/dis-kor' di-*n-ism/ The veneration of Eris, also known as Discordia widely popular among hackers. Discordianism was popularised 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, Church of the SuBGenius, and {ha ha only serious}. [Jargon File] (1997-04-12)