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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Discordianism</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="disclaimer.html" title="disclaimer"/><link rel="next" href="disemvowel.html" title="disemvowel"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Discordianism</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="disclaimer.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="disemvowel.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Discordianism"/><dt xmlns="" id="Discordianism"><b>Discordianism</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/dis<69>kor<6F>di<64>@n<>ism/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> The veneration of <a href="../E/Eris.html"><i class="glossterm">Eris</i></a>, a.k.a. Discordia;
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widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularized by Robert Shea
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and Robert Anton Wilson's novel <i class="citetitle">Illuminatus!</i> as a
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sort of self-subverting Dada-Zen for Westerners — it should on no
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account be taken seriously but is far more serious than most jokes.
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Consider, for example, the Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from
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<i class="citetitle">Principia Discordia</i>: “<span class="quote">A Discordian is
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Prohibited of Believing What he Reads.</span>” Discordianism is usually
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connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke involving millennia-long
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warfare between the anarcho-surrealist partisans of Eris and a malevolent,
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authoritarian secret society called the Illuminati. See
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<a href="../religion.html" title="Religion">Religion</a> in Appendix B,
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<a href="../C/Church-of-the-SubGenius.html"><i class="glossterm">Church of the SubGenius</i></a>, and
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<a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="disclaimer.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="disemvowel.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">disclaimer<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>disemvowel</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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