Discordian Q & A

[Malaclypse 666]

[QUOTE][quote=DarkOddity,Oct 11 2006, 01:10 PM]
Is this a religious recruitment thread? You have one post that contains the discordian propoganda AND seperate paragraph for role play.. meaning your trying to make people discordian OOC and IC...[/QUOTE]

Lordess, Lordess, the Thickness... Ya mean like: "Have you heard of the Book of Mormon? Would you like to know more?" Saint Norton preserve us from those sorts! Nah, I'm not pushin' the Goddess down anyone's gullet. I'm just trying to decrease the number of asinine questions I have to field in-game.

[QUOTE]From the hodge came the podge, but from the podge came the hodge. But there is no middle ground in the Hodge Podge.. just non-existance. You are forced to choose either Hodge or Podge.

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Interesting take, but no. Order does not create Chaos, nor vice-versa. Both exist "in potentia" in equal amounts. It's when some radical on either end of the spectrum begins to believe that SHe has the "real" truth of it, that the opposing forces must react in order to maintain the balance.

Compare it to a particle physicist ("observer" in Q.P.). He conducts an experiment to determine the "spin" of particles emitted from a radioactive decay process. His equipment is calibrated to detect particles of one spin only. Guess what? all the particles he detects are the same! However, another "observer" has a device calibrated to detect particles with the opposite spin. From his detector's "paradigm", the particles being emitted all spin in the opposite direction.

Ergo, the observer is "forced" into a tunnel reality where one paradigm predominates over another. Were that observer ingenious enough to recalibrate his "detector", he would find that the opposing paradigm is equally valid. Discordians (and quantum mystics in general) learn that their detectors lie to them just as often as they tell them the truth.

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