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The Pentabarf is the most fundamental of all Discordian catma. ("Catma" is a general term for Discordian teachings, sayings, quotations, explanations, jokes and illustrations, as distinguished from Discordian "[[dogma]]", which consists of certain specific passages from ''The Honest Book of Truth'', cited in ''Principia''.) |
The Pentabarf is the most fundamental of all Discordian catma. ("Catma" is a general term for Discordian teachings, sayings, quotations, explanations, jokes and illustrations, as distinguished from Discordian "[[dogma]]", which consists of certain specific passages from ''The Honest Book of Truth'', cited in ''Principia''.) |
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− | "There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess" is probably a spoof of the Islamic statement of faith |
+ | "There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess" is probably a spoof of the Islamic statement of faith: "There is no God but Allah, and Mohammed is Allah's prophet." |
The 5th law mirrors both the nature of [[Taoist]] sayings ("the Tao that can be spoken of is not the true Tao"<ref>from the Tao Te Ching 1:1</ref>) and Zen [[Koan|koans]] ("If you meet the Buddha on your path, kill him"<ref>A famous quotation from the Zen master Linji</ref>). It is also similar to the end of Wittgenstein's ''Tractatus'' where he essentially states that if his thesis is meaningful then it is worthless.<ref>e.g., "he who understands me finally recognizes [my propositions] as senseless", [http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=13249&pageno=58 TLP 6.54]</ref> |
The 5th law mirrors both the nature of [[Taoist]] sayings ("the Tao that can be spoken of is not the true Tao"<ref>from the Tao Te Ching 1:1</ref>) and Zen [[Koan|koans]] ("If you meet the Buddha on your path, kill him"<ref>A famous quotation from the Zen master Linji</ref>). It is also similar to the end of Wittgenstein's ''Tractatus'' where he essentially states that if his thesis is meaningful then it is worthless.<ref>e.g., "he who understands me finally recognizes [my propositions] as senseless", [http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=13249&pageno=58 TLP 6.54]</ref> |