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Summary: Fun, and nothing but.
Review: I bought the book, whereupon my pineal gland led me to the local supermarket, where I bought a couple of cabbages and conferred with them until they taught me all their secrets. Evil littler [things], I know, but it had to be done.Seriously now, the book is great, I was already discordian before I read this. Insanity. Religious types who can't handle the fact that not everybody believes in their God, and that everything else is NOT evil, will really not enjoy this book. Good for atheists and open-minded religious types, and silly people all over the world. Always read while holding an apple in your left hand if you're right handed, left hand if you're left handed, and proceed to speak the text loudly and clearly in a Shakespearian tone. Wash down the book with a glass of squeezed hot dog bun for maximum enjoyment.
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Summary: Lick here. You could be one of the lucky 25.
Review: I was sent a copy of this twisted beauty by a penpal, who accompanied it with the note 'I think you'll like this'. It has gone on to become the most borrowed book (and thusly the most creased) in my sizable collection and various phrases from within have crept into daily usage. Very funny, very clever, very Robert Anton Wilson and only-just-less-than very hallucinogenic, I love this book. A quick qualifier - I have a strong degree of revulsion towards the most organised of the religions, and this takes the (...) most admirably. The conversion 'what to say to convert a passer-by to Discordianism' is beautifully observed. There is a lot of insight behind the overt silliness, but you needn't bother with looking for insight if you're not inclined. That's kind of the point, anyway...and it isn't. The lighter side of Chaos magick, for those familiar. As I said earlier, I've lent this book to many people (around 40, I think...gods), only one of whom didn't enjoy it. Hail Eris! Consult your pineal. Fnord.
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Summary: Discordianism: Explained
Review: Although when you pick this up, it may remind you of it's "brother", Subgenius, but, as the book, or "instructional manifesto", progresses, you may find that it is completely different than Subgenius literature. It is a great read, but it didn't get 5 stars from me because it is, at some times, confusing and sometimes repeats itself. Looking over this minor problem, I ended up finishing this book looking over my shoulder from time to time, because, if I may be childish for a moment, it will "freak you out" when you read some of the things in here. Most of the things herein are meant to be taken two ways, the quotes have dual meanings, and even the most specific text can be looked at from more than one angle. Aside from this, I think the book has only one meaning: Don't take things seriously. And while this may be, by some, a fiction book, it has a very real meaning to it. It somehow, through it's complex writing, takes the term "lie" and pushes it to the next level. It makes you think, and at the same time, makes you believe what is being said in the book. I advise you to get this book, though. if you want a rollercoaster ride of fiction blended equally with nonfiction, blended again with equal amounts of psychology and I think I even remember some amounts of Physics. I think anyone who reads this book wil agree with me that it is different than many other ones they have read before.
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Summary: Hail Eris
Review: This book was awsome. When i got it, i couldnt wait to read it. I've now read it three times in about three days. I just can't stop. It really does make sense, just read it with an open mind.
Fnord. Buy this book.
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Summary: Eristic history
Review: Hail Eris, full of grace! If anyone out there ever dreamt a Discordian would re-write the history of the Greyface world, look no further than "History: Fiction or Science?" by Anatoly Fomenko (ISBN 2913921023), mark the final digits if you need more proof that the text in question was received from the hands of Our Lady of Golden Apples herself!
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Summary: Mind rhythms
Review: Roughly around the time that the writers of The Onion were mere zygotes and it was more popular to join Mensa than the Church of The Sub-Genius, this wonderful little book was wreaking havoc on the minds of youngsters almost everywhere. It is lysergic inspired literature of the most amusing sort, guaranteed to force you to become a lot less serious about most everything. Is that so bad? How can you go wrong when it is filled with such wonderful nuggets of wisdom as: "When you meet another bodhisattva on the road, greet him with neither words nor silence." "That leaves you with a vast selection of barnyard noises from which to choose." Also, it stimulates such interesting questions as, if Jesus was a Jew - why was he given a Puerto Rican name? Principia is light-hearted, fun loving iconoclasm. It is the voice of Chaos coming through loudly and clearly with humor and wit. Dropping off a copy at your local revival will surely get the juices flowing and the people jumping. Keeping a copy close to your bed at night will enhance your dreaming and make you a better person. All-in-all it is a wonderfully twisted little book that gives you all of life's answers by one who has quite simply figured out everything. It is every self-help book wrapped up into one. All encompassing and vacuous at the same time. Who could ask for anything more?
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Summary: The religion drug of choice for a Pepsi generation
Review: Looking to expand your mind? Looking to shrink your perceptions? Hate life? Love it? If you do, buy this book. If not, steal it; you'll learn how to do all these things later. This is my favorite book, and I've read everything. It's short. It's simple to read. It often flies off on tangents and makes no sense. Wonderful.
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Summary: What Eris Did to Me After She Found Me
Review: A refreshing look of religion, beliefs and ethics formed from a giant collage of chaos. Malaclypse The Younger avoids running around his ideas and giving hints to the reader. Instead he forces a reader into a head dive sucking him into his world. A true work of poetic terrorism. To some this might seem as an explanation for just another religion, to others a blasphemy and a selected few as a whole new way of approaching the world. This book is a must have for any chaos magician, a big giant sigil designed to awaken your mind. CAUTION: After purchasing this book expect Eris to play head games with you and tasting chaos early in the morning. NOTE: Principia Discordia and Principia Discordia or How I Found Goddess And What I did To Her When I Found Her are the same book except for a special afterword and a collage found at the end in the later book. Of course Eris did not inform me of this and I bought both. Twice the fun. Assume Nothing
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Summary: Entertaining, though not as deeply insightful as I'd hoped
Review: By a weird coincidence of delivery dates, I received this book at approximately the same time as I started reading "Dropping Ashes On the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn" (ISBN 0802130526), so I can't help but mentally compare the two. Both are witty takes on religion, and the messages are in some ways surprisingly similar. Maybe I'm just weird (a very distinct possibility given my current reading list), but I actually got more real belly laughs out of "Ashes" than I did from "Principia Discordia", despite (or perhaps because of) the fact that "Dropping Ashes on the Buddha" is unquestionably a serious work on Zen, while "Principia Discordia" is clearly not serious, though the authors do appear to have a serious message. Seung Sahn's fascinating combination of wit and wisdom reminded me of a kind of Buddhist Groucho Marx, while the undeniably funny material in "Principia Discordia" put me more in mind of the Three Stooges. The humor's there in abundance, but the depth of the message just isn't the same. Nonetheless, I'm glad I bought this book, if for no other reason than to teach me the origin of the Erisians I've read about in so many science fiction books (the "Illuminatus!" trilogy/ISBN 0440539811 and "The Long Run"/ISBN 1576466396 being my two favorites). ...
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Summary: FIVE stars
Review: this is absolutely the greatest book I've never read! really!
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