Discordian Society

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The Discordian Society has no definition.

I sometimes think of it as a disorganization of Eris Freaks. It has been called a guerrilla mind theatre. Episkopos Randomfactor, Director of Purges of Our People's Underworld Movement sect in Larchmont, prefers "The World's Greatest Association of What-ever-it-is-that-we-are." Lady Mal thinks of it as a RENAISSANCE THINK TANK. Fang the Unwashed, WKC, won't say. You can think of it any way you like.

AN EPISKOPOS OF THE DISCORDIAN SOCIETY is one who prefers total autonomy, and creates his own Discordian sect as The Goddess directs him. He speaks for himself and for those that say that they like what he says.

THE LEGION OF DYNAMIC DISCORD: A Discordian Society Legionnaire is one who prefers not to create his own sect.

If you want in on the Discordian Society then declare yourself what you wish

do what you like and tell us about it or if you prefer don't.

There are no rules anywhere. The Goddess Prevails.

[edit] The Society for Constructive Discordianism

Check out the rss feed of the related but totally unrelated Society for Constructive Discordianism.

@#$!

I just lost the Game. [?]

discordian zine project

wee are a discordian press which manages to publish silly things without ever existing in the first place.

weer not sure how wee do it. and now! colon

wee welcome you, discord society, to become a Published Author (tm)

have YOU ever written silly poems, surreal works of short fiction, discordian puns, or situationist epics? drawn 'bob' dobbs' head, recorded merry pranks, written limericks or flying spaghetti monster fanfiction? taken photos of hot dog buns? rearranged i ching hexagrams to look like naked ladies? illustrated an iota of the Illuminatus! or painted a pretty Principia! or created any nature of DISCORDIAN ART?

then oh please send it to us - twentythreepress at gmail - so that you can be a part of twentythreepress' first ever DISCORDIAN COMPILATION ZINE

so that wee do not have to write it all horeselves

all popes who are selected for inclusion will receive a free copy of the as-yet-unnamed project. FREE means "you will be charged nothing" and also "wee are comfortable bribing you"

blasted be!

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Hello. I'm new. Hail Eris!

I just stumbled, almost intentionally, upon a Discordian LJ community. I was directed towards this community as well. I look forward to reading many posts about nothing in particular.

Here is my first post; for everyone to enjoy. Hail Eris!

A while ago I emailed the guy who named the Planet Eris.

-----Original Message-----
From: JD <******@yahoo.com>
Date: Friday, Sep 19, 2008 6:57 pm
Subject: Question about the naming of planet Eris
To: Reply- ******@yahoo.comTo: mbrown@caltech.edu

According to wikipedia you picked the name Eris.

Are you a Discordian?

Thanks.

<3

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I got a response too:

From: "Mike Brown" <mbrown@caltech.edu>
To: ******@yahoo.com

only in spirit.... [?]

Eris in 17:5 resonance with Neptune

Just happened to see a link to this from Wikipedia. According to some orbital simulations, the (dwarf) planet Eris is in a 17:5 resonance with Neptune, meaning that for every 17 of Neptune's years, Eris has exactly 5. (That page precedes the naming and refers to Eris by her old name of 2003 UB₃₁₃.) These are both important Discordian numbers, from the Law of Fives and the association of 17 with the Discordians in Illuminatus!.

Hail, her what done it all!

The page also says that Makemake is in an 11:6 resonance with Neptune - no idea if 11 or 6 are important numbers in Rapanui religion. [?]

The Idle Warriors

Hey does anyone here know where I might be able to find a copy of the Idle Warriors by Kerry Thornley at a decent price ($10-$20). I found it on Amazon but would rather not spend $40. [?]

Em..now I'm nervous

I'm not sure about the lj cut tag thing, as I'm not very computer literate. Sorry! If I'm doing it wrong..could someone tell me? Thanks!

I just got converted to Discordianism recently thanks to Kallisti. lol

Other than that, I'm a Solitary Witch with a wicked sense of humor and sarcasm. My ex never appreciated it. Sad man...

I have two great kids that are a lot like me.:D and a grandkid that's going to be just as bad. lol.

I also have a first degree in Reiki, and about to get my second in October. Play violin and have been for about 14 years now.

Wanted to be a part of a group, to say that I'm a part of something, even though I don't know what that something is exactly, to meet new people and interact in something that I'm not clear on. Thanks! [?]

local discordians! (and others of much ilk)

This Saturday is the International Day of Discord, not that the world needs much help lately. What it amounts to is discordians leaving the house and meeting each other. Crazy, huh?

Check to POEE forum to see what's happening in your area, or get something started yourself.

PDX Day of Discord
The Portland, OR version is a potluck barbecue in the park, hosted by me and

telarus. Folks from all over the Pacific NW or anywhere else are invited, but it's up to you to find a place to crash if you're not local.

Remember, sticking apart is more fun when we do it together. [?]

Let's Start An Internet Meme!

Want to be part of something...different...on a Friday night? Well, my pal Wayne and I are trying to start an internet meme, "Fishnets For Vigoda!," and what we'd like you to do is make a blog post somewhere, somehow, entitled (duh!) "Fishnets For Vigoda" and include this picture:

Tell your friends, your family, that creepy guy with a laptop in the corner of the coffee shop! Let's make "Fishnets For Vigoda" register HIGH on the ol' Google-o-meter! [?]

What do you do?

You are slumbering blissfully, dreaming of things that were, things that are, things that will be, and things that never will be. Your fantasy slides gently from the normal into the unbelievable, then pirouetting back into normality as dreams are wont to do.

A perfectly boring fourth-grade math lesson is disrupted by your teacher's transformation into a clown, who proceeds to blast the classroom full of marshmallows with his rainbow-colored rifle. Your friend Danny gobbles up the candy with uncanny speed, then finally swallows the clown. Danny explodes in a puff of pink smoke, and through the wisps you see your teacher once again.

After class you find yourself flying with your friend Danny, soaring through the sky on leathery wings, on your way towards Dinzyworld... What a summer it will be! You make a broad loop through a cloud, singing with joy, when suddenly...

BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

You are woken up by the buzzing of an alarm clock. You open your eyes and blink in the morning light streaming in from your window, the dreamy haze quickly dissipating into oblivion. You're still very tired...

To hit the snooze button, go to Page 2... "Just another ten minutes, mom...."
To get up and jump out of bed, go to Page 3... "Let's get this day started RIGHT!"

This is a light, silly Discordian Project. Your assistance is requested. Help make new pages, and help spread the word! [?]

Beautify Our Town!

Beautify Our Town!

One of the excellent ideas to come out of this year's KallistiCon is the BOT project. In short, we have chosen a small town in the midwestern United States that we are going to beautify, Discordian style. Discordians have done some excellent concerted jakes in the past, usually aimed at businesses or governmental bodies. We thought, why not a town? Why not up the weirdness quotient for a whole town?

We have chosen a town. We have a specific project. We need your help.

We are in the preparation stage right now, and the project will commence on August 23rd, the Day of Discord.

Who: You! And your friends!

Where: The location will be disclosed to people who join the project via the project mailing list. We are in the process of compiling a database of addresses.

When: Starting August 23rd, and then on the 9th and 23rd of the month for the next six months.

Why: For the lulz. To make the world a weirder place. To find fellowship amongst freaks.

What: This is a letter writing campaign. Write a letter to someone as if you had bought a product from them, and you are writing to express how happy or unhappy you are with it. Please, get creative! You may have purchased a goat harness and found yourself unhappy that the goat didn't come included, or find yourself extremely satisfied with your new dildo cozy since it keeps your dildo so toasty warm. Aim for the ridiculous! Once you've written a letter you're happy with, print out five or ten copies and send them to different people.

For right now, join the mailing list to hear more as the date approaches. We'll send you contact info for residents of Our Town and a few sample letters. You'll also get to read letters other people are sending out, and be in on our other BOT projects.

Join up!

http://lists.discordian.com/listinfo.cgi/bot-discordian.com

If you don't already know, here's info on the Day of Discord:

The good folks over at http://www.poee.co.uk are planning a Day of Discord - a worldwide day of local Discordian gatherings all over the world. I'll be hosting one at my new house in Oakland, CA. Reading over the message board it looks like there will be gatherings on just about every continent, including one in Ecuador, Brisbane, Edinburgh, South Korea, and numerous gatherings in the USA. We're hoping that they'll participate in BOT, and that those out there who'd like to participate in the Day of Discord and don't have anyone local to them will join us in BOT as well. [?]

Controversial scientists

I'm currently reading a book called "Wilhelm Reich In Hell" by Robert Anton Wilson, and in the introduction he mentions some controversial scientists who, like Dr. Wilhelm Reich, had problems with the US government censoring their work and/or legal battles with the US. (Wilhelm Reich, in particular, had all his books and notes seized and burned by the US government in 1957.) I'm already familiar with Dr. Timothy Leary and his work, as well as with Immanuel Velikovsky. However, there are a couple here that I'm not familiar with and am having trouble finding information about:

* Dr. William Ivy, "formerly a respected physician and a member of the staff of University of Chicago Medical School, was engaged in an extensive legal battle, which lasted eight years and cost him a small fortune, before he was vindicated."

* Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist. A British scientific journal called Nature suggested, in the early '80s, that his books should be burned.

That's all the information I have about them so far. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks much! [?]

A sign from on high!

So last night at work I had to get some tooling out of the tool store. We have a system where you put a little metal disc with a number on it when you take something. The number corresponds to your name. I've been with the company over a year now and I haven't had a number... until recently I guess - I only noticed last night. Guess what my number is?

My number is 023!

Clearly this is some kind of message from Eris. Not sure what it is, but it's gotta mean something! [?]

A political rally has been broken up in Russia

by a remote-controlled flying penis
[?]

This has been bugging me

What are RAW's opinions on how to go about raising a child? What are your opinions on how to go about raising a child? [?]

Happy 5/23!!! [?]

Discordian Cyberspace Masquerade

I know this might not be entirely on-topic. But...

So I got this e-mail about something cool going on in Discordia. I think it's such a great idea that I'm taking it upon myself to tell LJ about it.

I hadn't even realized it was Discordia's 50th (or 49th) anniversary. This is cool 'cause we get to celebrate the 50 year mark for two years in a row. It's our Golden Apple anniversary. =)

I love the idea of an online party which brings together Discordians from all sections of the web. It's also cool that it's anonymous. It'll make communicaiton really interesting. I created this journal so that nobody suspects my true identity. :-)

Anyway, there's not a lot of time until the party starts, so I'm trying to pass the invite around as quickly as possible. If you have any ideas for where else we should advertise, please post! Or optimally, you should go there and get some buzz going.

I'll see you guys at the party! Hail Eris! [?]

Robert Anton Wilson

The Multnomah County Library has a few Robert Anton Wilson books in its collection, but not "Wilhelm Reich In Hell." So I decided to inter-library loan it. Guess how many libraries have that book? Give up? Well, there are nine. Nine! IN THE ENTIRE FREAKING COUNTRY. Only nine libraries in all the USA have a copy of "Wilhelm Reich In Hell"!Some day, when I am rich and famous (crosses fingers in hope), I am going to start a trust fund like Carnegie did, only instead of the money going to build libraries, it will go toward getting books into libraries that ought to be in libraries. Books that a lot of people would be interested in, but which the people who are interested in them are scattered around the country. Like occult books, and controversial titles.But in the meantime, I urge anyone who can afford it to buy a copy of the book - and any other book of a kind that is not often gotten by libraries - and donate it to your local library.

Cross posted to heck and back. [?]

KallistiCon 2008!

From a secure location beneath New Alamut,
Left Coast, Turtle Island, Earth
Fool's Day 2008

Discordians, Dysnomians, Erisians, and others of much ilk...

Get up! (Get on up!)

KallistiCon 2008 is coming - June 20-22!

Every year this millennium, we've gotten together in the Bay Area in California. We're not just rehashing gags from the Principia - we're moving forward, practicing chaos in the world.

For the last seven years, we've eaten and drank together, we've made friends with strangers in traffic, we've had rituals and blessings, we've been weird in public, and we've been human with each other. We?ve found the freaks who thought they were the only ones, and taught them - and ourselves - what tribe is supposed to mean.

Some of you will say: "But Discordians are supposed to be disorganized."

Didn't you know that's just a put-on?

Some of you will say we?re doing it wrong, and only you know the right way to follow Eris.

That's OK. Just quit talking about it and start doing it.

Some will no doubt repeat the tired cliche: "We Discordians tend to stick apart."

Of course we do, but sticking apart is more fun when we do it together.

Throw out your old memes. Greg and Kerry are gone, Bob Wilson is gone, Camden Benares and the other old-timers are gone. Let's honor and respect them. Let's learn from their lives and their teachings. But let's stop trying to be them.

The Principia is your grandma's Discordia. Being an inside joke on the net is your daddy's. What's yours? And who are you doing it with?

gabba gabba
we accept you
we accept you
one of us

http://www.kallisticon.com
June 20-22, 2008
Redwood City, California
RSVP by June 15!
Contact: email stmae@discordian.com [?]

You must read this. It is about Draconian/Saurian conspiracy. While you have been sleeping, this is what your biatch Discordia has been up to. :

http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/conspire.htm

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If you would like to make Allah cry, chant mantras and do breath-counting exercises. Any polysyllabic mantra chanted outloud or within one's mind, constantly, will be fit for this purpose.

And say "Shankar" once a day

P.S. "If you see Allah on a road, just say: I am not afraid of you, no no no I am not."

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I can face my own asshattery when I am called on it.

I had attempted to stir up the community a little, and get some discussion going. Alas, I did it when I was not in a good mood, and I did not put much thought into how I was stirring the pot. The result, as several of you have pointed out, was nothing but asshattery.

My apologies for wanking in the community. [?]

In re: polls.

I just thought I should make something clear after the poll I posted on April Fools Day. This is my community. It was given to me after

ashliana grew tired of this community going in directions counter to what she started it for. She and I have different, if somewhat overlapping interests. I look at this community as a way for wise and experienced Discordians to influence younger, less enlightened, but often more vocal folks. As such, this community is most certainly not a democracy. It is, when I do my job right, a benevolent oligarchy. I'd say a dictatorship, but there are members here who can post things that totally piss me off, but I recognize their point as both valid and enlightening for all.

So, to make this practical, you can vote in polls all you want to, but I will ignore it. Now, say something enlightening in a comment, and I'll pay attention.

23 Skidoo [?]

And now for something completely different

For the uninitiated, in the 90s a pen and paper rpg called Over the Edge was written. Its premise: every conspiracy theory, crackpot idea, alien invasion scenario, and similar madness that you have ever heard is TRUE, and they are all centered on a small Mediterranean island called Al Amarja.

One of the groups in Al Amarja are the Cut-Ups, a group of reality terrorists who use surrealistic and absurdist methods to prevent any one faction from taking control of the island and the entire world. They are a manifestation of the Pan-Dimensional Chaos Boys and have no relationship to any real or surreal irreligious disorganizations.

Anyways, a portion of the Cut-Ups motto is "This is the weather the cuckoo likes" which means, in so many words, that since the Cut-Ups are devoted to the forces of chaos they have no intention of staging a world revolution or illuminating the opposition as things as they are can be pretty effing weird, and this means they have laredy won and simply need to maintain a general sense of blance on the island, only acting en masse when any given faction threatens to actually succeed in world domination.

Thoughts on this? Does it fit into your view of Erisian thought or is it, as King Mob once so eloquently put it, "Bollocks! Zen fir 'I just can't be bothered.'" Also, [?]

On Moderation.

I have, since taking over ownership of this community, had several people question my chaotic nature because I want to make sure we have just enough courtesy and order here to promote our spreading creative disorder in the greater society. Today, I was criticized for telling a member to put an <lj-cut> in a long, dial-up unfriendly, post. I did this not because I wanted to exercise what little power I had here, but because I knew that most people, especially the few poor sods still on slow connections, would benefit from it.

Now, I've used a light hand moderating this community, since we are all Discordians and I don't need to stroke my ego, but I can change that. I have been operating on the assumption that we would have a few rules to keep the community working on the goal of spreading constructive disorder in the world -- just enough keep us from pissing each other off, without being too restrictive. I may be wrong, and members here might not like that sort of order, and would rather have more chaos here, and be able to post what they want how they want. We can do that. We can have no rules here. Now, the down side of that is if I just don't like something, or feel cranky, I might delete posts and users when I feel like it.

View Poll: Order/Disorder

You do recognize that this poll was placed on April 1st, and that it was a joke? Your moderator is not going to let this poll influence the way this community operates at all. It has been his community since it was given to him. He has, ever since, benevolently seen this as something he gives to the Discordian community at large. [?]

Eris' Wand

Like many others, the Discordian school of sorcery makes use of several ritual tools. Chief among these is Eris' wand, a simple yet effective tool to focus one's magical will through. Though possible to purchase, it is reccomended one makes their own wand, though this should not be a problem as someone of average intelligence can create one in 5 minutes.

Simply find a tree branch that is thick and diverges at its top into two separate poles. The two poles symbolize the concepts of order and disorder, for sure. Now, tie some form of elastic between the two poles. This represents superstring theory which, according to my understanding, is science talk for "magic!"

Now perform the W5 Star Wholey Mega Apostolic Banishing Ritual to bless your new Ritual weapon, and go forth into the world to spread nonsense and anarchy.

Eris' wand has been found almost everywhere that Erisian thought is present
Here we have a mighty Erisian Sorceror using this tool to hex invaders in his homeland