Maroon yourself on a small island
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With a sugar daddy!
You'll probably kill him then discover he doesn't actually contain sugar...
I will kill him anyway, for any reason. This how love works
Living up to your namesake, I see.
😒 what is wrong about my name?
Nothing at all, Eris is a Greek goddess of discord and strife. She started the Trojan war.
She's also the patron of Discordianism, which is often termed either a joke disguised as a religion, or the other way around. Nobody's really sure. I'm not really a Discordian anymore, but I have a lot of fondness for her.
Why you are not a Discordian anymore?
I don't really know. I just broadened the deities I worked with, got a little more serious in all areas of my life, and drifted away.
The only way not to be a Discordian anymore is to stop eating a hot dog every Friday.
Why would anyone do that though?
Sorry, I'm trying to stay away from processed meats.
😂
So do I.
As long as the sausages contain pork and beef at rhe same time they are according to the rules.
Homemade or from a good butcher you can have sausages from meat rhat is hardly processed.
OK, I think I'll add that to my catmas. This whole conversation caused me to pull down my copy of the Principia Discordia from the shelf and re-read my favorite passage:
A SERMON ON ETHICS AND LOVE
One day Mal-2 asked the messenger spirit Saint Gulik to approach the Goddess and request Her presence for some desperate advice. Shortly afterwards the radio came on by itself, and an ethereal female Voice said YES?
"O! Eris! Blessed Mother of Man! Queen of Chaos! Daughter of Discord! Concubine of Confusion! O! Exquisite Lady, I beseech You to lift a heavy burden from my heart!"
WHAT BOTHERS YOU, MAL? YOU DON'T SOUND WELL.
"I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe."
WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO?
"But nobody Wants it! Everybody hates it."
OH. WELL, THEN STOP.
At which moment She turned herself into an aspirin commercial and left The Polyfather stranded alone with his species.
(copied from the online version at https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia/body.html)
This is interesting! It would be great if everyone could just give up. The ego continues to exist.
Give up? I read it exactly the opposite. Take control. Maybe I'm mixing my stoicism with my Erisian Mysterees, but it's saying to give up on what you don't control, and take control of what you do. Which pretty much consists on what takes place between your ears, the echoing void of your own little pocket dimension.
This fragment tries to show that sometimes the answers to life's problems are simpler than we think, and the help we seek might actually be a matter of awareness and simple action. For me it's a form of giving up
Can you explain that more? To me, giving up would just be keeping doing what you've always done, while making a change, even in mindset is taking action.
It is simply a higher form of manifestation that cannot be understood by everyone because where there is no ego, there is a transformation of matter. We can strive and perform miracles, but this would never compare to the creation of self-denial. Where you deny yourself, there is no ego, and where there is no ego, miracles happen.
Ah, so are you using "giving up" as letting go of the ego? I don't like the term "self-denial", but I think I get what you're getting at.
The thing is, I don't think we give up the ego once and for all, but only in moments, much like non-thinking during (eastern) meditation.
The thing I don't know is if you are using this as an excuse for not making steps today to improve your life today. If so, stop. 😁
BTW, does your name come from Discordia, or just coincidence?
I think the same as you, that we let go the ego at the certain moments. During all the times, most of us either resist or pretend to be humble or without ego. Human wickedness is an unavoidable part of life, so for me, self-denial is the most accurate term. When you denial yourself, you also give up wickedness.
Hum. So to you self-denial means giving up the ego? Or is it simpler than that, just realizing that you aren't the center of the universe? That is a form of exercise that makes giving up the ego easier, so it's something I try to do.
Nice one. Thanks!