Mike's Reviews > Principia Discordia ● Or ● How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate of Malaclypse the Younger

I'm actually still reading this in bits and pieces (it's kinda impossible to read a bible like this all at once) but it seems fitting of the spirit of the book to say I've read it when I'm not done yet, since "all is allowed" is one of the rules of Discordianism, the
"religion" of which this book forms the Bible, and even run-on sentences are not eschewed; nay, they are another way of expressing the inherent Disorder (Praise Eris, Goddess of Disorder!) in the Universe.

Every "ha-ha, only serious" so-called "joke" religion can trace its origins back to this photocopied pamphlet created by students on drugs and enlightenment in their heyday. Yet the philosophy described here makes a lot of sense, and seems to have been subsumed into the general culture so slowly that no one has really noticed it. I read the ideas in here and think that I've known them all my life, but that's only because the people who originally created and read and passed around this book by photocopy are the ones who went on to create so much of the technology of today's world, and their design choices and philosophy can't help but influence the way people think today.