About Discordian.com:

Discordian.com was created by the Church of No Dead Saints to further their purpose of promoting Discordianism as the thinking prankster's religion. The Church believes that Discordianism will die without an influx of modern thought, semi-belief, and Erisian events. By creating this site with its writings and ideas, St. Mae and the rest of the Church hope to revitalize Discordianism as an intense, throbbing centre of laughter, defiance, and lunacy. Discordian.com wants to help you dance on the altar of human sacrifice.

Saint Mae has been online since '92, and on the 'net proper since '94. Synchronisticly, she's consciously been Discordian about the same length of time. Her first email userid was 'haileris', really, kinda as a joke. Funny how the little things we do are indicators of our greater destinies, eh? In 1998, she began to want her own domain, originally just to have a cooler email address. When she found that Discordian.com was free, she jumped at it, again not really knowing what she was getting into. She put up a small, badly designed page with some of her Discordian rantings, and left it at that.

Well, sometimes ideas have minds of their own. Working in a dot.com gave Saint Mae some significant cash to play with, so she decided to finally do something useful with her domain. She hired a webdesigner (while Saint Mae writes her own html, she's not a particularly brilliant designer), and version 2.0 was launched on Friday, October 13th, 2000, night of the full moon. Version 2.0 had a long and excellent run, really seeing the expansion of Discordian.com from minor ranting website to full-fledged tool of psychedelic subversion.

You can only do the same thing for so long, though, until it stops inspiring. A lot of people kept asking for new updates, and while there were site submissions that had, in some cases, literally been waiting years to get added... the spark was gone. When the domain came up for renewal in late 2002, Saint Mae even briefly considered letting it go. Eris had other plans.

On April 1rst, 2003, Saint Mae acquired a new partner in crime, Saint Fox the Metaphorge. While in his company, she realized exactly how static and even stagnant Discordian.com and her own feelings on the site had become. It was time for a redesign. The two enlisted the help of resident coyote-in-mouse-clothing, Sister Xana du'Malion of the Holee disOrdered Self, she of the mad webdesign skillz. Along with Craig, the Church Janitor (responsible for cleaning up old submissions through editing foo & htmlizing), they began work on the new site.

Version 3.0 was launched on 05/23/2003.

As soon as you're done renovating, it's time to move. Now that we've gotten this site pretty well fleshed out, it's probably time for a few changes. At any rate, we keep writing and working on things, and eventually the site turns over. Kinda like your body, where every cell is fully replaced every seven years. It's 2007, and it's probably time for a redesign. We'll see when that happens.

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Our Philosophy & Theology:

For a long time, I've resisted writing this down. Sacred texts are dangerous. As living changing people, we evolve. Once something's written down, though, it doesn't change unless we make the effort to change it. After a while, things acquire this aura of holiness, like we *can't* change them. This is dangerous - if I write what I believe now, and my beliefs change in two years... will I feel some sort of loyalty to these words I write today? Will I try to hold my beliefs back from their natural evoloution because today I have written this holy text? Even worse, will others come to believe it and become outraged if I change it - or change it themselves to twist my words to things I don't agree with, and use my name? Maybe this is egocentric, but if I'm writing my own sacred writings, I start to fear these things. Still, I've danced around these issues too long, never saying what I really believe because of these fears. I'll stop holding back.

I, Saint Mae, believe that we are all Divine. What we call the Big Bang was Divinity (I hesitate to say "God" because it's such a loaded word) shattering into a million pieces, and forgetting itself. Seperateness is an illusion - we are all connected. I believe in an "oversoul", if you will, a deeply buried network that we are all a part of. It's big and scary, though, and we've trained outselves to forget. Forgetting that we are all Divine allows us to shirk responsibility for each other, allows us to doze off to sleep as our neighbors starve.

I believe that Illumination has a gravity to it. My goal with Discordian.com and the rest of my esoteric activities (KallistiCon, some Livejournal work, pranking stuff, etc.) is to help wake up the whole world by reaching as many people as I can through magic(k), pranks, and social networking, with the theory that for every person I do reach, my message is carried that much farther through the people *they* reach, and so on.

There's a lot more to it, of course, but if you wanna know, you're going to have to ask me in person.

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Members & Site Credits:

*Pope Episkopos Saint Mae Victoria the Red Sage, KSC, The One Who Runs This Damned Thing. See the linked site for more in-depth information, but here's the brief rundown: good at writing about herself in the third person, not so great at writing brief paragraphs about herself. Uh....

You already know my hobbies if you're reading this thing (net.addiction, reality hacking, sex, esoterica, social networking). Outside of this, I'm a student at San Jose State University working on a BA in communications (I already have an AA from Foothill College in the same field), and an ex dot.com sysadmin. My spare time is filled with the love of my husband and my boyfriend (yes, I'm involved with two people, yes, everyone's aware of and cool with this), without whom a lot of this would not have been possible (and I'd have been significantly less sane). I spend a lot of time with friends kicking back and dissecting the world, cooking/eating really good food, and watching rental movies that I never remember to return on time. I'm on my school's forensic speech team, and I compete in both parlimentary debate and individual speech. I spend a lot of time engaged in photography.

I wrote anything on this site not specifically credited to someone else. You can email me at stmae@discordian.com.

*Saint Fox the Metaphorge, Chief Information Officer and graphics guy. He can write his own damned bio.

*Xana duMalion, Webmistress and co-conspirator. She can write her own damned bio.

*Craig, Church Janitor. He probably won't write his own damned bio, but I'll ask just in case.

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Visiting Clergy & Writing Credits:

The visiting clergy are those who have written for Discordian.com but are not a part of its actual creation. Just as preachers from afar may come to a local church to spread their gospel, the visiting clergy at Discordian.com are those who have chosen to share their views and ideas with the readers of this site. All visiting clergy will have their names, full titles, bios, email addresses, and writing credits listed in this section.

Discordian.com aims to redefine contemporary Erisian thought. The only way we can do this is by using real contemporary Erisians. If you'd like to be one of the visiting clergy, you'll need to write something for the site. Here's what we're looking for.

*Hicutus Confusus Episkipos. He can write his own damned bio. His writing credits include Eris Invocation, and he can be emailed here.

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Saints & Prophets:

"I don't know if I really believe in all the saints, she said, but I pray to them anyway. It makes every night feel more like a slumber party." --Brian Andreas

When River Phoenix died, people created newspaper memorials. When Kurt Cobain died, people flocked to his grave. When Felinni died, nobody noticed. Vincent VanGogh? Everyone thought he was a one-eared freak, until a century later. The same goes for most of our more famous artists today, without the ear bit.

The Church of No Dead Saints feels that something is wrong with a society that does not recognize contributions and merit from the realm of the living.

For this reason, we strive to canonize as many people as we can, because we know that everyone performs at least three miracles a day.

We strive to canonize those people we find who are making an extraordinary contribution to the world at large, their communities, or just to the happiness of their family and friends. Whether your art is something as traditional as painting, or something as sensual as giving really good head, we believe that miracles happen every day, and that many people are Saints.

The Catholic Church defines a Saint as someone who lived an extordinary life of piety, someone who was a little part of God. In order to be canonized, you must be dead. After death, people must begin to pray to you for intercession with God. At least three of those prayers must be answered by miracles, and this must be proven. These are not miracles created by a living Saint-to-be - these must be miracles performed in response to the prayers of average living people after you're deceased. Your life and posessions must be catalogued, archived, annotated and stored. At least 7 years after your death, people may begin to campaign for your Sainthood. This is a long, expensive and arduous process.

Who is a Saint in the Church of No Dead Saints? People who make an effort to better their lives or the world around them are often Saints. In the Church of No Dead Saints, you don't have to be dead to perform miracles. A miracle can be as complex as physical healing, or as simple as a well-timed cup of hot chocolate. A miracle is something that irrevocably changes your life in a way you would not have thought possible by a simple act. The shuddering orgasm you evoke is as powerful a religious experience as anything frequently experienced in a church, if not moreso. A miracle brings a touch of the divine into ordinary life. That can mean a ritual shrine-building, a silly costumed prank, or just a really good hug.

Who is not a Saint? Dead people, for one. In most cases, they have lost their potential to inspire and amuse. (Excepting Emperor Norton, but he was a very special case.) People who try to bring others down are not Saints, whether they wish to bring themselves up by the comparison, or just think it's funny. (We are not talking about jokes and sarcasm.) People who don't see everyday life for the miracle that it can be are not Saints, because they do not really live in their bodies and their world.

Are you a Saint?

If you are interested in being canonized by the Church of No Dead Saints, please send email to Saint Mae. Canonizations are only done in person. Saint Mae is based in the Silicon Valley of California, but does extensive travelling (including international), so even if you're far away and never leave the house, you may have a chance.

The Church of No Dead Saints has canonized many people. While they are all amazing and wonderful, you probably haven't heard of most of them (yet). Saint Mae has made only a couple of notably famous canonizations: