To: All subGeni - Slack found within this book. However, it actually claims
to be a brother church to the church of the SubGenius. Is there any
validity to that claim?
To: All not familier with principia discordia - It is something like the
anarchist's bible. Topics discussed within:
The law of fives The sacred Chao
the goddess Eris The apple of discord
Not a very comprehensive work, but a fine peice of expository writing, none
the less.
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Subject: Re: Principia Discordia aka Malaclypse the Younger
From: kec@primenet.com (Toadster)
>Geoffrey H Spear (ghsst6+@pitt.edu) wrote:
>: sort of... the church of the subgenius was spun off from discordianism,
>: but don't tell stang i said so.
>Blasphemer! Infidel!
>It's the other way around. Discordianism is an off-shoot of the Church
>of the SubGenius! It SAYS so, right there in HIGH WEIRDNESS BY MAIL!
>Can't you read? Don't you know - if you see it in print, it MUST be true!
Ahhhh, just the kind of Discord that She loves to see.
kec poee, ldd, fzc
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Subject: Re: Principia Discordia aka Malaclypse the Younger
From: ghsst6+@pitt.edu (Geoffrey H Spear)
modemac@netcom.com (Modemac) wrote:
>Can't you read? Don't you know - if you see it in print, it MUST be true!
but in principia discordia, it says "a discordian is prohibited of
believing what he reads", which besides being a paradox in itself
means i can't believe what i read in high weirdness by mail. but
then i can't believe what i read in principia discordia. hmmm.
i think the best bet is to believe that neither discordianism nor
subgeniusism came first, and that in fact neither of them exist at
all, and that both of these newsgroups are a figment of my imagination
and that i've been wasting way too much time imagining all of the postings
here for the past 4 years.
having an inherently contradictory religion is *fun*! i still can't
understand why the christians are always trying to show that the
apparent contradictions in their belief system really aren't
contradictory, when you can have so much fun if you just accept them
as such. oh. that's why.
--
Geoff Spear |"And whenever rn sees your .signature
ghsst6+@pitt.edu | it'll rmgroup alt.slack as well! Yay!"
http://www.pitt.edu/~ghsst6/ | - Kibo
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Subject: Re: Principia Discordia aka Malaclypse the Younger
From: nenslo@teleport.com (NENSLO)
G. Spear spake-
: but in principia discordia, it says "a discordian is prohibited of
: believing what he reads", which besides being a paradox in itself
: means i can't believe what i read in high weirdness by mail. but
Yes, just another sad example of a religion's followers
disregarding the most important of their religion's commands. How many
OTOs have burned their copy of Liber Legis after the first
reading as AC clearly requests? How many Judeo/Christian/Muslims
disregard Yehudi's commandment "Thou shalt not kill?" And how many
alleged SubGenii have sent their $30 to Box 140306 Dallas TX 75214?
Answers? None, too many, and not enough.
--
-Copyright NENSLO KDV 1995- VERBUM SAPIENTI SATIS EST
Send One Dollar to box 86582 Portland OR 97286
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Subject: Re: Principia Discordia aka Malaclypse the Younger
From: dynasor@infi.net (Dennis McClain-Furmanski)
Geoffrey H Spear (ghsst6+@pitt.edu) wrote:
: modemac@netcom.com (Modemac) wrote:
: >Can't you read? Don't you know - if you see it in print, it MUST be true!
: but in principia discordia, it says "a discordian is prohibited of
: believing what he reads", which besides being a paradox in itself
By the statement, it applies to discordians.
If one is already discordian when one reads this, then one must disregard
it. It is not to be believed.
If one is not already discordian when one reads this, it does not apply.
In either case, you should read on. However, if one is already discordian,
it will be for sheer giggles only, since none of the rest of it is to be
believed either.
And if one becomes discordian having read it, one must therefore disbelieve
that which converted them. Certainly a releasing experience, that. You are
freed from dogma by necessity. However, one must never quote the P.D. having
been converted, for one would then knowingly be lying. Unless, of course,
that's intended.
--
dynasor@infi.net The Doctor is on.
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Subject: Re: Principia Discordia aka Malaclypse the Younger
From: ghsst6+@pitt.edu (Geoffrey H Spear)
no, you'd only be lying if you claimed to believe the PD. you wouldn't
be lying just by quoting it, as believing something doesn't imply that
it's true. if it did, we'd all be going to Hell, as there are way too
many people who believe in christianity. but as they're all wrong, but
not lying, i think my soul will be ok. and if not, i'll get $60 at the
gates of hell.
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Geoff Spear |"And whenever rn sees your .signature
ghsst6+@pitt.edu | it'll rmgroup alt.slack as well! Yay!"
http://www.pitt.edu/~ghsst6/ | - Kibo
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