Principia Discordia , Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malacypse the Younger
3 journalers for this copy...
Just order from Amazon.com TBR.
This book was hilarious. It made sense by making nonsense. I prefer chaos to balance anyday.
Journal Entry 3 by froggiepopple at Chisholm Post Office in Chisholm, Minnesota USA on Sunday, February 9, 2003
Release planned for Monday, February 10, 2003 at Chisholm Post Office in Chisholm, Minnesota USA.
Arrived in mailbox today. Thank you froggiepopple!
Description from back cover:
"Is it a joke disguised as a religion or a religion diguised as a joke? Everybody's talking about Discordianism!
Principia Discordia is the official bible of the most relevant religion ever conceived. A legendary underground classic, out-of-print for years, and impossible to find, this new edition truly contains 'Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything.'
Herein is Revealed the Law of Fives, the Gospel According to Fred, the Epistle to the Paranoids, the Five Apostles of Eris & Who They Be, the Sacred Chao, the Book of Uterus, and more, more, more...
All the secret knowledge of Discordianism is revealed at last for your enlightenment, confusion, and entertainment. Godelian, non-Aristotelian, holistic and hilarious, Discordianism is he religion for these screwed-up times."
Description from back cover:
"Is it a joke disguised as a religion or a religion diguised as a joke? Everybody's talking about Discordianism!
Principia Discordia is the official bible of the most relevant religion ever conceived. A legendary underground classic, out-of-print for years, and impossible to find, this new edition truly contains 'Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything.'
Herein is Revealed the Law of Fives, the Gospel According to Fred, the Epistle to the Paranoids, the Five Apostles of Eris & Who They Be, the Sacred Chao, the Book of Uterus, and more, more, more...
All the secret knowledge of Discordianism is revealed at last for your enlightenment, confusion, and entertainment. Godelian, non-Aristotelian, holistic and hilarious, Discordianism is he religion for these screwed-up times."
A little yellow book of philosophy, silliness, and the Goddess. If you get impatient with the first several pages, skip directly ahead to page 49-50, then go back and compare what you “know” with their framework.
This book, according to some of the elders I know, had some significant influence in the pagan/wiccan movement after it was published. I appreciate the chance to catch a little bit of our history. While there were a few parts that I had to re-read several times, I found that this book went about explaining the “religion” in a much simpler manner than many organized faiths do today.
“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.”
“All things are perfect to every last flaw, and bound in accord with Eris’s law.”
“(little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.”
“The words of the Foolish and those of the Wise are not far apart in Discordian eyes.”
I wonder if Rowling read this, and she’ll incorporate the Turkey Curse into HP#6 (mandrakes and sexy giantesses, om I)
Random thought from my husband (even though he hasn’t read this yet): “this reminds me of one of those B-movies where a scientist stimulates his victim’s pineal gland, and they grow a third eye on a stalk in the middle of their forehead.” [update 2/9:name of the movie was "From Beyond"
http://www.eur.nl/fw/staff/lokhorst/pineal.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/pineal_gland.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/thirdeyepineal.html
Letting my husband read this before I release it.
This book, according to some of the elders I know, had some significant influence in the pagan/wiccan movement after it was published. I appreciate the chance to catch a little bit of our history. While there were a few parts that I had to re-read several times, I found that this book went about explaining the “religion” in a much simpler manner than many organized faiths do today.
“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.”
“All things are perfect to every last flaw, and bound in accord with Eris’s law.”
“(little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.”
“The words of the Foolish and those of the Wise are not far apart in Discordian eyes.”
I wonder if Rowling read this, and she’ll incorporate the Turkey Curse into HP#6 (mandrakes and sexy giantesses, om I)
Random thought from my husband (even though he hasn’t read this yet): “this reminds me of one of those B-movies where a scientist stimulates his victim’s pineal gland, and they grow a third eye on a stalk in the middle of their forehead.” [update 2/9:name of the movie was "From Beyond"
http://www.eur.nl/fw/staff/lokhorst/pineal.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pineal_gland
http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/pineal_gland.html
http://www.crystalinks.com/thirdeyepineal.html
Letting my husband read this before I release it.
Wife's letting me read this. Will let her work out the trade/release thing after I'm through with it.
