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"It's a joke disguised as a religion


...or is it a religion disguised as a joke?"
Either way, it has the potential to change your life forever, no matter what you think the answer is. ( )

A quietly brilliant, incredibly bizarre book. To be honest, the references and illustrations are all a bit dated, and some of the humor is a little weak. But the philosophy behind the humor is sharp as a knife, even if the authors would like to make you work to understand them. Of course, that's a big part of their point: any religion/philosophy based on the concept of freedom must of necessity include the idea that potential members have to figure things out for themselves. It's free thought, expressed through the lens of humor and nonsense. Some people might think it's all something new, but it's not. Thomas Jefferson might have said pretty much the same things; he would have just said them more seriously. ( )

Truly a magnum opiate in every nonsense of the phrase (and a few senses, as well), the Principia Discordia is the perfect, trivial and unimportant introduction to Discordianism. It is subversive literature and should be burned on sight. It is a classic and comes highly recommended. It is soup and shoop-de-woop xylophonic arpeggios potato. It tries being silly and useless, and fails magnificently. ( )