Who the Bleep are the TAZ?

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1) What is the "Eristic Principle"?
The Eristic Princible and Aneristic Principle are philosophical notions appropriated from Buddhism by the Discordians, and adapted to their own ends. The basic idea is that the universe's natural state is Chaos, and that any apparent Order is only perceived due to the pre-existing Reality tunnel of the perceiver. (In short, "believing is seeing".)

2) What 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.

3) What is the geneolagy of the Discordian use of "Flaxscrip" as a form of legal tender?

The *idea* behind flaxscrip, of course, is as old as history; there
was private money long before there was government money. The first
revolutionary (or reformist) use of this idea, as a check against
galloping usury and high interest rates, was the foundation of "Banks
of Piety" by the Dominican order of the Catholic Church in the late
middle ages. (See Tawney, _Religion and the Rise of Capitalism_.)
The Dominicans, having discovered that preaching against usury did
not deter the usurer, founded their own banks and provided loans
without interest; this "ethical competition" (as Josiah Warren later
called it) drove the commercial banks out of the areas where the
Dominicans practiced it. Similar private currency, loaned at a low
rate of interest (but not at no interest), was provided by Scots
banks until the British government, acting on behalf of the monopoly
of the Bank of England, stopped this exercise of free enterprise.
(See Muellen, _Free Banking_.) The same idea was tried successfully
in the American colonies before the Revolution, and again was
suppressed by the British government, which some heretical historians
regard as a more direct cause of the American Revolution than the
taxes mentioned in most schoolbooks. (See Ezra Pound, _Impact_, and
additional sources cited therein.)

4) What is a "Trick Top Hat"? Present a treatise on which two branches of Science and/or Metaphysics it represents.



best answer i can come up with picture worth a thousand words.

5) List five Discordian non-Prophets. (Not including myself, of course.)

5 people who love to cause chaos My personal opinion

A sane man must become insane to look sane in an insane world.

// if added You can add [Taz]The.Meat.Grinder the roster a zoner whale.

Captian name is Smokey.Bones

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-Zuke

A sane man must become insane to look sane
In an insane world.