Religion!!!

So after a month of pissing, whining, and moaning over a stupid boy, I have decided to invite religion into my life, once again. Those who know me can see just what a dangerous prospect this might. However, traditional religions have never really done it for more. Too structured, too strict…too tidy. This brings to the Principia Discordia, the holy word of Eris herself, given to Malacalypse the younger. Granted this is a blatantly fictitious religion (or is it) but since when does fact have anything to do with religion. Faith and belief have very little to with fact, so why should one’s religion. The ideas espoused and the ideas they spark can be equally valid if the come from fact or fiction. What matters is how much effort and thought you put into it. Discordianism appeals to me on a number of levels, so that’s where my spiritual journey begins.

Consult your pineal gland. One of the important underpinnings of Discordianism, but what does this mean. It’s rather difficult to ask a small bit of the endocrine system in your brain advice. Metaphysically it is connected to the sixth chakra that is linked to prophecy and increased psychic awareness as consciousness ascends. So it could be argued that when Eris says ‘Consult you pineal gland’ she means some sort of vision quest. Scientifically, it is the gland that produces the hormone melatonin that aids sleep and regulates circadian rhythms (and likely a whole host of other things that we haven’t figured out yet. Brains are complicated…yet fun to dissect.) This could make the argument that she means sleep on it before you make a decision. (never bad advice). However, this is Eris so it could also mean, go have a hot dog.