Illustrating the need for meta-systematic reflection on myth, Discordianism—a religion I am much influenced—worships Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos, portrayed positively. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discordianism …
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Replying to @Meaningness
Discordianism seems like an attempt at acknowledging the profundity of certain transcendent universal religious truths while at the same time sardonically resisting any such attempt, including self-referentially back onto itself.
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Well, like Zen koans, it's a way of showing not telling the problems inherent in meaning-making if followed far enough down the recursive rabbit hole, which is a useful illustration of our predicament, but I think we can go beyond that
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I agree. It’s not a really deep take; but useful in some ways for some people at some times (eg me when I was a teenager)
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Was that one earnest passage in the PD on the (an)eristic priniciple an inspiration for your ideas on pattern and nebulosity? I remember it as the only part I couldn't make sense of as a teenager.
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Not consciously. Maybe indirectly and in the back of my mind. Consciously, “pattern and nebulosity” are basically just Buddhist “emptiness and form.” The Discordians were influenced by Zen, and that’s probably where they got it too!https://vividness.live/2015/11/25/what-the-buddha-really-said/#Discordianism …
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