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 Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:00 am
What the hell is wrong with us, people?! This is such an inactive group! As Discordians, we are the ones with the Madness in us, the ones to shake the concrete pillars of the earth's foundations and to suck the marrow from the bones of God. Why don't we start up some discussions? Maybe a lively debate? An excommunication game? Anything!
I know what someone's response will invariably be:
"As Discordians, we strive to break free of the 'shoulds' that seem to rule our lives. Because of that, Mr. Longvalley, you saying that we 'should' post and get involved more is just another system of oppression and control. So zark off, because I'm not going to post anymore."
Though well reasoned and immediately admirable for using the Adams-ian work "zark," such a response is insufficient and stupid for two reasons:
1) A 'should' only becomes a system of oppression if it is instituted unwillingly. If I told you that you 'should,' say, feel good about yourself, then what the hell would be oppressive about doing that? To not do so would be the act of oppression, because by not feeling good about one's self one would limit their freedom and creativity. Despite the lies that the Principia and other Discordian hunchbrains may tell you, a system of morals/beliefs/shoulds/truisms/etc is not necessarily bad, so long as those things speak to the wholeness and well-being of one's character and of the elements in the world that tend towards improving one's existence.
2) Because I said so, and I know what's best for you.
If you question either of these reasons, then refer to Axiom 102, which states that "A wise man on a mountain told me about it." All of ethics/morality/work/leisure is finitely axiomatizable to this one principle, that that which is told to one by one who is off his gourd and lives on a mountain must, necessarily, be true.
In honor of these proofs and by virtue of my rank as Supreme Sub-Potentate of the Fertile Bone Orchard, a title which I solemnly and vicariously just created, I hereby excommunicate every Discordian in this group until such time that they
A) disprove my statements by reference to an overriding system of finite axioms,
B) prove themselves infallible by submitting to me their application of Messiah in triplicate, or
C) choose not to be excommunicated.
So sayeth the Lard.
Choose your Beloved,
Longvalley
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:12 am
Item Five: The Principia does not say systems are bad. It says they are games and it is unwise to treat them as more than such.
Point Cinq: I pre-emptorily excommunicate your excommunication, so there.
Einzelteil Fünf: I submit to you that you are, in fact, The Martian.
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:36 am
Mylian Item Five: The Principia does not say systems are bad. It says they are games and it is unwise to treat them as more than such. Point Cinq: I pre-emptorily excommunicate your excommunication, so there. Einzelteil Fünf: I submit to you that you are, in fact, The Martian. Item Seventeen: Very good, Sir Mylian, very good. I rescind a certain measure of what I said about the Principia - I had completely overlooked Mal2 and Lord Omar's insights into the nature of games. Punta Setenta: Instead of re-excommunicating your de-excommunication, I retroactively excommunicate your mother and father in the hopes that there is some type of Original Sin-type mechanism that will cause the excommunication to be inherited to you before you were even born, thereby negating the possibility of your de-excommunication. However, this brings up the prickly fact that, by doing so, I render my own initial excommunication of you to be extraneous and unnecessary, an aberrant extra that does no more than tack on an extra excommunication (an excommunication to the power of two?). Whether this qualifies you as being Super Excommunicated, or whether it means that the excommunications cancel each other out, I do not know. A delightful paradox all the same. Peleis Suiso: The Martian I may be, dear friend, but do not forget that even Mars had his moments. He waged war against the Cosmos, raged against the Titans, and even bedded Aphrodite a time or to. To be in his employ is no small thing of which to boast. Blessings and curses, Longvalley
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Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 7:48 pm
Sorry. From my father I inherit my rugged good looks, and from my mother I inherit my batshit insanity.
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:38 am
Mylian Sorry. From my father I inherit my rugged good looks, and from my mother I inherit my batshit insanity. Kudos on the successful application of the word "batshit" to a non-denigratory statement. That's a very hard thing to pull off. It sounds as though you've gotten a good deal in the genetic marketplace. Be sure to marry a neophilic, proto-Nietzschean Rajneeshian bride that also happens to be a succulent young trollop, so that your offspring may be further distilled into veritable breweries of intensity, awesomeness, and "Damn . . . they fine!"-ness. As a side note, I always associate "rugged" looks with the Brawny paper towel guy. Hence, you'll have to get a flannel shirt for your avi, just so that you can truly experience the phenomenon of ruggedness. Flannel is to clothing what the Do It Yourself Vasectomy is to medical science: both might be a bit unpleasant to have, but they're a testament to the upper eschalons of masculinity.
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Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:46 am
Also, another interesting lexical tidbit (the best brand of tidbits, if you ask me): you and I are part of the "Crosshaven" group, which has an interesting conotations in regards to spelling variants. It can be read as "Cross Haven" or "Cros Shaven," although the latter employs non-Anglican wording. Cros is sometimes used as a shortened version of Cronos, father of Zeus, our Main Man of Greek Order. Subsequently, the Cronos-ic principle is often associated with uber-masculinity, most specifically the male genitalia.
Hence, given a bit of a lexical stretch, "Crosshaven" could be read as "Cros Shaven," which would in turn read "Shaved p***s." That's one of the elements that initially prompted me to join the group, because it's just hilarious to click on one's "My Guild" button and to see a group dedicated to intimate shaving.
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 12:46 am
i'm relatively inactive here because as much as i like the inanity of a lot of the shite here, i've got a life that's getting progressively more full and there's plenty of room for discord in the nonline world.
currently i've got 2 part time jobs, one as a kitchen b***h for about 10 hours a week as well as a weekend job as a freelance events photographer for the local paper. and i'm looking for a 3rd job that's more full-time in addition to the other two. trying to balance that with a relationship and friends leaves me with little time for coming on gaia. and i got a bit bored with it a while ago anyway.
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Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 8:56 am
Longvalley Mylian Item Five: The Principia does not say systems are bad. It says they are games and it is unwise to treat them as more than such. Point Cinq: I pre-emptorily excommunicate your excommunication, so there. Einzelteil Fünf: I submit to you that you are, in fact, The Martian. Item Seventeen: Very good, Sir Mylian, very good. I rescind a certain measure of what I said about the Principia - I had completely overlooked Mal2 and Lord Omar's insights into the nature of games. Punta Setenta: Instead of re-excommunicating your de-excommunication, I retroactively excommunicate your mother and father in the hopes that there is some type of Original Sin-type mechanism that will cause the excommunication to be inherited to you before you were even born, thereby negating the possibility of your de-excommunication. However, this brings up the prickly fact that, by doing so, I render my own initial excommunication of you to be extraneous and unnecessary, an aberrant extra that does no more than tack on an extra excommunication (an excommunication to the power of two?). Whether this qualifies you as being Super Excommunicated, or whether it means that the excommunications cancel each other out, I do not know. A delightful paradox all the same. 0!||7 7w3||7y 7|-|r33: What if though, say, I were to retroactively do the same to your parents, which will then follow on in the same way leaving you excommunicated and this incapable of excommunicating anyone, and so Mylian would not be priorae-excommunicatus and so free to do as he please. But you already have excommunicated him and so were does that lead? Can we retroactively, by retroactively excommunicating you via your spawner, excommunicate the excommunications, making him Super De-excommunicated, which does of course qualify him for the Excommunication semi-finals, in the race for the grand prize of Five Tons of Five Tons of Flax! (And what is the weight, in tons, of a ton of a ton?)
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Posted: Mon Mar 24, 2008 9:41 pm
Imber Longvalley Mylian Item Five: The Principia does not say systems are bad. It says they are games and it is unwise to treat them as more than such. Point Cinq: I pre-emptorily excommunicate your excommunication, so there. Einzelteil Fünf: I submit to you that you are, in fact, The Martian. Item Seventeen: Very good, Sir Mylian, very good. I rescind a certain measure of what I said about the Principia - I had completely overlooked Mal2 and Lord Omar's insights into the nature of games. Punta Setenta: Instead of re-excommunicating your de-excommunication, I retroactively excommunicate your mother and father in the hopes that there is some type of Original Sin-type mechanism that will cause the excommunication to be inherited to you before you were even born, thereby negating the possibility of your de-excommunication. However, this brings up the prickly fact that, by doing so, I render my own initial excommunication of you to be extraneous and unnecessary, an aberrant extra that does no more than tack on an extra excommunication (an excommunication to the power of two?). Whether this qualifies you as being Super Excommunicated, or whether it means that the excommunications cancel each other out, I do not know. A delightful paradox all the same. 0!||7 7w3||7y 7|-|r33: What if though, say, I were to retroactively do the same to your parents, which will then follow on in the same way leaving you excommunicated and this incapable of excommunicating anyone, and so Mylian would not be priorae-excommunicatus and so free to do as he please. But you already have excommunicated him and so were does that lead? Can we retroactively, by retroactively excommunicating you via your spawner, excommunicate the excommunications, making him Super De-excommunicated, which does of course qualify him for the Excommunication semi-finals, in the race for the grand prize of Five Tons of Five Tons of Flax! (And what is the weight, in tons, of a ton of a ton?) The answer to your questions are as follows: 1) The space-time continuum would collapse, rendering a priori excommunications unnecessary. 2) To Rome. 3) No. 4) The negative square root of one to the power of ton.
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:57 pm
I don't find Gaia all that entertaining any more. Thus, I am not active very often.
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Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:53 pm
Simple answers? What fun are those?
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