Distracted; thus meme.

[kiya]

This one's been rattling around my friendslist, and I'll play with it. (I haven't done most of the 'ask me a question' type memes because I'm mmmmmassively weird about questions.)

I have a list of LJ interests somewhere south of my mood pie. I hereby invite questions about interests that y'all know nothing about but think sound intriguing or interests y'all do know something about and can't figure out why the hell I have listed. (Alternately, there's asking about one of my LJ-communities.)

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[morningwind.livejournal.com]

Ahhhh, cladistics. Lots of discussions about that going on my evolution CSem (College Seminar) right now. :)

Hmm...wot's "sri syadasti"?

[kiya]

The short answer: A Discordian saint, one of the Five Apostles of Eris.

The long answer (quoted from The Principia Discordia):

Sri Syadasti Syadavaktavya Syadasti Syannasti Syadasti Cavaktavyasca Syadasti Syannasti Syadavayavyasca Syadasti Syannasti Syadavaktavyasca commonly called just Sri Syadasti

His name is Saskrit, and means: All affirmations are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. He is an Indian Pundit and Prince, born of the Peyotl Tribe, son of Gentle Chief Sun Flower Seed and the squaw Merry Jane. Patron to psychedelic type Discordians. Patron of The Season of Confusion. Holy-day: May 31. NOTE: Sri Syadasti should not be confused with Blessed St. Gulik the Stoned, who is not the same person but is the same apostle.

I tend to cite his name a lot, though often in shorthand. (Because the whole thing even in translation takes a while to rattle off!) These days he reminds me of how the answer to so many either-or questions in Kemeticism is "Yes".

[kiya]

*reads previous answer again*

And thus do I return to semasiology, I see.

And that should be 'Sanskrit', but I can't type.