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Discordianism

Introduction

The essential idea of discordianism is that all religions are false. The people who made the religion made a decision to announce that all religions (including theirs) are false. This is a classical case of doing it wrong, and is indicative of everything you require to actually know about this subject.

Discussion and Analysis

Discordianism has been described as a joke hidden as a religion, and a religion disguised as an elaborate joke. It has also been explained as a belief disguised as a joke. Others see it as a  rejection of reductionism and dualism, even falsifiability -- not in concept distinct from postmodernism or certain trends in the laws of mathematics. It has also been described as "Zen for round eyes", and converges with some of the more absurdist interpretation of the Rinzai belief.

Discordianism is said to have been founded in 1958 by Greg Hill and Kerry Thorley. The foundational document of Discordianism is Hill's Principia Discordia (Rabinovitch, 75-76).

Unlike most religions, which revere the principles of accord and order in the Universe, Discordianism purports to identify that disharmony and chaos are equally valid aspects of reality. Discordianism consists almost entirely of playful nonsense, but a few feel it has a more serious underlying meaning.

Philosophy

A summary of the Discordian philosophy appears in Principia Discordia. The following is a quote:

"Here follows some psycho-metaphysics. If you are not hot for philosphy best just to skip it. The eristic Principle is that of apparent order; the Eristic Principle is that of apparent disorder. Both order and disorder are manmade concepts and are artificial divisions of PURE CHAOS, which is a level deeper that is the level of distinction making (Rabinovitch, 75-76).

With our concept making apparatus called "mind" we look at reality through the ideas-about-reality which our culture provide us. The ideas-about-reality are mistakenly marked truth" and unenlightened people are eternally perplexed by the idea that other people, especially other heritage, look "reality" in a different way. It is only the ideas-about-reality which fluctuate. Real (capital-T True) reality is a level deeper that is the level of concept (Melton, 87).

We see the world through windows on which have been drawn grids. Different beliefs use different grids. A culture is a group of people with rather comparable grids. Through a window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and thus understand it. The alignment is in the grid. That is the eristic Principle.

Western philosophy is traditionally concerned with contrasting one grid with another grid, and modifying grids in hopes of finding a ideal one that will account for all reality and will, hence, (say unenlightened westerners) be true. This is illusory; it is what we Erisians call the eristic illusion. Some grids can be more practical than others, some more beautiful than others, some more pleasant than others, etc., but none can be more accurate than any other.

Disorder is simply unrelated information seen through some specific grid. But, like "relation", no-relation is a concept. Male, like female, is a concept about sex. To say that maleness is "absence of femaleness”, ...