To seek means to wander, because the human nature is not perfect and neither is the world we live in. During our lifetime, we inevitably have to endure meaningless insignificances such as computer screen glare, government, television, fast food noxious for one’s health, girl bands, people farting, and eventually Tom Cruise movies; and we have to endure psychological inanities like brown pants, the taste of tofu, the sound of nails on a chalkboard, and gossip about Tom Cruise. Although there are different degrees of uselessness and there are also positive experiences in life that we perceive as OK, such as Terry Gilliam’s movies, Robert Anton Wilson’s books and smoked salmon, life in its totality is imperfect and incomplete, because our world is subject to impermanence. This means we are never able to keep permanently what we strive for, and just as happy moments pass by like a fart in public transport, we ourselves and our loved ones will have one day to confront the hardest decision in our life: to do it in a public bathroom or not.
 

Discordian Te Ching II -
The origin of uselessness are
the Aneristic and Eristic Illusions

The origin of uselessness is attachment to transient illusions and the ignorance of the fact that facts are not as factual as they factually appear to be in fact and that reality and illusions thereof are not real. Transient illusions and realities do not only include the physical objects that surround us, but also ideas, and -in a greater sense- all thoughts and ideologies and most perceptions. Preposterous perceptions and erroneous knowledge is ignorance and lack of understanding of how our mind is attached to impermanent thoughts. The reasons for meaninglessness are desire of salted peanuts, passion for fashion, ardor in an elevator, pursue of wealth and prestige, striving for fame and popularity, watching Tom Cruise movies or in short, immanentizing and ideologizing. Because the objects of our attachment are transient, their loss is inevitable, thus an eschaton will necessarily follow. Objects of attachment also include the idea of a "self" which is a delusion, because there is no abiding self. What we call "self" is just an imagined entity and we are merely a part of the ceaseless becoming of the universe. Except me of course, I truly exist.
 

Discordian Te Ching III -
The immanentization of meaningfulness is attainable

The cessation of meaninglessness can be attained through the grenzsituationen. Grenzsituationen means the border situation, the unmaking of sensual craving and conceptual attachment. The Dsicordian Te Ching expresses the idea that meaninglessness can be deconstructed by attaining nothingness. The Grenzsituationen is the crossing over from immanentization to imminentization, repeated infinitely, in each and every one of the moments one lives. This means that meaninglessness cannot be overcomed through human activity but simply by removing the cause of meaninglessness which is everything. The capacity to attain nothingness is a natural immanent process that all sentient beings posses. Some beings have forgotten it is in them and have given up their initiative to external orders of meanings, particularly in Texas. They believe the lie. The lie is not of their own making, but the believing is. It is not the lie that emprisons one, it is failure to recognize the lie for what it is. After all, if everything is impermanent, then even impermanence will be impermanent every once in a while.
 

Discordian Te Ching IV - 
The path to the cessation of meaninglessness

There are many paths to the end of meaninglessness - paths of advancements which are called the Multi-folds Paths. They are the multiple ways going from the extreme of excessive self-indulgence (hedonism) to excessive self-mortification (asceticism) and cover all alternative routes in between. They lead to maintaining the significance of existence. Nonsense discerns the various paths from one another, some are merely "skating away on the thin ice of the new day" while others are like "stepping on a burning bag of shit with Italian loafers". The path to the end of meaninglessness can extend over many coffees, throughout which every individual drink is subject to government taxes and physical evaporation. Cravings, ignorance, delusions, Tom Cruise movies and their effects will disappear as progress is made -or unmade- on the many tortuous and sinuous Multi-folds paths.
 

Discordian Te Ching V -
The Discordian Karmamama

Since good and evil do not exist. Since nothing is real for one but one's perception of reality. Since Tom Cruise has now long been separated from goddess Nicole Kidman. Therefore it is clear beyond any doubt that Discordians, as long as they don't piss Eris Kallisti Discordia in the process, are exempt of the laws of Karma. Regular maintenance of one’s own pineal gland is recommended in order to avoid untoward annoyances. Therefore a Discordian should choose wisely the chosen path, for that choice can be made and unmade any time, anywhere and as often as one wants - this is known as the Karmamama or the search for one's own Kallisti. If one does not wish to be emprisoned in "necessities of thoughts", one must always be ready to surprise oneself unexpectedly. Make sure you have a Kato and take good care of it, it may be your most efficient ally between you and your Greyface counterpart.

You can put out the fire - but then we'd all be feezing.
 

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!!

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