iscordianismus
Discordianism
/dis-kor'di-*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
under Appendix B, Church
of the SubGenius. -
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