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AnarcheAmor OP wrote

To put it one way, the point of an off-compass belief is to be the extremes of what one can find reasonable, practical, and applicable. To see it as pseudo-intellectual would be missing the point because some of these just say fuck all to intelligibility. Take Senatorialism for example, which exists as a meme belief with a name but no definition, or Transhumanist Egoist Theocratic Imperialism is basically just Egotheism but in the future, or Chaosism which (to summarize in a single sentence) says that trying to frame reality into something intelligible is a hierarchical act so to frame it in anything intellectual would be wrong. However some just exist as extensions of the extremes and others have already happened. Most of the Anarchist off compasses are just anarchism but with more anarchism and then there are cult off-compasses which, from what I can tell, are the only off-compasses to have been put into practice.

So Grej's stuff seems to be just parodizing the off-compasses in the way Jreg does the compass extremes.

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tabby wrote (edited )

Maybe pseudo-intellectual was the wrong word. Mental masturbation? (Not saying it's necessarily bad.)

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AnarcheAmor OP wrote

Oh yeah, if that's the case, most definitely! I am pretty sure Chaosists have mental sex machines and whoever came up with THETI was on some type of ecstasy.

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