"Unwilling to wait for mankind to improve, the outlaw lives as if that day were here...." -Tom Robbins, _Still Life With Woodpecker_

How can you prank and wake the world up when you have to make a living at the same time? Do art and sustenance, magic and comfort have to be mutually exclusive? In a sense, it's almost comforting to think that you can't do both - clearly eating has to come first, and it's such a relief to shirk the responsibility we have to life and laughter.

Contrary to what They might want you to believe, though, it is possible to have a financially and emotionally secure existance that also revels in sensuality, play, laughter, and spirit. Yes, it's a lot of work to create a rich life, but you have to do the lame stuff just to survive anyways - why not expend the extra effort to make it all ultimately worthwhile?

Life requires effort. Minimal effort, minimal life. No matter what, you're going to be tired at the end of the day - wouldn't you rather be tired because your life is rich and intense and rewarding rather than tired because it's unstimulating and draining? Hard to argue with that one.

The important question is, how? Most of Western society (particularly American, where most of my readers originate) forces it's members to work long and hard for every scrap of leisure it can obtain. Work is exhausting, and it's hard to come home from a long day at the store, office, or factory and want to do something else that requires intelligent thought, something a bit more productive than melting in front of the television. You have two options: 1) to live every aspect of your life with magic and humor, and 2) to concentrate your efforts on off-work projects and literally work for your weekends. I choose to do both.

To start out with, it is vital that we learn to combine our Erisian activities with our actual jobs. This includes both throwing a monkeywrench into the system signed by The Mgt and using Eris to help you get ahead in the corporate world. The Universe wants you to have an amazing future, and having a good job is part of this - why not use your chaotic leanings to your benefit? Selling out is compromising your values for cash, and we are not advocating this, but neither do we advocate compromising your cash for values. Fuck that. Love the goddess and get paid, that's what we're talking about.

This section is not just to talk about work. Just as every religious group, we at Discordian.com believe that it is important to live a life infused with spirituality and devotion to our dieties. Granted, our ideas on what comprises a "spiritual life" are considerably different than the more mainstream faiths (loving, laughing, cursing, fucking, dancing, entering other worlds, etc.), but we feel just as strongly about incorporating the Divine into every day life as any other spiritual community. Can you wash dishes with Discordia? We think so.