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study guide for superdomain01a-d ["(dis)orientation"]
Material from: Principia Discordia, Various Editions
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1. Know whether or not Principia Discordia is the work of a time-travelling anthropologist from the 23rd Century. Know whether or not, according to Nietzsche, one need not have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star. Know whether or not, according Syadasti, ‘tis an ill wind that blows no minds.” Know whether or not, according to Niels Bohr, the opposite of a great truth is seldom, if ever, true. Know whether or not the meaning of “ignotum per ignotius” is widely known. Know whether or not very few things happen in fives, or are divisible by or are multiples of five, or are somehow directly or indirectly appropriate to five.
2. Know whether or not “Kallisti” means “to the prettiest one.” Know whether or not, in the Disorganization Matrix, the highest of the five houses is the Out House. Know whether or not, if you can't find the Polyfather, or having found him, don't want anything to do with him, you are still authorized to form your own POEE cabal. Know whether or not it is true that no two equals are the same. Know whether or not a Discordian Society Legionnaire is one who does not prefer to create his own sect. Know whether or not, every man, woman, and child is a genuine and authorized Pope.
3. Know whether or not the Hell Law says that Hell is reserved exclusively for them that believe in it. Know whether or not all affirmations are true in some sense, false in some sense, but never, in some sense, meaningless. Know whether or not Greyface deluded honest men to believe that reality was a straitjacket affair and not the happy romance as men had known it. Know whether or not it is believed that the Defamation League have been costuming cabbages and passing them off as human beings. Know whether or not, according to Wiener, in any given situation, less organization, more chaos, is overwhelmingly more probable than tighter organization or more order.
4. Know whether or not the Sacred Chao symbolizes everything not worth knowing, depicted by the empty space surrounding the Hodge-Podge. Know whether or not the Sacred Chao is not the same as the yin-yang of the Taoists, but is the hodge-podge of the Erisians. Know whether or not both order and disorder are man-made concepts and are artificial divisions of pure chaos, which is a level deeper, that is, the level of distinction making. Know whether or not, With our concept making apparatus called "mind," we look at reality through the ideas-about-reality which our cultures give us. Know whether or not 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.
5. Know whether or not some grids can be more useful than others, some more beautiful than others, some more pleasant than others, but none can be more true than any other. Know whether or not reality is the original Rorschach. Know whether or not the words of the Foolish and those of the Wise are not far apart in Discordian eyes. Know whether or not the Greek geometrician Pythagoras was a typical aneristic personality. Know whether or not, according to Patamunzo Lingananda, the truth is five but men have one name for it.
6. Know whether or not, during the pregnancy of Eris, the Five Basic Elements were sweet, boom, pungent, prickle, and orange. Know whether or not the eminent 16th Century mathematician Cardan so detested Luther that he altered Luther's birthdate to give him an unfavorable horoscope. Know whether or not POEE works toward the proposition that creative disorder, like creative order, is possible, but not desirable. Know whether or not he human race will begin solving its problems on the day that it ceases taking itself so seriously. Know whether or not Gregory Hill says the original Principia was mimeographed in Jim Garrison’s office.
"As Below, So Above"
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