Do any of you know what a "Discordian Society" is???

[Meatwad]

I keep getting these emails asking me to be a Pope of Discordia and have a sworn allegiance to the Goddess Eris and the Most Holy Church of Discordia. What the hell is this? Is it a frat/sorority? Or is it a devil cult (which it sounds like to me)???

Any help/info would be much appreciated. Thanks.

[RandomKoolzip]

1. It was a fake religion started by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill in the late

50's, a precursor to The Church of the Subgenius and the Flying Spaghetti Monster Cult.

The principal teaching of discordianism was that chaos and disorganization were to be exalted. It was a spoof on some of the emerging cults of the 50's.

Kerry Thornley later gained notoriety as the only person to have written a book about Lee Harvey Oswald BEFORE the JFK assassination; Thornely and OSwald were buddies in the MArine Corps and both misfits: Oswald bewcause of his (supposed) mArxist leanings, and Thornely because of his odd mind and sense of humor.

Thornley later promulgated a series of bizarre conspiracy theories based on his time in the Marines with Oswald. Google "Kerry Thornely" and a lot of weird info will pop up.

[Meatwad]

3. Ohhh...I see.

Thanks for the info.

[swag]

12. Gosh, I miss Mike Gunderloy's Factsheet Five,

with Thornley's "Curmudgeon Corner" column.

But that is something a luddite would say.

Because Factsheet Five was pre-web, and I miss all those zines flooding into my PO Box, with their smells of rectal mucous and carbolic soap.

The web just can't deliver that.

[RandomKoolzip]

13. "Rectal mucous?"

So your zines came "pre-wiped?"

[swag]

14. After a fashion.

[RevCheesehead]

2. I think it's an anti-Polka group..

No Accordians. :evilgrin:

[Meatwad]

4. Hahaha.

:thumbsup:

[jandrok]

5. It's all here...in the Principia Discordia

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia/

Not a Devil cult at all. Not even a cult. More like an anti-cult.

Robert Anton Wilson was a devotee, as were numerous other authors and artists. Discordianism DOES have a few adherents in modern neo-Paganism, but it's a loose group to say the least.

[Az]

6. Hail Eris! FNOrd!!!

Keep in your heart and remember the original snub.

[asthmaticeog]

7. HA! I have a tattoo of their sacred symbol...

..but nobody's ever asked me to join. :cry:

[Az]

8. You are a pope already

Of course no one asked you to join. Don't need to. You are already a leader.

[Az]

11. Here is the sacred symbol btw

[asthmaticeog]

15. My tat depicts only the PODGE.

The HODGE can go suck a fuck.

[Meatwad]

9. Do I get one of those cool hats?

:D

[billyskank]

10. Does it look like this?