Manifesto V, part 2

We follow the Way, but we accept fellows on our Journey. We don't worship Eris but we are friendly and recognize that some Cosmic Principles are mathematical but others are more Personal, if we choose to treat them as such. Therefore, it doesn't hurt to recognize that The World Is Big and has a Lot In It. Eris represents the principle that Capital-R-Reality exists at a level "deeper than the level of distinction making" and our ideas-about-reality form a grid through which we see it. Choosing a grid is an act of faith, but trying to not choose a grid because then you would be committed is an act of cowardice. Everyone has a grid. Anyway, Eris can be nice to have around and is a good teacher when She is not rapping the Knuckles of your Presuppositions with the Ruler of Unpredictability.

This is Discordianism-as-Philosophy for people who think most philosophy is too pompous. No one seems all that upset if Christians are Cartesians or Aristotelians or Platonists or even Existentialists (though they do often become rather het up at the Agnostics.) We are Christians who are philisophical Discordians. After all, Old Bob (pbuh) claimed to be Discordian, Subgenius, Taoist, Buddhist, and a Witch. Buddhism is plenty religious, at least in certain versions. We aren't quite so ambitious, but aren't as awesome either.

A guideline:

If you think that
Order is not always good
And Disorder is not always bad
And that Religious People take themselves Too
Damn Seriously

If you Find Life Confusing
Especially people who Never Seem
Confused

And you wonder where all this Confusion Came
From

And that maybe the Secret is to Tell Funnier Jokes

Then you are One of Us
Whether you want to be or not.

We are the Pineal Gland of
the Body of Christ

Hail Jesus.

[If the afterlife is just like this one, why do we go there when we die?]