The veneration of {Eris}, a.k.a. Discordia; widely popular among
hackers. Discordianism was popularized by Robert Shea and Robert
Anton Wilson's novel Illuminatus! as a sort of self-subverting
Dada-Zen for Westerners -- it should on no account be taken seriously
but is far more serious than most jokes. Consider, for example, the
Fifth Commandment of the Pentabarf, from Principia Discordia: "A
Discordian is Prohibited of Believing What he Reads." Discordianism
is usually connected with an elaborate conspiracy theory/joke
involving millennia-long warfare between the anarcho-surrealist
partisans of Eris and a malevolent, authoritarian secret society
called the Illuminati. See Religion in Appendix B, {Church of the
SubGenius}, and {ha ha only serious}.
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