WEST CHESTER,PA–Once known as The Athens of the East, this leafy college borough is bidding fair to become San Francisco East. Step one was the recent passage of a legally questionable ban on plastic bags. Step two, which preceded step one, as logic often does in colleges and their surroundings, is the number of students for whom urinating in public is the norm, especially in the middle reaches of S. Walnut Street. The final step was a proclamation yesterday by Dianne Herrin, West Chester’s mayor, declaring that West Chester will host the 2020 Discordian International Convention.
“We are proud to announce that literally hundreds of Discordians will visit us for their quasi-annual convention, scheduled from February 28 through 29 next year.”
Discordianism is the “religion of chaos, of causing maximum cognitive confusion in order to spark creative thinking outside the box of dogma” (or “Box of Rain” to Deadheads).
The foundational text of Discordianism, The Principia Discordia, was written in, on, or about 1963 by Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, who were inspired to create Discordianism while tripping balls in a bowling alley.
A copy of the first edition of the Principia Discordia was “believed to have been discovered in the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection in the National Archives” by Rev. Dr. Jon Swabey. This belief, like any other, may or may not be held by the majority of Discordians or by any Discordians at all. Indeed, many outside (as well as inside) observers still regard Discordianism as a parody religion, although some of its adherents insist it is a parity religion or a metaphor that describes an umstritten meditational technique.
Convention packages, identification badges, and 3-D glasses (some assembly required, batteries not included) can be requested from the CCHS events coordinator or from the Hotel Warner reservations desk. No COD’s from Canada, please.
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