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Robert Shea
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May 19 - June 17, 2022
Lovecraft,
Lovecraft was also a trash human.
that the “secret” of the Eleusinian Mysteries was the words whispered to the novice after he got the magic mushroom: “Osiris is a black God!”
Gee, my High Priestess told me it was a stalk of rye infected with ergot. Along w/the whole 'Dionysus is dead! Long live Dionysus!' thing. All the good gods died for our crops.
Don't eat ergot. Seriously. It can destroy your fertility, along with the rest of you.
The US Supreme Court is plotting to overturn Roe v. Wade as I'm reading this book.
“May storms and rains and typhoons beat them,” Howard sang on. “May Great Cthulhu rise and eat them.”
grok,
From Robert Heinlein's 'Stranger in a Strange Land'.
May you never thirst.
Chaos steadily increases, all over the universe. All ‘law and order’ is a kind of temporary accident.”
lloigor
It's a god from the Cthulhu Mythos
Fernando Poo,
Fernando Poo”),
Fernando Poo
26 - they seem to come in 3s.
“All hail Discordia.”
I asked, grabbing a wet handkerchief as some of the teargas started to drift to our end of the park.
Milk is better than water. Get some boxes of shelf-stable milk (needs no refrigeration, but will expire) if you go to protests. It helps for teargas and pepper spray.
Property was theft, certainly, in Old Grandfather’s world, Hagbard thought.
It is bad for a man to be obeyed too often.
They were a kind of secret police, having the right of life and death.
A bit like 'Papa' Doc Duvalier's Ton Ton Macoute in Haiti.
ALUCARD:
Eye rolling so hard right now.
IMMHOTEP:
And I thought Alucard was too cheesy.
Fernando Poo!”
Fernando Poo?
“Fernando Poo!”
Fernando Poo?”
30. Combo breaker!
“All hail Discordia,”
Why, friends, the only thing they haven’t gotten around to yet is people copulating with fruits and vegetables,
Always wash veggies before using them as sex toys. E. coli causes UTIs.
“Are ye a human being, and not a cabbage or something?” George giggled. “Yes.” “That’s too bad,” the voice boomed.
“Motherfucking? No, that’s for when we ordain deacons.”
porpoise,
Howard's a dolphin, ffs!
Why am I getting so pissed at a book written by this asshole?!
This is why I became an atheist. Erisians & Discordians are asses.
The dolphin appeared to be looking at him.
See - *dolphin*.
R. A. W. probably did this on porpoise.
Simon holds up an ear of corn and tells him urgently, “Osiris is a black god!”
Corn as we know it did not exist in Europe in the time of the Eleusinian Mysteries. 'Corn' in Europe usually referred to rye, wheat, or other cereal grains. The word was applied to maize by explorers and colonizers.
FERNANDO POO
31
Maybe he’s just a cheap thief who was trying to pick the kid’s pocket. A lot of that goes on these days, too.” Cotex involuntarily reached back to check his own wallet,
Always carry your wallet in a front pocket when in crowds. You'll notice someone groping your pocket easier.
Fernando Poo discovered Fernando Poo,”
32 & 33
The tribes of the porpoise are fearless and strong
So is Howard a dolphin, or is he actually a porpoise?
Is he a dolphin identifying as a porpoise?
Or does he not know, either?
“The sea is cleaner than the land,” said Howard.
Not anymore.
“We neither look forward to death in fear nor back upon it in sorrow. Especially when someone has died doing something worthwhile.
“Energy can neither be created nor destroyed,” said Hagbard. “Death itself is an illusion.”
Death adheres to physics. The body dies, decays, and fuels processes of decay. Or it's burned, releasing heat and light. Or whatever else happens to it. The brain, center of our consciousness, decays or is burned along with the rest. We're not separate from our brains & bodies, we're embedded in it.
noma
Do yourself a favor. Don't google this.
“Vernichtung”
Annihilation
Fernando Poo,
34
(An archaeologist is a ghoul with credentials.)
All hail Discordia,
“That’s it—isn’t it?” Saul gasped. “That’s their whole gimmick. I couldn’t see you without seeing a woman. I couldn’t see that editor, Jackson, without seeing a Negro. I couldn’t see anybody without seeing the attached label and classification.”
This is why I believe R. A. Wilson was not a racist, homophobic, misogynist P. O. S. as a lot of reviewers call him.
This book is not an easy read now. I think a lot of people wouldn't have thought anything was unusual about it back in '75.
Discordianism is equal opportunity chaos.
Fernando Poo
37
Eleusinian mysteries
It was ergot.
Don't try it at home. Seriously.
the classic Angry Giant form such
"What did you do, Ray?!"
tedeschi…
Italian word for Germans
Fernando Poo
38
How can you understand a people of whom it has been said, truthfully, that they have one foot in their own land and one foot in Thule?
A 4th century bce Greek explorer, Pytheas, described ice-covered islands that he found. The name he gave them was Thule.
Hitler co-opted the legendary island as the birthplace of the Aryans, and made it into a racist Promised Land.
(Pytheas found the islands off the northwest coast of Britain, and in 2010, scientists confirmed that it may have been the Norwegian island of Smola).
Fernando Poo
39
“Dominus Vobiscum!
The Lord be with you.
by doing exactly what he was told, he could produce some form of minor catastrophe.
Malicious compliance
