Discordianism




 * Discordianism: /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ n.

The veneration of {Eris}, a.k.a. Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularized by The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson as a sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners --- it should on no account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from the Principia Discordia.


 * "A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads."

Discordianism is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long warfare between the Anarcho Surrealist Partisans Of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian SecretSociety called the Illuminati.

[Seti23 Discordia page]

Discordian Works
--> Apocrypha Discordia --> Apocrypha Diskordia --> Book 5 (The Zenarchist's CookBook) --> Book of Eris --> A Discordian Coloring Book --> Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht --> The Honest Book of Truth --> The Illuminatus! Trilogy --> Novus Ordo Discordia --> Principia Discordia --> Principia Harmonia --> Summa Universalia --> Zen Without Zen Masters