/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)
