Re:The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy
by weeksie on Sunday August 13, 2017 @02:18PM
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I remember reading RAW back when I was 19 or so. I think it was the Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy, then the Illuminatus!
Just amazing stuff. And a massive piss take on the post modern novels of the day. Kallisti!
Re:The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy
by PoachedSausage on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:04PM
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Wow, what a synchronicity.
I was just thinking how the images from Charlottesville could almost have come straight out of Illuminatus Trilogy.
Re:The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy
by proofofstake on Sunday August 13, 2017 @07:19PM
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GP: Maybe you are just crazy.
M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true.
GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
Re:The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy
by Asooka on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:15PM
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The fourth level is just enjoying the joke as it is?
Re:The accidental invention of the Illuminati conspiracy
by Nydhal on Sunday August 13, 2017 @05:18PM
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The fifth level is becoming the joke.
The article doesn't emphasize this quite right.
The key insight of Discordianism is that all of human society is "fake". If you can kick it, it's real; if you can't kick it, it's exactly as real as Eris is -- which is to say, the way people behave is in accordance with the way that they truly believe.
The first level of Discordianism is to think that Discordianism is a joke.
The second level is to realize that it's true.
The third level is to realize that it's a joke that teaches you that everything that exists in and shared between minds has the same ontological basis: Discordia, Islam, Christianity, the US Federal Reserve System, Google -- they all exist because people believe that they exist and behave in ways that indicate that belief.