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It’s hardly instigated the mind-blowing epiphany – the realisation that it’s all fake – which the proponents of Discordianism had originally intended. The arti
by dsr_ 9y ago
It’s hardly instigated the mind-blowing epiphany – the realisation that it’s all fake – which the proponents of Discordianism had originally intended.
The article doesn't emphasize this quite right.
The key insight of Discordianism is that all of human society is "fake". If you can kick it, it's real; if you can't kick it, it's exactly as real as Eris is -- which is to say, the way people behave is in accordance with the way that they truly believe.
The first level of Discordianism is to think that Discordianism is a joke.
The second level is to realize that it's true.
The third level is to realize that it's a joke that teaches you that everything that exists in and shared between minds has the same ontological basis: Discordia, Islam, Christianity, the US Federal Reserve System, Google -- they all exist because people believe that they exist and behave in ways that indicate that belief.
- weeksie 9y agoI remember reading RAW back when I was 19 or so. I think it was the Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy, then the Illuminatus! Just amazing stuff. And a massive piss take on the post modern novels of the day. Kallisti!
- PoachedSausage 9y agoWow, what a synchronicity. I was just thinking how the images from Charlottesville could almost have come straight out of Illuminatus Trilogy.
- mcguire 9y agoI, too, enjoy the game Sink and am a person of much ilk.
- Asooka 9y agoThe fourth level is just enjoying the joke as it is?
- Nydhal 9y agoThe fifth level is becoming the joke.
- proofofstake 9y agoGP: Maybe you are just crazy. M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true. GP: Is Eris true? M2: Everything is true. GP: Even false things? M2: Even false things are true. GP: How can that be? M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.
- yters 9y agoIs the key insight of discordanism true if we don't believe it?