RE: Maybe praying did once work...
April 8, 2011 at 5:04 pm
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2011 at 5:05 pm by reverendjeremiah.)
In absurdist circles we call it roughly "the problem of human intent", or generally "the human condition". Absurdists in Discorian social circles call it "Eristic verses aneristic". Eristic is seeing chaos/randomness, and aneristic is seeing order. If you intend to see order, you will find it, if you intend to find randomness, again you will find it. Another way to say it is "intent sensitive". This is explained best, in my opinion, in the discordian law of fives:
Lord Omar is quoted later on the same page as having written, "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."
In other words. If you think like a hammer, then everything suddenly starts to resemble nails to you.
This doesnt mean that intent is bad per se, but that intent can and has deluded humanity very often.
Never lose your sense of humor. It gives you and edge over others who dont have one. The moment you think you have it all figured out, is the moment you close your mind and become a zombie, mindlessly following the pattern you have placed upon yourself.
Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia, Page 00016 Wrote:All things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to 5
The Law of Fives is never wrong.
Lord Omar is quoted later on the same page as having written, "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."
In other words. If you think like a hammer, then everything suddenly starts to resemble nails to you.
This doesnt mean that intent is bad per se, but that intent can and has deluded humanity very often.
Never lose your sense of humor. It gives you and edge over others who dont have one. The moment you think you have it all figured out, is the moment you close your mind and become a zombie, mindlessly following the pattern you have placed upon yourself.
