Discordism or discordianism is a parody of religion . Unlike traditional religions that preach harmony, discordianism deifies chaos . The main deity of discordianism is Eris (Discordia among the Romans), the ancient Greek goddess of discord, who threw an apple of discord at a wedding feast at Peleus .
The founding book is The Principle of Discordia ( 1963 ), written by Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst (Kerry Thornley) and Malaklips the Younger (Gregory Hill) .
Discordianism gained worldwide popularity in many respects thanks to Robert Anton Wilson , who widely covered it in his novel “ Illuminatus! "(" The Illuminatus! Trilogy ", 1975).
Philosophy
It is an eclectic alloy of the philosophies of Zen Buddhism , existentialism , relativism , phenomenology and general semantics .
One of the main points of discordance is “a strict belief that any strict belief is erroneous” (see map-territory correlation ).
An important discordian myth is the curse of Gruad Serolitsego , which explains why people move away from creative chaos and try to build an “order”. Serolitsy is a creature without a sense of humor, tempting and inciting people to think that order and seriousness should be the basis of being. This myth explains the occurrence of destructive chaos, which can occur only where trying to impose order.
Overcoming the curse of Seroliky on the scale of all mankind is one of the main tasks of discordance.
The human race will begin to solve its problems only from the moment when it ceases to take them seriously.
To move to this point, POEE offers a counter-game called NONSENSE AS RESCUE.
The salvation from the ugly and wild being, which was the result of the adoption of order so seriously and so seriously the rejection of alternative orders and disorders, that GAMES began to be accepted as something more serious than LIFE; when it’s more correct to accept LIFE itself as an ART to PLAY GAMES.
To this end, we invite people to develop their natural love for disorder and play with the Goddess Eris. We know that this will be a fun game, and that the Curse of the Gray can be lifted.
If you can master the illogical as well as you have already mastered the mind, then each will reveal the meaning of the absurd to the other. From this moment of enlightenment, a person will become free regardless of his environment. He will be free to play the games of order and change them at will.
He will be free to play mess games just like that. He will become free to play both, or not to play anything. And, as the owner of his own games, he will play without fear, and therefore without frustration, and therefore with good will in his soul and love in his life.
And when people are free, then humanity will become free.
Discordian ontology expands the dialectic three “thesis-antithesis-synthesis” and proclaims the “principle of the five” - all events in the world occur in five stages (on the example of the evolution of society):
- Chaos ( English Chaos ) - the initial state in which there is a natural self-organization.
- Discord ( Eng. Discord ) - the emergence of governance, the ruling classes. The stratification of society causes tension.
- Confusion ( English Confusion ) - an attempt by the ruling classes to restore the original state of affairs by external intervention. Even if oppressed come to power, they use the same authoritarian methods.
- Bureaucracy ( English Bureaucracy ) - the society gradually calms down, ideas and rituals become more important than people. Idiots come to power.
- Consequences ( English Aftermath ) - the bureaucracy collapses under its own weight and turns into initial chaos.
The main symbol of Discordianism is the Holy Hao, or Hodge-Live, outwardly similar to yin-yang. But the place of the Hodge point on the sub-side is taken by the Pentagon, which means the Neridic principle of Order. At the opposite pole is the golden Apple of Discord, the Erotic principle of Chaos.
Sacred Hao symbolizes everything that anyone needs to know about anything, and more. It symbolizes everything that is not necessary to know - in the form of an empty space around HODGE-PODZH.