From: dauer1@cc.swarthmore.edu (David Samuel Auer)
Newsgroups: alt.discordia
Subject: Re: A Discordian Wedding
Date: 11 Oct 92 18:57:40 GMT
Reply-To: dauer1@cc.swarthmore.edu (David Samuel Auer)
Organization: Swarthmore College

quark@asylum.UUCP (I think I know you.) writes:
> 
> I've presided over two (2[ii]) Discordian weddings.  Both times they wanted
> a priest & I asked if a pope was ok.  Both times they figured that a pope
> would be a good thing.  One of the times they even figured that it'd bring
> more hrmony to the whole affair.  *WRONG*  I'm happy to say that I've never
> been in a situation af deeper anarchy than the first one.  (I had to use a
> pool-cue as a restraining aid.  The groom decided that he wanted to devorce
> his better half & kind of went berzerk.  There wasn't any physical violence
> & I dissloved the marrage as fast as I'd done the ceremony.  When the dust
> settled, we were all friends again, but invoking Eris as a binding force
> was really, uh - interesting that time.)  The second worked in such a way
> that the two parties realized by the end of the ceremony that there were
> other people in the crowd that they'd rather be with.  I count both
> occasions to be unqualified successes.
> 
> For true dischord,  try to find all of the "this shouldn't be happening at
> a wedding" buttons in the group.  I kept giggleing at the most profound
> times at one wedding for example.  Remind them that marrage is a sacrement,
> and so should be brought down a few pegs.  Have fun, cause as much
> confusion as possible.  I knew that things were going well, when the maid
> of honor said that I had my dick firmly lodged in his ear and was fucking
> his mind. ((But, how could I be, I was behind a dumpster made into a
> podium...))   
> 
>   Have fun
>      --Quark
> 
> Dmoskowi@Jarthur.claremont.edu (Denis "Tesser" Moskowitz) writes:
> >Does anyone have any ideas about what should be in a Discordian Wedding?
> >Please don't limit yourself to the possible or plausible.
> >I'm going to be in a wedding on a MOO (basically, a textual virtual reality)
> >and would like the ceremony to be Discordian.
> 
> >ERISHMC Elder Max Flax Beeblewax, KSC
> >Tesser on LambdaMOO
> >aneristically known as:
> >-- 
> >Denis/Tesser M Moskowitz        Jen feroca malbona kuniklo; rigardu liajn
> >dmoskowi@jarthur.claremont.edu  sovagxajn vangharojn, kaj liajn ungojn kaj
> >This Is Realtime!               lian faldan voston.
> -- 
> 
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> -Dave Hull (quark@asylum.sf.ca.us -in reality near Boston) | I just fell down
>         home #(617)623-5319  work #(617)942-0915           | these damn stairs

The disdain for marriage evident here is equally as aneristic as those who
have a desire to marry.  Just because one is Discordian does not mean one
need shun the order of marital union.  In the face of chaos, it is pleasant
to have order.  In fact, the true Discordian might be inclined to seek out a
fitting marriage knowing the disorder of life and more prepared for the chaos
of marriage, for she or he will not respond with fear to the hodge of her or
his spouse.  Discordians do not revere only the hodge; they understand the
dynamic interworkings of the hodge and podge.  A Discordian marriage
ceremony, while on the face of it an ironic concept is perhaps an extremely
fitting one.  A marriage ceremony is inherently meaningless; only the
paradigms of the individuals involved gives marriage any meaning.  A Dis-
cordian ceremony will not submerge this fundamental truth.

A Discordian marriage ceremony should be a bizarre event.  Perhaps the bride
and groom should be naked, so as to ascertain that neither is indeed a
cabbage masquerading as a human being.  The form the ceremony takes, of
course, is immaterial just so long as the Law of Fives is carefully observed.

Which MOO are you two on?  If you are on Lambda MOO, it is easy to get
undressed for the ceremony as Schmoos.

Among the downsides of a Discordian marriage, would be the lack of cultural
tradition of a more conventional ceremony and the lack of social
acceptance.  Over a MOO, this is not a concern, though it might be daunting
for those who attempt such a ceremony IRL.  For those who are true
Discordians, however, neither of these impediments would get in your way,
for society anerisms (aneurisms?) must not be let to submerge one's personal
anerisms.

I again stress that I am not a Discordian, but am merely speaking from what I
infer to be a Discordian perspective.
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