A Serenidade Caótica

With our concept making apparatus called "mind" we look at reality through the ideas-about-reality which our cultures give us.
The ideas-about-reality are mistakenly labeled "reality" and unenlightened people are forever perplexed by the fact that other people, especially other cultures, see "reality" differently.
It is only the ideas-about-reality which differ. Real (capital-T True) reality is a level deeper than is the level of concept.

We look at the world through windows on which have been drawn grids (concepts). Different philosophies use different grids. A culture is a group of people with rather similar grids. Through a window we view chaos, and relate it to the points on our grid, and thereby understand it. The ORDER is in the GRID. That is the Aneristic Principle.

The Aneristic Principle is that of APPARENT ORDER; the Eristic Principle is that of APPARENT DISORDER. Both order and disorder are man made concepts and are artificial divisions of PURE CHAOS, which is a level deeper than is the level of distinction making.

The belief that 'order is true' and 'disorder is false' or somehow wrong, is the Aneristic Illusion. To say the same of disorder, is the Eristic Illusion.

Reality is the original Rorschach.



An illuminated mind can see all, yet he does not insist that anything is really true, or that anything at all is true. Reason, and disorder are all his own creations and he may do with them as he wishes.

The real reality is 'there', but everything you know about 'it' is in your mind and yours to do with as you like. Conceptualization is art, and you are the artist.

To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder.

There are no rules anywhere. There is serenity in Chaos.

- Adaptado de Principia Discordia e vários artigos sobre Discordianismo