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* CrazySane: In a word, the Discordian ideal. ''The'' classic example of this, Emperor Joshua Norton, is the only Discordian saint who was an actual person.
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* CrazySane: In a word, the Discordian ideal. ''The'' classic example of this, [[UsefulNotes/EmperorNorton Emperor Joshua Norton, Norton]], is the only Discordian saint who was an actual person.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the story of how the ''Honest Book of Truth'' was discovered, Lord Omar is told by a servant of Eris to go to a sacred mound and dig up the book there. He digs for five days and five nights and finds no book, so he decides to take a rest, using a giant golden treasure chest he found on the first day as a pillow.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: WorthlessYellowRocks: In the story of how the ''Honest Book of Truth'' was discovered, Lord Omar is told by a servant of Eris to go to a sacred mound and dig up the book there. He digs for five days and five nights and finds no book, so he decides to take a rest, using a giant golden treasure chest he found on the first day as a pillow.
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* ArcNumber: 5 and 23. Though this is really a subversion, given the intent of the Law of Fives.
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* NumerologicalMotif[=/=]ArcNumber: 5 and 23. Though this is really a subversion, given the intent of the Law of Fives.
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* Myth/ClassicalMythology: In the story of the Original Snub. The Greeks viewed Her only as the Goddess of Discord and Strife, but their [[UnreliableNarrator views on history can't be trusted]]. "They were," Eris explains, "victims of indigestion, you know."
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* IceCreamKoan: Some borrowed directly from Zen, others created by the authors.
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* SurrealHumor
* TakeAThirdOption: More like Take a Fifth Option, but yes.
* TakeAThirdOption: More like Take a Fifth Option, but yes.
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* SubvertedTrope[=/=]DoubleSubversion: It turns out pretty much all of these tropes are subverted in someway -- or are they? From the end of the book: "If you think that the PRINCIPIA is just a ha-ha, then go read it again." See MindScrew above.
** [[RuleOfFunny Of course, the PRINCIPIA being just a ha-ha is a perfectly valid reason to go read it again.]]
** [[RuleOfFunny Of course, the PRINCIPIA being just a ha-ha is a perfectly valid reason to go read it again.]]
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* WhoShotJFK: Kerry Thornely, one of the two founders of Discordianism, was in the Marines with Lee Harvey Oswald, and wrote a novel about him ''before'' Oswald shot Kennedy. In later years, Thornely became convinced that he'd been {{Brainwashed}} by the CIA to be a backup assassin.
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* WhoShotJFK: Kerry Thornely, one of the two founders of Discordianism, was in the Marines with Lee Harvey Oswald, and wrote a novel about him ''before'' Oswald (allegedly) shot Kennedy. In later years, Thornely became convinced that he'd been {{Brainwashed}} by the CIA to be a backup assassin.
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* WhoShotJFK: Kerry Thornely, one of the two founders of Discordianism, was in the Marines with Lee Harvey Oswald, and wrote a novel about him ''before'' Oswald (allegedly) shot Kennedy. In later years, Thornely became convinced that he'd been {{Brainwashed}} by the CIA to be a backup assassin.
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Not Literature/TheBible of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} Discordian Movement]] (that would be the Honest Book of Truth - and, actually, the Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book[[note]] ''[[OverlyLongTitle Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost]]''[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
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Not Literature/TheBible of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} Discordian Movement]] (that would be the Honest Book of Truth - and, actually, the Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book[[note]] ''[[OverlyLongTitle Principia ''Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost]]''[[/note]] Lost''[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
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* SelfDeprication: A Discordian is instructed to remonstrate against all the common religions of the land, ''including'' Discordianism. The initiation rite into Discordianism requires you to eat a hot dog in a bun on a Friday, violating the tenets of all three Abrahamic religions (no meat on Fridays, no pork) ''and'' Discordianism itself (no hot dog buns).
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* SelfDeprication: SelfDeprecation: A Discordian is instructed to remonstrate against all the common religions of the land, ''including'' Discordianism. The initiation rite into Discordianism requires you to eat a hot dog in a bun on a Friday, violating the tenets of all three Abrahamic religions (no meat on Fridays, no pork) ''and'' Discordianism itself (no hot dog buns).
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* CrazyIsCool: In a word, the Discordian ideal. ''The'' classic example of this, Emperor Joshua Norton, is the only Discordian saint who was an actual person.
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* SelfDepreciation: SelfDeprication: A Discordian is instructed to remonstrate against all the common religions of the land, ''including'' Discordianism.Discordianism. The initiation rite into Discordianism requires you to eat a hot dog in a bun on a Friday, violating the tenets of all three Abrahamic religions (no meat on Fridays, no pork) ''and'' Discordianism itself (no hot dog buns).
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* CrazyIsCool: In a word, the Discordian ideal. ''The'' classic example of this, Emperor Joshua Norton, is the only Discordian saint who was an actual person.
* SelfDepreciation: A Discordian is instructed to remonstrate against all the common religions of the land, ''including'' Discordianism.
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* TakeThatUs: A Discordian is instructed to remonstrate against all the common religions of the land, ''including'' Discordianism.
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* {{Calvinball}}: "Sink", a game played by Discordians and people of much ilk, in which the goal is to sink any type of object, by any means, into any medium into which things can be sank, with turns progressing in order of "who somever gets the junk up and in the air first", with the players encouraged to loudly proclaim that they have sunk something and to give it an amusing name while doing so (the Principia provides the example "I sunk
Columbus, Ohio!")
Columbus, Ohio!")
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* {{Calvinball}}: "Sink", a game played by Discordians and people of much ilk, in which the goal is to sink any type of object, by any means, into any medium into which things can be sank, with turns progressing in order of "who somever gets the junk up and in the air first", with the players encouraged to loudly proclaim that they have sunk something and to give it an amusing name while doing so (the Principia provides the example "I sunk
sunk Columbus, Ohio!")
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* EverythingsBetterWithCows: Mu!
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* {{Calvinball}}: "Sink", a game played by Discordians and people of much ilk, in which the goal is to sink any type of object, by any means, into any medium into which things can be sank, with turns progressing in order of "who somever gets the junk up and in the air first", with the players encouraged to loudly proclaim that they have sunk something and to give it an amusing name while doing so (the Principia provides the example "I sunk
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Columbus, Ohio!")
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Not Literature/TheBible of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} Discordian Movement]] (that would be the [[LostForever Honest Book of Truth]] - and, actually, the Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book[[note]] ''[[OverlyLongTitle Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost]]''[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
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Not Literature/TheBible of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} Discordian Movement]] (that would be the [[LostForever Honest Book of Truth]] Truth - and, actually, the Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book[[note]] ''[[OverlyLongTitle Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost]]''[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
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* FalseDichotomy: ''Every'' dichotomy, but especially [[OrderVersusChaos Order versus Disorder]].
** On the other hand, [[GivingUpOnLogic everything is true, even dichotomies]].
* FiveFiveFive
** On the other hand, [[GivingUpOnLogic everything is true, even dichotomies]].
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* FalseDichotomy: ''Every'' dichotomy, but especially [[OrderVersusChaos Order versus Disorder]].
**Disorder]]. On the other hand, [[GivingUpOnLogic everything is true, even dichotomies]].
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* LostForever: The First Edition (which differs wildly from the Fourth) was thought to be so for many years, as only a handful of copies were produced and most of them were lost. In 2006, a copy turned up in the unlikeliest of places - a cache of documents subpoenaed by [[WhoShotJFK the Warren Commission]].
** [[GovernmentConspiracy "Unlikely," you say...]]
** According to the ''Principia'', there existed before it an "Honest Book of Truth" which was Eris' true final testament to mankind - but there was only ever made one copy, which was mistaken for refuse and taken away by a garbageman who refused to give it back.
** [[GovernmentConspiracy "Unlikely," you say...]]
** According to the ''Principia'', there existed before it an "Honest Book of Truth" which was Eris' true final testament to mankind - but there was only ever made one copy, which was mistaken for refuse and taken away by a garbageman who refused to give it back.
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Not Literature/TheBible of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} Discordian Movement]] (that would be the [[LostForever Honest Book of Truth]] - and, actually, the Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book [[note]]''[[OverlyLongTitle Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost]]''[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
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Not Literature/TheBible of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} Discordian Movement]] (that would be the [[LostForever Honest Book of Truth]] - and, actually, the Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book [[note]]''[[OverlyLongTitle book[[note]] ''[[OverlyLongTitle Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost]]''[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
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More generally, Discordia believes that humanity's in trouble[[note]]not that trouble is necessarily a bad thing[[/note]] as long as it continues to take itself too seriously, that chaos is needed in life so that creation can occur, and that sometimes things are just ineffable. Logic isn't everything.
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More generally, Discordia believes that humanity's in trouble[[note]]not trouble[[note]] not that trouble is necessarily a bad thing[[/note]] as long as it continues to take itself too seriously, that chaos is needed in life so that creation can occur, and that sometimes things are just ineffable. Logic isn't everything.
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Discordianism is a philosophic movement that worships the chaos Goddess Eris (yes, that [[GreekMythology goddess]] with the [[AppleOfDiscord Golden Apple of Discord]] who sparked UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar. It was the Original Snub). Goddess Eris isn't malicious, though; She's funny, She's smart, and She brings mischievous chaos and change to stodgy, petrified order. Eris likes the number 5 and hot dogs.
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Discordianism is a philosophic movement that worships the chaos Goddess Eris (yes, that [[GreekMythology [[Myth/GreekMythology goddess]] with the [[AppleOfDiscord Golden Apple of Discord]] who sparked UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar. It was the Original Snub). Goddess Eris isn't malicious, though; She's funny, She's smart, and She brings mischievous chaos and change to stodgy, petrified order. Eris likes the number 5 and hot dogs.
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* ClassicalMythology: In the story of the Original Snub. The Greeks viewed Her only as the Goddess of Discord and Strife, but their [[UnreliableNarrator views on history can't be trusted]]. "They were," Eris explains, "victims of indigestion, you know."
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* ClassicalMythology: Myth/ClassicalMythology: In the story of the Original Snub. The Greeks viewed Her only as the Goddess of Discord and Strife, but their [[UnreliableNarrator views on history can't be trusted]]. "They were," Eris explains, "victims of indigestion, you know."
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Discordianism is a philosophic movement that worships the chaos Goddess Eris (yes, that [[GreekMythology goddess]] with the [[AppleOfDiscord Golden Apple of Discord]] who sparked the TrojanWar. It was the Original Snub). Goddess Eris isn't malicious, though; She's funny, She's smart, and She brings mischievous chaos and change to stodgy, petrified order. Eris likes the number 5 and hot dogs.
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Discordianism is a philosophic movement that worships the chaos Goddess Eris (yes, that [[GreekMythology goddess]] with the [[AppleOfDiscord Golden Apple of Discord]] who sparked the TrojanWar.UsefulNotes/TheTrojanWar. It was the Original Snub). Goddess Eris isn't malicious, though; She's funny, She's smart, and She brings mischievous chaos and change to stodgy, petrified order. Eris likes the number 5 and hot dogs.
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* ArsonMuderAndJaywalking: This quote from the Book of Honest Truth, Predictions 19:10:
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* ArsonMuderAndJaywalking: ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: This quote from the Book of Honest Truth, Predictions 19:10:
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-->The Earth quakes and the heavens rattle; the beasts of nature flock together and the nations of men flock apart; volcanoes usher up heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts; and then on other days it just rains.
* BlatantLies
-->The Earth quakes and the heavens rattle; the beasts of nature flock together and the nations of men flock apart; volcanoes usher up heat while elsewhere water becomes ice and melts; and then on other days it just rains.
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Not the Literature/{{Bible}} of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} Discordian Movement]] (that would be the [[LostForever Honest Book of Truth]] - and, actually, the Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book [[note]]''[[OverlyLongTitle Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost]]''[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
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Not the Literature/{{Bible}} Literature/TheBible of the [[UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} Discordian Movement]] (that would be the [[LostForever Honest Book of Truth]] - and, actually, the Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book [[note]]''[[OverlyLongTitle Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost]]''[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
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* WhoShotJFK: Kerry Thornely, one of the two founders of Discordianism, was in the Marines with Lee Harvey Oswald, and wrote a novel about him ''before'' he (allegedly) shot Kennedy. In later years, he became convinced that he'd been {{Brainwashed}} by the CIA to be a backup assassin.
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* WhoShotJFK: Kerry Thornely, one of the two founders of Discordianism, was in the Marines with Lee Harvey Oswald, and wrote a novel about him ''before'' he Oswald (allegedly) shot Kennedy. In later years, he Thornely became convinced that he'd been {{Brainwashed}} by the CIA to be a backup assassin.
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Not Literature/TheBible of the UsefulNotes/{{Discordia}}n Movement (that would be the [[LostForever Honest Book of Truth]] - and, actually, The Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book [[note]][[OverlyLongTitle Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
Discordianism is a philosophic movement that worships the chaos Goddess Eris (yes, that goddess with the [[AppleOfDiscord Golden Apple of Discord]] who sparked the [[GreekMythology Trojan War]]. It was the Original Snub). Goddess Eris isn't malicious, though; She's funny, She's smart, and She brings mischievous chaos and change to stodgy, petrified order. Eris likes the number 5 and hot dogs.
More generally, Discordia believes that humanity's in trouble[[note]]not that trouble's necessarily a bad thing[[/note]] as long as it continues to take itself too seriously, that chaos is needed in life so that creation can occur, and that sometimes things are just ineffable. Logic isn't everything.
Discordianism is a philosophic movement that worships the chaos Goddess Eris (yes, that goddess with the [[AppleOfDiscord Golden Apple of Discord]] who sparked the [[GreekMythology Trojan War]]. It was the Original Snub). Goddess Eris isn't malicious, though; She's funny, She's smart, and She brings mischievous chaos and change to stodgy, petrified order. Eris likes the number 5 and hot dogs.
More generally, Discordia believes that humanity's in trouble[[note]]not that trouble's necessarily a bad thing[[/note]] as long as it continues to take itself too seriously, that chaos is needed in life so that creation can occur, and that sometimes things are just ineffable. Logic isn't everything.
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Not Literature/TheBible the Literature/{{Bible}} of the UsefulNotes/{{Discordia}}n Movement [[UsefulNotes/{{Discordianism}} Discordian Movement]] (that would be the [[LostForever Honest Book of Truth]] - and, actually, The the Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book [[note]][[OverlyLongTitle [[note]]''[[OverlyLongTitle Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost[[/note]] Lost]]''[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
Discordianism is a philosophic movement that worships the chaos Goddess Eris (yes, thatgoddess [[GreekMythology goddess]] with the [[AppleOfDiscord Golden Apple of Discord]] who sparked the [[GreekMythology Trojan War]].TrojanWar. It was the Original Snub). Goddess Eris isn't malicious, though; She's funny, She's smart, and She brings mischievous chaos and change to stodgy, petrified order. Eris likes the number 5 and hot dogs.
More generally, Discordia believes that humanity's in trouble[[note]]not thattrouble's trouble is necessarily a bad thing[[/note]] as long as it continues to take itself too seriously, that chaos is needed in life so that creation can occur, and that sometimes things are just ineffable. Logic isn't everything.
Discordianism is a philosophic movement that worships the chaos Goddess Eris (yes, that
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* AliensInCardiff: According to the Principia, Eris first made herself apparent to Malaclypse and Omar in... a long-since-defunct bowling alley in Whittier, [=CA=], a suburb of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles.
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* AncientConspiracy: the Bavarian Illuminati
* ClassicalMythology: in the story of the Original Snub. The Greeks viewed Her only as the Goddess of Discord and Strife, but their [[UnreliableNarrator views on history can't be trusted]]. "They were," Eris explains, "victims of indigestion, you know."
* EasyEvangelism -- in [[http://principiadiscordia.com/book/72.php seven easy steps]]!
* EverythingsBetterWithCows - Mu!
* FalseDichotomy: EVERY dichotomy, but especially [[OrderVersusChaos Order versus Disorder]].
* ClassicalMythology: in the story of the Original Snub. The Greeks viewed Her only as the Goddess of Discord and Strife, but their [[UnreliableNarrator views on history can't be trusted]]. "They were," Eris explains, "victims of indigestion, you know."
* EasyEvangelism -- in [[http://principiadiscordia.com/book/72.php seven easy steps]]!
* EverythingsBetterWithCows - Mu!
* FalseDichotomy: EVERY dichotomy, but especially [[OrderVersusChaos Order versus Disorder]].
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* AncientConspiracy: the The Bavarian Illuminati
Illuminati.
* ClassicalMythology:in In the story of the Original Snub. The Greeks viewed Her only as the Goddess of Discord and Strife, but their [[UnreliableNarrator views on history can't be trusted]]. "They were," Eris explains, "victims of indigestion, you know."
*EasyEvangelism -- in EasyEvangelism: In [[http://principiadiscordia.com/book/72.php seven easy steps]]!
*EverythingsBetterWithCows - EverythingsBetterWithCows: Mu!
* FalseDichotomy:EVERY ''Every'' dichotomy, but especially [[OrderVersusChaos Order versus Disorder]].
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* MindScrew: Oh boy, does it ever. In fact, the whole thing is (possibly) intended as a MindScrew. There is a religion based on it.
* MindScrew: Oh boy, does it ever. In fact, the whole thing is (possibly) intended as a MindScrew. There is a religion based on it.
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** According to the Principia, ''Principia'', there existed before it an "Honest Book of Truth" which was Eris' true final testament to mankind - but there was only ever made one copy, which was mistaken for refuse and taken away by a garbageman who refused to give it back.
* MindScrew:Oh boy, does it ever. In fact, the whole thing is (possibly) intended as a MindScrew. There is a religion based on it.
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* OutOfCharacter: For the Author. Most all of the Principia is steeped in SurrealHumor, so [[MoodWhiplash one will take note]] when it elaborates on its underpinning [[PostModernism cultural relativist]] philosophy and is, [[ThePhilosopher for several paragraphs,]] [[PlayedStraight completely lucid.]]
* PinealWeirdness: the way one talks to Eris.
* PinealWeirdness: the way one talks to Eris.
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* OutOfCharacter: For the Author. Most all of the Principia ''Principia'' is steeped in SurrealHumor, so [[MoodWhiplash one will take note]] when it elaborates on its underpinning [[PostModernism cultural relativist]] philosophy and is, [[ThePhilosopher for several paragraphs,]] [[PlayedStraight completely lucid.]]
* PinealWeirdness:the The way one talks to Eris.
* PinealWeirdness:
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** 23 Things to Amuse Yourself While You Wait [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14860822/23-Things-to-Amuse-Yourself-While-You-Wait Scribd]]
** Aeturnus Ille Discordia [[http://www.amazon.com/Aeturnus-Discordia-Essential-Discordian-ebook/dp/B003V8BT8K/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328603&sr=1-1 Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925272/Aeternus-Ille-Discordia Scribd]]
** Apocrypha Discordia [[http://appendix.23ae.com/apocrypha/ Site]] [[http://www.cafepress.com/discordianist.16077076 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/6007487/Apocrypha-Discordia-2nd-Edition Scribd]]
** Black Iron Prison [[http://www.principiadiscordia.com/bip/1.php BIP page of PD site]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/25101030/The-Black-Iron-Prison Scribd]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/6150789/Black-Iron-Prison Scribd]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/52856093/Black-Iron-Prison-July2007-Booklet Booklet]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/9394082/Black-Iron-Prison-Booklet-20 Booklet 2]]
** Book 5 (The Zenarchist's Cookbook) [[http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7mtJR4hP4BIAfYZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0bjAwOTA2BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1FJMDA3XzE4Nw--/SIG=126er4f5f/EXP=1334360009/**http%3a//files.diydharma.org/Zenarchist_Cookbook.pdf PDF]]
** The Big Book of Chaos [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Chaos-Lucas-Thorn/dp/1451525257/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328674&sr=1-16 Amazon]]
** The Book of the Apocalypso
** The Book of Chaos [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/48070432/The-Book-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** The Book of Chaos and its Virtue [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607228/The-Book-of-Chaos-and-Its-Virtue Scribd]]
** The Book of Eris [[http://www.cafepress.com/erisianist.16113621 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925136/Book-of-Eris Scribd]]
** The Book of Inconveniences
** The Book of Life [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607238/The-Book-of-Life Scribd]]
** The Sacred Chao Te Ching [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14714852/Sacred-Chao-Te-Ching Scribd]]
** Discordia: A Little Game about a Lot of Chaos [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/50408325/Discordia-A-Little-Game-about-a-Lot-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** A Discordian Coloring Book [[http://www.amazon.com/Discordian-Coloring-Book-Laramie-Sasseville/dp/B000RFRC4K/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328634&sr=1-11 Amazon]] [[http://www.cafepress.com/dreamspell/866146 Cafepress]]
** Discordian Meme Bomb Posters [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/46210352/Discordian-Meme-Bomb-Posters Scribd]]
** Discordianism Brochure [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607038/Discordianism-Brochure Scribd]]
** Discordia Prophetica
** Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937536181/ref=ox_sc_act_image_3?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]]
** Erisiana [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/26353203/Erisiana Scribd]]
** Et Cetera Dsicordia [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/45746047/et-cetera-discordia Scribd]]
** The Honest Book of Truth
** Infinite Conception
** Jonesboria Discordia [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141168320X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A1XVVMYNKVX00Y Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/9394755/Jonesboria-Discordia Scribd]]
** Liber Malorum: Children of the Apple [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/095579840X/ref=ox_sc_act_image_6?ie=UTF8&m=A2Y81BCURRF95N Amazon]]
** Metaclysmia Discordia: The Chaonomicon [[http://www.amazon.com/Metaclysmia-Discordia-KSC-Rev-Synaptyx/dp/B002ACNK0I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334328518&sr=8-2 Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925091/Metaclysmia-Discordia Scribd]]
** Novus Ordo Discordia: The Gospel of Saint Pesher, the Gardener
** Principia Entropius [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925211/Principia-Entropius Scribd]]
** Principia Harmonia
** Summa Discordia [[http://www.cafepress.com/summadiscordia.16570013 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925021/Summa-Discordia Scribd]]
** The Shamlicht Kids Club Handbook
** Voices of Chaos [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1461175712/ref=ox_sc_act_image_4?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/61889499/Voices-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** West End Trash
** The Wise Book of Baloney [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925190/Wise-Book-of-Baloney Scribd]]
** Zenarchy Unapologia [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0557383730/ref=ox_sc_act_image_5?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]]
** Zen Without Zen Masters [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561840734/ref=ox_sc_act_image_7?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/79119783/Zen-Without-Zen-Masters-by-Camden-Benares Scribd]]
** Aeturnus Ille Discordia [[http://www.amazon.com/Aeturnus-Discordia-Essential-Discordian-ebook/dp/B003V8BT8K/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328603&sr=1-1 Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925272/Aeternus-Ille-Discordia Scribd]]
** Apocrypha Discordia [[http://appendix.23ae.com/apocrypha/ Site]] [[http://www.cafepress.com/discordianist.16077076 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/6007487/Apocrypha-Discordia-2nd-Edition Scribd]]
** Black Iron Prison [[http://www.principiadiscordia.com/bip/1.php BIP page of PD site]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/25101030/The-Black-Iron-Prison Scribd]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/6150789/Black-Iron-Prison Scribd]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/52856093/Black-Iron-Prison-July2007-Booklet Booklet]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/9394082/Black-Iron-Prison-Booklet-20 Booklet 2]]
** Book 5 (The Zenarchist's Cookbook) [[http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7mtJR4hP4BIAfYZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0bjAwOTA2BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1FJMDA3XzE4Nw--/SIG=126er4f5f/EXP=1334360009/**http%3a//files.diydharma.org/Zenarchist_Cookbook.pdf PDF]]
** The Big Book of Chaos [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Chaos-Lucas-Thorn/dp/1451525257/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328674&sr=1-16 Amazon]]
** The Book of the Apocalypso
** The Book of Chaos [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/48070432/The-Book-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** The Book of Chaos and its Virtue [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607228/The-Book-of-Chaos-and-Its-Virtue Scribd]]
** The Book of Eris [[http://www.cafepress.com/erisianist.16113621 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925136/Book-of-Eris Scribd]]
** The Book of Inconveniences
** The Book of Life [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607238/The-Book-of-Life Scribd]]
** The Sacred Chao Te Ching [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14714852/Sacred-Chao-Te-Ching Scribd]]
** Discordia: A Little Game about a Lot of Chaos [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/50408325/Discordia-A-Little-Game-about-a-Lot-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** A Discordian Coloring Book [[http://www.amazon.com/Discordian-Coloring-Book-Laramie-Sasseville/dp/B000RFRC4K/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328634&sr=1-11 Amazon]] [[http://www.cafepress.com/dreamspell/866146 Cafepress]]
** Discordian Meme Bomb Posters [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/46210352/Discordian-Meme-Bomb-Posters Scribd]]
** Discordianism Brochure [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607038/Discordianism-Brochure Scribd]]
** Discordia Prophetica
** Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937536181/ref=ox_sc_act_image_3?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]]
** Erisiana [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/26353203/Erisiana Scribd]]
** Et Cetera Dsicordia [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/45746047/et-cetera-discordia Scribd]]
** The Honest Book of Truth
** Infinite Conception
** Jonesboria Discordia [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141168320X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A1XVVMYNKVX00Y Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/9394755/Jonesboria-Discordia Scribd]]
** Liber Malorum: Children of the Apple [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/095579840X/ref=ox_sc_act_image_6?ie=UTF8&m=A2Y81BCURRF95N Amazon]]
** Metaclysmia Discordia: The Chaonomicon [[http://www.amazon.com/Metaclysmia-Discordia-KSC-Rev-Synaptyx/dp/B002ACNK0I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334328518&sr=8-2 Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925091/Metaclysmia-Discordia Scribd]]
** Novus Ordo Discordia: The Gospel of Saint Pesher, the Gardener
** Principia Entropius [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925211/Principia-Entropius Scribd]]
** Principia Harmonia
** Summa Discordia [[http://www.cafepress.com/summadiscordia.16570013 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925021/Summa-Discordia Scribd]]
** The Shamlicht Kids Club Handbook
** Voices of Chaos [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1461175712/ref=ox_sc_act_image_4?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/61889499/Voices-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** West End Trash
** The Wise Book of Baloney [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925190/Wise-Book-of-Baloney Scribd]]
** Zenarchy Unapologia [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0557383730/ref=ox_sc_act_image_5?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]]
** Zen Without Zen Masters [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561840734/ref=ox_sc_act_image_7?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/79119783/Zen-Without-Zen-Masters-by-Camden-Benares Scribd]]
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** 23 ''23 Things to Amuse Yourself While You Wait Wait'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14860822/23-Things-to-Amuse-Yourself-While-You-Wait Scribd]]
**Aeturnus ''Aeturnus Ille Discordia Discordia'' [[http://www.amazon.com/Aeturnus-Discordia-Essential-Discordian-ebook/dp/B003V8BT8K/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328603&sr=1-1 Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925272/Aeternus-Ille-Discordia Scribd]]
**Apocrypha Discordia ''Apocrypha Discordia'' [[http://appendix.23ae.com/apocrypha/ Site]] [[http://www.cafepress.com/discordianist.16077076 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/6007487/Apocrypha-Discordia-2nd-Edition Scribd]]
**Black ''Black Iron Prison Prison'' [[http://www.principiadiscordia.com/bip/1.php BIP page of PD site]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/25101030/The-Black-Iron-Prison Scribd]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/6150789/Black-Iron-Prison Scribd]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/52856093/Black-Iron-Prison-July2007-Booklet Booklet]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/9394082/Black-Iron-Prison-Booklet-20 Booklet 2]]
**Book ''Book 5 (The Zenarchist's Cookbook) Cookbook)'' [[http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7mtJR4hP4BIAfYZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0bjAwOTA2BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1FJMDA3XzE4Nw--/SIG=126er4f5f/EXP=1334360009/**http%3a//files.diydharma.org/Zenarchist_Cookbook.pdf PDF]]
**The ''The Big Book of Chaos Chaos'' [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Chaos-Lucas-Thorn/dp/1451525257/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328674&sr=1-16 Amazon]]
**The ''The Book of the Apocalypso
Apocalypso''
**The ''The Book of Chaos Chaos'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/48070432/The-Book-of-Chaos Scribd]]
**The ''The Book of Chaos and its Virtue Virtue'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607228/The-Book-of-Chaos-and-Its-Virtue Scribd]]
**The ''The Book of Eris Eris'' [[http://www.cafepress.com/erisianist.16113621 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925136/Book-of-Eris Scribd]]
**The ''The Book of Inconveniences
Inconveniences''
**The ''The Book of Life Life'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607238/The-Book-of-Life Scribd]]
**The ''The Sacred Chao Te Ching Ching'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14714852/Sacred-Chao-Te-Ching Scribd]]
**Discordia: ''Discordia: A Little Game about a Lot of Chaos Chaos'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/50408325/Discordia-A-Little-Game-about-a-Lot-of-Chaos Scribd]]
**A ''A Discordian Coloring Book Book'' [[http://www.amazon.com/Discordian-Coloring-Book-Laramie-Sasseville/dp/B000RFRC4K/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328634&sr=1-11 Amazon]] [[http://www.cafepress.com/dreamspell/866146 Cafepress]]
**Discordian ''Discordian Meme Bomb Posters Posters'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/46210352/Discordian-Meme-Bomb-Posters Scribd]]
**Discordianism Brochure ''Discordianism Brochure'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607038/Discordianism-Brochure Scribd]]
**Discordia Prophetica
''Discordia Prophetica''
**Ek-sen-trik-kuh ''Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht Shamlicht'' [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937536181/ref=ox_sc_act_image_3?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]]
**Erisiana ''Erisiana'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/26353203/Erisiana Scribd]]
**Et ''Et Cetera Dsicordia Dsicordia'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/45746047/et-cetera-discordia Scribd]]
**The ''The Honest Book of Truth
Truth''
**Infinite Conception
''Infinite Conception''
**Jonesboria Discordia ''Jonesboria Discordia'' [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141168320X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A1XVVMYNKVX00Y Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/9394755/Jonesboria-Discordia Scribd]]
**Liber ''Liber Malorum: Children of the Apple Apple'' [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/095579840X/ref=ox_sc_act_image_6?ie=UTF8&m=A2Y81BCURRF95N Amazon]]
**Metaclysmia ''Metaclysmia Discordia: The Chaonomicon Chaonomicon'' [[http://www.amazon.com/Metaclysmia-Discordia-KSC-Rev-Synaptyx/dp/B002ACNK0I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334328518&sr=8-2 Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925091/Metaclysmia-Discordia Scribd]]
**Novus ''Novus Ordo Discordia: The Gospel of Saint Pesher, the Gardener
Gardener''
**Principia Entropius ''Principia Entropius'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925211/Principia-Entropius Scribd]]
**Principia Harmonia
''Principia Harmonia''
**Summa Discordia ''Summa Discordia'' [[http://www.cafepress.com/summadiscordia.16570013 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925021/Summa-Discordia Scribd]]
**The ''The Shamlicht Kids Club Handbook
Handbook''
**Voices ''Voices of Chaos Chaos'' [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1461175712/ref=ox_sc_act_image_4?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/61889499/Voices-of-Chaos Scribd]]
**West ''West End Trash
Trash''
**The ''The Wise Book of Baloney Baloney'' [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925190/Wise-Book-of-Baloney Scribd]]
**Zenarchy Unapologia ''Zenarchy Unapologia'' [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0557383730/ref=ox_sc_act_image_5?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]]
**Zen ''Zen Without Zen Masters Masters'' [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561840734/ref=ox_sc_act_image_7?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/79119783/Zen-Without-Zen-Masters-by-Camden-Benares Scribd]]
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the story of how the Honest ''Honest Book of Truth Truth'' was discovered, Lord Omar is told by a servant of Eris to go to a sacred mound and dig up the book there. He digs for five days and five nights and finds no book, so he decides to take a rest, using a giant golden treasure chest he found on the first day as a pillow.
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->''GREATER POOP: Are you really serious or what?\\
MAL-2: Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness humorously. Either way, it is irrelevant.''
-->--'''Interview with Malaclypse the Younger''', ''Principia Discordia''
->''"If you think the Principia is just a ha-ha, then go read it again."''
Not Literature/TheBible of the UsefulNotes/{{Discordia}}n Movement (that would be the [[LostForever Honest Book of Truth]] - and, actually, The Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book [[note]][[OverlyLongTitle Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
Discordianism is a philosophic movement that worships the chaos Goddess Eris (yes, that goddess with the [[AppleOfDiscord Golden Apple of Discord]] who sparked the [[GreekMythology Trojan War]]. It was the Original Snub). Goddess Eris isn't malicious, though; She's funny, She's smart, and She brings mischievous chaos and change to stodgy, petrified order. Eris likes the number 5 and hot dogs.
More generally, Discordia believes that humanity's in trouble[[note]]not that trouble's necessarily a bad thing[[/note]] as long as it continues to take itself too seriously, that chaos is needed in life so that creation can occur, and that sometimes things are just ineffable. Logic isn't everything.
The actual layout of the ''Principia Discordia'' mirrors the chaos included in its pages. Pages of typewritten copy are side-by-side with clip art, stamps, seals and hand scrawled quotes. Sometimes important philosophical ideas are crammed into the margins and barely legible. Get it online [[http://www.principiadiscordia.com/index.php here]].
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!!Contains:
* AliensInCardiff: According to the Principia, Eris first made herself apparent to Malaclypse and Omar in... a long-since-defunct bowling alley in Whittier, [=CA=], a suburb of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles.
* AlternativeCalendar: The Principia presents a calendar divided into five 73-day months (Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy, and Aftermath), with a five-day week (Sweetmorn, Boomtime, Pungenday, Prickle-Prickle, and Setting Orange). This has the advantage of making each day of the year fall on the same day of the week every year (e.g., 34 Discord - 17 April - will always fall on a Boomtime). Leap years are the same as in the Gregorian calendar, and the Discordian leap day, St. Tib's Day, is considered to exist outside the normal five-day week. Year 1 of the calendar corresponds to 1166 BC, making 2011 AD Gregorian correspond to 3177 YOLD (Year of Our Lady of Discord).If you're curious, you can use the Gregorian-to-Erisian Date Converter [[http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/dateconvert.html here]]
* BlatantLies
* AncientConspiracy: the Bavarian Illuminati
* ClassicalMythology: in the story of the Original Snub. The Greeks viewed Her only as the Goddess of Discord and Strife, but their [[UnreliableNarrator views on history can't be trusted]]. "They were," Eris explains, "victims of indigestion, you know."
* EasyEvangelism -- in [[http://principiadiscordia.com/book/72.php seven easy steps]]!
* EverythingsBetterWithCows - Mu!
* FalseDichotomy: EVERY dichotomy, but especially [[OrderVersusChaos Order versus Disorder]].
** On the other hand, [[GivingUpOnLogic everything is true, even dichotomies]].
* FiveFiveFive
* IceCreamKoan: ''And how''. Some borrowed directly from Zen, other created by the authors.
* LampShade: The Law of 5s is explicitly true [[ConfirmationBias because Discordians believe in it and look for 5s all around them]]. They know this is how it works, that's the point.
* LogicBomb: "A Discordian is Forbidden of Believing what he Reads."
* LostForever: The First Edition (which differs wildly from the Fourth) was thought to be so for many years, as only a handful of copies were produced and most of them were lost. In 2006, a copy turned up in the unlikeliest of places - a cache of documents subpoenaed by [[WhoShotJFK the Warren Commission]].
** [[GovernmentConspiracy "Unlikely," you say...]]
** According to the Principia, there existed before it an "Honest Book of Truth" which was Eris' true final testament to mankind - but there was only ever made one copy, which was mistaken for refuse and taken away by a garbageman who refused to give it back.
* MindScrew: Oh boy, does it ever. In fact, the whole thing is (possibly) intended as a MindScrew. There is a religion based on it.
* NumerologicalMotif[=/=]ArcNumber: 5 and 23. Though this is really a subversion, given the intent of the Law of Fives.
* OutOfCharacter: For the Author. Most all of the Principia is steeped in SurrealHumor, so [[MoodWhiplash one will take note]] when it elaborates on its underpinning [[PostModernism cultural relativist]] philosophy and is, [[ThePhilosopher for several paragraphs,]] [[PlayedStraight completely lucid.]]
* PinealWeirdness: the way one talks to Eris.
* PublicDomain: The disclaimer on the final page of the Fourth Edition reads "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reversed All rights reversed]] - print what you like" also known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft Copyleft.]]
* PungeonMaster
* SpinOff: Lots and lots of spinoffs. You can find them online, at Amazon, at Scribd, at Cafe Press, etc.
** 23 Things to Amuse Yourself While You Wait [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14860822/23-Things-to-Amuse-Yourself-While-You-Wait Scribd]]
** Aeturnus Ille Discordia [[http://www.amazon.com/Aeturnus-Discordia-Essential-Discordian-ebook/dp/B003V8BT8K/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328603&sr=1-1 Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925272/Aeternus-Ille-Discordia Scribd]]
** Apocrypha Discordia [[http://appendix.23ae.com/apocrypha/ Site]] [[http://www.cafepress.com/discordianist.16077076 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/6007487/Apocrypha-Discordia-2nd-Edition Scribd]]
** Black Iron Prison [[http://www.principiadiscordia.com/bip/1.php BIP page of PD site]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/25101030/The-Black-Iron-Prison Scribd]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/6150789/Black-Iron-Prison Scribd]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/52856093/Black-Iron-Prison-July2007-Booklet Booklet]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/9394082/Black-Iron-Prison-Booklet-20 Booklet 2]]
** Book 5 (The Zenarchist's Cookbook) [[http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7mtJR4hP4BIAfYZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0bjAwOTA2BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1FJMDA3XzE4Nw--/SIG=126er4f5f/EXP=1334360009/**http%3a//files.diydharma.org/Zenarchist_Cookbook.pdf PDF]]
** The Big Book of Chaos [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Chaos-Lucas-Thorn/dp/1451525257/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328674&sr=1-16 Amazon]]
** The Book of the Apocalypso
** The Book of Chaos [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/48070432/The-Book-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** The Book of Chaos and its Virtue [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607228/The-Book-of-Chaos-and-Its-Virtue Scribd]]
** The Book of Eris [[http://www.cafepress.com/erisianist.16113621 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925136/Book-of-Eris Scribd]]
** The Book of Inconveniences
** The Book of Life [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607238/The-Book-of-Life Scribd]]
** The Sacred Chao Te Ching [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14714852/Sacred-Chao-Te-Ching Scribd]]
** Discordia: A Little Game about a Lot of Chaos [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/50408325/Discordia-A-Little-Game-about-a-Lot-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** A Discordian Coloring Book [[http://www.amazon.com/Discordian-Coloring-Book-Laramie-Sasseville/dp/B000RFRC4K/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328634&sr=1-11 Amazon]] [[http://www.cafepress.com/dreamspell/866146 Cafepress]]
** Discordian Meme Bomb Posters [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/46210352/Discordian-Meme-Bomb-Posters Scribd]]
** Discordianism Brochure [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607038/Discordianism-Brochure Scribd]]
** Discordia Prophetica
** Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937536181/ref=ox_sc_act_image_3?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]]
** Erisiana [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/26353203/Erisiana Scribd]]
** Et Cetera Dsicordia [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/45746047/et-cetera-discordia Scribd]]
** The Honest Book of Truth
** Infinite Conception
** Jonesboria Discordia [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141168320X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A1XVVMYNKVX00Y Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/9394755/Jonesboria-Discordia Scribd]]
** Liber Malorum: Children of the Apple [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/095579840X/ref=ox_sc_act_image_6?ie=UTF8&m=A2Y81BCURRF95N Amazon]]
** Metaclysmia Discordia: The Chaonomicon [[http://www.amazon.com/Metaclysmia-Discordia-KSC-Rev-Synaptyx/dp/B002ACNK0I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334328518&sr=8-2 Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925091/Metaclysmia-Discordia Scribd]]
** Novus Ordo Discordia: The Gospel of Saint Pesher, the Gardener
** Principia Entropius [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925211/Principia-Entropius Scribd]]
** Principia Harmonia
** Summa Discordia [[http://www.cafepress.com/summadiscordia.16570013 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925021/Summa-Discordia Scribd]]
** The Shamlicht Kids Club Handbook
** Voices of Chaos [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1461175712/ref=ox_sc_act_image_4?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/61889499/Voices-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** West End Trash
** The Wise Book of Baloney [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925190/Wise-Book-of-Baloney Scribd]]
** Zenarchy Unapologia [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0557383730/ref=ox_sc_act_image_5?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]]
** Zen Without Zen Masters [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561840734/ref=ox_sc_act_image_7?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/79119783/Zen-Without-Zen-Masters-by-Camden-Benares Scribd]]
* SubvertedTrope[=/=]DoubleSubversion: It turns out pretty much all of these tropes are subverted in someway -- or are they? From the end of the book: "If you think that the PRINCIPIA is just a ha-ha, then go read it again." See MindScrew above.
** [[RuleOfFunny Of course, the PRINCIPIA being just a ha-ha is a perfectly valid reason to go read it again.]]
* SurrealHumor
* TakeAThirdOption: More like Take a Fifth Option, but yes.
* TakeThatUs: A Discordian is instructed to remonstrate against all the common religions of the land, ''including'' Discordianism.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the story of how the Honest Book of Truth was discovered, Lord Omar is told by a servant of Eris to go to a sacred mound and dig up the book there. He digs for five days and five nights and finds no book, so he decides to take a rest, using a giant golden treasure chest he found on the first day as a pillow.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: ThePentagon, as a symbol of order, in contrast to the AppleOfDiscord.
* WhoShotJFK: Kerry Thornely, one of the two founders of Discordianism, was in the Marines with Lee Harvey Oswald, and wrote a novel about him ''before'' he (allegedly) shot Kennedy. In later years, he became convinced that he'd been {{Brainwashed}} by the CIA to be a backup assassin.
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[[caption-width-right:220:[[IceCreamKoan Fnord.]]]]
->''GREATER POOP: Are you really serious or what?\\
MAL-2: Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness humorously. Either way, it is irrelevant.''
-->--'''Interview with Malaclypse the Younger''', ''Principia Discordia''
->''"If you think the Principia is just a ha-ha, then go read it again."''
Not Literature/TheBible of the UsefulNotes/{{Discordia}}n Movement (that would be the [[LostForever Honest Book of Truth]] - and, actually, The Bible is the ''Principia Discordia'' of the Christian Movement), this book [[note]][[OverlyLongTitle Principia Discordia; Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her, The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger, Wherein Is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Everything; Or, How the West Was Lost[[/note]] was originally published in 1965 by Greg "Malaclypse the Younger" Hill and Kerry "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst" Thornley, and went through several major revisions before the "Fourth Edition", the version most circulated today, was produced in 1970.
Discordianism is a philosophic movement that worships the chaos Goddess Eris (yes, that goddess with the [[AppleOfDiscord Golden Apple of Discord]] who sparked the [[GreekMythology Trojan War]]. It was the Original Snub). Goddess Eris isn't malicious, though; She's funny, She's smart, and She brings mischievous chaos and change to stodgy, petrified order. Eris likes the number 5 and hot dogs.
More generally, Discordia believes that humanity's in trouble[[note]]not that trouble's necessarily a bad thing[[/note]] as long as it continues to take itself too seriously, that chaos is needed in life so that creation can occur, and that sometimes things are just ineffable. Logic isn't everything.
The actual layout of the ''Principia Discordia'' mirrors the chaos included in its pages. Pages of typewritten copy are side-by-side with clip art, stamps, seals and hand scrawled quotes. Sometimes important philosophical ideas are crammed into the margins and barely legible. Get it online [[http://www.principiadiscordia.com/index.php here]].
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!!Contains:
* AliensInCardiff: According to the Principia, Eris first made herself apparent to Malaclypse and Omar in... a long-since-defunct bowling alley in Whittier, [=CA=], a suburb of UsefulNotes/LosAngeles.
* AlternativeCalendar: The Principia presents a calendar divided into five 73-day months (Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy, and Aftermath), with a five-day week (Sweetmorn, Boomtime, Pungenday, Prickle-Prickle, and Setting Orange). This has the advantage of making each day of the year fall on the same day of the week every year (e.g., 34 Discord - 17 April - will always fall on a Boomtime). Leap years are the same as in the Gregorian calendar, and the Discordian leap day, St. Tib's Day, is considered to exist outside the normal five-day week. Year 1 of the calendar corresponds to 1166 BC, making 2011 AD Gregorian correspond to 3177 YOLD (Year of Our Lady of Discord).If you're curious, you can use the Gregorian-to-Erisian Date Converter [[http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/dateconvert.html here]]
* BlatantLies
* AncientConspiracy: the Bavarian Illuminati
* ClassicalMythology: in the story of the Original Snub. The Greeks viewed Her only as the Goddess of Discord and Strife, but their [[UnreliableNarrator views on history can't be trusted]]. "They were," Eris explains, "victims of indigestion, you know."
* EasyEvangelism -- in [[http://principiadiscordia.com/book/72.php seven easy steps]]!
* EverythingsBetterWithCows - Mu!
* FalseDichotomy: EVERY dichotomy, but especially [[OrderVersusChaos Order versus Disorder]].
** On the other hand, [[GivingUpOnLogic everything is true, even dichotomies]].
* FiveFiveFive
* IceCreamKoan: ''And how''. Some borrowed directly from Zen, other created by the authors.
* LampShade: The Law of 5s is explicitly true [[ConfirmationBias because Discordians believe in it and look for 5s all around them]]. They know this is how it works, that's the point.
* LogicBomb: "A Discordian is Forbidden of Believing what he Reads."
* LostForever: The First Edition (which differs wildly from the Fourth) was thought to be so for many years, as only a handful of copies were produced and most of them were lost. In 2006, a copy turned up in the unlikeliest of places - a cache of documents subpoenaed by [[WhoShotJFK the Warren Commission]].
** [[GovernmentConspiracy "Unlikely," you say...]]
** According to the Principia, there existed before it an "Honest Book of Truth" which was Eris' true final testament to mankind - but there was only ever made one copy, which was mistaken for refuse and taken away by a garbageman who refused to give it back.
* MindScrew: Oh boy, does it ever. In fact, the whole thing is (possibly) intended as a MindScrew. There is a religion based on it.
* NumerologicalMotif[=/=]ArcNumber: 5 and 23. Though this is really a subversion, given the intent of the Law of Fives.
* OutOfCharacter: For the Author. Most all of the Principia is steeped in SurrealHumor, so [[MoodWhiplash one will take note]] when it elaborates on its underpinning [[PostModernism cultural relativist]] philosophy and is, [[ThePhilosopher for several paragraphs,]] [[PlayedStraight completely lucid.]]
* PinealWeirdness: the way one talks to Eris.
* PublicDomain: The disclaimer on the final page of the Fourth Edition reads "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_rights_reversed All rights reversed]] - print what you like" also known as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft Copyleft.]]
* PungeonMaster
* SpinOff: Lots and lots of spinoffs. You can find them online, at Amazon, at Scribd, at Cafe Press, etc.
** 23 Things to Amuse Yourself While You Wait [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14860822/23-Things-to-Amuse-Yourself-While-You-Wait Scribd]]
** Aeturnus Ille Discordia [[http://www.amazon.com/Aeturnus-Discordia-Essential-Discordian-ebook/dp/B003V8BT8K/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328603&sr=1-1 Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925272/Aeternus-Ille-Discordia Scribd]]
** Apocrypha Discordia [[http://appendix.23ae.com/apocrypha/ Site]] [[http://www.cafepress.com/discordianist.16077076 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/6007487/Apocrypha-Discordia-2nd-Edition Scribd]]
** Black Iron Prison [[http://www.principiadiscordia.com/bip/1.php BIP page of PD site]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/25101030/The-Black-Iron-Prison Scribd]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/6150789/Black-Iron-Prison Scribd]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/52856093/Black-Iron-Prison-July2007-Booklet Booklet]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/9394082/Black-Iron-Prison-Booklet-20 Booklet 2]]
** Book 5 (The Zenarchist's Cookbook) [[http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7mtJR4hP4BIAfYZXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0bjAwOTA2BHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1FJMDA3XzE4Nw--/SIG=126er4f5f/EXP=1334360009/**http%3a//files.diydharma.org/Zenarchist_Cookbook.pdf PDF]]
** The Big Book of Chaos [[http://www.amazon.com/The-Book-Chaos-Lucas-Thorn/dp/1451525257/ref=sr_1_16?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328674&sr=1-16 Amazon]]
** The Book of the Apocalypso
** The Book of Chaos [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/48070432/The-Book-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** The Book of Chaos and its Virtue [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607228/The-Book-of-Chaos-and-Its-Virtue Scribd]]
** The Book of Eris [[http://www.cafepress.com/erisianist.16113621 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925136/Book-of-Eris Scribd]]
** The Book of Inconveniences
** The Book of Life [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607238/The-Book-of-Life Scribd]]
** The Sacred Chao Te Ching [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/14714852/Sacred-Chao-Te-Ching Scribd]]
** Discordia: A Little Game about a Lot of Chaos [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/50408325/Discordia-A-Little-Game-about-a-Lot-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** A Discordian Coloring Book [[http://www.amazon.com/Discordian-Coloring-Book-Laramie-Sasseville/dp/B000RFRC4K/ref=sr_1_11?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334328634&sr=1-11 Amazon]] [[http://www.cafepress.com/dreamspell/866146 Cafepress]]
** Discordian Meme Bomb Posters [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/46210352/Discordian-Meme-Bomb-Posters Scribd]]
** Discordianism Brochure [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/8607038/Discordianism-Brochure Scribd]]
** Discordia Prophetica
** Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1937536181/ref=ox_sc_act_image_3?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]]
** Erisiana [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/26353203/Erisiana Scribd]]
** Et Cetera Dsicordia [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/45746047/et-cetera-discordia Scribd]]
** The Honest Book of Truth
** Infinite Conception
** Jonesboria Discordia [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/141168320X/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A1XVVMYNKVX00Y Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/9394755/Jonesboria-Discordia Scribd]]
** Liber Malorum: Children of the Apple [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/095579840X/ref=ox_sc_act_image_6?ie=UTF8&m=A2Y81BCURRF95N Amazon]]
** Metaclysmia Discordia: The Chaonomicon [[http://www.amazon.com/Metaclysmia-Discordia-KSC-Rev-Synaptyx/dp/B002ACNK0I/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1334328518&sr=8-2 Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925091/Metaclysmia-Discordia Scribd]]
** Novus Ordo Discordia: The Gospel of Saint Pesher, the Gardener
** Principia Entropius [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925211/Principia-Entropius Scribd]]
** Principia Harmonia
** Summa Discordia [[http://www.cafepress.com/summadiscordia.16570013 Cafepress]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925021/Summa-Discordia Scribd]]
** The Shamlicht Kids Club Handbook
** Voices of Chaos [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1461175712/ref=ox_sc_act_image_4?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/61889499/Voices-of-Chaos Scribd]]
** West End Trash
** The Wise Book of Baloney [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/3925190/Wise-Book-of-Baloney Scribd]]
** Zenarchy Unapologia [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0557383730/ref=ox_sc_act_image_5?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]]
** Zen Without Zen Masters [[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561840734/ref=ox_sc_act_image_7?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER Amazon]] [[http://www.scribd.com/doc/79119783/Zen-Without-Zen-Masters-by-Camden-Benares Scribd]]
* SubvertedTrope[=/=]DoubleSubversion: It turns out pretty much all of these tropes are subverted in someway -- or are they? From the end of the book: "If you think that the PRINCIPIA is just a ha-ha, then go read it again." See MindScrew above.
** [[RuleOfFunny Of course, the PRINCIPIA being just a ha-ha is a perfectly valid reason to go read it again.]]
* SurrealHumor
* TakeAThirdOption: More like Take a Fifth Option, but yes.
* TakeThatUs: A Discordian is instructed to remonstrate against all the common religions of the land, ''including'' Discordianism.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: In the story of how the Honest Book of Truth was discovered, Lord Omar is told by a servant of Eris to go to a sacred mound and dig up the book there. He digs for five days and five nights and finds no book, so he decides to take a rest, using a giant golden treasure chest he found on the first day as a pillow.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: ThePentagon, as a symbol of order, in contrast to the AppleOfDiscord.
* WhoShotJFK: Kerry Thornely, one of the two founders of Discordianism, was in the Marines with Lee Harvey Oswald, and wrote a novel about him ''before'' he (allegedly) shot Kennedy. In later years, he became convinced that he'd been {{Brainwashed}} by the CIA to be a backup assassin.
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