What Is Discordianism?
So I've been on this Urbit kick for a while, and nobody can seem to figure out why. I'm not here to explain that, today. Instead, i'm here to address a question that has been on nobody's mind. What IS discordianism, anyway? Some say it's a religion that turned into a joke, or vice versa, or both, or neither. It turns out that the truth is 'none of these'. It is a numerology designed to translate from the binary world of computers into the human conception of numbers. You may think its fundamental numbers are 23 and 5, but 5+3 is 8, and as we all know, there are 8 bits in a byte, and 8 is merely 2^3, or 2**3, or 23 (or $2^{3}$ in a LaTeX typesetting context (reducible to 2^3, but only because 3 is one digit long)).
Discordianism can also be helpful in the human interfaces, because of the other magic number 7±2 ($7 \pm 2; 5+2=7$). This number ranges from 5 to 9. Try this: hold something random in one hand. Imagine that hand to contain the numbers 0 through 4. Can you tell me where the magic number $7 \pm 2$ lies? In my case, 7 is on the middle finger, 5 is on the thumb, and 9 is the pinky, and I was shocked to discover this fact - so shocked that I almost missed the lesson: Am I saying "Hail Eris", or simply zero-indexing my fingers? (does it matter?) Neither! I'm simply making an analogy that in the worst case, we can only keep 5 or so pieces of information "on hand" at any moment, and in the best case, 9. How many senses do we have, anyway?
Under no circumstances should you take discordianism, either seriously, ironically, aurally, or pineally. I only really use it as a source for convenient numbers, except when I don't.
Discordianism can also be helpful in the human interfaces, because of the other magic number 7±2 ($7 \pm 2; 5+2=7$). This number ranges from 5 to 9. Try this: hold something random in one hand. Imagine that hand to contain the numbers 0 through 4. Can you tell me where the magic number $7 \pm 2$ lies? In my case, 7 is on the middle finger, 5 is on the thumb, and 9 is the pinky, and I was shocked to discover this fact - so shocked that I almost missed the lesson: Am I saying "Hail Eris", or simply zero-indexing my fingers? (does it matter?) Neither! I'm simply making an analogy that in the worst case, we can only keep 5 or so pieces of information "on hand" at any moment, and in the best case, 9. How many senses do we have, anyway?
Under no circumstances should you take discordianism, either seriously, ironically, aurally, or pineally. I only really use it as a source for convenient numbers, except when I don't.