Discordianism

From The Maze Where Realities Converge - the psychedelic encyclopedia of reality from The Ultimate Comment

Hail Eris! Goddess of chaos. Also known as Erisianism, but not by many. It is a discipline, or lack thereof, that does not attempt to impose order upon the chaotic events which underlie the macroscopic world, nor those that define the macroscopic world, but revels in them and even adds to them, often spurning the usual reactions of people to a given situation for those with more entertaining effects.

An online text of Principia Discordia by Malaclypse the Younger, will give you more disinformation. 'Tis a very good book altogether.

Its relationship to The Ultimate Comment is unclear, except that The Holy Spoon bears the word "Kallisti" featured on the Golden Apple of Eris.

Credit is due to Discordianism for the step further than simple postmodern or psychedelic thought it takes – it recognises the ultimately disorganised nature of the universe, the homocentricity and linguistic nature of the artificial divisions forming the boundaries is the geometry of human reality, but it also recognises the obvious and undeniable co-existence of an ordered universe, because without one, we would never be able to get anythng done and the world would never have been formed. The Sacred Chao symbolizifies the dialectic between order and chaos, or the explained and the unexplained or between 'serious' comments and jokey ones. (Compare the interrobang)

The thing that's incomplete about this wisdom, by now conventional among Discordians (and perhaps everyone who takes and interest in Internet culture) is that the universe is not binary. There is not one merely one pentagonal pattern superimposed on the chaos that Discordians imagine, there is a finite number of reality constructs constantly forming, changing and evaporating in the consciousness of human bengs, out of an infinite number of possible constructs and metaconstructs.

To cut this number down to something convenient, like three, we have the trinary nature of the universe, represented in The Ultimate Comment by the massive, unrelenting presence of Triangulon. True - in order for you to read this, you must be living a life which began for no reason, living surrounded by chemicals and matter and waves which appeared apparently out of nowhere, in a universe which doesn't give a shit about you. However, you must also have some concept of linear style time to understand sentences and put meanings to words. You must inhabit the space in between a Hollywood movie-style ordered universe and an ocean of chaos and meaningless. This is the convenient pocket of existence we call reality, and The Ultimate Comment, understanding the wafer-thinness of mundane constructs on the surface of existence, and the hard nutty insanity in the centre, seeks also to embrace the creamy layer in the middle, and all the delicious universes it contains.

Discordianism, like all monotheisms, overlooks the fact that The Good wears many masks. Discordians are all hilarious all the time, which becomes iritating at a certain point. We at The Ultimate Comment think that this de-centred world of the future calls for some good old-fashioned polytheism. While Eris, goddess of absurdity, must be worshipped, so too must smoky-eyed Voluptas, goddess of sensuality, shining Apollo, fire of the intellect, turquoise-skinned Lord Krishna, almighty king of Love, horned Pan, the passionate All-Devourer, All-Begetter, quick Coyote, god of poker who is the same as Loki, and along with these a thousand other gods. Absurdity has its place in existence, but there is more to existence than absurdity. Over to you, Friedrich Nietzsche:
"We hear nothing but the accents of an exuberant, triumphant existence in which all things are deified, whether good or evil. And so the spectator may stand quite bewildered before this fantastic excess of life, asking himself by virtue of what magic potion these high-spirited men could have found life so enjoyable that, wherever they turned, their eyes beheld the smile of Helen, the ideal picture of their own existence, 'floating in sweet sensuality'."

See Also

• The Church of the Subgenius an incredibly erratic and funtastic church with a brilliant book full of pretty pictures and incredibly true conspiracy theories.
• 23 Apples of Eris An excellent discordian website
• Robert Anton Wilson