Dragaera

Domino's Lute

Wed Nov 27 19:04:27 PST 2002

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:15:56PM -0800, Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> wrote:
> At 05:21 PM 11/26/2002 -0600, Joshua Kronengold wrote:
> >existing, self-proclaimed religons that don't have belief or reverence
> >for a superhuman power -- Zen (the universal counterexample, and
> >usually mixed up with a lot of superstitions that -do- have
> >supernatural powers attached, but nevertheless); confucianism, and
> >discordianism don't, certainly.
> Discordianism I'm not familiar with.  To cliam that Zen and Confucianism 
> don't have belief or reverence for a superhuman being is only possible for 
> those who know nothing about them.

Get thee to the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson.

Seeing as this was the book that turned me into a libertarian 
before I noticed what it was doing and put my filters back up, 
the effect on your socialistic leanings will be interesting. :)

The short version: Discordians worship chaos.

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