Principia Discordia

Or How I Found Goddess, and What I Did to Her When I Found Her

by Greg Hill, Steve Jackson, Jeff Koke, Derek Pearcy, Kerry Wendell Thornley

Paperback, 116 pages

English language

Published July 14, 1994 by Steve Jackson Games.

ISBN:: 978-1-55634-320-9
OCLC Number:: 33204405

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Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!

This little book is the bible of Discordianism... the worship of Eris, the goddess of Chaos. Many have said that the Principia Discordia is impossible to find. But if that's true, what are you looking at, a cabbage?

Question authority. All Discordians are prohibited from believing anything they read. Including this. Learn about The Law of Fives, The Gospel According To Fred, The Epistle To The Paranoids, St. Gulik, The Sacred Chao, The Book of Uterus, The Curse of Greyface, and how to start your own Discordian cabal. Fnord.

This great "cult classic" originally appeared in 1965. This news edition was published by Steve Jackson, creator of the Illuminati game, as a tribute to the first Discordians. It adds 20 pages of new material, as revealed by Eris to her faithful worshipers when they probably should have been mowing the lawn or …

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!

WARNING: This book contains subversive truths, absurd lies, guerrilla philosophy, and several very naughty words. Open mind before reading!

Q: Is Eris true? A: Everything is true. Q: Even false things? A: Even false things are true. Q: How can that be? A: I don't know, man. I didn't do it!

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Bill Bucclan reviewed Principia Discordia by Greg Hill

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5 stars

Admittedly, I picked this up on a lark when it hit the bookshelves (big fan of Steve Jackson Games) and for most of the book I was annoyed and amused by what appeared to be a slapdash production. I really wasn't sure why it was so popular.

The last sentence should prove why I'm an idiot.

Woven within a number of slaps and derision at modern culture is a remarkably thorough philosophical base and a great (and definitely different) take on how the universe works. Placing another axis on 'morality' and then showing its application to the world is bloody brilliant and I found that the more I read it, the more I laughed along with the authors.

All said then, Hail Eris! And long live the Trickster archetype.