I hereby give notice that I am formally and publicly disassociating myself from Anonymous Hackers.

 I do not believe in nor do I support the disruption of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of the press when the exercise of such freedoms does not interfere with the rights of others.  I do not believe in the interference of fundamental freedoms in the guise of protecting those freedoms whether that interference is made by a governmental or non-governmental individual or organization.

 I am not by this notice disassociating myself from, nor am I acknowledging any association with, the Cult of the Dead Cow, Umbra Data and the Dark Side Intelligence, LulzSec, Twitter Anonymous, the Sinister League of Evil Badguys, Hacktivismo, the Illuminati, or Terrorists for Truth.

 Nothing in this declaration shall be construed as indicating participation in any illegal activity, whether in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Australia, or any other country or portion of the world.

 I also hereby give notice that I do not intend to reveal the legal names, pseudonyms, locations, methods, or plans of any members of any of these groups, nor do I acknowledge having any such knowledge whatsoever.

Posted at 23:23 UTC on the 17th of April in the year 2012 CE/Discord 34, Year of Our Lady of Discord 3178

 ’Anonymous should take a leaf out of the IRA’s method of operation and use a cellular structure, with only 3 or 4 in each cell so if there is a snitch in the organization it has minimal damage.’

- Stephen, St. Ives, England, 07/3/2012 02:33

Quote from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2111020/Top-members-hacking-groups-Anonymous-LulzSec-arrested-leader-Sabu-turns-in.html

Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Anonymous_at_Scientology_in_Los_Angeles.jpg

(Remember, this cellular structure is a fundamental part of the origin and success of Discordianism).

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Yes, Olivia aka Miss Monkey Candy aka Ms. Candy Money pushed out a baby girl at 05:28 local time on 11 June 2011.  The baby weighed in at 3676 grams (8.1 lbs), and was 51.4 cm long (20.23 in).

Labor took 12 hours, which I'm told is short for a first vaginal birth.  That's counting from the first "I think that was a labor pain maybe."  For some reason she didn't want to watch Knocked Up.  So we watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Confessions of a Shopaholic.  You can guess which one I chose.

Hard labor, the 10 cm mark, was much shorter.  Seemed like forever to me.  Now it's about a week before I, Reverend Loveshade, have my first Father's Day.  Unbelievable.

I don't know how I feel.  Happy, nervous, overjoyed, and scared as hell.  And newborn babies?  Talk about wet and messy.  How can something be so ugly and so beautiful at the same time?  Face red and scrunched up with a cone head.  That was me.  Seriously, I know that's natural for a newborn, but damn, birth is messy.  But it's a life, a human being that grew from almost nothing.  Amazing.

Continue reading "It's a Baby!" »

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I should be with Olivia right now but I had to leave the room and do something else. She's been in labor for two hours. She's handling it fine and I'm a wreck. It's our first baby.  Will keep you posted.

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Reverend Loveshade
First Baptist Church of Janustown
Janustown, Texas  

Westboro Baptist Church
3701 West 12th Street
Topeka, Kansas 66604-1730

2 March 2011

Dear Pastor Fred Phelps and members of Westboro Baptist Church,

I offer my heartfelt thanks and blessings to the members of Westboro Baptist Church.  You've won your God-given right to freedom of speech as delivered by the U. S. Supreme Court.  The fact that someone is grief-stricken and mourning the death of their son, brother or father is no reason their family shouldn't be legally harassed.  America is God's nation, and in God's nation no one has the right to deal with their grief or any other pain when homosexuals are allowed to live.

Jesus did not say, "I bring peace;" HE said HE brought a sword.  HE overturned the tables of the moneychangers in the temple because HE knew the Jews were gay.  And the unnatural closeness of boy-men to their Jewish mothers is a sure sign of incest, which is absolutely forbidden in the Bible.

Now that your church has won this victory, you can expand.  Why not start protests at schools, including elementary schools?  You could march outside classrooms, and tell children they're going to burn in Hell forever.  Another idea is to march outside orphanages with signs saying, "Thank God your Mommy and Daddy are Dead."

Continue reading "God Bless Westboro Baptist Church" »

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This month on The Loveshade Family Blog, TawTew the Naturally Perfumed had a question.  'I have a question.'  See, I told you.  'I see two pictures of pregnant girls in a row on this blog and one on the loveshade.org home page.  I have to be curious why? Something going on? ;)'

Well...all right.  Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild member Olivia aka Ms. Candy Monkey aka Miss Monkey Candy is, according to a doctor and thesaurus.com, abundant, anticipating, carrying a child, enceinte, expectant, fecund, fertile, fraught, fruitful, gestating, gravid, heavy, hopeful, in family way, parous, parturient, preggers, productive, prolific, replete, teeming, with child.  That's right, the lad is harboring a growing parasite, probably of human origin.  In short, pregnant.

Of course that leaves the obvious question for the developing fetus, 'Who's your Daddy?'  No amniocentesis or CVS test has been performed, so I can't rule out the possibility of ALIEN IMPREGNATION.  Hey, I've seen it happen on The Sims.  And on X-Files.  And the founding vice-president and first Order of the Pineapple honoree is named Alien (hmm).  But there's an 85.37 percent chance the father is...well, let me put it this way.  I am currently known as Reverend Loveshade but am considering changing my name to Father Loveshade.

Goddess help us all.

Opinions expressed by a member of The Loveshade Family do not necessarily reflect the views or fecund state of the entire family.

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A group of anonymous types flooded YouTube with pornographic videos. It was bound to happen sooner or later.  In this case, many of them were hidden. A video might start out as a kid vid, then in the middle switch to porn.

What interests me the most is the debate this started. People said kids can find porn anyway, parents are responsible if they let their kids visit YouTube, and 'welcome to the internet'.  Others strongly disagreed. One said everyone who posted should get 25 years and be a registered sex offender (this one is rather odd as it came from the UK which doesn't publicly register sex offenders).

A few people said why are parents trying to protect their children from sex in the first place?  It goes back to the "keep the kids ignorant and they won't do it" argument that continually falls on its face.

So how do you keep kids safe from unwanted pregnancy?

Continue reading "Pornography on YouTube" »

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* The AMERICAN CONGRESS will work very hard to get very little done.

* Something long-lost by a MAJOR ARTIST will be revealed.

* A scandal will rock the BRITISH GOVERNMENT.  The color purple will be involved.

* The AMERICAN ECONOMY will show significant improvement; Democrats will claim it's because of their fine work, while Republicans will claim it's because of improvements made while George W. Bush was still president.

* BARACK OBAMA will once again be shown to qualify to be U. S. President.  Many people, especially those who watch Fox News, won't believe it.

* The BBC will have a major, career-destroying scandal.

* A male BRITISH ICON of purity and wholesomeness will be caught with his hand somewhere people don't think it belongs; i.e., in someone else's pocket.

* A female AMERICAN ICON of purity and wholesomeness will be caught exposing a portion of her anatomy that the prudish will not think should be exposed.

* Former American President BILL CLINTON will receive an award nobody in their right mind would have expected him to receive when e was president.

* The Law that DEATHS ALWAYS HAPPEN IN FIVES will once again be proven this year.  At least of those deaths will be unexpected, a famous singer, and a famous actor.

* A major figure in the MIDDLE EAST will be violently killed.

* A WORLD-KNOWN FIGURE will admit a Discordian connection.

* A long-awaited for DISCORDIAN TOME will finally be published.  There will be much rejoicing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR,

THE LOVESHADE FAMILY

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Back in the day when pterodactyls ruled the Earth, The Loveshade Family possessed the website loveshade.com. Then when The Agents of Greyface went after some of us in a very serious way, we lost it and someone else got it on 9 September 2002 (Discordians might recognize that as Cat Dancing & Foot Fetish Day).

You might know dot com domain names can usually be registered for between $10 and $30 per year in American money. But at first the domain was not for sale, period. Then as we developed loveshade.org, it was for sale--at $500! We didn't buy it, loveshade.org became one of the one percent most popular websites in the world, and then the minimum opening bid, not buying price, for loveshade.com was $1200! Sometimes popularity is costly. We even more didn't buy it.

But with a little help from some friends (and just a touch of skull drudgery), we got it back! Right now go to loveshade.com and it will take you directly to loveshade.org. We couldn't be happier than if we'd won the National Lottery! Well, all right, that would have made us happier. But still, we're grinning like the self-congratulating cat that swallowed the annoying hamster!

IMPORTANT CHANGES: We don't like those things where you have to type in some illegible scribble or have a verified email address to post on a website.  But we also don't like getting lots and lots and lots of SPAM messages to screen every single day.  So, unfortunately, we're probably soon be using one of those annoying things.  The good part is we sometimes miss legitimate posts in the midst of all the spam, so that should be less likely to happen.  If we don't post your post, and it fits http://loveshade.org/blog/read_before_posting/ (read that before posting), send us an email with the heading Loveshade Family Blog.

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The red heart on a six-pointed sun (or whatever it is) is a Trademark of The Loveshade Family.  So don't you go using it without permission or Auntie Loveshade will come get you.  You don't want that.  Trust me.

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This from our most recent Ek-sen-trik Discordian Snooze Letter:

When I, Reverend Loveshade, recieved the vision to put together Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht on Mid Years Day, 2 July 2005, I was told it would take 5 years and 37 days, more or less. I didn't realize until very recently that 8 August 2010 was the 65th anniversary of the end of the war between Amierica and Japan in 1945....Nor did I know what would happen on that date.

Alden Loveshade tries as much as possible to stay out of our Snooze Letters, but we had to report this. On Sunday morning, 8 August, Alden was driving through Janus County, Texas (the county is real; the name isn't). Some of you may know many of our troubles happened in that very county. A truck that was at the side of the road suddenly started to make a U turn immediately in front of Alden. Our family member tried to avoid the truck, but as e said, "failed." Alden's vehicle was totalled, and e received bruises and such and a broken right finger. The deacon who was driving the other vehicle refused treatment (after a medic got the details from em).

Here's where it gets really weird and yes, this is true. Alden was driving to meet a woman who was doing art for Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht. This woman had a dream the night before of Alden in a traffic collision. Collecting art for Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht on the scheduled date for completing the book in Janus County Texas and being hit by a deacon of a conservative Christian church while meeting an artist who just had a dream Alden would be in an accident. Weird.

We wish Alden well.

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Israel Mireles, 26, the man convicted of killing and raping the 18-year-old Emily Sander, got life in prison without the possibility of parole.  Had Mexico not refused to deport him unless the United States of "We like to kill people in" America promised not to kill him, he probably would have gotten the death penalty.  Then he would have sat on Death Row for 20 years at a cost of millions of dollars.

Synchronistically, on the same day, 31 March 2010, Zoey Zane (the modeling name of Sander) was declared a Discordian Saint.  Emily Sander had already been named a Discordian American Princess.

As this may be our last entry on Emily Sander/Zoey Zane, I'll let you know we were the first website (other than that of the local Kansas paper) to report that Emily was missing before it was revealed she posed nude as Zoey Zane.  Our friend Perlie the Pony Girl was friends with Emily and knew about the double identity, but didn't want to hurt the family.  But the organized media called Emily a "porn star" and still insists on calling her a "pornography model," even though almost all her poses were relatively tame.

Had she not posed, almost everyone who's read the story would not have heard of her.  And that's a shame.

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LINKS

Emily Sander tribute: http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/emily.html

Israel Mireles' sentence: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20001552-504083.html

Discordian American Princesses: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Discordian+American+Princess and http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Discordian_American_Princesses

To see all our entries on Emily Sander, click on http://www.loveshade.org/blog-mt/mt-search.fcgi?IncludeBlogs=1&search=emily+sander

Entries by persons who are members or associates of The Loveshade Family do not necessarily represent the views of the whole family.

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Why can't you ride the subway without pants?

That's the question asked for the ninth annual No Pants Subway Ride on Sunday, 10 January. Begun by Improv Everywhere in New York, this year it was also held in various parts of the United States and the world, with participants in a reported 16 countries. A few thousand people took off their pants in New York, and others dropped them in Baltimore, Washington D.C., and, of course, San Francisco. Other places included Lisbon, Portugal, and Buenos Aires.

But it's actually related to an earlier tradition called No Pants Day celebrated by The Knighthood of BUH at the University of Texas, Austin, since 1997. And some claim it began even earlier, around 1985 or 1986. It's often celebrated on the first Friday in May.

In both No Pants Day and No Pants Subway Ride, particpants may act like nothing unusual's going on. If questioned, act as if they forgot to wear their pants, but that's no big deal. Other celebrants make a point of being pantsless, even wearing T-shirts celebrating wearing no pants. How you celebrate is up to you (but for most areas, you're safer if your nether regions are covered by underwear. "Pants" in the United Kingdom means underwear, but in America it means trousers).

See Links:

Check out the No Pants Day site at http://www.nopantsday.com/wp/

Read a report at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34799796/?GT1=43001

Watch the ZeitGeist version at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26852192/vp/34805765#34805765

The photo above is from http://improveverywhere.com/images/nopants7_17.jpg. No  threat to its copyright is intended.

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I know you've all been waiting for this all year, so here it is.

Here are my predictions for 2010 (actually, other members of The Loveshade Family contributed to this; they just don't want to admit it):

* The HEALTH CARE REFORM so praised by Americans (that is, those who don't have health care), will pass, but will not work as planned.  Detractors will say it's a huge waste of money, and will put America in the toilet.  However, supporters will say it's at least better than it was, and it will continue to get better.  Rush Limbaugh will say at least I'm still alive.

* ELVIS PRESLEY will be spotted in a shopping mall in New Jersey.

* The AMERICAN ECONOMY will show significant improvement; Democrats will claim it's because of their fine work, while Republicans will claim it's because of improvements made while George W. Bush was still president.

* An American group will work very hard to prove that BARACK OBAMA DOESN'T QUALIFY AS PRESIDENT.  The group will be suspected of having ties to a dissident group overseas.

* The supposedly dim-witted PARIS HILTON will still maintain the facade of being dim-witted, but will none-the-less cleverly manage to get herself in the news for yet another scandal.

* A male AMERICAN ICON of purity and wholesomeness will be caught with his hand somewhere people don't think it belongs; i.e., in someone else's pocket.

* A female BRITISH ICON of purity and wholesomeness will be caught exposing a portion of her anatomy that the prudish will not think should be exposed.

* The Law that DEATHS ALWAYS HAPPEN IN FIVES will once again be proven this year.  At least of those deaths will be unexpected, a famous singer, and a famous actor.

* QUEEN ELIZABETH I will not die, but will have a significant medical problem.  (Sorry, your Majesty).

* A major figure in the MIDDLE EAST will be violently killed.

* In the United Kingdom, there will be renewed interest in an ANCIENT ACTIVITY.  It will be something that's been popular in North America for years.

* HIP HOP will still be popular with many, and still hated by many others.

* I will perform a legally-recognized DISCORDIAN WEDDING, and there will be much rejoicing.

HAPPY NEW YEAR,

THE LOVESHADE FAMILY

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Remember Australia, which used to be such a cool place to visit and live?  Well, censors and social prudes are continuing to wage their glorious battle to make the country sterile and oppressed for visitors and natives alike.

When Sculpture by the Sea opens on Thursday, a statue of a lost little boy will be wearing swimmers.  This is not the wishes of the artist Paul Trefry.  Little Boy Lost showed a young boy lost on the beach, naked and vulnerable.  But apparently censors were so worried about people in Australia seeing the sculpture, that they insisted the boys' "naughty bits' be covered.

You really have to watch those Australians, as their uncontrollable urges force them to molest anything they see that's not wearing clothes.  Where do you think satyrs and wolfmen and mermaids come from?  There are so many naked goats and wolves and fish there.

To see the article, go to http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2009/10/26/1256405349832.html

Photo credit: A sculpture in the sand … Little Boy Lost by Sydney's Paul Trefry is one of 114 works along a two-kilometre stretch of coast from Bondi to Tamarama. Photo: Dean Sewell

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Yep, we guessed it. Michael Jackson, The King of Pop, was seen alive in a video after he was murdered. Who would have thought it? We would have thought it. Look Below.

It will be really interesting to see how these reports work out. I can imagine the trial:

As a witness, you claimed you saw Michael Jackson alive after his supposed death.

Yes, that's correct.

But according to this autopsy report, he's dead. And you also claim you know who murdered him. Can you explain how you can both claim he's alive and say you know who killed him?

Yes. I want the publicity.

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We would have thought it. See our blog entry at http://loveshade.org/blog/2009/08/death_of_michael_jackson_homicide_or_fake.html

See that he was murdered at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32542682/ns/entertainment-music/ and see he's still alive at http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9b8_1251194026

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We weren't going to even mention this, but....

All right, a couple of us (I'm speaking of both The Loveshade Family and the extended Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild) can be seen in the movie Taking Woodstock which just had its national release today.  Why didn't we mention this before?  Especially when I'm known for having an enormous ego and bragging about everything I ever did and even some things I didn't?

We didn't mention it because 1) we appear in a crowd scene buried in the midst of a zillion people; and 2) until we saw the film we didn't even know if we'd be in the final cut.  Movie makers always shoot a great deal more footage than ever appears on screen, and even a great deal more than ever appears in those expanded DVDs.

Even my ego's not big enough to stand up to "so you're bragging about being in a crowd scene that nobody will ever see?"  Frankly, it's barely big enough to "brag about being in a crowd scene that people will see."  But I'll step up to the challenge.

Some of you may have heard the rumors that I've appeared on film before, even if those films are, well, not available for general release.  (See how I manage to brag?)

But this was no work and lots of fun.  We got to see New York, wear the Sacred Chao on film (although you can't see it), see some very talented people, meet Jonathan Groff (very briefly), meet Kelli Garner and Paul Dano, roll in the mud, get chewed out for being in the mud when I wasn't supposed to be, and meet some Discordians (we met at least half a dozen).

I didn't get to meet the real-life Elliot Tiber, who with Tom Monte wrote Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life.  And I also didn't get to meet the director Ang Lee (you may not know that crowd scenes are often not directed by the listed director).  Would have loved to have met them both.

The movie's a comedy, plays very loosely with the facts, and is a lot of fun (Roger Ebert likes it).  So go see it, and tell them Reverend Loveshade and friends sent you.

Learn more about the film at http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/taking_woodstock/

(In the photo, left to right, that's Kelli Garner, Demetri Martin and Paul Dano doing cuddles.  Yes this picture's something of a clue.  It's from the website linked above and is © 2009 FOCUS FEATURES LLC.)

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Portions of this were lifted from our report on Gary Gygax, who died a year ago.

Dave Arneson, who with Gary Gygax created Dungeons & Dragons which changed both fantasy and gaming, died at age 61. As Steve Jackson wrote, "Dave never did get as much attention as the other guy whose name was on the box, and he never will."  It was apparently Arneson who had the idea of playing not a group of miniatures as is done in war games, but a single one, an independent "character," who could grow in power through adventuring.

Arneson's game-in-progress Blackmoor, which became a D & D suppliment, was likely the first true roleplaying game.  Without their creation, Steve Jackson Games might never have existed.  It wouldn't have produced the roleplaying game GURPS, and probably wouldn't have published the most-seen edition of Principia Discordia, or hosted perhaps the first open online discussion of Discordianism.  These in turn led to the creation of several Discordian works.

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In case you aren't an American who has or works with young children, you may not know what all the fuss is about.

Dora the Explorer is a popular cartoon character on the Nickelodeon cable television network. She was introduced at the end of the 20th century, and became extremely popular with the pre-tween or pre-preteen set. The very young girl (age about 5), goes on little adventures to find things or help people, and is nice to everybody.

But now Nickelodeon and Mattel, the toy company, have unveiled a version that shows Dora in her tween/preteen years. Parents are horrified.

Part of this is because they first hinted at the new version's look with a silhouette.

Continue reading "Dora The Explorer Growing Up? Horrors!" »

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If you saw it on FOX News it must be true, right?

Turns out some news shows will take VNR (Video News Releases) from major corporations, add their own comments on top of it, and air it as news. From a candy ad disquised as a Halloween report to a toothy news bite that's really an ad for the American Dental Association, media will spoon feed it to your brain. Close mind, open wallet.

Learn more and learn from the Center for Media and Democracy at http://www.prwatch.org/fakenews/findings/vnrs

We ripped off the link from http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2006/09/the_real_fake_n.html

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It sounds like a joke, but it's not. Attorney General Eric Holder said that the the Drug Enforcement Administration will stop raiding state-approved marijuana dispensaries.

In other words, the DEA will start recognizing the law.

Maybe the days of George W. "We Are Right And Everyone Else Is Wrong Including America" Bush and Karl "You're a Good Puppet George W. Here's a Baseball Card" Rove are finally over. Could we be entering a new era where the federal government respects the law, the constitution, and American citizens?

Let's hope so.

See the good Alex Johnson's article at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29433708/

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Two girls, age 14 and 15, have been arrested and charged with disseminating child porn--for sending pictures of themselves.

The teen girls from Greensburg, Pennsylvania, were arrested along with two teen boys, ages 16 and 17, who are accused of having received the photos over their cell phones.

Ironically, the law could also classify the "criminals" as victims.  The underage girls could be classifed as victims of sex crimes because two teenagers possessed their nude photos.  And the underage boys could be classified as victims of sex crimes because they were sent "child pornography."  So if the law punishes the "criminals," it also punishes the "victims."

Some American laws are just too stupid to believe.

And these teens aren't the only ones. Others have been prosecuted under the same kind of laws.  In fact, millions of teens could be arrested for disseminating child pornography. According to a survey released in December 2008 by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, 20 percent of teens have sent nude photos of themselves to someone electronically.  And many more have possessed such photos.

In other words, the biggest producers, and probably consumers, of kiddie porn are kids.

These laws are supposedly written to protect the victims. But who is victimizing them? Themselves, or the government?

Am I the only one who thinks there needs to be some changes to these laws?

I learned about this at http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/teens-send-nude-pics-to-one-other-face-kiddie-porn-charges.ars For more info, see http://www.wpxi.com/news/18469160/detail.html (about the arrest) and the survey results in pdf form at http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/sextech/PDF/SexTech_Summary.pdf

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The father of a United Kingdom boy who impregnated a girl when he was age 12 plans to have a talk with his son about sex. 

Dennis Patten, father of new father Alfie Patten, now age 13, decided it's time for an education. '"I will talk to him again and it will be the birds and bees talk. Some may say it's too late but he needs to understand so there is not another baby."'

The new mother is Chantelle, who was 14 when impregnated and is now 15.

Just another example of how effective it is to try to keep children ignorant about sex.

See more at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29184929/?gt1=43001

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Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at President George W. Bush as a protest, got a party in prison.

Al-Zeidi was arrested on Dec. 14 when he made the protest at a joint news conference between Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. After the arrest, thousands demonstrated for al-Zeidi's release.

The journalist could face up to 15 years in prison.  But at least he got a party from the guards for his 30th birthday.

We don't condone throwing shoes at world leaders (mostly because they might have us arrested if we did). But we also don't condone a world leader starting an unprovoked, murderous war that resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people.  The war in Iraq has "liberated" a country that didn't want to be liberated, and left a high percentage of the population homeless.

Throw a shoe, go to prison.  Order the deaths of thousands of innocent people, retire with a nice pension.

As a Discordian, I have to admire the discord created by the throwing of the shoe.  Our own group, the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild, recognizes used shoe seller Chao Tse-tung as a Discordian saint.  And as Mad Malik aka Joe Malik is a major Discordian figure, it seems appropriate this would happen in the presence of al-Maliki.

Maybe things would be a lot better if President George W. Bush has simply thrown a shoe at Iraqi President Saddam Hussein instead of invading Iraq.  Let the war mongers fling things at each other, and leave the rest of us alone.

See the story at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28698294/?gt1=43001

For more on Discordia, see http://discordia.loveshade.org

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Marijuana use has long been associated with problems in short term recall.  Hey, did I say bud affects short term recall?

Ironically enough, weed may help prevent--and even reverse--the most notorious memory disease of all, Alzheimer's Disease.

The journal Neurobiology of Aging reported that a compound that works like marijuana's THC reduces brain inflammation and improves memory in senior citizen rats.

As always, more research will have to be done.  But the effects of chemicals on rats are amazingly similar to the effects on humans.

Could this be another nail in the coffin of out-dated anti-marijuana laws?  Hey, Grandpa, don't forget to smoke some grass!

See http://health.msn.com/health-topics/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100230518&gt1=31036

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"This morning, PETA dispatched a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of ice cream icon Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace the cow's milk in their products with human breast milk."

That's from the official website of PETA, or People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.  It's apparently in the wake of news reports that a restaurant owner in Switzerland plans to buy breast milk to use in soups, stews and sauces.

Their site claims it's cruel to keep cattle locked up, forcibly impregnating cows every nine months just to keep up milk production.

Would their solution mean milk-supplying women would have to be impregnated every nine months?

Apparently not.  It appears that woman will continue producing breast milk as long as they're nursing, as the Veronika Robinson case points out (she breastfed her daughters until they voluntarily stopped breast feeding at age 7, one of them almost 8 years old who asked for it again on her 9th birthday.)  PETA claims breast milk is not only better for the animals, but for people.

If this becomes a trend, it leaves us with a very large question: what about yogurt, or milk itself?  A cow can produce many times the milk that a human woman can.  Where would all that milk come from?

Read the PETA letter and comments at http://www.peta.org/mc/NewsItem.asp?id=11993

See a short video about Veronika Robinson at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHRyRCHuQ7g and Robinson's corrections to some of the video at http://www.themothermagazine.co.uk/extraordinarybreastfeeding.html (thanks to Einley for pointing these out at http://www.mothering.com/discussions/showthread.php?t=844263 )

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'LONDON (Reuters) - Children's author Eoin Colfer is to write a sixth novel in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series, seven years after the death of its creator Douglas Adams, Penguin said Wednesday.'

Adams' widow approved it, but here's a very disturbing quote from guide's creator Douglas Adams (whom we named a Discordian saint) when he talked about how his series had five parts:

"Five seems to be a wrong kind of number; six is a better kind of number."

Can we accept someone who says something so blasphemist about our Holy Number Five to be a Saint?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/britain_galaxy_odd_dc

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Ken Campbell, who co-wrote the Illuminatus! play based on the trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, died at age 66 on Sept. 1, 2008.

Campbell also adapted Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the stage in 1979.

In addition to being a writer and director, he was an actor.  Some of you may remember him as Bartlett in the Pythonesque movie A Fish Called Wanda.  He auditioned for the part of the seventh Doctor Who, a part that ironically went to one of his protege's, Sylvester McCoy.

He was alternately praised and criticized for his highly eccentric productions.  His Wholiness the Rev. DrJon, from whom I learned Campbell died, declared Ken Campbell a Discordian saint.

Check the article about Campbell at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2663891/Ken-Campbell.html

There's another article that includes a clip from a TV show he made about the human brain at http://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2008/09/01/7330/ken_campbell_dies

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I heard from Lorien that same-sex couples can now get legally married in California.  I knew the California Supreme Court had ruled that restricting marriage to the opposite sex was unconstitutional on the state level on May 15, but it took until 5:01 p.m. today (June 16) for that decision to stand.  (for a discussion of the May 15 decision, see http://loveshade.org/blog/2008/05/california_may_accept_marriage.html)

California is the second state to do this, and several couples have gotten married there already.

Of course there's protests, calls for changing the law, etc.  There's a California measure coming up for vote in a few months that would specifically ban same-sex marriage.  And because U. S. states recognize marriage as defined by other U. S. states, it puts anti-gay-marriage states in something of a bind.  This will probably beef up the idea of amending the U. S. Constitution to a "one-man, one-woman" marriage amendment.  My friend Alden claims that marriage in the U. S. has never been controlled by the federal government, and this would put even more power in the hands of big wigs in Washington.

So what think?  Should same-sex marriage be legal?  Should the federal government be able to control marriage?  For that matter, should the state government be able to control marriage?  And what about governments of other countries?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080617/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage

(members of The Loveshade Family contributed to this report)

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Thankfully, the Texas Supreme Court has crawled out of its Dark Ages hole for a moment to decide that ripping children away from their loving parents may not be a great idea. For a brief moment, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is seeing a brief ray of hope that America may actually, occasionally, value freedom of religion.

Now even Child Protective Services (motto: "We can take children away from anybody") has agreed to actually follow the law for once, and are giving the children back. There's nothing in the agreement that says fathers have to stay away, although the parents are required to take parenting classes (which we think every high schooler should take). But, perhaps worst of all, they have to stay in Texas.

This whole case raises several issues. First, why is polygamy illegal? It's supported in Christian, Jewish and Islamic tradition (try actually reading the Bible and Torah and the Qur’an). And why do the headlines continually speak of the "polygamist group?" That's one part of their belief system, not the defining part. Why don't we called Baptists the "monogamist group?"

Second, why do we insist people aren't adults until they turn 18? Is there some adulthood fairy who magically transforms them at midnight? Consider that Muhammad, father of Islam, had a 12-year-old wife, and Joseph, who early Christian writers said was about 60, married Mary when she was somewhere between 12 and 16. Nowhere does Christian or Jewish scripture specify an age for adulthood or a minimum age for marriage.

People are also upset by arranged marriages. This was the standard in Christian, Jewish, Islamic and many Eastern traditions for millennia. The marriage success rate was generally very high, with families getting together who had similar religious and economic backgrounds.

Am I saying I personally agree with everything this church teaches and practices?  Am I ready to join?  No.  Even though, had all the restrictions that CPS and the American Government want to apply been followed several years ago, I would never have been born.  Of course, that would have made some of you very happy.

What I am asking is this: Where does America get off persecuting people for practicing their religion and loving each other?

See story at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080530/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat

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Mandi Hamlin was handed a pair of pliers and told to remove her nipple rings before boarding a plane, according to attorney Gloria Allred.  In a news conference on 27 March 2008, Allred said Hamlin was forced by the Transportation Security Administration on 24 February 2008 in Texas.  (For those who don't know, Texas is a part of the United States, although some Texans insist it's the other way round.)

We didn't realize nipple rings posed such a threat.  We can't imagine any way you could hurt someone with nipple rings, unless you made them swallow.

But if nipple rings are such a threat, surely false teeth are.  You could bite someone with false teeth!  Maybe we should make every passenger remove anything that could be potentially dangerous before boarding a plane.

If nipple rings are dangerous, surely wedding rings are.  What about a watch?  A terrorist could use a watch band to strangle a child, or a little person.  And what about a false leg?  You know terrorists would willingly cut off their own leg so they could replace it with a false one, and then hit people over the head with it.

Come to think of it, if false teeth are dangerous, what about real ones?  Maybe everyone should be given a pair of pliers to pull out their real teeth, not to mention fingernails and toenails.  And it false legs are dangerous, what about real legs and arms?  And speaking of dangerous body parts, if we want to be certain a man can't rape a woman....

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Gary Gygax, who with Dave Arneson created Dungeons & Dragons which transformed the worlds of both gaming and fantasy, died at age 69.  As Steve Jackson wrote, without Gygax and Arneson, the roleplaying game industry might never have happened, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy likely wouldn't have been made.

Alden and I have a personal interest here.  Years ago Alden got involved in a D & D group, which eventually led em to GURPS in Steve Jackson Games.  Most of es closest friends played one or the other game with em as either player or Game Master (GM).  During a very difficult phase of es life, es weekly GURPS game kept em going.  These also led em to involvement in the Society for Creative Anachronism, which lead to an interest in alternative forms of society, which led to...well, keep reading.

I, Reverend Loveshade, saw the Steve Jackson Games edition of Principia Discordia (the first edition that put the book in bookstores) when it came out in 1994.  Before that I didn't know of the book, but it led me to some very strange places.  Discussing it with my Mum led to my learning that my Mum had been friends as a teenage girl with Luna Wilson, who was murdered at age 15.  Luna was the daughter of Robert Anton Wilson who contributed to the Principia, and who wrote about the Illuminati.  I had learned about the Illuminati through one of Bob Wilson's books, but didn't know of es connection to my mother.  But learning this connection led to my contacting the borderline fringe-mainstream writer whom I grew to call Grandbob.

These various connections came together when I had a vision of doing a book, which became the still evolving Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht.  Alden brought es vision to it, as did Princess Unicornia, Fairy Princess Yoshikyoko, Dr. Sinister Craven, Untroubled Teen and many others.  Each of those mentioned above connected to the book either through fantasy or roleplaying.  It's likely that, without Gary Gygax and all the interconnections made through the creation of D & D, our book would never have happened, and likely neither would Apocrypha Discordia or several other great Discordian works.

Ironically, Gary Gygax died on March 4, which has been called GM Day.

See an Associated Press story at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080304/ap_en_ot/obit_gygax and see Steve Jackson's tribute at http://www.sjgames.com/ill/archives.html?y=2008&m=March&d=5

(Alden Loveshade contributed to this report.  Details of photo are at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Gary_Gygax_Gen_Con_2007.JPG)

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See Dave Arneson goodbye entry at http://loveshade.org/blog/2009/04/dave_arneson_dungeons_dragon_c.html

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Tragically, authorities have verified that the body found was that of Emily Sander.

 And yes, we know Emily posed nude with other women and in solo shots under the name Zoey Zane. She just turned 18 years old this year and apparently saw it as a way to gain publicity in order to futher her career.

We, or at least her friend Perlie the Pony Girl, knew about her posing before we posted our first entry about Emily here.  But at that point, it wasn't publicly known, which is why we didn't mention it.

We know that some people don't approve of nude or sexually-oriented modeling.  But whether you approve or not, please don't let that get in the way of your seeing the tragedy of the death of someone described by a friend, Perlie, as a friendly, sweet and very lovable young woman.

Look for more updates on this blog, or see previous entries for more details.

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Tragically, authorities believe they've found the body of Emily Sander.  The body was found about 50 miles from El Dorado, Kansas, where Emily attended school and was last seen.

Police are still looking for Israel Mireles, 24.  Emily was apparently last seen leaving a bar with Israel, who is described as being 5 foot 6 inches and weighing 130 lbs.  He may be traveling with his apparently pregnant 16-year-old girlfriend Victoria Martens.  A car rented by Mireles was found in Vernon, Texas, and Mireles and Martens are believed to be heading to Mexico, if they haven't already arrived there.

In the photos, Emily Sander, 18, is to the left; Israel Mireles, 24, is at top right; and Victoria Martens, 16, is at bottom right.

Emily is--or, tragically, was--a friend of our own friend Perlie the Pony Girl.

If you have any information about Emily Sander, Israel Mireles or Victoria Martens that could apply to this case, please contact Detective Captain Justin Phillips at the El Dorado Police Department by calling (316) 321-9120 or faxing (316) 321-1456.  If you are uncomfortable contacting him by phone, you can email at jphillip @ eldoks.com (ignore the spaces in the email address--it's posted that way to reduce spam).

See another and possibly more current photo of Mireles at http://loveshade.org/blog/2007/11/please_help_us_find_missing_em.html

Look for updates in more current postings to this blog.

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Emily Sander, an 18-year-old student at Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas, is missing.  She was last seen  leaving a bar there with a man who may have been Israel Mireles, 24.  El Dorado is about 30 miles from Wichita.

Sander's car was found at the bar. Mireles was driving a grey or green Ford Taurus rental car with the license plate XUJ 487. He and his 16-year-old pregnant girlfriend Victoria Martens may be traveling to Texas or Mexico as Mireles has family and friends in those areas.

Emily is a friend of our own Perlie the Pony Girl, and we are very concerned about her.  She is 5 foot 3 inches tall, weights 105 lbs., has blue eyes, long brown hair, tattoos and body piercings.  She was last seen wearing low-rider jeans, a "Don't Mess with Texas" T-shirt, and skateboard-style tennis shoes.  Mireles is described as being about 5 foot 6 inches tall and weighing 130 lbs.

Police are looking for a white bedspread with a floral design that may be a clue. Unfortunately, foul play is suspected.

If you have any information about Emily Sander or Israel Mireles that could apply to this investigation, please contact Detective Captain Justin Phillips at the El Dorado Police Department by calling (316) 321-9120 or faxing (316) 321-1456.  If you are uncomfortable contacting him by phone, you can email at jphillip @ eldoks.com (ignore the spaces in the email address--it's posted that way to reduce spam).

A recent photo of Israel Mireles is to the right.

Look for updated postings on this blog as this case continues.

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"A judge who ordered a woman to drop her pants and decided a custody dispute by flipping a coin was removed from the bench by the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday."  This is from an Associated Press article by Larry O'Dell about Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court Judge James Michael Shull of Gate City.

I have to ask, why?  Not why did the judge do this, but why did that get him removed?  Flipping a coin gives the judge at least a 50 percent chance of making a good decision.  And from what we've seen of the U. S. Court, that's unusually good odds.

And as for having the woman drop her pants in court...why stop there?  In court, aren't you supposed to reveal the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?  What are clothes but a deception--outfits covering scars and tattoos, bras remolding breasts, waistbands hiding bellies, etc.  Why don't they make everybody in court drop their pants, and everything else?  If nothing else, it would make being in court more fun.

Read the article at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071102/ap_on_re_us/judge_removed  (Hopefully the AP won't sue us for encouraging people to read their work).  Article pointed out to us by Danacasso.

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Adam Newton, an educator and freelance professional writer who's done work for magazines, newspapers, radio and television, interviewed us! Why we don't know.

As of this posting, we're getting ready to start submitting Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht in an ignoble attempt to get it published. Learn about our book, animal sex, nudism/naturism, Shamlicht Kids Club, The Cloved Lemon Kissing Game, and how we were investigated for alleged possession of illegal drugs, promotion of child pornography, consorting with terrorists, and lots of other fun stuff.

The interview is unique: where else would you find people of various species being interviewed naked in a naturally formed hot tub on planet Eta Mu Pi?

To see the interview, go to Ek-sen-trik Discordian Interview

Also see our September-October 2007 Snooze Letter

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By Adam Newton, Banana Dance Press Writer

October 3, 2007 CE / 57 Bureaucracy 3173 YOLD

Captain "Sesame Seed" Rogers and Sister Hooter announced that they've merged their Discordian youth groups Shamlicht Boys and Shamlicht Girls.

The new group, Shamlicht Kids Club*, promotes personal freedom, individualism, and the motto "Be Prepared for Anything." Both clubs' previous motto was "Be Protected from Everything." Spokesperson Pope Hilde said the new motto is much more useful, and "less subject to prosecution than keeping the kids locked in the closet all day had been."

Rogers founded Shamlicht Boys in August of 2005, while Hooter founded Shamlicht Girls in September of 2005. But Hooter claimed to have the idea first, a claim Rogers disputed. They finally agreed to disagree, and the new club was formed on October 3, 2007. (This is in honor of Luna Wilson, daughter of Robert Anton Wilson and Arlen Riley Wilson. The 15-year-old Luna's murdered body was discovered on Oct. 3, 1976).

Shamlicht Kids Club is for all sexes and all ages between X and Y. Members can choose their own uniform, and work for any of several merit badges, which include Community Service, First Aid, Brain Surgery, Writing, Poetry, Punning, Bicycling, Jockey, Jock Strap, Multiplication, Algebra, Training Bra, Estory, Gymnastics, Knot Tying, Sewing, Wedgies, Science, Fnord, Music, Discord, Dancing, Animal Husbandry, Animal Noises, Harbol Quest, Camping, Cooking, Chili Making, Tooting, Toilet Papering, Babysitting, Child Proofing, Child Photography, Puberty, Origami, Swimming, Diving, Sink, 1000 Blank White Cards, Painting, Artillery, Scuba, Fiber Arts, Underwater Basket Weaving, Jumping, Jakes, Calvin Ball, and Binky the WonderSkull Posers.

For more information, see Shamlicht Kids Club at http://discordia.loveshade.org/skc

*The group is sometimes called Smagmoid Kids Club

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This may not be a generally recognized holyday (yet), but it sounds like a good one.

Russia's population has been dropping since the Soviet Union aborted in 1991.  Now there's an effort to swell the population.  This isn't through immigration, but through conception.

According to the article this links to, "Ulyanovsk Gov. Sergei Morozov has decreed Sept. 12 a Day of Conception and is giving couples time off from work to procreate. Couples who give birth nine months later on Russia's national day — June 12 — will receive money, cars, refrigerators and other prizes."

This isn't strictly Discordian, but damn, wish we'd thought of it!

See the ARTICLE at <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070911/ap_on_re_eu/russia_making_babies_day;_ylt=Aj3sJkWMdU4sr9thYeq6TOsUewgF" target="_blank">Make a Baby Day</a>

BONUS: to see a cute educational book that shows German children how babies are made (a book we can't link to from this blog) go to the link at http://www.23ae.com/index.asp?post=381.

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See our March 2007 Snooze Letter, in which: 

• Adam Gorightly, author of The Prankster and the Conspiracy, The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture gives us a suggestion.
• Love Your Neighbor/Discordians for Jesus Day may be recognized in church?
• Reverend Loveshade and other "prominent individuals" are being interviewed for a book.
• Wikipedia Wars on Discordian Works heats up--again.
• And much more Insanity!  Check out our Snooze Letter HERE!

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We expose even more Bizarre stuff in our second part!

• Christina Pearson, Robert Anton Wilson's daughter, acknowledges that RAW is Reverend Loveshade's Grandbob!
• We announce two new inductees into the highly exclusive (only given one day a year, on Pat Pineapple Day) Order of the Pineapple!
• We discuss the result of the FBI (American Federal Bureau of Investigation) report on our group!
• We reveal new submissions for our book, Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht!  (To see the submissions, you have to subscribe to our free Snooze Letter--instructions are at the bottom)

See the February 2007 Snooze Letter by going to discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/snooze0702.html

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The Exposure Issue Part One, Discordian Snooze Letter for January and February 2007, is revealed at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/snooze0701.html

In it we expose:

• Our Robert Anton Wilson page and share a post about Grandbob made on our Blog about RAW by daughter Christina Pearson.
• Regress made on our work Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht
• The Wikipedia War over the article Discordian Works

And more!  See it all exposed at

http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/snooze0701.html

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I've been trying for three days to come up with something poignant, clever, insightful, and moving about the passing of Robert Anton Wilson. For three days, I've failed. But I would be remiss if I let another day pass and posted nothing.

To es fans, Robert Anton Wilson was the co-author, with Robert Shea, of The Illuminatus! Trilogy, and the author of many other great books that challenged our perspectives and perceptions of society, human relations, and even reality. E was a free-thinker, a friend of Dr. Timothy Leary, and, with Shea, the popularizer of Discordianism, the religion-joke began by Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. According to Wikipedia, e was "a prolific American novelist, essayist, philosopher, psychologist, futurologist, anarchist, and conspiracy theory researcher." E worked to be an agnostic in all things, taking nothing for granted or at face value. To the Church of the SubGenius, e is possibly the model for their "God" Bob Dobbs. According to es former co-workers at Playboy magazine, e was an associate editor with a fresh sense of humor. To es friends, e was a gentle spirit who cared about others. You can read more about RAW at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Anton_Wilson, or at es website at http://www.rawilson.com.

But what was e to me? I cannot answer. Es passing is still too close.

I like to imagine that BloodStar, our missing friend who "left Earth" following the paranoia and Government abuses following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States, returned. I can see the space alien picking up Bob on the StarShip Lorelei, and taking Bob back home to planet Eris. There they can discuss conspiracy theories, sex, humanity, the Illuminati, our crazy planet Earth, and, of course, fnord.

But what have I to say about Robert Anton Wilson? I have no pithy comments, no great witticisms. I have just one, very simple, thing to say. Goodbye, Grandbob.

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(For information on Memorial Events and other RAW stuff, go to http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/raw.html)

Photo by Robert Altman from http://www.altmanphoto.com/robert.anton.wilson.jpeg

You can still leave comments on this entry.  We left comments open for this entry for a long time.  Unfortunately, we got hit with so much spam that we had to stop the usual method.  But if you want to make a comment, send your comment (required), name you want to use for your comment (required), email address (optional), and website (optional) to the email address at http://discordia.loveshade.org.  Do that and we'll try to post it.

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The Ek-sen-trik Discordian Snooze Letter for October/November 2006 is up and posted!

We had some delays due to some technical problems (Beware the Elppin!), but you can see:

Proposed Submissions for our book Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht!

Info on The Illuminatus! Trilogy co-writer, ex-Playboy editor and Conspirator, Robert Anton Wilson!

News about our new Ministers of Deviant Art and how you can submit!

Notes on Planet Eris!

And some bits about our continuing Fight for Freedom!

See the Ek-sen-trik Discordian OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 200 SNOOZE LETTER!

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Dancasso, art editor for our book-in-progress Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht, was disposed in a violent coup. (At least that's the way we're telling it.) Danacasso escaped with es life and the title Ars Ministeralis Deviantis, which e claims e owns as a registered trademark. This leaves us without a leader or a title for the head of our Ministry of Deviant Art.

As the writing portion of Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht is nearing completion, we have a serious need for artwork and for someone to get us art. The Art Editor (by whatever title) doesn’t have to be an artist, but does have to be able and willing to find art for us. This could include works with expired copyrights or that were released into the public domain, and art that the artist will let us use in our book and/or on our site. Email us at ed_submit@loveshade.org with your resume' if you’re interested in this no-pay but lots-of-bragging-rights position.

To get an idea what we're all about, visit us at discordia.loveshade.org

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Who will be the next Ruler of the World?  Who are Discordians for Jesus?  Will Planet X be named Eris?  Did a prostitute really get named as a saint?  And do we really need a new Art Editor?

Find out by checking out our Ek-sen-trik Discordian Snooze Letter September 2006.

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In this issue you'll find:

* Information about the planned Aug. 25 to 27 Summit Meeting/Battle for World Rulership between the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild and Mythics of Harmonia.

* Coming Holydays (Weird and Fun)

* Reverend Loveshade in Hospital--and back out again

* Special Message from Untroubled Teen and Princess Unicornia

* Mega Cool New and Coming Entries for Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht

See Ek-sen-trik Discordia Snooze Letter -- August 2006 at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/snooze0608.html

Warning: contents may open your mind

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What would you tell your children to help them grow up to be terrorists?

Reverend Loveshade wrote "How to Raise a Terrorist" in 2001. In the early part of 2002, federal agents seized it and a lot of other things written by Reverend Loveshade and other people. One of the things they took was a poem I wrote about September 11 that was published in a school book when I was 13.

I guess they got the wrong idea. We weren't writing anything to promote terrorism, but to show how to stop it. My poem talked about fighting terrorism with love, but his essay was satirical, as if he wanted to teach people how to make their children terrorists. I guess you could call it a Jake. I guess the government doesn't have a sense of humor!

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Posted by Lorien Loveshade at 06:44 AM | Permalink | Comments (11)

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That’s right, friends and enemies, I have returned. Thanks to everyone who posted kind messages for me here and at www.23ae.com and wherever else they posted them. Also thanks to those who sent me emails, not to mention those who visited. And thanks even to those who posted nasty messages, who said "good riddance" or "who cares?" or even "isn’t he dead yet?" Whether you like it or not, taking the time to post shows you care *grin*.

It’s been quite a trip the past few years--embroiled in secret conspiracies they won’t explain, investigated by agencies that haven’t told me why (at least not the real reasons), living in hiding from The Agents of Greyface (whoever they really are), and spending time in hospital being chased by doctors and nurses who put things in me almost as quickly as they took things out. What’s next?

Reverend Loveshade

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According to our latest information, Reverend Loveshade, our trouble-making Discordian, may be out of the hospital as early as Sunday, August 6.  The Rev. appears to be making a full recovery. Depending upon whom you ask, R. L. is either amusing the hospital staff with refreshing wit and charm, or peppering them with arcane commentaries and double entendres.  If we know the Rev., and we do, it's probably a little of both.  In any case, we look forward to seeing Reverend Loveshade return very soon.

If you haven't read R. L.'s tongue-in-cheek letter to friends and family, it's at http://discordia.loveshade.org/xtra/rlsick.html

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Much of the world is in a time right now of paranoia.  Paranoia is an irrational fear, in this case the fear that "somebody" is out to get you. You know "they" are very different than you, and thus dangerous, even if you really don't understand what "they" are.

In today's world, people of various skin colors and hair and body types are increasingly living near each other. In much of the world, we're starting to get used to this, and "racial discrimination" is losing popularity, although by no means has it disappeared.

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For those who don't know, Reverend Loveshade is currently recovering in a hospital.  The Rev. is Episkopos of the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild and editor of Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht.  If you don't know what that means, don't worry about it.  It's one of those Things Humanity was Not Meant to Know, Fnord.

But for those who know or would like to, you can read the letter for you at Reverend Loveshade in Hospital.  We wish the Rev. the best, and hope for a full recovery so we can continue to be blessed with Devine Madness.

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