- Discordianism: /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ n.
The veneration of {Eris}, a.k.a. Discordia; widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularized by The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson 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 the 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 SecretSociety called the Illuminati.
--> PrincipiaDiscordia
--> DiscordianSociety
--> Eris
--> DDate
--> DateConverter
--> Discordia
--> DiscordianCalandar
--> DiscordianCabals
--> DiscordianSociety
--> Robert Anton Wilson
--> Efnet
--> Eris
--> Fnord
--> ApocryphaDiskordia
--> OperationMindfuck
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