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Discordianism: /dis·korīdi·@n·ism/, n. The veneration of Eris, a.k.a. Discordia;
widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularized by Robert Shea
and Robert Anton Wilson's novel Illuminatus! 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
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 secret society called the Illuminati. See
Religion in Appendix B,
Church of the SubGenius, and
ha ha only serious.
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