This
is the Sacred Chao, it can usually be found saying, "MU" Which is a Chinese
ideogram for "no-thing."
The
Following is a quote from the great and enlightening Principa Discordia,
whatever the hell that is.
THE SACRED CHAO is the key to
illumination. Devised by the Apostle Hung Mung in ancient China, it was
modified and popularized by the Taoists and is sometimes called the YIN-YANG.
The Sacred Chao is not the Yin-Yang of the Taoists. It is the HODGE-PODGE
of the Erisians. And, instead of a Podge spot on the Hodge side, it has
a PENTAGON which symbolizes the ANERISTIC PRINCIPLE, and instead of a Hodge
spot on the Podge side, it depicts the GOLDEN APPLE OF DISCORDIA to symbolize
the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE.
The Sacred Chao symbolizes absolutely
everything anyone need ever know about
absolutely anything, and more! It even symbolizes everything not
worth knowing, depicted by the empty
space surrounding the Hodge-Podge.
HERE FOLLOWS SOME PSYCHO-METAPHYSICS.
If you are not hot for
philosophy, best just to skip it.
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 that is the
level of distinction making.
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 that 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.
Western philosophy is traditionally
concerned with contrasting one grid with
another grid, and amending grids in hopes of finding a perfect one
that will account for all reality
and will, hence, (say unenlightened westerners)
be True. This is illusory; it is what we Erisians call the
ANERISTIC ILLUSION. Some grids
can be more useful than others, some more beautiful
than others, some more pleasant than others, etc., but none can
be more True than any other.
DISORDER is simply unrelated information
viewed through some particular grid.
But, like "relation", no-relation is a concept. Male, like female, is
an idea about sex. To say that male-ness
is "absence of female-ness", or vice
versa, is a matter of definition and metaphysically arbitrary. The
artificial concept of no-relation
is the ERISTIC PRINCIPLE.
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.
The point is that (little-t)
truth is a matter of definition relative to the grid one is using at the
moment, and that (capital-T) Truth, metaphysical reality, is irrelevant
to grids entirely. Pick a grid, and through
it some chaos appears ordered and some appears disordered. Pick
another grid, and the same chaos
will appear differently ordered and disordered.
Reality is the original Rorschach.
Verily! So much for all that.
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