The Chao Te Ching is a meditation on the Sacred Chao, a yin-yangish symbol which represents everything worth knowing, and also a lot of stuff not worth knowing. In 81 brief chapters which parallel the Tao Te Ching, this modern Discordian text synthesizes ancient Taoism and irreligious Zenarchy. This manual teaches how to [...]

Project Postergasm contains over a hundred funny, surreal, absurd, or provocative posters designed to transform your neighborhood into a cooler place. When you walk around the block, don’t you want to see humor, art, or absurdity? Take an active hand in shaping the spaces we share. Some people treat Postergasm as a personal pilgrimage, a [...]

Here’s a document I edited/brainstormed with the spags at the PD Forums. Originally written for an issue of Intermittens, this article might also be called “101 ways to make everybody think you’re mentally unstable.” 101 Ways to Make Everybody’s Day Weirder Midway through the day, change into a different set of clothes. If anybody notices, [...]

I have a little brown messenger bag which waits by the door for me like a puppy wanting to go out. In my bag, I carry a few pages of stickers, some markers, post-it notes, pope cards, my notebook, a camera, two fake mustaches, and a folder containing a few hundred posters. I like to [...]

In 1958 or 1959 (we’re not sure which), Eris, the Goddess of Confusion, sent an Emperor Penguin to a bowling alley in California. It appeared before Malaclypse the Younger and Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst and inspired them to create the Discordian Society: a tribe of philosophers, theologians, magicians, scientists, artists, clowns, and similar maniacs. The [...]

Fiction by Professor Cramulus, February 2010. PDF Link: The Showdown Hank pulled the trigger. Through the scope, he could see brains explode out of the haint’s head as the gunshot echoed off the hills. Hank let out a cowboy whoop and got up off his belly. “Did you see that, you motherfucker?” he shouted. “I’m [...]

by Professor Cramulus, April 2007 PDF Link: Gorillas in the Midst “Gorillas live in that house now.” That’s what I almost said. But I thought better of spilling my secret. Instead, I told Dana that the house was still abandoned. She turned her music back on and kept jogging. It’s only a partial lie. Another [...]

this article was originally written for Intermittens issue 3: Weirdness, edited by Rev. Whats-His-Name These are the Strange Times, a period in history where the “mainstream” is being fed by so may bizarre tributaries that there is no central narrative anymore. Arguably this was happening before the internet plugged everybody into everybody else, but now [...]

This article was written by Cramulus, Payne, and Richter Discordians in the Middle Ages Discordians flourished between the fifth and fifteenth century. This was a period of great cultural, political, and economic change in Europe – change which Discordians violently shook like a colicky infant. The Queen didn’t like this, and did not invite them [...]

There was once a young Discordian called Golden Rod. Early in his illumination, he wondered what season his country was in. Perhaps it was in the season of Discord, on the cusp of Bureaucracy. Surely, Order was rising to noxious levels. Or perhaps it was already Bureaucracy, on the cusp of Aftermath. Surely, Disorder was [...]