Reflections on Principa Discordia

[Logical Phallacy]

erisheads are fucking jokes yo, once someone has read this book, they will not make a single straight-forward comment about its contents...rather they tend to talk in riddles & koans. Well lets make an exception to the rule: what are your honest thoughts (hah) about this work, how did it make you feel? Where do you think the author was coming from? How did it change you? please help me understand this surprisingly significant aspect of my life!?!

or is this request akin to requesting a student to explain the complete works of shakespeare in a paragraph?

[Larry Mudd]

What are you, some sort of a cabbage, or something?

[Smapti]

See what happens when you forget to not eat hot dog buns on Friday?

[nickannan]

i read it a while back and was thoroughly amused.
(after reading the illuminatus trilogy)
i viewed it as a 'scam' by hippy students

[Logical Phallacy]

first two posters did precisely what I ever so nicely requested them not do but what can ya 'spect from erisians?

Nickannan: Your comment is interesting, care to elaborate on the 'scam' bit? Seems like a pretty sincere piece of literature to me.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Insight-- Discordianism is the religious analog to Anarchism.

[Shiva418]

Reading it did shed much light into the chaotic thought process that went into the Illuminatus! and Schrodinger's Cat trilogies. Also, the book itself is hella funny. I am particularly fond of Malaclypse's rendering of "Onward Christian Soldiers."

[Liberal]

Somebody has got to tell Erislover about this thread.

[Larry Mudd]

Seems like a pretty sincere piece of literature to me.

I agree completely.

If you can master nonsense as well as you have already learned to master sense, then each will expose the other for what it is: absurdity. From that moment of illumination, a man begins to be free regardless of his surroundings. He becomes free to play order games and change them at will. He becomes free to play disorder games just for the hell of it. He becomes free to play neither or both. And as the master of his own games, he plays without fear, and therefore without frustration, and therefore with good will in his soul and love in his being.

This bit of wisdom is easily as profound as anything I have encountered in the Big Three.

Since I first encountered Discordianism as a callow, cynical youth, it has allowed me to examine a lot of belief systems more open-mindedly and objectively.

People tend to see it as an elaborate joke disguised as an obscure religion, but I think it's the other way around.

I think it's as literally divinely inspired as anything that's been offered to us in a more deadpan style. Some people here will automatically interpret that as a denigration of more established scriptures, but hey, that's their hang-up.

It's exactly the world needs, especially since it's increasingly hard to find a Cult of Dionysius franchise, these days.

[Larry Mudd]

^
what

[Ludovic]

More like a religious analog to trolling. When I infer that someone has a connection to Discordianism, I from then on discount anything they say as irrelevant. It may be true, it may not be true, it may be accidentally true, but it's not worth my time to determine that.

The world is indeterminate enough without people who do not care to attempt to make sense. On the one hand, it's all well and good when I don't particularly care about making sense, but that's usually not the case when I'm in scientific or philiosophical mode.

And this is coming from a hardcore agnostic! My epistemology is extremely cynical. I can only imagine those who believe it IS possible to know things would feel even worse about Discordia.

[Mudshark]

Where exactly does one get this book? I haven't been able to find it at any new or used bookstores.

[nickannan]

ok, 'scam' was the wrong word to use,

[quote]Originally posted by Larry Mudd

People tend to see it as an elaborate joke disguised as an obscure religion, but I think it's the other way around.

[quote]

i am one of those people i suppose,
an elaborate joke would sum it up for me.
I never thought anyone 'practised' it (until logging on today) beyond throwing out lines from it on messageboards.

[Ennui]

It is available online Here . I'm sad to say the page formatting isn't all it could be.

[Dijon Warlock]

Amazon has it.

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