Be Ye Not Lost Among Precepts Of Order **

Grateful Dead: 8/28/82


All statements are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense. **

Before he became a hermit, Zarathud was a young priest, and took great delight in making fools of his opponents in front of his followers. One day Zarathud took his students to a pleasant pasture and there he confronted the Sacred Chao while She was contently grazing. Tell me, you dumb beast, demanded the Priest in his commanding voice, why don't you do something worthwhile? What is your Purpose in life, anyway? Munching the tasty grass, the Sacred Chao replied MU . Upon hearing this, absolutely nobody was enlightened. Primarily because no one could understand Chinese. **

Grateful Dead: 7/4/81


In the year 1166 B.C., a malcontented hunchbrain by the name of Greyface got it into his head that the universe was as humorless as he.
He began to teach that play was sinful because it contradicted the ways of Serious Order. Look at all that order about you, he said. And from that, he deluded honest men to believe that reality was a straightjacket affair and not the happy romance as men had known it.
It is not presently understood why men were so gullible at that particular time, for absolutely no one thought to observe all the DISORDER around them and conclude just the opposite. But anyway, Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were not unknown even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.
The unfortunate result of this is that mankind has since been suffering from a psychological and spiritual imbalance. Imbalance causes frustration, and frustration causes fear. And fear makes a bad trip.
Man has been on a bad trip for a long time now.
It is called THE CURSE OF GREYFACE. **

Grateful Dead: 8/4/74

If you can
master nonsense
as well as you
have already learned
to master sense,
then each will
expose the other
for what it is:
absurdity.
From that moment
of illumination,
a man begins
to be free
regardless
of his surroundings.
He becomes free
to play order games
and change them
at will.
He becomes free
to play disorder games
just for the hell of it.
He becomes free to play neither or both. And as the master of his own games, he plays without fear, and therefore without frustration, and therefore with good will in his soul and love in his being.

--Principia Discordia **

Grateful Dead: 5/25/77


If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion
is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe. **

Grateful Dead: 10/17-19/74