Seasonal Holydays

    Hello there! If you clicked this link, you are probably wondering: "What?" I understand your confusion, you see, our mutual friend has a hobby of deliberately confusing people with references and ploys no one should be expected to know in the current year. 

    I don't know why *she* is so insistent on these games, I have been too scared to ask. Regardless, *she* has asked me to help you with explaining the 5 hangouts *she* has now sworn an oath to try to maybe often host every year.

    These hangouts have specific dates and names, and should repeat every year. Each of them is on a seasonal Holyday in the Discordian tradition. So allow me to briefly go over all of them.

The first one of the year is on The Chaoflux on the 19th of February. It is the time of the year where Chaos -as potential- peaks; as the wintery (I assume) start of the year is almost done with building up the groundwork for all the colorful events for the rest of the year.

There is no set way to celebrate any of these, but for The Chaoflux I recommend a cozy environment with caffeine or maybe some special K; perhaps you can just all gather and play board games; scheme a plot or plot a scheme.

The second one is on The Discoflux on the 3rd of May. It is the time where Discord, and conflict in general (in an abstracted and useless sense) reaches its peak for the whole year. If you have survived this, there probably won't be a nuclear war for 365 days, though no guarantees.

This apparently got celebrated by a couple rounds of beer once, that is okay, but it is better if there are more uppers involved. It is also encouraged to instigate conflict. Play spin the bottle, truth or dare, something!

The third one is on The Confuflux on the 15th of July. Apparently this is a very funny date, though *she* would not tell me the details, anyway, this is the day when Confusion peaks throughout the whole year. It is encouraged here to change your mind about something important to you.

Here, I recommend talking a lot, make sure lots of perspectives are being shared. Act like you belong in a Stoa and feel free to take anything mind-altering from beer to shrooms. Though, it is of course OKAY to be sober in all of these. 

The fourth one is on The Bureflux on the 26th of September. The yearly peak of Bureaucracy, where the lessons learned through the year are compartmentalized and integrated into people's worldviews. It is by far the most boring one, the fastest way to die around this time is through depressive self-neglect, so take your vitamins.

The hangout for this should ideally be boring. I recommend meeting in a place without much to do and seeing how long you can stand each other. It is better to be sober today, but nicotine in foul cigarette form is encouraged.

 The fifth and final one is The Afflux on the 8th of December. The peak of the Aftermath wherein the lessons of the previous season either break down or are forgotten. The year prepares to begin anew, and this is essentially the Discordian Christmas.

So, feel free to do anything you'd do in any old Christmas or New Years! Maybe a secret santa among participants? That'd be cool. You could decorate a christmas tree that is actually a street dog! Let this be a jolly one. 

 So yeah, that's the entire list. And please, do not cringe at the naive endeavors of our friend, let's be supportive and treat these as communal things, Ja? If you have any further inquiries feel free to write to me on Aktion23, my username is Μαλακλύψος ὁ Ἀνατολικός.