Who Are You?

[Dillinger]

OK - I've been around a lot less than I usually am. I just got back from 3 straight weeks of business travel and, while I checked in a bit, I know I missed a lot.

So - for those of you who are new and I haven't met - please introduce yourself? And, to be fair, I'll do my best to respond in kind - got a question? I'll try and answer it - about myself or whatever.

Want to know something about the board? Ask me?
Poetry? Music? Zen? Discordianism? Fjords? Octagons? Proper method to stroke a COCK? Philosophy? Magick?

Pick a subject - I'm your man. If I don't know it - Weird Harold can!

 

[Guest]

 

[Dillinger]

Next.

 

[Ms_Lilith]

why does your apple say 'kallisti'?

I know I'm a greek student, but I haven't found that word yet.

 

[A Desert Rose]

Next.

What does your apple say?

 

[sunstruck]

Hi! My name is Sunny and I'm an eternal Newbie.

I was wondering if you could explain the basics of discordianism and how it relates to the creation of the fjords?

Do you have a big cock?

 

[Dillinger]

why does your apple say 'kallisti'?

I know I'm a greek student, but I haven't found that word yet.

One of my favorite questions! And we get to touch on Discordianism during the course of the answer! *smile* Here's the short version:

THE MYTH OF THE APPLE OF DISCORD

It seems that Zeus was preparing a wedding banquet for Peleus and Thetis and did not want to invite Eris because of Her reputation as a trouble maker. This made Eris angry, and so She fashioned an apple of pure gold and inscribed upon it KALLISTI ("To The Prettiest One") and on the day of the fete She rolled it into the banquet hall and then left to be alone and joyously partake of a hot dog.

Now, three of the invited goddesses, Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, each immediately claimed it to belong to herself because of the inscription. And they started fighting, and they started throwing punch all over the place and everything.

Finally Zeus calmed things down and declared that an arbitrator must be selected, which was a reasonable suggestion, and all agreed. He sent them to a shepherd of Troy, whose name was Paris because his mother had had a lot of gaul and had married a Frenchman; but each of the sneaky goddesses tried to outwit the others by going early and offering a bribe to Paris.

Athena offered him Heroic War Victories, Hera offered him Great Wealth, and Aphrodite offered him the Most Beautiful Woman on Earth. Being a healthy young Trojan lad, Paris promptly accepted Aphrodite's bribe and she got the apple and he got screwed.

As she had promised, she maneuvered earthly happenings so that Paris could have Helen (the Helen) then living with her husband Menelaus, King of Sparta. Anyway, everyone knows that the Trojan War followed when Sparta demanded their Queen back and that the Trojan War is said to be The First War among men.

And so we suffer because of the Original Snub. And so a Discordian is to partake of No Hot Dog Buns.

 

[Dillinger]

What does your apple say?

Kallisti - see above post... *smile*

 

[MissVictoria]

Can you explain Zazen to me? I always get conflicting definitions.

 

[Linedrive]

Okay Dillinger,

We haven't 'officially' met, so here I am.

Question: Who is the craziest veteran poster at lit...?

 

[Dillinger]

Hi! My name is Sunny and I'm an eternal Newbie.

Hey babe - welcome to Lit.

I was wondering if you could explain the basics of discordianism and how it relates to the creation of the fjords?

Well - you just got much of your answer above... however I might suggest that you check out The Principia Discordia - http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia/ where you can read one the Great Books of our century fnord.

Some Great Books are recognized at once with a fusilade of critical huzzahs and gonfolons, like Joyce's ULYSSES. Others appear almost furtively and are only discovered 50 years later, like MOBY DICK or Mendel's great essay on genetics. The PRINCIPIA DISCORDIA entered our space-time continuum almost as unobtrusively as a cat-burglar creeping over a windowsill.

In 1968, virtually nobody had heard of this wonderful book. In 1970, hundreds of people coast to coast were talking about it and asking the identity of the mysterious author, Malaclypse the Younger. Rumors swept across the continent, from New York to Los Angeles, from Seattle to St. Joe. Malaclypse was actually Alan Watts, one heard. No, said another legend -- the PRINCIPIA was actually the work of the Sufi Order. A third, very intriguing myth held that Malaclypse was a pen-name for Richard M. Nixon, who had allegedly composed the PRINCIPIA during a few moments of lucidity.

The legendry, the mystery, the cult grew slowly. By the mid-1970's, thousands of people, some as far off as Hong Kong and Australia, were talking about the PRINCIPIA, and since the original was out of print by then, xerox copies were beginning to circulate here and there. But now its here on the Net for YOU to read!

And, as far as who actually wrote the PRINCIPIA - at last, the truth can be told.

The PRINCIPIA is the work of a time-travelling anthropologist from the 23rd Century. He is currently passing among us as a computer specialist, bon vivant and philosopher named Gregory Hill. He has also translated several volumes of Etruscan erotic poetry, under another pen-name, and in the 18th Century was the mysterious Man in Black who gave Jefferson the design for the Great Seal of the United States.

I have it on good authority that he is one of the most accomplished time-travelers in the galaxy and has visited Earth many times in the past, using such cover-identities as Zeno of Elias, Emperor Norton, Count Cagliostro, Guilliame of Aquaitaine, etc. Whenever I question him about this, he grows very evasive and attempts to persuade me that he is actually just another 20th Century Earthman and that all my ideas about his extra- terrrestrial and extratemporal origin and delusions. Hah! I am not that easily deceived. After all, a time-travelling anthropologist would say just that, so that he could observe us without his presense causing cultureshock.

In conclusion, there is no conclusion. Things go on as they always have, getting weirder all the time.

Hail Eris. All hail Discordia. Fnord?

Do you have a big cock?

Of course. Doesn't everyone?

(And I didn't forget about the Fjords - nor did I spell them incorrectly. For that answer you'll need to seek out Slartibartfast.)

 

[sunstruck]

(And I didn't forget about the Fjords - nor did I spell them incorrectly. For that answer you'll need to seek out Slartibartfast.)

(I can't. He doesn't come here anymore. Which may be my fault.)

 

[Dillinger]

EXCUSE ME PEOPLE! This is supposed to be a GIVE AND TAKE!!! Where's the part where you all tell me stuff?

So - for those of you who are new and I haven't met - please introduce yourself? And, to be fair, I'll do my best to respond in kind...

So... where's the introductions? I'm doig more than my fair share of responding...

 

[sunstruck]

What do you want to know?

 

[Dillinger]

Can you explain Zazen to me? I always get conflicting definitions.

*lol* You got a lifetime or 12 to listen to the answer?

You get conflicting definitions because its not really something that can be explained - it must be experienced. Once you experience it you will then find that if anyone asks you to explain it you won't be able to - or, at the very best, you'll find that the only explaination consists of conflicting definitions.

So - let me take it down to its most basic level - and perhaps avoid any conflicts:

Its a form of meditiation that can best be described as "a study of the self."

The great Master Dogen said, "To study the Buddha Way is to study the self, to study the self is to forget the self, and to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten thousand things."

 

[LadyG]

Hi, I'm LadyG or LG or just "hey you" depending on the mood.

Apparently, according to Hans, I'm a bitch and nasty and evil.
But that's just an out and out lie.

Okay, well maybe the first part is correct.

 

[MissVictoria]

Hello! We haven't met, but I'm not new here. No one knows me really. And I believe it is impossible to truly get a feel for someone in a single post, but since you are all for meeting people, I will try.

........I love life. I love being here, and experiencing everything. I am too much of an optomist for anyone's own good, yet occasionally prone to a dark mood swing. As complex as anyone can be if you bother to know them. Fruitily romantic. Practically worshipping love and poetry as a religion. Stereotypical in many aspects to the sort of person who reads classical literature on their own time and sometimes pretends that he or she cant be stereotyped. Odd. Confusing. A piece of furniture. Happy.........

How would YOU define yourself, given only a paragraph?

 

[Dillinger]

Okay Dillinger,

We haven't 'officially' met, so here I am.

Question: Who is the craziest veteran poster at lit...?

The craziest veteran poster at lit? Do you mean of all of them - or just those who are still around? I'm also not sure what you mean by crazy? And - by veteran - do you mean someone who's been around since... when?

Of all time - Deborah is definitely up there. But I wouldn't call her crazy - just uhm... focused.

Lasher has probably the most legendary reputation - but I wouldn't classify him as crazy either.

Gnufi Poppets is probably the most way out of the bunch - he still shows up occaisionally.

 

[Dillinger]

What do you want to know?

Everything. Anything.

 

[Dillinger]

Hi, I'm LadyG or LG or just "hey you" depending on the mood.

Apparently, according to Hans, I'm a bitch and nasty and evil.
But that's just an out and out lie.

Okay, well maybe the first part is correct.

A pleasure to meet you. *smile* If Hans considers you to be all those things then I must conclude that in actuality you are quite nice and kind.

 

[sunstruck]

Everything. Anything.

I had Honey Nut Cheerios for breakfast. And I just ate an apple. Fugi! Very crunchy.

 

[seXieleXie]

please introduce yourself

hi, i'm lexie. i like to drink in hotel bars and go to retro dance clubs and watch my friends lick the bald heads of 10-foot-tall african men.

so, what's your sign?

 

[Dillinger]

Hello! We haven't met, but I'm not new here. No one knows me really. And I believe it is impossible to truly get a feel for someone in a single post, but since you are all for meeting people, I will try.

........I love life. I love being here, and experiencing everything. I am too much of an optomist for anyone's own good, yet occasionally prone to a dark mood swing. As complex as anyone can be if you bother to know them. Fruitily romantic. Practically worshipping love and poetry as a religion. Stereotypical in many aspects to the sort of person who reads classical literature on their own time and sometimes pretends that he or she cant be stereotyped. Odd. Confusing. A piece of furniture. Happy.........

How would YOU define yourself, given only a paragraph?

More a lurcker than a poster? Less than 1,000 posts in a year's time...

I like your description. Guess its my turn to try the paragraph thing... this isn't going to be easy...

I too am an optimist - I have my pessimistic moments but I find there is only one way to live life, and that's with all the gusto I can. I want to fully experience every minute, every moment. I don't ever want to look back with regrets for the things I never did (there are already too many regrets). I truly believe what Aleister Crowley said - "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" (an ye harm none). I'm a musician, a poet, a writer, a computer geek, a traveler, an avid reader, a manslut, a dork.

 

[curious2c]

I am a man hiding behind a woman in my av while wearing pink camoflage. I have one question for you.


Why is the ocean wet?

 

[JerseyBoy]

I am nomad