What is REALITY?
1. What you think of as REALITY is a collection of ideas and beliefs aboutREALITY. Many of the ideas you have about REALITY come from the
culture in which you were raised and have accumulated haphazardly over
time.
2. This, in itself, is not a problem. The problem is in forgetting point number
1. When you forget point 1, you mistake your ideas about reality for being
REALITY itself. Of this, it has been said ‘the menu is not the meal’. Please
refrain from eating the menu.
3. People who ‘eat the menu’ frequently become confused and annoyed when
other people insist on seeing REALITY in a different way. All that truly dif-
fers are their ideas and beliefs about REALITY.
4. Beliefs are just thoughts you keep having.
5. No living being is capable of perceiving all of REALITY, as all senses of
perception are limited. Humans can only see, hear, smell, taste and feel within
certain parameters. Information entering our senses undergoes compression,
filtration, and distortion, before interpretation. Interpretation is what happens
when information meets your ‘beliefs’.
6. For no good reason, we call this composite of Belief & Biological Limits THE
BLACK IRON PRISON and is a metaphor about existence. It means that
there is very little you can do about biology; however, you can choose what
becomes part of your beliefs. (Always keeping point 1 in mind).
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7. Each person exists within their own, unique BIP ‘cell’. The cell is composed of
the following:
a) Biological limits – these are largely unchangeable. b) Belief systems –
these are highly changeable. Because of (a) the BIP cell cannot be escaped.
Because of (b) your life experience, your ‘cell’, can be altered drastically.
This is what we try to call ‘reconstruction’.
8. A life long commitment to continual reconstruction is known, ironically, as
‘The Jail Break’. Reconstruction is HARD WORK.
9. The collection of beliefs, thoughts, notions etc that form your cell are all
equally VALID, though none are TRUE in the sense that they “are” REAL-
ITY. However, some beliefs and ideas are more useful than others in specific
situations. It is up to the individual to decide which beliefs and ideas they
should employ in a given situation.
10. Some people believe that the term BLACK IRON PRISON is dark, bleak,
depressing and even frightening. If you prefer, use the term GOLDEN
SPHERE of POSSIBILITY (GSP) instead. It means exactly the same thing
as BIP and all points still apply.
11. BIP (or GSP) can be philosophical antidote to dogmatism.
Books
Here are the two most amusing books Discordianism has to offer; The Principia Discordia describes and outlines the religion, and The Black Iron Prison describes the prison of 'self' in which all organisms necessarily exist.These books and more can also be found at principiadiscordia.com
If you have any material you'd like to post here, please do!
What is reality?
Check em
:^)
I have been having lots of fun lately.
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You're welcome.
Boruto
Boruto has golden apple hair.
what's the point in requiring a subject if I'm just going to put something meaningless here?
Dropping some OC
>subject required
sage
my mom can make a better board than you and she doesn't even know what 8chan is
game
Post something tangentially related to this picture. Then someone else posts something tangentially related to that picture, and so on. Let's see where this ends up.
Philosophy Thread
Hi /eris/. Let's talk philosophy. The first thing I'd like to talk about involves the Cortical Homunculus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus
The brain is responsible for managing input from the body, but not all body parts are equally represented. The Cortical/ Sensory Homunculus is a visual representation of how sensitive each body part is to stimulation (how many nerves it has) and, as shown, the face and hands are disproportionately sensitive. Interestingly enough, our unique opposable thumb is one of the most over-represented parts of the body.
Because of this high sensitivity, we pay a large amount of conscious attention to these areas of the body. Much time is spend screwing up the face just so, or trying to figure out what to do with our hands when we're just standing around doing nothing. Our hands and faces are highly sensitive and we pay a high amount of attention to them.
What I would like to discuss is this: How are sensitivity and consciousness related? Why are we so sensitive and so conscious of these two very small regions?
Furthermore, is it beneficial for these areas to be so small and, likewise, for the physical "spread" of our consciousness to be small? Or is this merely because of the ease of physical defense of our sensitive faces with our adept hands? Would a human with a mouth on his chest, eyes nearer the top of head, and ears on his shoulders be less capable NOT because of physical effects, but because of the increased physical "spread" of his consciousness required? (Although consolidation of senses near the brain allows for high bandwidth and low response time, which is clearly beneficial)
What are your thoughts?
WELCOME TO THE IDIOCENE
It has been proposed that the present era of life on earth should be called the “Anthropocene” to reflect the human domination of our planet. However, an elegant, scientific-sounding term like “anthropocene” seems like a cop-out, a handy euphemism to hide exactly what kind of domination this is and what it’s doing to the planet. I propose that instead we call it the “Idiocene,” signifiying the “New Era of Idiots.” “Idiot” comes from the Greek word ἰδιώτης meaning both an incompetent person and a private citizen. “Idiocene” is the one precisely appropriate name for an era that is suicidally stupid and ecocidally privatizing. Would you like a simple definition of the Idiocene? You might remember the old joke about a robber who comes up to somebody on the street, pulls out a gun and says: “Your money or your life!” The victim pauses and then says “Can I have a moment to think it over?” That moment is the Idiocene.
Welcome to the Idiocene
It’s the Obliviocene
It’s the Distractocene
It’s the DontWorryBeHappyocene
It’s the ADHDocene
It’s the SpacedOutocene
It’s the Narcissocene
It’s the WhichWayIsUpocene
It’s the Amneseocene
It’s the
NoThereWhenYouGetThereocene
It’s the BlahBlahBlahocene
It’s the Idiocene
Welcome to the Idiocene
It’s the Comatosocene
It’s the DruggedOutocene
It’s the Wastedocene
It’s the FiddleWithYourIphoneWhileTheWorldBurnsocene
It’s the Shopoholocene
It’s the SoUpI’mDownocene
It’s the Dopocene
It’s the Undeadocene
It’s the Zonkedocene
It’s the Crunkocene
It’s the Idiocene
Welcome to the Idiocene
It’s the Assbackwardocene
It’s the FoxToldMeIt'sNotTrueocene
It’s the Moronocene
It’s the Stupidocene
It’s the DumbAssocene
It’s the SingleDigitIQocene
It’s the Imbecilocene
It’s the OutToLunchocene
It’s the Nincompoopocene
It’s the Schlemielocene
It’s the Idiocene
Welcome to the Idiocene
It’s the EndOfTheLineocene
It’s the HotelTerminusocene
It’s the Nightmareocene
It’s the ChickensComeHomeToRoostocene
It’s the Saw15ocene
It’s the UpShitCreekoscene
It’s the OMGocene
It’s the Suicidocene
It’s the Collapsocene
It’s the Hoistonourownpetardocene
It’s the Idiocene
Welcome to the Idiocene
It’s the HumptyDumptocene
It’s the Jonestownocene
It’s the WalkingOffACliffocene
It’s the SpringBreaksOverY’allocene
It’s the BuiltOnAnIndianBurialGroundocene
It’s the ThatsAllFolksocene
It’s the EndOfSmileyFaceocene
It’s the Extinctocene
It’s the ItStinksocene
It’s the DeadMeatocene
It’s the Idiocene
Welcome to the Idiocene
It’s the KickTheBucketocene
It’s the Croakocene
It’s the SwanSongocene
It’s the LastGaspocene
It’s the GooseIsCookedocene
It’s the ZombiesInTheMallocene
It’s the NightOfTheLivingDeadocene
It’s the EndOfTheRopeocene
It’s the BiteTheDustocene
It’s the DeadIsThe NewAliveocene
It’s the Idiocene
Welcome to the Idiocene
It’s the NoExitocene
It’s the DeadEndocene
It’s the Wastelandocene
It’s the InTheToiletocene
It’s the Screwedocene
It’s the FuckedUpocene
It’s the Trashedocene
It’s the ShotToHellocene
It’s the DeadDuckocene
It’s the Kaputocene
It’s the Idiocene
Welcome to the Idiocene
It’s the CheckOutocene
It’s the ManBearPigWinsocene
It’s the EverythingMageddonocene
It’s the Apocalyptocene
It’s the MadMaxocene
It’s the ShitHitsTheFanocene
It’s the Y2KForRealThisTimeocene
It’s the WeAllGetDarwinAwardsocene
It’s the MoneyTalksNatureWalksocene
It’s the VeryBadSceneocene
It’s the Idiocene
Yes, folks. It’s the Idiocene
Welcome to the Idiocene
Just got directed here from /liberty/ and this is relevant to my interests,tell me is this a religion that ACTUALLY permits fun?
Can I still be a Discordian if I'm not wacky and creatively oddball?
^
I highly appreciate the philosophy and aesthetics, but every Discordian seems witty and fun and I'm a sad sack.
Hail Eris
I know this board is slow, but I'm going to upload a lot of high resolution images I created.
Saint Thread
(picture unrelated…)Anyway… so we are all popes.. but how many saints have you canonized?
I Cannonized myself as the patron saint of Stain removal after several miraculous achievements the greatest being the removal of a liquid latex stain on my favourite semi-ecchi-kinky anime t-shirt…
It took a few months and application of oil (sacred canola bought at the local store)
anyway I miraculously got rid of the stain leaving the garment perfect.. a true miricle!
So found any candidates for sainthood yourself?
hey
what do you think of this cabbage flag?
Is REALITY watching me masturbate?
Is REALITY watching me masturbate?
External events thread (movie nights and such)
Please use this thread for promotion of events that may not be completely topical to /eris/ but still of interest to some readers. Movie nights that are intended to represent /eris/ will still have their thread.
———————————————————————————
This Saturday, 2015/08/01 at 2200 UTC (3 pm Pacific, 6 pm Eastern), I will screen:
• 2200 Death Race 2000
• 2334 They Live
• 0121 A Clockwork Orange
• 0336 Mad Max
• 0521 Dredd
-=Program Repeats=-
• 0606 Death Race 2000
• 0740 They Live
• 0927 A Clockwork Orange
• 1142 Mad Max
• 1327 Dredd
including 15 minute breaks between all films. All credits will run completely, but at three to five times the
normal speed.
Where:
When:
Saturday, 2015/08/01 at 2200 UTC (3 pm Pacific, 6 pm Eastern), though the music will start two hours prior to
this.
Why:
Because the future is going to suck, all that's left to argue about is how it's going to suck.
Filling the chat with MST3K-style riffing and snarking about the films is not only allowed, it is expected.
The official thread can be found here: >>>/nacht/31
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Change
I fucked up and posted my unhashed tripcode to /b/. Any posts you see with Og0mSxxrDg after this are not me. New tripcode is YPozfVeQfI.
Good workers
Theres nothing wrong with being apolitical
Apathy is not a choice!
Filthy Frank, motherfucker
What do y'all think of Filthy Frank?
Erisan to the max, or just madman?
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Operation Mindfuck
…and general Poetic Terrorism.
What have y'all done recently to mindfuck people? How have you done iit? Tips, tricks?
I haven't been up on my game recently, and I'm needing new ideas.
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Tell me about Eris, guys. Is she in the flesh? On a higher dimension? Or is she a concept, the representation of something semantic instead of existent?
If you could have sex with Eris, what would you do?
>Pic unrelated
Tell me: How did Eris find you?
Hofstadter, and the nature of consciousness
What do y'all know about Douglas Hofstadter? I've recently been studying "Godel Escher Bach" with my ladyfran, and I'm trying to blast through "I Am A Strange Loop", but alas, I am cursed with Work. How do y'all feel about his conception of the self as a complex symbol that lives not just in one mind, but potentially several? And, I mean, just general discussion about consciousness and what that entails.
Hail
This place really should be more active.
Hey guys, first time here. I didn't see this place! How interesting. I'll give you something interesting to look at. Also fresh OC
>>>/blzb/ this work is from a friend.
Why not /rel/?
Why use a board dedicated to a particular religious orientation when you can use the general religion board?
I'm lazy.
Had Only Andrew Jackson Taken 'Shrooms
Had only Andrew Jackson taken 'shrooms,
there wouldn't be so many Indians in tombs.
They got not even that.
They just laid there on their back
to rot where they got shot.
/eris/ Movie Night?
Maybe we should have an /eris/ movie night and show mindfuck movies. I've compiled a straw poll here:
Also feel free to suggest bumper music to provide padding. It's best to start the stream early with bumpers so everyone know it's live, and to place at least one song between movies so people can catch a bathroom/coffee/smoke break. /ebola/ Movie Night is sticking to the /monster/ format with a 30 minute break between the second and third movies, but we don't have to do that if it doesn't make sense. Maybe 15 minutes would be more appropriate, or perhaps with the bumpers between films already, we don't need an extra long one there. Perhaps ten minutes between every film? It's all open for debate.
CHAOS NEVER DIED
ChaosCHAOS NEVER DIED. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert & spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being still radiates serene as the black pennants of Assassins, random & perpetually intoxicated.
Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.
Everything in nature is perfectly real including consciousness, there's absolutely nothing to worry about. Not only have the chains of the Law been broken, they never existed; demons never guarded the stars, the Empire never got started, Eros never grew a beard.
No, listen, what happened was this: they lied to you, sold you ideas of good & evil, gave you distrust of your body & shame for your prophethood of chaos, invented words of disgust for your molecular love, mesmerized you with inattention, bored you with civilization & all its usurious emotions.
Operation Mindfuck
Operation MindfuckCulture Jamming
Fellow cabbages,
I ran across a thread on Toynbee tiles ( >>>pol/1338582 https://archive.today/Hwvrx ) and immediately thought of Our Glorious Eris.
Since we don't already have an Operation Mindfuck thread, I figured I would make one.
Please discuss thoughts, initiatives, ideas, or anything else.
What do you think?
/ebola/ movie night - Inaugural Edition
Announcing the inaugural /ebola/ movie night!
Theme: Infectious disease, of course.
When
Next Saturday, 2015/07/18, starting at 3 PM PDT (6 PM EDT, 2200 UTC).
Where
Movie Schedule
• Ebola Syndrome (1996, Subtitled)
• Outbreak (1995)
Intermission (30 minutes)
• The Andromeda Strain (2008)
This runs three hours, so is taking the place of two normal feature films.
Official thread >>>/ebola/26419
injection of eris
We need to push Eris onto everyone, everything, everywhere.
Therefore, I suggest we blast >>>/BMW/ with Erisan memes.
http://thecultofnick.libsyn.com/112-a-chat-with-adam-gorightly-writer-of-discordia-historia
Are there any other cult members on this board? There's gotta be at least one.
Have you taken the brown pill yet, mateys?
it's a tough pill to swallow! The brown pill was founded in 1999 by Sir Reginald Brownpill, who presents and narrates the attached video.
Forget red and blue pills, brown pills are the way of the future.
Video related. Please leave your questions, comments, and concerns below about this radical new paradigm of thinking!f
Swallow the brown pill today! Red pills are for fedora fucking wearing faggots, blue pills are for the ignorant masses. Ignore the other le epin /pol/ maymays, this one is the readl deal.sdghsh
You're Invited
/Monster/ Movie NightHello friends, you've been invited to a /monster/ movie night taking place this sunday night, starting at around 6 pm EST
Stream : http://connectcast.tv/StyxxnStones
Movie Schedule:
Corpse Bride: 6 pm EST
Beowulf: ~ 8 pm EST
Splice : ~ 10 pm EST
Hope to see you there!
Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is?
A fascinating TED talk which discusses how our sensations are not of reality itself, but only of the most necessary and important symbols and events that occur in reality. A ton of similarities to the theory of The Black Iron Prison.
SIX OH OH
NUMBER OF THE ANTEATER
>MFW I convince another person to read Schrodingers Cat and/or The Illuminatus Trilogy
What y'all think of the Situationist International?
REVIVE
http://jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Other%20Pagan%20Mumbo-Jumbo/discordianism.htm
Just thought you would find this funny.
flags
Can we havesome selectable flags on this board? I would make a few myself, but I don't have access to any way of editing pictures.>holy chao
>golden apple
>pentagon
>fnord
>emperor norton
>23 skidoo
>wheel of chaos
>five fingered hand of eris
>probably hundreds of other options, but these are the only ones I can think of right now
>gif unrelated
What the fuck is this,some kind of modern sibil worship??
>tfw 5 active users
Besides the obvious implications of that number, I'm pretty sure this is a new record for the board.
This is an official invitation from the United Boards for Freedom (>>>/ubf/) to join our loose federation of freedom.
>What is the UBF?
The UBF is a loose confederation of boards centred around the concept of freedom from moderation.
>What is the purpose of the UBF?
The purpose of the UBF is two-fold. 1. To encourage posting on a UBF member board instead of their larger, no-fun-allowed counterpart for example posting on /vvv/ or /am/ instead of /v/ or /a/, and 2. to encourage the posting of related content between boards to encourage user interaction, increasing the number of UIDs and posts per hour on boards posting a 2nd Amendment thread on both /liberty/ and on /k/
Well, /eris/, what do you think?
The Law of Fives
ITT: Discuss the Law of Fives and how it is part of your life. Or don't. I don't make the rules.8chan
Number 8
E I G H T
Five letters
HAIL ERIS
>be me looking for greyface pic on Google (which there isn't)
>find this
Ponies confirmed for discordian
please allow PDF
fnord
fnordfnord
fnord
fnord
fnord
[code]fnord[/code]
fnord
How long have you been worshipping the goddess? How did you find out about discordianism?
>a few years ago
>read my father's copy of the
illuminatus! trilogy in high school, then did some research online and read a bunch of other discordian literature
Poetry Slam
There once was a man who said "Damn.For I've discovered I am,
A creature the moves,
In determinate grooves,
I'm not even a bus, I'm a tram!"
Order and Chaos
Let's have a thread about dumb shit turning smart (or vice versa!)I'm particularly fond of the idea that planets and life itself are all just bits of starstuff that happened to react in such a way as to happen to be able to turn into self-sustaining and self-replicating stuff, so the concept of genetic algorithms is absolutely fascinating to me.
What fascinates you?
1/3
So is this board active at all?
Why don't you guys just use the POEE forum?
What the fuck
Is going on in here?Is this the K U L T
YOU ARE A POPE!
Post discordians that are famous in your filter bubble.
Are you guys coming?
[spoilers]
I like coloring books
Hail Eris!