Principia Discordia , Or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malacypse the Younger

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Summary: Wait, what?
Review: If sarcastic blasphemy makes you giggle you'll like this book. The author's goal seems to be to mock God and all religions. He begins by firing God for "gross incompotence" and then sets forth his own faith, based on nihilism w/ a sarcastic sense of humor. The one star is for originality, otherwise no stars. Some of the more impressionable types won't get the joke and undoubtedly become devotees. Sadness. Better to read Galations 6:6-7 and Psalm 53:1-2, instead.

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Summary: principa discordia
Review: truly i am not a cabbage but something that seem to pass for partly human (at least sometimes). this book is a joke, fun to color and a life philosophy, to those who don't look to hard at it, all in one pretty lil compact package.

5 stars for now but i would definately give it twenty three.

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Summary: Should have come with an expiration date
Review: This book may have been amusing 40 years ago (but probably not) when its targets were taboo, but that's simply not the case anymore. Lenny Bruce did this so much better (so much so that it's wildly misleading to even say the authors are doing the same thing Lenny did). The book seems absolutely quaint by today's standards. There's a "Gee, aren't we daring and clever" attitude that permeates this book, but ultimately it falls flat on its face. It's pretentious, boring, and just not funny.

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Summary: I love it more than pants- AND I HAVEN'T EVEN READ IT
Review: after I learn to read I'm totally gonna rock this book out day and night, but until then I can look and smell and sometimes at night, when everyone is sleeping, lick.

three stars, one for each eye needed to understand(ha) it.

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Summary: Do Not Believe
Review: I must have had at least five different copies of this book over the years. It keeps slipping out of my hands in search of new adventures and new minds to blow.

The book works best if you don't read it. Go through it five times with your critical-observer function turned off, then wait for a while and let it digest. Then you can safely go back and find some of the tricks it plays on you. It actually seems to have founded a genre, in effect: Christopher Hyatt's _Undoing Yourself Through Energized Meditation and Other Devices_ and other various techno-shamanic books use the same kind of exposition through overload, trying to put an initiation directly onto paper.

The first wave of Discordianism has pretty much played out now, and many of its themes and expressions have entered mainstream or at least "mainstream alternative" culture without any of those yucky psychedelic side effects of a real encounter with Chaos. So please be aware that a superficial encounter with this book carries with it the danger of making you Yet Another Fluffy Discordian, and either keep a decent distance or go ahead and drive your skull through it like a roofing nail into a shingle.

Do Not Believe. See For Yourself. See you around the Abyss, chaoboys and chaogirls.