Discordianism

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  Discordianism /dis-kor'di-*n-ism/ 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 (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Discordianism
       
           /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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