spread Discordia

I like to stand back and watch as a pea rolled down a snow covered hill creates a giant snowball. One small action or lack there of and the whole thing goes a bit off. Hum. I had an Aunt that could create the most intricate of bizarre and discordant situations by merely showing up. Unfortunately she was murdered under equally bizarre and discordant circumstances.

Our Lady, who art in Devon,
Fallowed be thy Name.
Thy bowling alley come.
Thy will be done,
On Emperor Norton bridge as it is in Devon.
Give us this day our daily tacos.
And forgive us our beliefs,
As we forgive those who believe against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from greyface.
For thine is the chao,
and the hodge,
and the podge,
for ever and ever.
Fnord.

-Grandmaster Armadillo Curmudgeon 2005

i don’t really care if “you” like it as a philosophy. i actually think i like it better if “you” didn’t like discord because it makes discord all that much more fun.

That 9 year olds are more likely to know who Eris is than any one older than 18? Apparently there is a cartoon network show that features Eris that my cousin told me about last night. I told her that I was going to be Eris for Halloween, and she asked if I was going to get apples and paint them gold and put Ks on them. Talk about shocking. My only response was, I love you. I couldn’t say anything else.

I was making my friends a pretty little postcard based on this discordia ideas… and then i started to research things and i found out some stuff that is really exciting to me, but i don’t think that anyone else in the world will care. so i’m going to tell you, and you can not care if you want to.

so the postcard is about eris & the apple of discord. the apple of discord is the one that eris threw into the wedding celebration that she wasn’t invited to, on which she had written “kallisti”, or translated from the greek “to the most beautiful.” i intend to get a tattoo of said apple very soon. either with the entire word kallisti or just a k. so i wanted to research the greek spelling and the true greek meaning just in case i got something like “fucks monkeys” instead of what i thought it meant. its happened with those people who get those chinese letters on them, but i digress.

so kallisti does in fact mean “to the most beautiful” or “to the fairest” or “to the prettiest.” i could show you the greek spelling if you would like, but that doesn’t really help my story. the part i love is that kallisti is the ancient name for the islands of santorini, of which thera is one. i have this weird past lives thing with thera. on it was the volcano that destroyed crete and with it set back civilization for thousands of years. i don’t know why i really like destruction and discord, but i do. and then all the destruction and discord i like seems to be all related. so now i am more fascinated with things that i was pretty fascinated with to start.

Mr. R.A. Wilson is one of the leaders of Discordia, and certainly the most verbose about it.

His website: http://www.rawilson.com
My favorite part the site: http://www.rawilson.com/about.shtml

If you keep reloading the site, it will continue to change everything after “About Wilson’s Works.” Very sexy.

I think I am going to get a kallisti apple tattoo on my arm.
http://cwz.net/Dcfffoi23Aepfel

If you are not hot for philosophy, best just to skip it.

The Aneristic Principle is that of APPARENT ORDER; the Eristic Principle is that of APPARENT DISORDER. Both order and disorder are man made concepts and are artificial divisions of PURE CHAOS, which is a level deeper than is the level of distinction making.

With our concept making apparatus called “mind” we look at reality through the ideas-about-reality which our cultures give us.

The ideas-about-reality are mistakenly labeled “reality” and unenlightened people are forever perplexed by the fact that other people, especially other cultures, see “reality” differently.

It is only the ideas-about-reality which differ. Real (capital-T True) reality is a level deeper than is the level of concept.
We look at the world through windows on which have been drawn grids (concepts). Different philosophies use different grids. A culture is a group of people with rather similar grids. Through a window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it. The ORDER is in the GRID. That is the Aneristic Principle.

Western philosophy is traditionally concerned with contrasting one grid with another grid, and amending grids in hopes of finding a perfect one that will account for all reality and will, hence, (say unenlightened westerners) be True. This is illusory; it is what we Erisians call the ANERISTIC ILLUSION. Some grids can be more useful than others, some more beautiful than others, some more pleasant than others, etc., but none can be more True than any other.

DISORDER is simply unrelated information viewed through some particular grid. But, like “relation”, no-relation is a concept. Male, like female, is an idea about sex. To say that male-ness is “absence of female-ness”, or vice versa, is a matter of definition and metaphysically arbitrary. The artificial concept of no-relation is the Eristic Principle.

The belief that “order is true” and disorder is false or somehow wrong, is the Aneristic Illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the Eristic Illusion.

The point is that (little-t) truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick another grid, and the same chaos will appear differently ordered and disordered.

Reality is the original Rorschach.

Verily! So much for all that.