See my response to sekhethsis below. From our privileged position Western society can appear to be running just brilliantly, but in fact it's doing so to the vast detriment of various oppressed people - entire countries full of them. Whenever any Third World country manages to resist, America's governments and corporations use their vast resources (pilfered, ultimately, from the very countries they're being used against) to stamp it out, and then hush up the whole thing.
Sure it's scary. But genuine balls-out religion/spirituality always requires a certain degree of masochism.
You have to keep in mind that Discordianism was ultimately born out of the most bizarre elements of the hippie era - the fringe of the fringe, as it were. On a personal level, it calls for true, genuine spontaneity of action, free from societal roboticism. On a communal/collective level, it essentially calls for a kind of anarchy. It's not about respecting all faiths, it's about tearing all of them down, including Discordianism itself - the ultimate iconoclasm. That's why it's deliberately absurd: to prevent (or at least try to prevent) anyone from taking it too seriously.
2. This still does bother me. I'm fine with cancelling (though I can't think of when I cancelled anything like that), but I like at least some warning. I'm not a horribly busy person, but still, if I book off a day/night for you, let me know as soon as you can that you can't make it, so I can shift stuff around.
I think my most disappointing example of cancellations was inviting to someone out, with a month warning, and then the week before we were talking and they said they couldn't make it. Why? Because someone else asked them to do something that day, and they didn't want to cancel that plan. Despite the fact my invitation was very time sensitive (one day a year possible), while the other was something that could be done almost any time.
3. Come to the moot, and I'll show you an ad.
4. Peaceful protest has proven to be utterly ineffective. Great soul Ghandi, I think would disagree. I don't think it is peaceful protest that is the problem, I just think people are doing it wrong (wow, my mind went to a bad cat macro there)
I'm not talking about Ghandi's passive resistance - that can still get you a criminal record, so people are generally not willing to do it. What I'm talking about is standing around (or marching around) waving signs and shouting, at the time and place that the government told you it was okay to do it.
#1. tyrsalvia calls these "rutabagas" (I suppose because they are not a cabbage or something). The fact that my repertoire is in fact limited to "spoon" and "fnord" is why I no longer call myself a Discordian. I am, to put it humorous-ironically, not serious enough about it. Some acquaintance of mine coined the phrase "Discordian sympathizer" which I think describes me well enough.
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I agree with you about the littering for the sake of an ad, though. That's awful.
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I got a rock in the face.
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You have to keep in mind that Discordianism was ultimately born out of the most bizarre elements of the hippie era - the fringe of the fringe, as it were. On a personal level, it calls for true, genuine spontaneity of action, free from societal roboticism. On a communal/collective level, it essentially calls for a kind of anarchy. It's not about respecting all faiths, it's about tearing all of them down, including Discordianism itself - the ultimate iconoclasm. That's why it's deliberately absurd: to prevent (or at least try to prevent) anyone from taking it too seriously.
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I think my most disappointing example of cancellations was inviting to someone out, with a month warning, and then the week before we were talking and they said they couldn't make it. Why? Because someone else asked them to do something that day, and they didn't want to cancel that plan. Despite the fact my invitation was very time sensitive (one day a year possible), while the other was something that could be done almost any time.
3. Come to the moot, and I'll show you an ad.
4. Peaceful protest has proven to be utterly ineffective. Great soul Ghandi, I think would disagree. I don't think it is peaceful protest that is the problem, I just think people are doing it wrong (wow, my mind went to a bad cat macro there)
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