I am almost always surprised when people say "that's a very Discordian comment." It's almost never when I think I'm expressing Discordian ideas, except when I'm overtly talking about Eris or bouncing penguins or dayglo electric bicycle sharpeners or something like that. Much more often, it's after I say something I thought was perfectly reasonable and obvious.
A lot of Discordianism is just taking things at face value as stated. Pretend they're telling the absolute, unvarnished truth and react to that... people will assume you're crazy. It lets you know how many polite fictions our society requires to keep functional. The Bokononist ideal of "live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy" comes to mind... and it's a bit frightening to realize how many people don't think they're living by harmless untruths at all. (Sometimes more than a bit frightening. The people who think they are living in "reality" are some of the scariest.)
For fun, watch commercials, and try to sort out reactions to them as if they were speaking truths. Or at least as if they were making claims they expected to be believed.
tangent comment: I really need to write that article/rantish thing/whatever on how I connect Discordianism & Feri. Then again, maybe I'll just write a nice Nimüe/Eris femslash story instead.
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A lot of Discordianism is just taking things at face value as stated. Pretend they're telling the absolute, unvarnished truth and react to that... people will assume you're crazy. It lets you know how many polite fictions our society requires to keep functional. The Bokononist ideal of "live by the foma that make you brave and kind and healthy and happy" comes to mind... and it's a bit frightening to realize how many people don't think they're living by harmless untruths at all. (Sometimes more than a bit frightening. The people who think they are living in "reality" are some of the scariest.)
For fun, watch commercials, and try to sort out reactions to them as if they were speaking truths. Or at least as if they were making claims they expected to be believed.
tangent comment: I really need to write that article/rantish thing/whatever on how I connect Discordianism & Feri. Then again, maybe I'll just write a nice Nimüe/Eris femslash story instead.