Talk:Discordianism

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Invented by a geek and a couple of hippies in the 1950's as a cheap substitute for marijuana, Discordianism not just a seriously old meme; it is in fact a rather sneaky Illuminati trap designed to look like a religion to some, and like lulz to others. In this manner it seduces the unsuspecting based on their greatest weakness.

Like all novelty religions, it is extremely unfunny and most of its adherents are friendless autistic drama club nerds who quote endlessly from Monty Python and Douglas Adams when not in the comfort of their hugbox. They think that by endlessly repeating a bunch of 50-year-old in-jokes they can prove how hip and original they are.

Serious business angle:

Discordianism is a modern, irreligion founded circa 1958–1959 by Malaclypse the Younger with the publication of its principal text, the Principia Discordia (read it here, not page 3 is intentionally left blank, it's about 50 pages and worth the read if you are a schollar). It is widely regarded as a parody religion, and has been called "Zen for roundeyes", based on similarities with absurdist interpretations of the Rinzai school. Discordianism recognizes chaos, discord, and dissent as valid and desirable qualities, in contrast with most religions, which idealize harmony and order. Eris, the Greek mythological goddess of discord, has also become the matron deity of the religion Discordianism, though such rarely regarded with any credence as it would debunk the faith.

It is hard to describe Discordianism as a religion because Discordians do not have any specific beliefs or dogma that would set them apart from the practitioners of other religions. Many of the practicing Discordians believe that humanity suffers from the "curse of Greyface" (i.e, takes itself too seriously) and thus needs to be saved from this grave outlook on life. Thus the Discordians seek to reverse the "curse of Greyface" by teaching the people "to laugh at themselves and their problems/lives." This, the Discordians believe, would solve most of the problems of the world.

While Discordianism is separate from modern neopaganism, a number of neopagans have incorporated elements of Discordianism into their beliefs. In addition, Neopagan author Margot Adler discussed Discordianism in her book, Drawing Down the Moon, while religious authority J. Gordon Melton lists Discordianism among various Neopagan groups in his Encyclopedia Of American Religions. (Melton claims to have excommunicated all other Discordians, based on the fact that he is a Discordian Pope. Being Popes themselves, they then de-excommunicated themselves and/or each other.)

It is difficult to estimate the number of followers and correctly identify Discordian groups. The anarchist ethic that pervades Discordianism[3] is reflected in an encouragement to form schisms and cabals.[4] Additionally, few adherents hold Discordianism as their only or primary faith. Instead, Erisians tend to adopt Discordianism as a complement to other faiths.

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Followers: Adherents of the propaganda and other crap associated with this religion/joke/ploy, notably the roll of toilet paper known as the Principia Discordia, fall into five distinct groups. It is theorized by some that these are phases that each Discordian must go through on their path through life; these theorizers are sometimes known as Wicca and are ruthlessly mocked by actual people.

• Fanboys treat the words of their Discordian betters as actual, honest-to-Goddess catma, and go 'round talkin' smack 'bout No Hot Dog Buns (Hail Eris All Hail Discordia,) 23 This, 23 That. They usually do this on the Internets, since if they did it IRL they would immediately be struck senseless by how unfunny they are.

• Dilettantes are able to apply a dose of Hipster Irony to their now tastefully Discord-flavoured post-modern worldview, chuckling over what were once worrisome logical contradictions in their thinking and in so doing transforming them into self-effacing badges of coolness. Many join NAMBLA at this point; other, less fortunate, ones become liberals.

• Chaos Magicians spend most of their time in their parent's basement drawing nonsense symbols in the air, playing with action figures, and generally retreating from reality. Which is a good thing, because if they were forced to interact with it at this point they would be raping every man, woman, and inanimate object they could get their hands on in the ass in the name of Nazi anarchy.

• Rutabagas, about which nothing fnord needs to be said.

• Robert Anton Wilson. Universally regarded as the Uber-Discordian King. RAW is what all true Discordians aspire to one day reincarnate their sorry asses backward through time into. Once they have died and been reborn as RAW, the Uber-Discordian King's aspiration/fate is, quite naturally, to meet John Titor, travel even further back in time to the Philadelphia Experiment and murder Ayn Rand to test the Grandfather Paradox.

Potential for Drama: Disgruntled or bored Discordians are sometimes known to perform "jakes", which is essentially a form of trolling IRL.

The primary drama quotient among Discordians themselves, though, revolves around the one and only Discordian Sin; that is, Being Bothered. Discordians are required to mock any other Discordian they sense Being Bothered, and to encourage them to "just let it (all) go (permanently)" on the basis that the lack of philosophical underpinnings is a small price to pay for a feeling of self-assurance, or maybe just numbness.

Anonymous? Anonymous is said to have the answers for what Discordianism lacks and operates largely on the same principles but to a completely different effect. Where as Discordianism allows for identity (which is a sociological innevitability at this time) Anonymous requires a complete lack of defining characteristics in order to be counted among it's ranks.

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Uh... not sure if these were in there... I'll check the wiki shit later, I'm just kinda doin image restoration... restoration... it's like... at one point I systematically went through and started replacing every version of every image on the site with better quality, more original sourced material and in turn I also changed the file names around... so then that stupid retard CobaltCat went and started deleting every image I uploaded, never bothering to even restore any of the old wiki shit or the original/deleted images.

That's how everything got so fucked up... I'll uh... try and fix it a little... each day. It's gonna take time. --Mimkrys (talk) 01:42, 3 June 2021 (EDT)