From: ucsatsd@ucl.ac.uk (-8  Big Bad Bob (B3)  8-)
Newsgroups: alt.config
Subject: Re: Proposal: alt.discordia
Date: 3 Oct 92 13:43:02 GMT
Organization: The HRC

In article <1992Oct2.025752.26138@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> lesmith@nyx.cs.du.edu (Lee Harvey Oswald Smith) writes, quoting me:
>>The best place to hide is in the open, and the best way to divert the foolish 
>>is by throwing carrots at them. What *better* way to keep all the sad, 
>>Wannabe-Erisians from getting in our hair than to let them have an 
>I say, let's have alt.discordia.
>Excuse me, but isn't that a bit ANERISTIC of you?
>"Sad wannabe-Erisians?", if you call them that are true Discordians.

I can imagine how it may look a little Aneristic. Allow me...

wannabe-Erisian . (frm coptic 'Mehel' - Screwdriver ). n./adj. - 
(1) A person who has absorbed Erisian jargon from one or more sources, and 
is seeking permission from a 'real' Erisian to become an Erisian, because
it seems trendy. (2) One who mouths Erisian jargon &/O slogans without any
real sympathy for them.

>said that to join the Discordian Society, all that one has to do is
>to a) believe that it exists, and b) count oneself in it.
>Now if ANYONE was to be excluded from the Discordian movement, it would be
>people like you who try to make it into an exclusive club.

Any who accept that the combined armies of Discordia not only exist, but 
number their own person are indeed correct, and I welcome them to me like
small, furry arcturans, and I am glad. Also, if anyone does not accept this,
then they too I welcome unto me, but as medium-sized scaly pleadians, and I
am also glad. Anyway, I thoroughly approve of alt.discordia. But anyone
who feels they need to ask permission to join the discordian ranks is, by
my definitions, missing the point just a little. 

If an alt.discordia ended up the equivalent of alt.subgenius's 10 posts a
day saying "<#INSERT PHRASE> or send me $20 or kill me", then that would
be fairly depressing.

>What harm can alt.discordia do? Even if it introduces 1000 Eristically-
>minded people who otherwise wouldn't come across the Movement to it, is
>that not a good thing? After all, discordianism is not a secret society.
>And besides, Eris is not being sold to the masses, Ninja Turtle-fashion, here.

1000 new erisians would be a cause of great joy! As to the harm it could do,
well, I sincerely hope that it could create quite a lot of havoc for the
legions of Greyface.

>I say; let's have alt.discordia.

So do I!

In fact, as a token of goodwill, I suggest that all reading this post go
out, buy a bar of chocolate/candy, eat it or otherwise dispose of the contents,
put the wrapper in an envelope, seal the envelope, address it to your local 
mayor, stamp it and post it.

   - Dr. Count Episkopos Robert 'Bob' Balthazaar, PhD, BBB, Multidimensional
Walker in Chaos, KNS, Grand High Hotdog of the Hotdog Reformative Church. (B3)


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