tree, but it fell out and somebody took it.

I then put two with blue tops in the middle of my yard.
I left them all there instead of taking them down, and surprisingly, nobody's driven into my yard while drunk or anything and knocked them down yet except for once.

Not too long ago I was wondering what became of the subgenius, turns out nothing, chugging along quite nicely. whatyaknow....

I didn't know about the subgenius until recently when I stumbled upon their website looking for something else (I don't remember what). Funny stuff.

The snowplow guy puts up posts with orange painted tops on the corners of properties so he doesn't end up driving onto somebody's lawn.

Putting up posts didn't do much. I put one up that had no orange top, and it disappeared and one with an orange top appeared. I put another one with an orange top right next to it, and it stayed there.

I then decided to put one in a tree, but it fell out and somebody took it.

I then put two with blue tops in the middle of my yard.
I left them all there instead of taking them down, and surprisingly, nobody's driven into my yard while drunk or anything and knocked them down yet except for once.

Good story. I bet if I put up wooden posts in my yard, with any color top or none I'd get in trouble with my neighbors.

Good story. I bet if I put up wooden posts in my yard, with any color top or none I'd get in trouble with my neighbors. And then i'd go cry because i'm such a tool and everyone obvioulsy hates me becuase of my apparent lack of intellect
I hate americans

I hate americans

Really, that's sad. Some really can be dicks sometimes, but I find that most of them are pretty decent. Oh well.

I hate americans
I hate people who are little more than unthinking products of their social conditioning.. which unfortunately applies to many Americans...

I hate people who are little more than unthinking products of their social conditioning.. which unfortunately applies to many Americans...

Even unthinking products of social conditioning can create things. Hatred, however, can lead to nothing but destruction. Be wary of the curse of Greyface.

Even unthinking products of social conditioning can create things. Hatred, however, can lead to nothing but destruction. Be wary of the curse of Greyface.
Ooh, a curse!
If I tickle it, will it jiggle?

Even unthinking products of social conditioning can create things. Hatred, however, can lead to nothing but destruction. Be wary of the curse of Greyface.
One must think before one can create...