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 Discordian calendar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Discordian year is aligned with the Gregorian calendar and begins on January 1, thus Chaos 1, 3172 YOLD is January 1, 2006 Gregorian.
The Discordian Calendar, as described in the Principia Discordia, is unclear about whether the St. Tib's Day rule follows the Julian or Gregorian Calendar.
In this interpretation, the Discordian and Gregorian calendars are only aligned for the two centuries between Chaos 60, 3066 YOLD (March 1, 1900 Gregorian) and Chaos 59, 3266 YOLD (February 28, 2100 Gregorian).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Discordian_calendar   (741 words)

  
 Discordianism - The Mind-N-Magick Paganpedia
Discordians who do not form their own sects, whether they belong to someone else's sect or not, make up the Legion of Dynamic Discord, and may be referred to as Legionnaires.
In the Discordian religion the chao is a symbol of the pataphysical nature of reality; singular instances of chaos being at the center of pataphysical theory.
While Discordianism is separate from modern neopaganism, a number of neopagans have incorporated elements of Discordianism into their beliefs.
paganpedia.mind-n-magick.com /wiki/index.php?title=Discordianism   (3033 words)

  
 What The Hell Is Discordianism?
Discordianism is either a religion disguised as a joke or a joke disguised as a religion.
Discordians are usually at their most serious when they appear to be joking.
Discordianism is explained (as well as anything so disorganized can be) in the Principia Discordia, in which one Malaclypse The Younger relates, among other oddities, the story of his Illumination by a miraculous talking chimpanzee at a bowling alley in Yorba Linda(?), California.
www.poee.org /documents/Misc/What_The_Hell_Is_Discordianism.htm   (369 words)

  
 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine | Discordian calendar | Hail Eris! Apocrypha Discordia Eris sacred chao ...
The Discordian calendar has five seasons of 73 days each: Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy, and The Aftermath.
The Discordian year is aligned with the Gregorian calendar and begins on January 1, thus Chaos 1, 3171 YOLD is January 1, 2005 Gregorian.
Discordians are practically forbidden from agreeing on which Apostles are apocryphal and which are canonical; this list is derived from the official Holydays given in the Principia Discordia and may be considered heretical by some Discordians.
www.wilsonsalmanac.com /discordian_calendar.html   (1118 words)

  
 calendar(1) - Waikato Linux Users Group
Calendar checks the current directory for a file named calendar and displays lines that begin with either today's date or tomorrow's.
This calendar should be updated yearly by the local system admin- istrator so that roving holidays are set correctly for the current year.
This calendar should be updated yearly by the local system administrator so that roving holi- days are set correctly for the current year.
www.wlug.org.nz /calendar(1)   (821 words)

  
 Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick | Discordianism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Discordianism is said to have been founded in 1959 (or maybe it was 1958) by Greg Hill (also called "Malaclypse The Younger", or "Mal-2") and Kerry Thornley (also called "Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst").
Within the society are sects of Discordianism, each under the direction of an "Episkopos", who receives direction directly from Eris, presumably via his or her pineal gland.
Furthermore, the "Official Discordian Document Numbering System" from the second holy law is not mentioned anywhere else in the Principia, although it may have something to do with the fact that all page numbers in the book add leading zeroes to give them five digits.
www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Discordianism   (2598 words)

  
 Perpetual Date Converter from Gregorian to POEE Calendar
The seasons are based on the Five Ages of Discordia as described in The Book of Uterus of the Honest Book of Truth which was revealed to Lord Omar.
The year that is 1991 by the Thuddite Reckoning is 3157 to Discordians.
Pope Icky, bless his li'l pineal gland, has opted for an even more confusing calendrical system -- one which staunchly refuses to pander to the all-too-human failing of looking for simplicity and order in the universe.
jubal.westnet.com /hyperdiscordia/discordian_calendar.html   (243 words)

  
 The Discordian Calendar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Discordian calendar divides the year into five seasons (commonly known as Chaos, Discord, Confusion, Bureaucracy and the Aftermath) of 73 days each.
The Discordian calendar's year 0 (notionally the time of the Original Snub) is known in the Gregorian calendar as 1166 BC; alternatively, the Gregorian year 0 (notionally the birth of the Jewish mystic Yeshua ben Yosef) is known as 1166 YOLD in the Discordian calendar.
The year known in the Gregorian calendar as 1995 is known as 3161 in the Discordian calendar.
net-tex.dnsalias.org /~stefan/nt/snafu/calendar.html   (192 words)

  
 Discordianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Within the society are sects of Discordianism, each under the direction of an "Episkopos" ("overseer" in Greek, source of English bishop and episcopal), who receives direction directly from Eris, presumably via his or her pineal gland.
The sect of Discordianism founded by Malaclypse The Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst is known as the Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric (POEE), a Non-prophet Irreligious Disorganisation, and the Principia Discordia tells us much about POEE in particular, as well as Discordianism in general.
There are as many interpretations of Discordianism as there are Discordians, and several definitions of Discordianism on the Internet center around the words "Ancient Greeks", "Chaos Worship" and "Anarchism".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Discordian   (3810 words)

  
 Freeware Palm: Clock/Calendar: Calendar: Page 1 of 3
Files to import the 2005 New York City Parking Calendar into your Palm Datebook via the Palm Desktop, Outlook or any other PIM that is compatible with the vCal standard and can HotSync with your Palm.
Australian Holidays 2005 is a Palm Desktop calendar database that contains all major public holidays that are observed in each state in Australia for 2005.
This download is a.VCS (calendar) file with all the Easter dates from 2007 to 2031 marked off from 0000h to 2355h.
www.freewarepalm.com /clock/clock_calendar.shtml   (466 words)

  
 The Time Sink » Happy Noo Yer
This calendar uses the 5-season year and the 5-day week, and includes corresponding Gregorian days for those who need to re-orient themselves from time to time.
The calendar will print out on legal-size paper, and instructions are included for proper print order and how to assemble the thing using a common stapler.
As a special added bonus, the Discordian Calendar is a perpetual calendar (because I didn’t include Gregorian days of the week) and can be re-used year after year.
www.bigheadpress.com /TheTimeSink/?p=51   (243 words)

  
 Discordians
Discordianism: the Hidden Threat In the Senate Anti-Terrorism Hearings in the wake of the Oklahoma bombing, a new menace has come to light.
FACT: Discordians are entrenched on the Internet and use it to disseminate their propaganda Discordianism is a cancer which has spread widely all over the Internet.
III - A Discordian is Required during his early Illumination to Go Off Alone and Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no mmeat on.
www.nii.net /~obie/discordian.htm   (1391 words)

  
 General Frenetics Discordian Warez server
In addition to the calendar, as defined in Principia Discordia, Erisians are now invited to ponder upon the profound insignificance and download the executable form of the Discordian KLOCK, a new and fine byproduct from General Frenetics!
A truly Discordian Kookie Jar, containing the Discordian Quotes file maintained by Countess Nichtgelbschneeessen, High Priestess of the Cult of the Sacred Tentacled Kiwi, as well as a few dozen other quotes, kookies, taglines, and Redeeming Suggestions.
The actual calendar routines were shamelessly snatched from original C code by Rev. Ladysmith Buckminster Jones and they're fnorded, 'coz the name of the weekday is always 2 days ahead of that which another Discordian Date program, by Rev. Pope SiGRiD Fenderson V, K.S.C., available from Sector 6 Cabal fnordsite shows.
www.tranglos.com /marek/largactil/erisware.html   (1610 words)

  
 Calendrical and Astronomical Links
A calendar in which the year is divided into 5 seasons of 73 days and 73 weeks of 5 days.
The Sumerian calendar was lunar, but its months began when the first crescent was sighted in the west.
A lunisolar calendar, in Doggett's words, is one which "has a sequence of months based on the lunar phase cycle; but every few years a whole month is intercalated to bring the calendar back in phase with the tropical year."
serendipity.nofadz.com /hermetic/cal_stud/cal_lynx.htm   (1548 words)

  
 Bahai News -- Burlington County Times - Seeking Perfection? Man has a computer program for you   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
As for calendars, Ingerman said he was reading a book in which the author was trying to make a point by comparing dates.
Ingerman’s favorite calendar is the Swedish one, which juggled between the Julian and Gregorian calendar for half a century.
As a result, the calendar skipped directly from Feb. 17 to March 1 in 1753 and had a Feb. 30 in 1712.
www.uga.edu /bahai/2003/030519-3.html   (567 words)

  
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Discordian calendar, the World Calendar (which I thought about using), Star Trek stardates, or even their
For mostly human chronological reasons, and in respect to the Gregorian calendar which we still must all use, the 100Msec / 3.16 year interval is most attractive, especially if we think of UTM's as being an exclusive, significant event that only those using U.d.
A calendar based around such a year, in order to be used on Earth by solar day-based humans, would need to somehow become onto the set of days.
www.ccs.neu.edu /home/romulus/unixtime.html   (2173 words)

  
 The Original Erisian Calendar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The original Erisian calendar was much different than the one we use today.
Well, it was all very exciting for the next couple of days, with many a ``Hail Eris'' and high five as Discordian dates began to diverge more and more markedly from each other.
In his memory (whoever he was), we maintain the calendar he made up.
jubal.westnet.com /hyperdiscordia/original_calendar.html   (372 words)

  
 Discordian time measurement: the Klock (preliminary specification)
I'm sure you have no idea what I'm talking about, which is good, so let me just say that I never understood why Discordians had their own calendar, incarnated in plenty executable/performable forms, but no Klock of their own time.
If its Discordian owner dwells outside of the Earth's stratospheric perimeter, he is then badly framed and better advised to fall back soon; currently there are no plans to extend the Klock's portability throughout known universe, although the next release may surprise you.
Discordian Kalendar in JavaScript, with special extensions by General Frenetics; or the same in a mess-dos executable form
www.tranglos.com /fnord/klock.html   (1873 words)

  
 ddate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
If called with no arguments, ddate will get the current system date, convert this to the Discordian date format and print this on the stan- dard output.
Alternatively, a Gregorian date may be specified on the command line, in the form of a numerical day, month and year.
If a format string is specified, the Discordian date will be printed in a format specified by the string.
linuxcommand.sourceforge.net /man_pages/ddate1.html   (337 words)

  
 PHP-Nuke
The Discordian calendar divides the year into five seasons (commonly known as Chaos (la kalsa), Discord (la tolsarxe), Confusion (la cfipu), Bureaucracy (la lujycatni) and the Aftermath (la jalge)) of 73 days each.
The Discordian calendar defines a week as having five days, named Sweetmorn(la titcer), Boomtime (la bumtem), Pungenday (la pynjdei/cpinydei), Prickle-Prickle (la kilkil) and Setting Orange (after the Five Elements).
The year known in the Gregorian calendar as 2001 is known as 3167 in the Discordian calendar.
phpnuke.org /modules.php?name=PHP-Nuke_HOWTO&page=discordian-calendar.html   (406 words)

  
 Flat Earth Society
he Discordian Calendar is (for reasons too numerous to mention) often used in Society
Additionally, the calendar year is divided into 73 weeks, each consisting of five days, named
Below is a table for converting between the Gregorian and Discordian calendars:
www.corecomm.net /~setler/flatearth.htm   (93 words)

  
 Perl.com: The Many Dates and Times of Perl
For example, the Gregorian calendar's epoch is January 1, 1 CE.
The Gregorian calendar is the current generally agreed upon international standard for representing dates, and is what you are using when you say "August 8, 1999".
Other calendars that are still in use include the Hebrew calendar, the Islamic calendar, and the Chinese calendar.
www.perl.com /lpt/a/2003/03/13/datetime.html   (3020 words)

  
 Modules - Perl DateTime Wiki
The reform date is user-settable, so it is capable of representing the historical Western calendar for any location.
DateTime::Calendar::Discordian (Jaldhar H. Vyas) - the Discordian calendar.
DateTime::Calendar::Julian (Eugene van der Pijll) - the Julian calendar.
datetime.perl.org /?Modules   (880 words)

  
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Saint Mae feels that there are a huge number of Discordian forums out there already, and that adding one more to the mix would be a waste of time, energy, and server space.
Illuminatus Inner Sanctum Yahoo Group - a large public Discordian club, this one is probably the most active of the Yahoo Discordian clubs.
While not a holiday on the Discordian calendar, Five-Twenty-Three has so much Discordian numerological importance that St. Mae decided to celebrate it as one of the High Holee Days.
www.discordian.com /oldsite/connect.html   (603 words)

  
 The Principia Discordia
IV - A Discordian shall Partake of No Hot Dog Buns, for Such was the Solace of Our Goddess when She was Confronted with The Original Snub.
A Sage of Ancient China and Official Discordian Missionary to the Heathen Chinese.
Consequently, if you prefer a Discordian Sect other than POEE, then none of these Truths are binding, and it is a rotten shame that you have read all the way down to the very last word.
www.ology.org /principia/body.html   (12184 words)

  
 *Ø*  Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine )O( Goddess Calendar | Goddess Months and Zodiac
goddess calendar is not an ancient reality but a modern and arbitrary arrangement used by many Neopagans.
In fact, there is not one such calendar, but several, and probably none of them older than the 1980s.
Stein’s calendar of the monthly goddesses is as follows:
www.wilsonsalmanac.com /goddess_calendar.html   (446 words)

  
 The Discordian Calendar
Many dates on this site are given according to the unholy Discordian calendar.
If you don't know what "Discordian" means, you should read the Principia Discordia.
The calendar is divided into five (of course!) seasons:
www.hack.org /~mc/discdate.html   (121 words)

  
 Discordian Zen
Discordian Zen centers on the Rite of Not Knowing as its basic manifestation [see below].
Discordian Zen represents a new Zen manifes- tation.
Discordian Zen has no temples, no location, no tax exempt status.
www.paganlibrary.com /humor/discordian_zen.php   (488 words)

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