Malik: We have had this argument before, Reverend Doctor Brother.
But wine before platitudes, fill it up.
Gypsie [to Hill]: And pacifism?
Hill: I'm not sure I ever was one. Mal² was not, Malik was. Personally
I accepted self defense yet I could never reconcile that with the
ideal. I finally gave up on that one too. Actually I just gave up on
idealism.
Ignotius: Idealism lives with rules. Realism lives with rocks.
Hill: Yeah. I get along better with rocks.
Malik: Mal² once told me that pacifism was a dilemma. If everybody
was a pacifist then everything would be perfect. But nobody is going
to be a pacifist unless I am first. But if I am and somebody else is not, then I get
screwed. He said that there were five choices under that
circumstance. The first was napalming farmers and the second was
executing your parents. The third was hypocrisy, the fourth was
cowardice, and the fifth was to swallow the dilemma. Zenarchists are
trained in dilemma swallowing.
Occupant: So are other Erisians, like POEE.
Ignotius: That is characteristic of the Discordian perspective.
Hill: But of course training contradicts Discordian principles.
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Malik: Oh so what. Contradictions are nothing to Discordians.
Occupant: Dilemma, Schilmemma. [to Gypsie]: What do you think of
this, pretty ma'am? We don't get to hear your thoughts.
Gypsie: I'm reporting now, you talk.
Occupant: Later then?
Gypsie: Perhaps. Later.
Occupant: You are smiling.
Gypsie: Hey, guy, later. [to Hill]: Doesn't this leave you a little schizy?
Hill: It's OK, I'm half Gemini.
Gypsie: What's the other half?
Hill: Taurus. That makes me a stubborn schizy.
Ignotius: I'm a Whale.
Occupant: I choose Satyr.
Malik: Spirits don't have signs.
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