Re: [alliance] Official deity

[vhandel@chem.vu.nl (Ramon van Handel)]

>> I think having an official deity is very dangerous.  Not everybody will
>> be amused.  I don't have the impression that anybody on this list is
>> particularly religious... I personally come from a jewish family, but
>> I am not a religious jew.  Had I been, I can assure you I would have
>> not been particularly amused by this.  I think the same can be said
>> for really religious people of any other religion (except, of course,
>> discordianism :-P).
>
>if people can't deal with that then screw em ;-)

That is not an attitude I will support.

>i mean after all you don't
>hear anyone call BSD the devils os cause it's logo is a daemon ;-)

I'm not talking about the logo; I'm talking about the "official deity"
thing.

>> PS, now that we're on the subject, I've never heard of Eris.  Can
>> anyone give a short explanation ?  ;)
>
>eris is the greek goddess of chaos. romans call her discordia, hence
>discordianism. the apple comes from a greek myth. in it zeus throws a party and
>does not invite eris cause she might cause trouble. she is terribly offended
>and so fashions an apple with the work kallisti (actually more like korhisti
>but it is not the point) which means "to the prettiest one" and rolls it into
>the room.
[snip]

Whoops... not only have I heard of her, but I've actually read a part of
the Illiad in ancient greek in high school !  That was so horrible :)
(greek was kinda fun, but I only really enjoyed aristoteles and stuff like
that.  All those weird rhythms bore me stiff.)

>the erisian liberation front believes that this is bs and that what really
>happened is that the apple was columbian gold (ie marijuania) and they all got
>high by arguing so much they vibrated and lit the joint. in this version all
>the gods and goddesses were arguing. they get stoned and have a bunch of
>visions abotu the future through the guise of laurel and hardy. finally they
>realize that good and evil are illusions and they quit the god buisness.

Ugh.

Ramon.


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