How far does the golden apple roll?
You decide.

2005-02-17 [LeafyGreenPuddle]: some mints can do some craaaaaazy things, yu no. ... Salvia Divinorum

2005-02-17 [Amtharnis]: Eris is the greek goddess of chaos and change? Sounds like someone familiar. I researched a little about zen buddhism and liked its use of absurdity, but I don't think I've come across Discordism before now. I'll have to look into it... it isn't another one of those potato cults where everyone goes down to the spudists' beach, gets drunk on vodka and dances around in the surf, making sizzling noises and pretending to be potatoes fries, is it?

2005-02-17 [cunning_b]: Hey i know about it :D..... pick me.....oh *jumps up and down with hand in the air*.........

2005-02-17 [LeafyGreenPuddle]: lol... you don't have to wait to be called on to speak up in my classroom, luv. :D Yeessss... most cultures have the equivalent of Eris in their mythos, though her archtype is usually portrayed as this nasty wretchid creature. I coose to think of her as a beautiful mother of progress. It is one of those cults, actually, but your potatoes are only poisoned if you pay the $20 for -- oh never mind. ha ha... what's in a name?

2005-02-18 [Amtharnis]: I thought I had destroyed the last potato cult when I abducted their leader, Grand Master Potato Head, and scattered his pieces to the four corners of the globe. You Discordians aren't trying to resurrect that anti-tomato, are you? I like Greek myths, but I never thought of it in association with the Ying Yang concept before... so it seems very interesting. I'll have to have a better look throught that website sometime.

2005-02-18 [Amtharnis]: Actually, come to think of it, something similar exists in Egyptian mythology between Osiris and Seth if I recall correctly - though I guess that is an interpretation of good and evil, so it mightn't be quite compatible.

2005-02-18 [Dr.No]: Mmm...golden apples....

2005-02-18 [cunning_b]: what a Loki in norse mythology hes abit of a chaos maker :)

2005-02-19 [Dr.No]: I love Loki! I dress in red and black because I used to work for him. Still do sometimes.....He's a good guy. ;-)

2005-02-20 [Amtharnis]: I've been reading about Eris. It is like John Lennon said 'Imagine if there were no apples' - there would have been no Trojan War and we'd be still frollicking around naked in the Garden of Eden. I think the devil was just jealous because he/she fancied Adam, because if he had wanted to get under Eve's fig leaf, he'd have plied her with potato juice instead of a silly old apple. Hey, it seems Loki was the victim of an unfortunate apple episode himself!

2005-02-20 [LeafyGreenPuddle]: I dress in rainbows and the unexpected coordination of bits of chaos here and there because I've sworn my life to Eris. Just in case this thing takes off, I hope you like the name Kallisti. ;D

2005-02-20 [nokaredes]: I dress as chaos because I like it...

2005-02-20 [LeafyGreenPuddle]: HELTER SKELTER! Lennon was a chaos mage. It's why the great New Wolrd Order took him out. He knew too much, had too many fans, said too much and was very capable of fucking up all Their plans. Bang. But that gunshot didn't echo nearly as loud as his words did. Discordians (and I certainly can't speak for them all, or even any of them but myself....) Ok-- THIS discordian understands the school of thought to be one that doesn't emphasize chaos as much as it emphasizes the balance between opposites, the neccessity for opposites to exist for either thing to exist. Order has to exist for chao to exist, Up for down, black for white, yes for no, wrong for right.

2005-02-20 [LeafyGreenPuddle]: I dress as eris because I like it... and because my arrogance really pisses her off and that's just funny.

2005-02-20 [LeafyGreenPuddle]: the penis mightier than t hes word                      my god I love the english language

2005-02-20 [Amtharnis]: That would kind of make George Bush a believer in Discordism too, wouldn't it? War for peace and all that. For some reason I don't think you'd be too eager to claim him though - better to let the evangelists have him ;)

2005-02-20 [Amtharnis]: I choose not to dress as a god, because I don't have the legs for it.

2005-02-20 [Amtharnis]: Acid Faerie, you should know better than to mention god and the penis thing in the one line... if you've ever seen those classical or renaissance depictions of the male gods, they are a bit touchy about it.

2005-02-21 [LeafyGreenPuddle]: But Jesus was crucified on a big ol' phallic symbol. I mean... it's all right there. Christianity is RIFE with sexual references. George Bush is not only a discordian, he's an illuminatus. He has perhaps(and I'm speaking of him as a symbol of the people he's involved with at this point) he has perhaps the strongest grip on the freedom to spread chaos of us all.

2005-02-21 [LeafyGreenPuddle]: The difference between discordians and illuminati is this: discordians recognise the importance for chaos to exist in order for order to exist. Illuminati don't like this and think they can change it. They understand it perfectly. They just have this delusion that they can tinker with it to such an extent as to make a New World Order...... ha.... the oxymorons in that statment abound. First off, nothing that is new has much to do with order and you can't make the world be ordered into anything no matter how many people you control.

2005-02-24 [Amtharnis]: I’ve never equated the crucifix with a phallic symbol before. It was a Roman decision to nail Jesus to a cross, so it would have to have been afterwards that the founders of Christianity realized it would make a great symbol for the masculinity of their religion – no?