Your Friend Raymond

I have secretly been a Discordian since 2007-ish. I am not totally certain the year but I was in high school. I had been moved away from all my friends to a whole new life I did not want. The message of Eris in her holy work lit something inside of me that has shined ever since. Her words containing the comfort that I have heard others profess to find in their God.

The fact that the jokes are dated and off-putting to modern sensibilities keeps so many people from knowing her. This has such a delicious irony to it that I suspect she must have had something to do with it. When the book was written it was off-putting to their delicate sensibilities. Most people found it inappropriate. Those who looked past the inappropriateness found her holy word, and the comfort of her madness. Now, for totally different reasons, the jokes inside are found to be crass and inappropriate. Like a fractal the closer I look the funnier it gets. When I read it the first time it was considered to be blase, the jokes boring and stale, the insights oh so obvious. Many of its basic ideas were trendy so people had the joke ruined before they heard it and never got to laugh.

As a teenager who felt out of control and without a direction the message was so very attractive. I returned to the golden hue of the principia’s website time and time again. I have read the whole thing front to back dozens of times. Every page is full of jokes within jokes within references surrounding its spiritual ideas. Best part is we are prohibited from believing a word of it because after all A Discoridain is prohibited of Believing what he reads! Rule V and all.