Discordia as a Religion?

[hooplala]

Hoopla,
I'd be interested to see what you've got going for your altar to Eris.  I have been considering the same thing.
Has anybody here chosen to believe in Eris as an actual personal entity?  I've been thinking about doing that.  I imagine it would take some effort and time to convince ones self of something like this, but i'm sure it could be done with the proper rationalization and filtering....

I only believe in Eris when it is necessary, the rest of the time she is all metaphor to me.

Currently my alter is nonexistent.  I have a small statue of Kali, and a small book of . . .  things . . . which will have to go anonymously for the time being.  There is a gentleman in Toronto who makes statues which look very ancient greek, I am saving some money right now and will soon commission him to make me an Eris statue.

What I plan for the rest is to get every image of Eris I can find, and either print them out nicely, or copy them by hand... the statues, obviously, my book, a small ceramic bowl for burnt things, a larger bowl I can fill with Golden Delicious apples, and candles.

I am working on some attributions at the moment, and when I am finished I will be using them to fill it all out (incense, blackthorn, images of snakes, and whatnot...)

So... its mostly in my head at the moment.

What kind of insence matches Eris?

*needs a new scent, or a way to get Ataya thats not in sample packs

That's what I'm working on.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I know people that believe in her as real. Heck if people can believe in Xenu, Eris is child's play.

Do they have a presence on the intarnets somewhere?

Yes!

http://www.scientology.org

[Requia ☣]

BPAL (perfume makers) apparently decided eris is "wet fruits and sharp mimosa with Martial spices and a deceptive flash of floral. "

[hooplala]

Where?

[Requia ☣]

http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com/excolo.html  Here

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Gonna buy some!

[Valerie - Gone]

So, Hoopla and Nigel, you're like... Discordian witches? I like the idea of that concept. Intriguing.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Yes, basically that.

[the last yatto]

i dont have an alter but i found a bell at one of "those" foreign shops, which had an apple at top of it, so i took out a magic marker (blessed with apple juice) and wrote a big K on the side.

we use it when we are bored to bring about chaos, plus its a good paperweight holding up a copy of steve jackson's pd (ive been tempted lately to burn it and replace it with a yellow cover pd but ive been wanting to buy 23 copies of that one in one go to have some bizzar effect im not sure yet)

[East Coast Hustle]

has anyone ever told you to shut the ever-loving fuck up?

[Faust]

I believe 100% in eris when its fun or ironic, or obnoxious to do so. But I also espouse that one day Richard Nixon will return to rase the land. It can be very theraputic to be a zealot of some aspect for a couple of hours every so often, once you get it out of your system it leaves a lot of room to question things.

[East Coast Hustle]

that's a good way of putting it.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I believe 100% in eris when its fun or ironic, or obnoxious to do so. But I also espouse that one day Richard Nixon will return to rase the land. It can be very theraputic to be a zealot of some aspect for a couple of hours every so often, once you get it out of your system it leaves a lot of room to question things.

[nurbldoff]

What initially drew me to Discordia was the way it sort of unfolds like an onion. It's presented like a religion but then it turns out to be a conspiracy, which then turns out to be a philosophy, which turns out to be a joke, which turns out to be all-of-the-above or none of it. Discordians can be your friends or they can be your enemies. It's all true, false or self contradictory. You can take whichever of these happen to fit you at the moment and run with it.

Maybe each time has a set of Discordian aspects that are somehow more relevant though. Today I think the conspiracy angle may be too clichéd to work, for example. Religion may be too.

[Chairman Risus]

What initially drew me to Discordia was the way it sort of unfolds like an onion. It's presented like a religion but then it turns out to be a conspiracy, which then turns out to be a philosophy, which turns out to be a joke, which turns out to be all-of-the-above or none of it. Discordians can be your friends or they can be your enemies. It's all true, false or self contradictory. You can take whichever of these happen to fit you at the moment and run with it.

Maybe each time has a set of Discordian aspects that are somehow more relevant though. Today I think the conspiracy angle may be too clichéd to work, for example. Religion may be too.

Discordia is not an onion! There is no crying in Discordia!