Creation> /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)
