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The Principia Discordia (1963)

178 points by empath75 7y ago

weeksie 7y ago
We had copies of this and the Book of The Subgenius laying around my high school. Obviously Principia Discordia was from much earlier but the new wave/punk scene around the 80s-90s cusp in (of all places, Anchorage, Alaska) was all about this particular brand of weirdness. We had all read Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Trilogy as well and contented ourselves making obscure jokes having to do with Eris, the number 23, and Slack, and intricate collage flyers with the assistance of the copy machines at Kinko's. Good times. Fuck 'em, even if they can take a joke. <3
- api 7y ago
  Can you fnord see the fnords?
  - Fnoord 7y ago
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/
    - api 7y ago
      "The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his inheritance in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB." A bunch of dorks get online and talk about fandom stuff and it's all just playing around until Pepe contacts the KGB. So... uhh... that like... actually happened. Reality generally requires surrealist fiction to capture. It's too weird for conventional narratives.
      - Fnoord 7y ago
        It is more realistic than Takedown vs Freedom Downtime. See URLs hereunder. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(hacker) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(hacker) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club
      - Bartweiss 7y ago
        William Gibson put it nicely: every time one of these things happens, the job of sci-fi writers gets harder. And now Psychedlic Warlord of the Cult of Dead Cow is running for President - but people are worried he's too mainstream and boring to elect. No wonder Gibson is writing recent-past stories these days.
        checktheorder 7y ago
        >And now Psychedlic Warlord of the Cult of Dead Cow is running for President Me, two minutes ago: "Oh, I bet he's some oddball fringe candidate who'll never get any press attention." Me, after a quick google search: "Oh my god."
        Bartweiss 7y ago
        Right? Thirty years ago, Bill Clinton smoking pot was still a major moral question and Beto was a teenager writing weird short stories on forums. Now he's a bland mainstream candidate, his drugs-and-crime teen handle was about a three-day news story, and a former federal prosecutor candidate is making up stories about smoking pot to sound cool. "This makes my job harder" indeed...
- labster 7y ago
  At my university we discovered that if we passed lpr a multiple copy count, only the first copy would count against the print quota. That would have been really useful if the Campus Crusade for Chaos and Confusion existed and put up silly flyers—but of course sources differ on the cabal’s existence. Perhaps the truth will never be known. I did manage to make it to the grave of Emperor Norton I back on 5/5/05, and met a pretender claiming to be Norton’s descendant. From what I know of the guy, he seems like an improvement over the current government fnord.
booleandilemma 7y ago
I notice that this was posted by emptath75. 7 + 5 + 11 (yesterday’s date) = 23 It’s so obvious!
ptah 7y ago
hail eris
Endy 7y ago
Hail Eris.
- panzagl 7y ago
  All hail Discordia.
  - omnibrain 7y ago
    Kallisti!
jmiskovic 7y ago
This page and the next one are surprisingly lucid: https://principiadiscordia.com/book/56.php https://principiadiscordia.com/book/56.php
dsr_ 7y ago
Contains the most profound written wisdom: A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.
mattkevan 7y ago
Can I recommend here John Higgs’ excellent book ‘The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds’ [0] It’s ostensibly a bio of the band The KLF (or the justified ancients of Mu), who somehow had a successful music career by taking discordianism as far as it could go. However, the book widens to Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, the Illuminatus and most of the second half of the 20th century. If you haven’t heard of the KLF, they’re well worth looking into: after having a load of hits in the early 90s, they retired by machine-gunning the BRIT Award audience (with blanks), deleting their entire back catalogue and setting fire to all the money they’d earned. [0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/KLF-Chaos-Burned-Million-Pounds/dp/1780226551/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/KLF-Chaos-Burned-Million-Pounds/dp/...
- the_other 7y ago
  Seconded. The book is a joy. Also, the current UK discordian undercurrent is producing some fnord wonderful things. Daisy Eris’ Cosmic Trigger play has opened some excellent locks (perhaps not flood gates yet). And the KLF have recently gone into businesses as undertakers [0]. [0]: https://www.mumufication.com/ https://www.mumufication.com/
  - mattkevan 7y ago
    I dunno, pretty sure the last few years with fake news, antivax, birthers, preppers, qanon, deepfakes, troll armies, bot farms and the like is proof that Operation Mindfuck has been more successful than the wildest dreams of the acid-soaked hippies that thought it’d be a lark in the 60s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mindfuck https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mindfuck
- enkiv2 7y ago
  Higgs has another book, perhaps even more philosophically aligned with discordianism, called "Stranger than We Can Imagine", which has as its thesis that the central defining trait of the 20th century was that it resisted making sense.
  - brylie 7y ago
jerrysievert 7y ago
my only fully uv tattoo simply says fnord.
llamataboot 7y ago
The Hell Law says that Hell is reserved exclusively for them that believe in it. Further, the lowest Rung in Hell is reserved for them that believe in it on the supposition that they'll go there if they don't. (helped me out of a jam as someone raised christian...)
kylek 7y ago
Happy Zaraday [0] [0] https://discordia.fandom.com/wiki/Zaraday https://discordia.fandom.com/wiki/Zaraday
- VMG 7y ago
  to my disappointment my distro doesn't provide `ddate` any longer :(
  - aperrien 7y ago
    You can find code for several different implementations of ddate here: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Discordian_date https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Discordian_date
dajohnson89 7y ago
For a second, I was excited to see someone created a discord about Principia Mathematica :-/
michaelt 7y ago
I'm a big fan of https://principiadiscordia.com/book/78.php https://principiadiscordia.com/book/78.php - DISCORDIAN SOCIETY SUPER SECRET CRYPTOGRAPHIC CYPHER CODE Of possible interest to all Discordians, this information is herewith released from the vaults of A.I.S.B., under the auspices of Episkopos Dr. Mordecai Malignatius, KNS. SAMPLE MESSAGE: ("HAIL ERIS") CONVERSATION: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 STEP 1. Write out the message (HAIL ERIS) and put all the vowels at the end (HLRSAIEI) STEP 2. Reverse order (IEIASRLH) STEP 3. Convert to numbers (9-5-9-1-19-18-12-8) STEP 4. Put into numerical order (1-5-8-9-9-12-18-19) STEP 5. Convert back to letters (AEHIILRS) This cryptographic cypher code is GUARANTEED TO BE 100% UNBREAKABLE.
foobar_ 7y ago
All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.
- blacksmith_tb 7y ago
  This seems like RAW riffing off what in Buddhism is called catuskoti[1]. 1: https://aeon.co/essays/the-logic-of-buddhist-philosophy-goes-beyond-simple-truth https://aeon.co/essays/the-logic-of-buddhist-philosophy-goes...
- lioeters 7y ago
  Sounds like a passage of Buddhist literature.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna#Sunyata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna#Sunyata
  - mtVessel 7y ago
    ...or a tutorial on Javascript
aasasd 7y ago
Discordianism has nothing on the Church of the Subgenius. I've read the pamplet and the Wikipedia page several times each, and still have no half coherent idea of what the church is about—except the chaos, of course.
- zentiggr 7y ago
  If you do start to see anything coherent, begin to doubt your sanity. Rule #1: we must all stick apart
- empath75 7y ago
  Then I think you understand it.
ganzuul 7y ago
'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
nemo1618 7y ago
A SERMON ON ETHICS AND LOVE has always stuck with me: "I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe." WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO? "But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it." OH. WELL, THEN STOP.
- aperrien 7y ago
  I like that one as well as I think it's a great example of the intractability of coordination problems.
ziroshima 7y ago
R.A.W. had some great books and I always felt he was very underappreciated. Quantum Psychology in particular really changed my outlook, and I've always felt it should be talked about more.
- carapace 7y ago
  Ya, he basically showed that quantum phenomenon happen all the time at macro-scale and nobody noticed. Weird.
scubbo 7y ago
My first tattoo was (still is, I guess) of the Sacred Chao! Hail Eris, all hail Discordia!
- citruscomputing 7y ago
  Mine was the hand of Eris :)
- jerrysievert 7y ago
  mine was also the sacred chao, followed by the uv fnord and later by the eye in the pyramid in flame, where the flames also light up in uv.
jonathankoren 7y ago
Earlier this year at SXSW a documentary about Subgenius was was screened. I supported its kickstarter, but I haven't watched it myself. https://laughingsquid.com/jr-bob-dobbs-church-of-the-subgenius-documentary/ https://laughingsquid.com/jr-bob-dobbs-church-of-the-subgeni...
bartcobain 7y ago
Hail Eris Discordia!
carapace 7y ago
BOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBfNoRdBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`::::! !:::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::! !:::|/ ~ \|`::::|/ ~ \| `::|/ ~ \|' `|/ ~ \|::' |/ ~ \|::::'|/ ~ \|:::! !:::|'-.-`| :::|'-.-`| :|'-.-`| |'-.-`|: |'-.-`|::: |'-.-`|:::! !:: (|e|e|? ::(|e|e|? ' (|e|e|? ` ' (|e|e|? ` (|e|e|?.: (|e|e|? ::! !. `._^_,'' :`._^_,'..' `._^_,'`...'`._^_,' `..`._^_,'. ``._^_,' .! !. \\=// \\=// \\=// \\=// \\=// \\=// .! : U/_/ U/_/ U/_/ U/_/ U/_/ U/_/ : @/ \&~ @/ \&~ @/ \&~ @/ \&~ @/ \&~ @/ \& Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S E$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$E %%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%WiZ "JITTLOV'S 3-D DOBBS" http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/eyes/Jittlov3-D-Dobbs.html http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/eyes/Jittlov3-D-Dobbs.html
citruscomputing 7y ago
"I have come to tell you that you are free. Many ages ago, My consciousness left humanity, that they might develop themselves. I return to find this development approaching completion, but hindered by fear and by misunderstanding. You have built for yourselves psychic suits of armor, and clad in them, your vision is restricted, your movements are clumsy and painful, your skin is bruised, and your spirit is broiled in the sun. I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free." --Eris Nancy Discordia
rootw0rm 7y ago
Once upon a time I had a corporation named Golden Apple Research Group. Discordianism inspired the name.
somesortofsystm 7y ago
Reading this over coffee and flicking through "Behold the Pale Horse" while William Gibson "strange cargo" plays in the background .. I can still smell the sage of the Bay Area bookshops where this was a staple. I just checked however, and do already have a .PDF. How can one not have bumped into FNORD in this day and age ..

178 points by empath75 7y ago

We had copies of this and the Book of The Subgenius laying around my high school. Obviously Principia Discordia was from much earlier but the new wave/punk scene around the 80s-90s cusp in (of all places, Anchorage, Alaska) was all about this particular brand of weirdness. We had all read Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Trilogy as well and contented ourselves making obscure jokes having to do with Eris, the number 23, and Slack, and intricate collage flyers with the assistance of the copy machines at Kinko's. Good times. Fuck 'em, even if they can take a joke. <3

api 7y ago
Can you fnord see the fnords?
- Fnoord 7y ago
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126765/
  - api 7y ago
    "The movie's plot is based on the true story of a group of young computer hackers from Hannover, Germany. In the late 1980s the orphaned Karl Koch invests his inheritance in a flat and a home computer. At first he dials up to bulletin boards to discuss conspiracy theories inspired by his favorite novel, R.A. Wilson's "Illuminatus", but soon he and his friend David start breaking into government and military computers. Pepe, one of Karl's rather criminal acquaintances senses that there is money in computer cracking - he travels to east Berlin and tries to contact the KGB." A bunch of dorks get online and talk about fandom stuff and it's all just playing around until Pepe contacts the KGB. So... uhh... that like... actually happened. Reality generally requires surrealist fiction to capture. It's too weird for conventional narratives.
    - Fnoord 7y ago
      It is more realistic than Takedown vs Freedom Downtime. See URLs hereunder. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(hacker) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Koch_(hacker) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club
    - Bartweiss 7y ago
      William Gibson put it nicely: every time one of these things happens, the job of sci-fi writers gets harder. And now Psychedlic Warlord of the Cult of Dead Cow is running for President - but people are worried he's too mainstream and boring to elect. No wonder Gibson is writing recent-past stories these days.
      - checktheorder 7y ago
        >And now Psychedlic Warlord of the Cult of Dead Cow is running for President Me, two minutes ago: "Oh, I bet he's some oddball fringe candidate who'll never get any press attention." Me, after a quick google search: "Oh my god."
        Bartweiss 7y ago
        Right? Thirty years ago, Bill Clinton smoking pot was still a major moral question and Beto was a teenager writing weird short stories on forums. Now he's a bland mainstream candidate, his drugs-and-crime teen handle was about a three-day news story, and a former federal prosecutor candidate is making up stories about smoking pot to sound cool. "This makes my job harder" indeed...
labster 7y ago
At my university we discovered that if we passed lpr a multiple copy count, only the first copy would count against the print quota. That would have been really useful if the Campus Crusade for Chaos and Confusion existed and put up silly flyers—but of course sources differ on the cabal’s existence. Perhaps the truth will never be known. I did manage to make it to the grave of Emperor Norton I back on 5/5/05, and met a pretender claiming to be Norton’s descendant. From what I know of the guy, he seems like an improvement over the current government fnord.

booleandilemma 7y ago

I notice that this was posted by emptath75. 7 + 5 + 11 (yesterday’s date) = 23 It’s so obvious!

ptah 7y ago

hail eris

Endy 7y ago

Hail Eris.

panzagl 7y ago
All hail Discordia.
- omnibrain 7y ago
  Kallisti!

jmiskovic 7y ago

This page and the next one are surprisingly lucid: https://principiadiscordia.com/book/56.php https://principiadiscordia.com/book/56.php

dsr_ 7y ago

Contains the most profound written wisdom: A Discordian is Prohibited of Believing what he reads.

mattkevan 7y ago

Can I recommend here John Higgs’ excellent book ‘The KLF: Chaos, Magic and the Band who Burned a Million Pounds’ [0] It’s ostensibly a bio of the band The KLF (or the justified ancients of Mu), who somehow had a successful music career by taking discordianism as far as it could go. However, the book widens to Robert Anton Wilson, Timothy Leary, the Illuminatus and most of the second half of the 20th century. If you haven’t heard of the KLF, they’re well worth looking into: after having a load of hits in the early 90s, they retired by machine-gunning the BRIT Award audience (with blanks), deleting their entire back catalogue and setting fire to all the money they’d earned. [0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/KLF-Chaos-Burned-Million-Pounds/dp/1780226551/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/KLF-Chaos-Burned-Million-Pounds/dp/...

the_other 7y ago
Seconded. The book is a joy. Also, the current UK discordian undercurrent is producing some fnord wonderful things. Daisy Eris’ Cosmic Trigger play has opened some excellent locks (perhaps not flood gates yet). And the KLF have recently gone into businesses as undertakers [0]. [0]: https://www.mumufication.com/ https://www.mumufication.com/
- mattkevan 7y ago
  I dunno, pretty sure the last few years with fake news, antivax, birthers, preppers, qanon, deepfakes, troll armies, bot farms and the like is proof that Operation Mindfuck has been more successful than the wildest dreams of the acid-soaked hippies that thought it’d be a lark in the 60s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mindfuck https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mindfuck
enkiv2 7y ago
Higgs has another book, perhaps even more philosophically aligned with discordianism, called "Stranger than We Can Imagine", which has as its thesis that the central defining trait of the 20th century was that it resisted making sense.
- brylie 7y ago

jerrysievert 7y ago

my only fully uv tattoo simply says fnord.

llamataboot 7y ago

The Hell Law says that Hell is reserved exclusively for them that believe in it. Further, the lowest Rung in Hell is reserved for them that believe in it on the supposition that they'll go there if they don't. (helped me out of a jam as someone raised christian...)

kylek 7y ago

Happy Zaraday [0] [0] https://discordia.fandom.com/wiki/Zaraday https://discordia.fandom.com/wiki/Zaraday

VMG 7y ago
to my disappointment my distro doesn't provide `ddate` any longer :(
- aperrien 7y ago
  You can find code for several different implementations of ddate here: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Discordian_date https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Discordian_date

dajohnson89 7y ago

For a second, I was excited to see someone created a discord about Principia Mathematica :-/

michaelt 7y ago

I'm a big fan of https://principiadiscordia.com/book/78.php https://principiadiscordia.com/book/78.php - DISCORDIAN SOCIETY SUPER SECRET CRYPTOGRAPHIC CYPHER CODE Of possible interest to all Discordians, this information is herewith released from the vaults of A.I.S.B., under the auspices of Episkopos Dr. Mordecai Malignatius, KNS. SAMPLE MESSAGE: ("HAIL ERIS") CONVERSATION: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 STEP 1. Write out the message (HAIL ERIS) and put all the vowels at the end (HLRSAIEI) STEP 2. Reverse order (IEIASRLH) STEP 3. Convert to numbers (9-5-9-1-19-18-12-8) STEP 4. Put into numerical order (1-5-8-9-9-12-18-19) STEP 5. Convert back to letters (AEHIILRS) This cryptographic cypher code is GUARANTEED TO BE 100% UNBREAKABLE.

foobar_ 7y ago

All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.

blacksmith_tb 7y ago
This seems like RAW riffing off what in Buddhism is called catuskoti[1]. 1: https://aeon.co/essays/the-logic-of-buddhist-philosophy-goes-beyond-simple-truth https://aeon.co/essays/the-logic-of-buddhist-philosophy-goes...
lioeters 7y ago
Sounds like a passage of Buddhist literature.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna#Sunyata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna#Sunyata
- mtVessel 7y ago
  ...or a tutorial on Javascript

aasasd 7y ago

Discordianism has nothing on the Church of the Subgenius. I've read the pamplet and the Wikipedia page several times each, and still have no half coherent idea of what the church is about—except the chaos, of course.

zentiggr 7y ago
If you do start to see anything coherent, begin to doubt your sanity. Rule #1: we must all stick apart
empath75 7y ago
Then I think you understand it.

ganzuul 7y ago

'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

nemo1618 7y ago

A SERMON ON ETHICS AND LOVE has always stuck with me: "I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe." WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH THAT, IF IT IS WHAT YOU WANT TO DO? "But nobody wants it! Everybody hates it." OH. WELL, THEN STOP.

aperrien 7y ago
I like that one as well as I think it's a great example of the intractability of coordination problems.

ziroshima 7y ago

R.A.W. had some great books and I always felt he was very underappreciated. Quantum Psychology in particular really changed my outlook, and I've always felt it should be talked about more.

carapace 7y ago
Ya, he basically showed that quantum phenomenon happen all the time at macro-scale and nobody noticed. Weird.

scubbo 7y ago

My first tattoo was (still is, I guess) of the Sacred Chao! Hail Eris, all hail Discordia!

citruscomputing 7y ago
Mine was the hand of Eris :)
jerrysievert 7y ago
mine was also the sacred chao, followed by the uv fnord and later by the eye in the pyramid in flame, where the flames also light up in uv.

jonathankoren 7y ago

Earlier this year at SXSW a documentary about Subgenius was was screened. I supported its kickstarter, but I haven't watched it myself. https://laughingsquid.com/jr-bob-dobbs-church-of-the-subgenius-documentary/ https://laughingsquid.com/jr-bob-dobbs-church-of-the-subgeni...

bartcobain 7y ago

Hail Eris Discordia!

carapace 7y ago

BOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBfNoRdBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOBoBoBoBoBoBOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`:::::::'___`::::! !:::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::::'/_ _\`:::! !:::|/ ~ \|`::::|/ ~ \| `::|/ ~ \|' `|/ ~ \|::' |/ ~ \|::::'|/ ~ \|:::! !:::|'-.-`| :::|'-.-`| :|'-.-`| |'-.-`|: |'-.-`|::: |'-.-`|:::! !:: (|e|e|? ::(|e|e|? ' (|e|e|? ` ' (|e|e|? ` (|e|e|?.: (|e|e|? ::! !. `._^_,'' :`._^_,'..' `._^_,'`...'`._^_,' `..`._^_,'. ``._^_,' .! !. \\=// \\=// \\=// \\=// \\=// \\=// .! : U/_/ U/_/ U/_/ U/_/ U/_/ U/_/ : @/ \&~ @/ \&~ @/ \&~ @/ \&~ @/ \&~ @/ \& Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S\ /Y/\.::./\S E$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$E %%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%%%%%%%%%%%XX%WiZ "JITTLOV'S 3-D DOBBS" http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/eyes/Jittlov3-D-Dobbs.html http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/eyes/Jittlov3-D-Dobbs.html

citruscomputing 7y ago

"I have come to tell you that you are free. Many ages ago, My consciousness left humanity, that they might develop themselves. I return to find this development approaching completion, but hindered by fear and by misunderstanding. You have built for yourselves psychic suits of armor, and clad in them, your vision is restricted, your movements are clumsy and painful, your skin is bruised, and your spirit is broiled in the sun. I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and I tell you that you are free." --Eris Nancy Discordia

rootw0rm 7y ago

Once upon a time I had a corporation named Golden Apple Research Group. Discordianism inspired the name.

somesortofsystm 7y ago

Reading this over coffee and flicking through "Behold the Pale Horse" while William Gibson "strange cargo" plays in the background .. I can still smell the sage of the Bay Area bookshops where this was a staple. I just checked however, and do already have a .PDF. How can one not have bumped into FNORD in this day and age ..