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Eris — the guest who was not invited.
The Greek goddess of discord, adopted rather than inherited: Discordianism did not come down from any Greek cult and says so. She is honoured for the snub she suffered and for what she did about it.
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The shared center — held across the tradition
Order and disorder are both things you are doing.
The Sacred Chao is drawn with a pentagon on one side and a golden apple on the other — the Aneristic and Eristic Principles, order and disorder. Neither is a property of the world. Both are grids people lay over an undivided reality, and the grid is not the thing.
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Contested within — affirmed by some schools, refused by others
Belief is optional, and discouraged.
The fifth commandment of the Pentabarf prohibits a Discordian from believing what he reads, which includes the Pentabarf. Discordians who take this seriously do not agree on whether taking it seriously is permitted.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathThe nature of reality
Order and disorder are equally real and equally invented — two ways of cutting up an undivided world. The Sacred Chao holds both and prefers neither.
After death
None taught. The Principia says nothing about what follows death and Discordians have not filled the gap.