from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
Discordianism
/dis.kor'[email protected]/, 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 in Appendix B, {Church of the SubGenius}, and
{ha ha only serious}.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Discordianism
<recreation> /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ The veneration of {Eris},
also known as Discordia; widely popular among hackers.
Discordianism was popularised 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}, {Church of the SubGenius}, and {ha ha only
serious}.
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