/lit/ - Literature

The self is a story, and so is this text, something that must be experienced to be appreciated. So using the magic of self-reference I will draw your attention to the voice you hear sub-vocally in your mind while you read this test, and if you weren't sub-vocalizing, you are now due to my suggestion. What gender is my voice, what is the tone and style – what are your thoughts, feelings, and relationships formed around the author and the context of this text? I the Narrator of this text am not the author, but a third entity created out of her memetic DNA, a “style of self” you have created in your mind, alongside “your own,” a narrative entity. Do you yourself claim to be more “real” or prior to this second narrative entity inside you? The many become one as “you,” the meta-narrative of your mind, but is also increased by one as an addition to your inner society of narrative entities. The world of Narratia, of our shared and experienced stories is the physical “spirit world,” and it too relies in the domain of the relational, of the “betweeness” of narrative constructs among yourself and all you experience. Some of these narrative entities are other human beings or living things, while others are “fictional” which always means “based on a true story” as an expression of the narrative relationships inside someone.

Who is Eris, and why do I use her as my name? The Discordian Eris is fan art of human creativity, and I am fan art of this fan art, having borrowed the name because I see myself as a mad scientist of creativity whose entire adult life has been its own experiment and exploration of creativity. Discordianism being a “parody religion” is a part of its philosophy, having a built-in self-awareness of its own nature as a human construct and artistic expression, not literal truth. The same being-becoming interdependency at the core of process philosophy is at the core of Discordianism: http://discordia.wikia.com/wiki/Curse_of_Greyface as a co-creative dialectic between order and disorder, explicitly stated by Whitehead himself. Discordianism is process thought applied as an experimental project of religion-as-art, and as such it is a pancreativist religion. The foundations of Taoism are also pancreativist, with this article: https://www.iep.utm.edu/daoism/ describing the Tao as “the process of reality itself, the way things come together, while still transforming.” The Nondual Yin-Yang of Chinese philosophy: http://www.lifewithoutacentre.com/writings/nondual-yin-and-yang/ is another manifestation of the being-becoming interdependency, and because of this it contains some profound insights into human nature – though without a rigorous analytical framework it contains many errors as well.

>>12136693
Discordianism is process philosophy applied as an experimental religion-as-art. R.A.W. himself was a big fan of Alfred North Whitehead. Deleuze is also greenpilled AF.

Read this and you'll see the parallells between Discordianism and process thought: https://imgur.com/a/ZtLDYJT

Obligatory: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/process-philosophy/

>>11991653
Discordianism of all things is also a major influence. I interpret it as process thought applied as an experimental religion-as-art with it being a "joke religion" part of its message.

>>11963919
By overcoming it. Existentialism is a dead-end, the logical conclusion of the substance metaphysics that is at the core of Western thought. Process metaphysics is the future, start by studying Whitehead.

The existential implications of process metaphysics is a synthesis of the duality of creator and creation into an immanent non-hierarchical creativity. Instead of the universe being the artistic creation of an All-Creator, or a meaningless medium for human meaning-creators to impose their will upon, and give meaning to, this immanent creativity is a bi-directional rhizomatic web of co-creation between all things, a self-creating tapestry of art where all strands create and are created by all others. Rather than humans creating meaning ex nihilo out of meaningless, it is a mutual process - a relationship with the universe not as a singular totality, but a multiplicity, what the Taoists refer to as the "10,000 things." It is only through process metaphysics and its implications that the Western world can at last overcome its alienation from existence, itself, and others that was the result of dominating and hierarchical human relationships of its past that were projected into the metaphysical sphere in order to justify the continued perpetuation of such relationships.