Just fell down the Discordianism rabbit hole. Turns out it's basically just late-pagan Platonic Hellenism, specifically invoking Iris, repackaged for the postmodern era.The problem is that Hill & Thornley's epistemology is completely braindead. They insist that everything is entirely relative and all truths are fake, yet they demand you take their own metaphysics seriously (like the "Rule of 5"). Whenever someone points out the obvious contradiction, they cop out with the "lol it's just a joke/spoof religion" defense. Why write an entire philosophical grimoire if you're just going to backtrack the second you're pressed?Reminds me of those old 2014 era Principia threads. Utterly filtered by American hippie cope.
>>25599139Stupid thing, had to use an AI to rewrite what I wrote originally because of the automod think I WAS AI!
>>25599144thought*:p
>>25599139I hate these fucks
>>25599139It is just a joke.You know how many obvious contradictions there are in something like Christianity? >>25599190Mirror.
>>25599139>Turns out it's basically just Platonismyea
>>25599235They deny it, which is my complaint...
>>25599224>I-it's just a joke... h-ha ha haIronic pastiche is for cowards
>>25599139The "law of fives" is a parody of confirmation bias processes that seek to confirm some arbitrary rule. The give-away is in the text:>all things happen in fives, are divisible by or multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to five.It's deliberately written so it can't be false, because if you look hard enough at a situation you'll find fives somewhere.This is supported by this quote from Omar to Mal:>I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look.
>>25599139>yet they demand you take their own metaphysics seriously (like the "Rule of 5")Filtered by one of the most obvious jokes of all time. Do the Subgenius next
The Principia Discordia is a work of metafiction that not only reveals but revels in its own constructed nature. It is theology as art, a wild and free creative medium. The point isn't to become a Discordian but to encourage your own imaginative adventure that is free to speculate and explore beyond convention.This is highlighted at the very end of the PD:>The human race will begin solving it's problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously.>To that end, POEE proposes the countergame of NONSENSE AS SALVATION. Salvation from an ugly and barbarous existence that is the result of taking order so seriously and so seriously fearing contrary orders and disorder, that GAMES are taken as more important than LIFE; rather than taking LIFE AS THE ART OF PLAYING GAMES.The goal is to not take theology and religion so seriously and to be free to explore "nonsense" in the development of one's philosophical imagination.Eris turns the ontological argument on its head: it is greater for a deity of creative chaos to exist purely in the imagination and not in actuality because as purely imaginary she isn't bound by the constraints of actuality. She can be anything you can imagine her to be. Eris is a mascot of deity as creative medium - and it doesn't get anymore Eris than that. This interpretation is supported by this quote:>The foregoing document was revealed to Mal-2 by the Goddess Herself through many consultations with Her within his Pineal Gland. It is guaranteed to be the Word of Goddess. However, it is only fair to state that Goddess doesn't always say the same thing to each listener, and that other Episkoposes are sometimes told quite different things in their Revelations, which are also the Word of Goddess. Consequently, if you prefer a Discordian Sect other than POEE, then none of these Truths are binding, and it is a rotten shame that you have read all the way down to the very last word.
>>25599581Hooplah!
It's a dad joke religion
>>25599139>Why write an entire philosophical grimoire if you're just going to backtrack the second you're pressed?For a joke, genius.
>>25599224>>25599546>>25600140>>25600163Stupid pseuds do not understand that a joke has to be funny, and what is funny has to be TRUE. By inherently believing there is no TRUTH then there is NO JOKE. This was the role of the jester, to remind the people, and the king especially, of what is true, yet you privileged bourgeois Americans only know comfort and can accept that which is true true.Kys
>>25599139I just picked up the "Evangelical Edition" of this at the thrift store. No idea what it was. It was in the kids section (for many other reasons I'm pretty sure that employee is fairly mentally handicapped.)
>>25600198What the PD actually says: "All truth is apprehended from a given perspective / "reality tunnel" and to get a fuller understanding it can be helpful to consider alternative perspectives and possibilities other than what your usual interpretive framework imposes."This is a pro-social ethos because it encourages the bridging of perspectival gaps. This is creative discord: a mutual contrast between perspectives that nourishes them both by viewing things the other may not see, or diminish. Constructive intellectual discussion is a highly creative discord.
>>25600198Hopefully, you're no older than 22, else you've gone seriously wrong.
>>25600198>a joke MUST adhere to the ARBITRARY, inflexible PRINCIPLES that, I, a humorless SPERG have laid out in this 4CHAN threadHumor cannot be as clearly established as Newton's laws of mechanics. Why do unfunny autists always try to build a unified field theory of jokes instead of just observing some actually funny people and seeing how many roads you can take to making people laugh?
>>25599139>DadaThe point of the Urinal was that the gallery accepted anything provided one payed the fee. which was the actual perversity on display.
