The Principia Discordia

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http://www.ology.org/principia/body.html#csmlgy

It's a great read and it is sure to enlighten. Would be interested in listening to people's intellegent thoughts after having read it.

sorry dude to advanced for me.

[Digital_Savior]

*chants*

...RPG RPG RPG RPG...

quote:Originally posted by Digital_Savior:

*chants*

...RPG RPG RPG RPG...

What the hell? :S

I love that book, its somewhere between a religion disguised as a joke, and a joke disguised as a religion.

If you want a headache, try and take it seriously, as if it contained some sort of hard fact.

Oh, I had already read it though.

I really want to get hold of a paper copy.

Edit: In fact, multiple paper copies.

I can use them like Chick tracts.

[This message has been edited by dearestnight_falcon (edited 10-27-2004).]

[Digital_Savior]

It just seemed like a fantasy model for an RPG.

*lol*

quote:Originally posted by Digital_Savior:

...RPG RPG RPG RPG...

Yeam... sure. Moving on.

You can order it from any Bookstore and its' only like $8 or $10 dollars.

The Principia is written as a joke, but the "points" that are meant to be taken seriously are discovered through the irony and sarcasm scattered throughout the bits here and there. The most important thing to remember, is that the worst thing you can do is to take either yourself or your religion seriously.

quote:Originally posted by Digital_Savior:

It just seemed like a fantasy model for an RPG.

*lol*

EEEP!

I wouldn't want to be the Game master running THAT rpg.

PD is in my knowledge a ciritcism of both monism and pluralism in form of a joke...

But it's quite amusing.

quote:Originally posted by jurainus:

PD is in my knowledge a ciritcism of both monism and pluralism in form of a joke...

But it's quite amusing.

In part yes. It is a criticism of more than that, it is also an affirmation of a lifestyle, of a sense of lightheartedness.

I actually belong to the First Discordian Church of West Chester.

Although it's still in the "cult phase".

Let go of my Golden Apple.

quote:Originally posted by Vindicatus:

I actually belong to the First Discordian Church of West Chester.

Although it's still in the "cult phase".

Let go of my Golden Apple.

Hooray! May your life be filled with hotdogs and never a bun! Hail Eris.

quote:Originally posted by Sempre Solipsist:



Hooray! May your life be filled with hotdogs and never a bun! Hail Eris.

There are many such evil products handed to unsuspecting consumers. I consider this example to be a metaphor comparing what you "eat" in the form of food and what you "eat" as truth.

You have to be careful what you expose yourself to. Just cause hotdogs come in a pretty package doesnt mean its going to taste good or do you good.

Hot dogs come in packeges of 8, but the buns come in packages of 6. How f*cked is that?

Thats part of what I gather from the teachings.

what on earth are they talking about

Wouldn't it be crazy to fast forward 2000 years, and have the PD be like the bible.

And have it be a huge thing, a la christianity.

With churches and missionaries and everything, that would be crazy.

The Principia Discordia has been on of the major influences on my own personal philosophy (itself a pastiche of Dada theory, postmodernism and absurdist existentialism).

Mr Monomoto, famous Japanese, can swallow his nose.

It's gloriously stupid. All of it. And that's why it's beautiful.