Re: 41
I don't hold with Dada.
Sometimes I do like to put things together that are not normally together to illustrate a point. This might be what I see as the fundamental absurdity of some issue or another.
Seriously, I would not at all mind the Discordians coming into conflict with the hate speech regulatory schemes of a number of nations. Or at least a long drawn out legal dispute over whether the Discordians are being adequately protected. When one doesn't actually like either party...
Now that Disney has Star Wars, it would be interesting to see if their lawyers could be convinced to come into conflict with all the people who said their religion was Jedi on the census forms.
Re: 42
It has teachings specific to the sect about the ancient greek theistic entity Eris. It is Theism. Especially considering the primacy it insists its version has over the Greek version.
It wouldn't be thrown out, depending on the jurisdiction, if Discordians were to openly do the sort of things that get the wheels of justice greased for this sort of law. Some jurisdictions might not even need that.
Some might call these actions murder, terrorism, and acts of war. However, remember the portfolio of Ares. His minions Phobos and Deimos? Fear and Terror*. To call these acts illegal, to make these acts criminal is to interfere with the free practice of religion by the followers of Ares.
*(IIRC. My Greek is probably worse than my French. I'm monolingual, the closest I come to a second language is Latin**, and I watch anime.)
Take one part Moe Lane's In Nomine write up of Stalingrad. Overlay onto Stalliongrad without otherwise changing the setting. Now you have part of an adventure for your Pony RPG in The City of Walking Statues.
**I had this written out well before the Latin stuff came up in that other thread.
I don't hold with Dada.
Sometimes I do like to put things together that are not normally together to illustrate a point. This might be what I see as the fundamental absurdity of some issue or another.
Seriously, I would not at all mind the Discordians coming into conflict with the hate speech regulatory schemes of a number of nations. Or at least a long drawn out legal dispute over whether the Discordians are being adequately protected. When one doesn't actually like either party...
Now that Disney has Star Wars, it would be interesting to see if their lawyers could be convinced to come into conflict with all the people who said their religion was Jedi on the census forms.
Re: 42
It has teachings specific to the sect about the ancient greek theistic entity Eris. It is Theism. Especially considering the primacy it insists its version has over the Greek version.
It wouldn't be thrown out, depending on the jurisdiction, if Discordians were to openly do the sort of things that get the wheels of justice greased for this sort of law. Some jurisdictions might not even need that.
Some might call these actions murder, terrorism, and acts of war. However, remember the portfolio of Ares. His minions Phobos and Deimos? Fear and Terror*. To call these acts illegal, to make these acts criminal is to interfere with the free practice of religion by the followers of Ares.
*(IIRC. My Greek is probably worse than my French. I'm monolingual, the closest I come to a second language is Latin**, and I watch anime.)
Take one part Moe Lane's In Nomine write up of Stalingrad. Overlay onto Stalliongrad without otherwise changing the setting. Now you have part of an adventure for your Pony RPG in The City of Walking Statues.
**I had this written out well before the Latin stuff came up in that other thread.