The Curse of Greyface

The Curse of Greyface

Greyface preached that we should preserve Serious Order and eradicate spontaneity (and even play) at any and all costs. The Discordian “Curse of Greyface” refers to a psychological and spiritual imbalance that results from these beliefs

To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder.

The Curse of Greyface included the division of life into order/disorder as the essential positive/negative polarity, instead of building a game foundation with creative/destructive as the essential positive/negative. He has thereby caused man to endure the destructive aspects of order and has prevented man from effectively participating in the creative uses of disorder. Civilization reflects this unfortunate division.

POEE proclaims that the other division is preferable, and we work toward the proposition that creative disorder, like creative order, is possible and desirable; and that destructive order, like destructive disorder, is unnecessary and undesirable.

We know nothing of mind, only the tinkerings of our soft tissue. The grey-matter of grey faces, staring out through occluded windows. What world exists behind our scaled viewing, as our lines of perception become the iron bars that keep us from ever becoming truly free. Standards of living in the times of an Empire that never ends. Positivism is the new theology, order is a deceptive fallacy, what we continue to reject is only what we will continue to reflect.

                     – Josh Fleming

Seek the Sacred Chao

Embrace the creative forces of order and disorder

Greyface

Greyface...

In YOLD 0, a malcontented hunchbrain by the name of Greyface got it into his head that the universe was as humorless as he, and he began to teach that play was sinful because it contradicted the ways of Serious Order. "Look at all the order around you," he said. And from that, he deluded honest men to believe that reality was a straightjacket affair and not the happy romance as men had known it.

It is not presently understood why men were so gullible at that particular time, for absolutely no one thought to observe all the disorder around them and conclude just the opposite. But anyway, Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.

The unfortunate result of this is that mankind has since been suffering from a psychological and spiritual imbalance. Imbalance causes frustration, and frustration causes fear. And fear makes for a bad trip. Man has been on a bad trip for a long time now.

It is called the Curse of Greyface.

This page uses content from Principia Discordia on page 00042, and may share a type of similarity with the original. The type of similarity that they may share might be called "identical." Or not. All rights reversed.

The Knights Templar

Between the years of 1119 and 1188, a small group of knights founded the Knights Templar (the Order) in dedication to protecting pilgrims traveling to the holy land. The Sect was originally a Christian Order. Their rituals were held in secrecy. Because of this secrecy, it was speculated occurred that something was amiss within the religious order. 

Rumors that had been brewing for generations suggested the Templars worshiped Baphomet and partook in satanic rites during these secret meetings. Some believe that the rumors were a product of King Philip IV of France. He had sought to remove the power of the Templars not only for his own sake (as he owed them a substantial sum of money), but for his alleged dislike of one of the Order’s Grand Masters. Still, other sources suggest that while The Order was originally Christian it was overtaken by the de Lemann Sect in 1249; the Sect was a true Demonolatry Sect. In the latter instance, it is stated the reason the Templars fell was due to a loosening of the secrecy factor among members and less rigid entry requirements, which allowed almost any man to join the order providing he was willing. 

While the individual members of the Order were quite poor, the Order gained excessive wealth, which they used in commerce. By the 14th Century, the Order was a financial and religious power whose only contender was the Pope himself. In 1307 King Philip IV convinced Pope Clement to have all the Templars arrested. The Templars were stripped of all their properties and titles and were tried for sorcery and heresy and burnt at the stake. The Order was dissolved on an official level by Philip in 1312. 

The persecution of the Templars is well documented. However, whether or not the Templars were a bonified Demonolatry Sect remains just a theory. Their rites were not documented well. Much of the testimony of the occurrences at these secret meetings were given under extreme torture and interrogation and is therefore deemed invalid due to circumstance.

Discordianism

Hail Eris!

Discordianism is a modern, chaos-centered religion founded circa 1958–1959 by Malaclypse the Younger with the publication of the Principia Discordia. It is widely regarded as a parody religion, and has been called "Zen for roundeyes". Discordianism recognizes chaos, discord, and dissent as valid and desirable qualities, in contrast with most religions, which idealize harmony and order. The religion is largely composed of whimsical and absurd ideas, though many adherents claim there is a deeper meaning to their flippant attitude. Eris is the matron deity of the religion. (and also the name of the new 10th planet of our Solar System!) 

Like it or not, you've just become a Discordian Pope by seeing this image. And now have the power to name anyone you wish a Pope as well. You are infallible! Maybe!

Discordianism

Religions have Dogmas: established beliefs or doctrines held by a religion, ideology or any kind of organization, thought to be authoritative and not to be disputed or doubted. While in the context of religion the term is largely descriptive, outside of religion its current usage tends to carry other connotation — referring to concepts as being "established" only according to a particular point of view, and thus one of doubtful foundation. Discordianism only has Catmas: which are relative metabeliefs ;p

It is difficult to estimate the number of followers and correctly identify Discordian groups. This is because of the anarchist ethic that pervades Discordianism, which is reflected in the encouragement to form schisms and cabals. Additionally, few adherents hold Discordianism as their only or primary faith. Instead, Erisians tend to adopt Discordianism as a complement to other faiths.

The Principia Discordia contains the Law of Eristic Escalation. This law states that:

Imposition of Order = Escalation of Chaos

It elaborates on this point by saying that the more order imposed the longer it takes for the chaos to arise and the greater the chaos that arises. This can be read as an argument against zero tolerance and hard security, or just a statement about the world.

"Consult your pineal gland" is a common saying in Discordianism. Some Discordians seem to regard the pineal gland as the source of answers to life's most difficult questions. The pineal gland is believed by some, such as Dr. Rick Strassman (read this book DMT: The Spirit Molecule), to produce trace amounts of DMT (dimethyltryptamine), a psychedelic chemical which is believed to play a role in dreaming and other mystical states. It should also be noted that the pineal gland was also used in Descartes's explanation of Cartesian Dualism as the "seat of the soul" and the connection between the material and immaterial world. In some cases, it is referred to as "the atrophied third eye". It has also been suggested that the third eye (Ajna) physically resides at this location between the two hemispheres of the brain.

The most famous tale of Eris recounts her initiating the Trojan War. The goddesses Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite had been invited along with the rest of Olympus to the forced wedding of Peleus and Thetis, who would become the parents of Achilles, but Eris had been snubbed because of her troublemaking inclinations.

She, therefore (in a fragment from the Kypria as part of a plan hatched by Zeus and Themis) tossed into the party the Apple of Discord, a golden apple inscribed Kallisti – "For the most beautiful one", or "To the Fairest One" – provoking the goddesses to begin quarreling about the appropriate recipient. The hapless Paris, Prince of Troy, was appointed to select the most beautiful by Zeus. Each of the three goddesses immediately attempted to bribe Paris to choose her. Hera offered political power; Athena promised skill in battle; and Aphrodite tempted him with the most beautiful woman in the world: Helen, wife of Menelaus of Sparta. While Greek culture placed a greater emphasis on prowess and power, Paris chose to award the apple to Aphrodite, thereby dooming his city, which was destroyed in the war that ensued.

Read the Principia Discordia if you can withstand enormous amounts of laughter, FNORD?.

THE LAW OF FIVES

the PentaBARF

The Pentabarf was discovered by the hermit Apostle Zarathud in the Fifth Year of The Caterpillar. He found them carved in gilded stone, while building a sun deck for his cave, but their import was lost for they were written in a mysterious cypher. However, after 10 weeks & 11 hours of intensive scrutiny he discerned that the message could be read by standing on his head and viewing it upside down.

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The Five Commandments
As Stolen From The Principia Discordia, As Is The Right Of All Discordians:

I – There Is No Goddess But Goddess And She Is Your Goddess. There Is No Erisian Movement But The Erisian Movement And It Is The Erisian Movement. And Every Golden Apple Corps Is The Beloved Home Of A Golden Worm.

II – A Discordian Shall Always Use The Official Discordian Document Numbering System.

III – A Discordian Is Required During His Early Illumination To Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously Of A Hot Dog On A Friday; This Devotive Ceremony To Remonstrate Against The Popular Paganisms Of The Day:

· Of Catholic Christendom (No Meat On Friday),
· Of Judaism (No Meat Of Pork),
· Of Hindic Peoples (No Meat Of Beef),
· Of Buddhists (No Meat Of Animal),
· And Of Discordians (No Hot Dog Buns).

IV– A Discordian Shall Partake Of No Hot Dog Buns, For Such Was The Solace Of Our Goddess When She Was Confronted With The Original Snub.

V – A Discordian Is Prohibited Of Believing What He Reads.*

Be It Known That We Are Not Discordians, Nor Are We Erisians. We Are, However, Followers Of A Chaotic Reality. Or More To The Point, We Believe That Reality Is Chaos And Order Is Folly.

No One Person Can Be Right At All Times. It Therefore Follows That No One Reality Can Be True At All Times. This May Seem Like A Large Leap In Logic, But This Is Religion, Not Logic. And We All Know That Religion Is About Taking Leaps Of Faith, So Have Faith In This Leap. Now Then...

If No Reality Is Always Real, Then Somewhere There Must Be A Group Of Unrealities That Occasionally Become Real. Thus We Conclude That Reality Is Subjective, Based On The Viewer And That All Is In Constant Turmoil. That Turmoil Is Chaos And That Chaos Is Reality.

The Previous Statements May Or May Not Be True. They May Or May Not Make Sense. Whatever You Do, Pay Attention To These Statements And Watch The Arrival Of A Time When They Make Sense And Are Not True.

Be It Known That We Are In Fact Erisians. Be It Known That Facts Are Therefore Meaningless. Be It Known Why Grass Is Blue And Sky Is Green?

* This Is The Most Important Of All Commandments.

Chaos Parable

A doctor, an architect, and a computer scientist were arguing about whose profession was the oldest. In the course of their arguments, they

got all the way back to the Garden of Eden, whereupon the doctor said, 

"The medical profession is clearly the oldest, because Eve was made from Adam's rib, as the story goes, and that was a simply incredible surgical feat."

The architect did not agree. He said, 

But if you look at the Garden itself, in the beginning, there was chaos and void, and out of that the Garden and the world were created. So God must have been an architect."

The computer scientist, who'd listened carefully to all of this, then 

commented, 

"Yes, but where do you think the chaos came from?"

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Moving time

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