I received this email today:
Central Scrutinizer,
I cannot believe you are wasting your time with the Discordians; they are small potatoes, brother. Why should you waste your time with a group whose only contribution to the planet has been red pubic hair, when you could be trying to bash the group who is actually running all the machinery?
Fair enough, Discordianism IS insidious; this is apparent by the fact that it is promoted by that dastard Robert Anton Wilson who -of course, of course- only wants you to BELIEVE he is deceased. His nefarious ideals should be obvious to anyone who can enumerate the famous initials of "RAW" to the sum of '207' [R = 200, A = 1, W = 6] . . . a little research would show that 207 also suggests "The Lord Of The Universe", "That Which Cuts", "The Elder", and the most eldritch of all, "The Scorpion". Need I say more?
On the plus side, you should be aware that although we pull ALL the strings, we do so only in your best interest. In fact, one of your recent posts said it best: The trouble with thinking for yourself. The real trouble with thinking for yourself is that it is not in your habit, the human race hasn't been thinking for itself for thousands of years; we've been doing the thinking for you. Not only that, but thinking for yourself is tiring, trust me, I know . . . I do all the thinking for the lot of you, and I am effing pooped.
I'll give you a tip: the Aghori are much more dangerous than the ridiculous Discordians, and are also much more prevalent within the borders of your country. Just a thought.
Until we meet in person,
R.C.
[A-I-S-B]
Does anyone have any idea what AISB stands for? Is this more letter numerology? These cults become more and more sick each day.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
Enough Is Enough Already
About fifty years ago a whacko in San Francisco decided he had lived enough of his life in abject rejection long enough, and proclaimed himself to be Emperor of the United States Of America, and "Protector" Of Mexico. Just like that. He snaps his fingers and we are all meant to just listen and obey.
Let's just ignore for the moment that the idea of someone just naming themself as important goes against all the concepts of important we currently hold dear, we have degrees of acceptance and approval about all things because all things are subject to our collective approval. This just makes sense. If anyone could just grant themself a diploma from Harvard, how good would that diploma ultimately be? About as good as a Happy Meal diploma from McDonalds. But lets also not forget that the very idea of an "Emperor" in a democracy is both laughable and evil. This homeless man thinks he is better than my father, who not only served in Korea for his country, but lost both his ankles for the honor? This man, this "Emperor Norton" somehow deserves more respect, simply because he is a DISCORDIAN? It makes me sick.
But wait . . . it gets "better".
Recently someone else decided to make themself Emperor, and apparently we didn't receive the collective memo . . . read on to see how it all turned out:
DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Saying it was "the day of the emperor's reign," a man with a gun and knife in his pockets went into a suburban shop and rented a tuxedo. A clerk considered his behavior odd enough to warrant a call to police.
About three hours later, a man in a dark suit some described as a tuxedo appeared outside the offices of Gov. Bill Ritter. He refused to drop a handgun, and was shot and killed by a patrolman on the governor's security detail.
The man said before he was shot, "I am the emperor and I'm here to take over state government," said Evan Dreyer, the governor's spokesman. No one besides the gunman was injured.
Police in the Denver suburb of Northglenn said the man who rented a tuxedo may have been the man killed at the governor's Capitol office. They also said in a statement that family members and an employer told investigators the man at the store was possibly delusional.
Officers with the Denver police department conducted a search late Monday at a home of a couple believed to be the suspect's parents. Investigators said they knew the man's name but did not release it.
The man had walked into the reception area of Ritter's office and was being escorted out before he produced a gun and refused orders to put it down, police spokesman Sonny Jackson said. Four or five shots were heard, but authorities would not say how many times the patrolman fired.
The man did not fire his weapon, Jackson said, declining to say if it was loaded.
The shooting occurred at about 2 p.m. in a hall outside the governor's offices on the first floor of the Capitol.
Ritter said he was in the office with 10 or 11 other people and heard shots, but he would not say how close he was to the gunman. He said some of his staff members witnessed the shooting. Watch Ritter describe the shooting »
Tobie Locke, a bridal manager at the Mister Neat's shop in Northglenn, said a man came in around 10 a.m. asking to rent a tuxedo and said, when asked about the occasion, "Today's the day of the emperor's reign."
After renting the tux, the man did not say where he was going.
"He was very nervous and sweating a lot and breathing very heavy," Locke said. "I had the impression he was going to hurt somebody."
Authorities said there had been no specific threats against the governor before Monday's shooting, which reinvigorated a debate about metal detectors at the Capitol.
Metal detectors were installed after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks but were removed the following July after lawmakers objected to making it more difficult for the public to visit.
They are usually installed temporarily during the governor's annual State of the State address in January.
Ritter said Capitol security would be temporarily stepped up while lawmakers and others discuss any permanent changes. Starting Tuesday, all visitors will be required to enter through a single entrance and pass through a metal detector, he said. It wasn't clear how long that requirement would be in place.
"We live in a country where there is just that constant tension about security versus openness," he said.
"We have always said this building is the people's building and the place where we conduct business, and it's the people's business. There are going to be discussions going forward about how we achieve that right balance between security and keeping it open," Ritter said.
The Democratic governor said he was pleased with the level of security he is provided.
State Rep. Edward Casso said he saw the gunman after the shooting and described him as being in his 30s or 40s, dressed in a white shirt and dark slacks.
Casso said a state patrolman told him to evacuate, adding, "I started to panic a little bit. I was just hoping that was the end of it."
The first-term Democrat said the Capitol should have metal detectors.
"It's kind of freaky someone could get that close," Casso said.
Kind of freaky, indeed. These Discordians must be stopped. This madness will only become worse.
What's next? Full-on invasion?
Let's just ignore for the moment that the idea of someone just naming themself as important goes against all the concepts of important we currently hold dear, we have degrees of acceptance and approval about all things because all things are subject to our collective approval. This just makes sense. If anyone could just grant themself a diploma from Harvard, how good would that diploma ultimately be? About as good as a Happy Meal diploma from McDonalds. But lets also not forget that the very idea of an "Emperor" in a democracy is both laughable and evil. This homeless man thinks he is better than my father, who not only served in Korea for his country, but lost both his ankles for the honor? This man, this "Emperor Norton" somehow deserves more respect, simply because he is a DISCORDIAN? It makes me sick.
But wait . . . it gets "better".
Recently someone else decided to make themself Emperor, and apparently we didn't receive the collective memo . . . read on to see how it all turned out:
DENVER, Colorado (AP) -- Saying it was "the day of the emperor's reign," a man with a gun and knife in his pockets went into a suburban shop and rented a tuxedo. A clerk considered his behavior odd enough to warrant a call to police.
About three hours later, a man in a dark suit some described as a tuxedo appeared outside the offices of Gov. Bill Ritter. He refused to drop a handgun, and was shot and killed by a patrolman on the governor's security detail.
The man said before he was shot, "I am the emperor and I'm here to take over state government," said Evan Dreyer, the governor's spokesman. No one besides the gunman was injured.
Police in the Denver suburb of Northglenn said the man who rented a tuxedo may have been the man killed at the governor's Capitol office. They also said in a statement that family members and an employer told investigators the man at the store was possibly delusional.
Officers with the Denver police department conducted a search late Monday at a home of a couple believed to be the suspect's parents. Investigators said they knew the man's name but did not release it.
The man had walked into the reception area of Ritter's office and was being escorted out before he produced a gun and refused orders to put it down, police spokesman Sonny Jackson said. Four or five shots were heard, but authorities would not say how many times the patrolman fired.
The man did not fire his weapon, Jackson said, declining to say if it was loaded.
The shooting occurred at about 2 p.m. in a hall outside the governor's offices on the first floor of the Capitol.
Ritter said he was in the office with 10 or 11 other people and heard shots, but he would not say how close he was to the gunman. He said some of his staff members witnessed the shooting. Watch Ritter describe the shooting »
Tobie Locke, a bridal manager at the Mister Neat's shop in Northglenn, said a man came in around 10 a.m. asking to rent a tuxedo and said, when asked about the occasion, "Today's the day of the emperor's reign."
After renting the tux, the man did not say where he was going.
"He was very nervous and sweating a lot and breathing very heavy," Locke said. "I had the impression he was going to hurt somebody."
Authorities said there had been no specific threats against the governor before Monday's shooting, which reinvigorated a debate about metal detectors at the Capitol.
Metal detectors were installed after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks but were removed the following July after lawmakers objected to making it more difficult for the public to visit.
They are usually installed temporarily during the governor's annual State of the State address in January.
Ritter said Capitol security would be temporarily stepped up while lawmakers and others discuss any permanent changes. Starting Tuesday, all visitors will be required to enter through a single entrance and pass through a metal detector, he said. It wasn't clear how long that requirement would be in place.
"We live in a country where there is just that constant tension about security versus openness," he said.
"We have always said this building is the people's building and the place where we conduct business, and it's the people's business. There are going to be discussions going forward about how we achieve that right balance between security and keeping it open," Ritter said.
The Democratic governor said he was pleased with the level of security he is provided.
State Rep. Edward Casso said he saw the gunman after the shooting and described him as being in his 30s or 40s, dressed in a white shirt and dark slacks.
Casso said a state patrolman told him to evacuate, adding, "I started to panic a little bit. I was just hoping that was the end of it."
The first-term Democrat said the Capitol should have metal detectors.
"It's kind of freaky someone could get that close," Casso said.
Kind of freaky, indeed. These Discordians must be stopped. This madness will only become worse.
What's next? Full-on invasion?
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The Problem With "Thinking For Yourself"
The Discordian sect likes to define itself around the tenet "Think For Yourself", although that may surpise you if your only exposure to the insidious group is via the comments they graffitti this blog with on a regular basis, and without pondering the idea too much it probably seems like an attractive possibility, but in truth it is against the benefit of your entire society to do so.
The idea of thinking for yourself is the root base of the psychopath's mindset: someone who thinks only for and of themself, worrying not at all about his fellow man. I'm not saying that all Discordians are psychopaths, but I would assume a large segment of them are . . . the rest are most likely sociopaths.
We are a society based on democracy, which means that we are a people who have decided to put people into power who are smart enough and self-sacrificing enough to do the thinking of an entire population for them. This is no easy feat, as anyone who has run for even local offices can attest. The very idea of going through the trouble to pick a candidate, vote for them, and set them up in office only to completely ignore their decisions is tantamount to treason. The majority of Discordians are high school drop-outs who suckle on the teets of the our country, and somehow THEY are the bastions of pure thought? When was the last time you read about anyone in a position of power or authority being a "discordian"? NEVER. These people go NOWHERE. So why would anyone listen to them? The simple answer is that most people don't, however, the youth of today just dying for the next weird and trendy pop idea are sitting ducks for this sort of madness.
If we allow the youth to think for themselves we would soon have a country composed of 100 million small countries. WE ARE NOT A PEOPLE IF WE ARE ALL IN IT FOR OURSELVES. End of Discussion.
Of course, I probably shouldn't worry too much, since the Discordians aren't doing much thinking for themselves anyway . . . they adopt a system of thought based around original ideas, then copy the ideas set out for them word for word, idea for idea. A perfect example of this is an earlier post where I mentioned the Discordian Days Of The Week being named for the Seven Deadly Sins . . . some thoughtful Discordian decided to enlighten me by explaining that the Discordians have FIVE days in a week. Besides the utterly obvious idiocy of trying to explain how days work on the rising and setting of the SUN, its interesting to note that I found the Seven Deadly Sins fact on a Discordian blog . . . but apprently if most Discordians say its five, its FIVE, dammit. Shut up about it, and stop 'thinking for yourself'. If Robert Anton Wilson and Kerry Thornley tell you it's five days a week, it's FIVE. Same goes for the names of the seasons, or months, or whathaveyou. The idea that any of these Discordians think for themselves is, frankly, a laughable idea. Hell, if they thought for themselves they wouldn't even worship Discordia, they would make up their own deity, but NOOOOOOO.
So, this is a note to any Discordians thinking about responding to this post: THINK VERY HARD ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO POST BEFORE YOU POST IT, AND WONDER TO YOURSELF IF THE THOUGHT IS REALLY YOURS, OR DID YOU LIFT IT FROM SOMEWHERE?
The idea of thinking for yourself is the root base of the psychopath's mindset: someone who thinks only for and of themself, worrying not at all about his fellow man. I'm not saying that all Discordians are psychopaths, but I would assume a large segment of them are . . . the rest are most likely sociopaths.
We are a society based on democracy, which means that we are a people who have decided to put people into power who are smart enough and self-sacrificing enough to do the thinking of an entire population for them. This is no easy feat, as anyone who has run for even local offices can attest. The very idea of going through the trouble to pick a candidate, vote for them, and set them up in office only to completely ignore their decisions is tantamount to treason. The majority of Discordians are high school drop-outs who suckle on the teets of the our country, and somehow THEY are the bastions of pure thought? When was the last time you read about anyone in a position of power or authority being a "discordian"? NEVER. These people go NOWHERE. So why would anyone listen to them? The simple answer is that most people don't, however, the youth of today just dying for the next weird and trendy pop idea are sitting ducks for this sort of madness.
If we allow the youth to think for themselves we would soon have a country composed of 100 million small countries. WE ARE NOT A PEOPLE IF WE ARE ALL IN IT FOR OURSELVES. End of Discussion.
Of course, I probably shouldn't worry too much, since the Discordians aren't doing much thinking for themselves anyway . . . they adopt a system of thought based around original ideas, then copy the ideas set out for them word for word, idea for idea. A perfect example of this is an earlier post where I mentioned the Discordian Days Of The Week being named for the Seven Deadly Sins . . . some thoughtful Discordian decided to enlighten me by explaining that the Discordians have FIVE days in a week. Besides the utterly obvious idiocy of trying to explain how days work on the rising and setting of the SUN, its interesting to note that I found the Seven Deadly Sins fact on a Discordian blog . . . but apprently if most Discordians say its five, its FIVE, dammit. Shut up about it, and stop 'thinking for yourself'. If Robert Anton Wilson and Kerry Thornley tell you it's five days a week, it's FIVE. Same goes for the names of the seasons, or months, or whathaveyou. The idea that any of these Discordians think for themselves is, frankly, a laughable idea. Hell, if they thought for themselves they wouldn't even worship Discordia, they would make up their own deity, but NOOOOOOO.
So, this is a note to any Discordians thinking about responding to this post: THINK VERY HARD ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE GOING TO POST BEFORE YOU POST IT, AND WONDER TO YOURSELF IF THE THOUGHT IS REALLY YOURS, OR DID YOU LIFT IT FROM SOMEWHERE?
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Discordians Becoming Paranoid
Ladies and gentlemen, the Discordians are becoming paranoid . . . the dark, dank home of internet deviants, AKA: "http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php" has closed its doors to the public, so that the man on the street cannot see what they are 'chatting' about anymore. Are we to assume they have something to hide?
Perhaps I will have to start an account and ask some 'questions'.
Perhaps I will have to start an account and ask some 'questions'.
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