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Illuminism Contra Discordianism
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.” – Wittgenstein
We use language to think, to talk to each other, to write, to form beliefs, religions, philosophies, and so on. But what if we are using the wrong language? Do we have “wrong thoughts” because we are using the wrong language? Do we have wrong religions and philosophies for exactly the same reason?
What’s the right language? If we could find the right language, could we then think correctly, without error, without delusion, without fantasy? Would the right language give us the right religion, the right philosophy? Would it explain reality to us?
Terence McKenna said, “The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”
Is reality made of language? Is it made of words? Why not numbers? 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras said, “All things are numbers.”
Pythagoras was the first Grand Master of the Hyperboreans, now known as the Illuminati. Throughout history, a war has raged between the Illuminati – the forces of reason and order – and the Discordians – the forces of unreason and disorder (“Chaos”).
This book shows how reality is based on ontological syntax and semantics (the rational antidotes to “Chaos”), conveyed via numbers, and how Discordianism represents a catastrophic failure to understand ontological mathematics, leading to innumerable subjectivist and relativist fallacies, and the wholesale denial of Knowledge and Truth.
The struggle between the Illuminati and the Discordians (in all their forms) is the most important there is. The soul of humanity is at stake. The Truth itself is the prize to be won or lost.
We use language to think, to talk to each other, to write, to form beliefs, religions, philosophies, and so on. But what if we are using the wrong language? Do we have “wrong thoughts” because we are using the wrong language? Do we have wrong religions and philosophies for exactly the same reason?
What’s the right language? If we could find the right language, could we then think correctly, without error, without delusion, without fantasy? Would the right language give us the right religion, the right philosophy? Would it explain reality to us?
Terence McKenna said, “The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”
Is reality made of language? Is it made of words? Why not numbers? 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras said, “All things are numbers.”
Pythagoras was the first Grand Master of the Hyperboreans, now known as the Illuminati. Throughout history, a war has raged between the Illuminati – the forces of reason and order – and the Discordians – the forces of unreason and disorder (“Chaos”).
This book shows how reality is based on ontological syntax and semantics (the rational antidotes to “Chaos”), conveyed via numbers, and how Discordianism represents a catastrophic failure to understand ontological mathematics, leading to innumerable subjectivist and relativist fallacies, and the wholesale denial of Knowledge and Truth.
The struggle between the Illuminati and the Discordians (in all their forms) is the most important there is. The soul of humanity is at stake. The Truth itself is the prize to be won or lost.
- GenresPhilosophy
350 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 26, 2016
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October 27, 2022
A fantastic read
This is the kind of intense, deep writing that I have missed reading since the days of the God Series by Mike Hockney.
Discordianism (and today consists of Hyperianism as well) is a system that promotes manmade syntax and manmade semantics which is the sole reason for the cult of subjectivism and all "truths" matter (no truths matter, only the Truth matters). It is this categorical error that is being discussed in depth throughout the entire book that causes so much irrationality, suffering, confusion and deceit in our world. Simply because humanity ignores completely of nature's syntax and semantics and accepts manmade instead.
Discordians simply say that the same computer game world can be constructed entirely by mathematics, programming languages, chinese, English and Icelandish and the exact same gameworld with the same functionality will appear. Well, obviously you can't create a game world on human language as its code and programming language is mathematics at its core, so...
Delenda est Carthago
This is the kind of intense, deep writing that I have missed reading since the days of the God Series by Mike Hockney.
Discordianism (and today consists of Hyperianism as well) is a system that promotes manmade syntax and manmade semantics which is the sole reason for the cult of subjectivism and all "truths" matter (no truths matter, only the Truth matters). It is this categorical error that is being discussed in depth throughout the entire book that causes so much irrationality, suffering, confusion and deceit in our world. Simply because humanity ignores completely of nature's syntax and semantics and accepts manmade instead.
Discordians simply say that the same computer game world can be constructed entirely by mathematics, programming languages, chinese, English and Icelandish and the exact same gameworld with the same functionality will appear. Well, obviously you can't create a game world on human language as its code and programming language is mathematics at its core, so...
Delenda est Carthago
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