This article is on Wikipedia right now--but maybe not for long. It just appeared there a couple days or so ago, and is already a candidate for deletion. Why? First, because some people claim we're some minor religion only 12 people have heard of (they've marked the Apocrypha Discordia article for deletion too); and second, because they don't believe this stuff really happened. We find it ironic that they swallowed the bits that are made up. But the really interesting stuff about the FBI and our legal problems, for which the article provides verifying links going back to the 1990s and for which we have pages and pages of documentation, that they don't buy. It just goes to show you, truth is often harder to swallow than fiction. This was written by BInky The WonderSkull (not our Binky, but a damn clever imitation) and Gerina. They spent about a month working on this without pay, so a smagmoid and a fnord to them both. And a friendly slap on the butt--just can't resist slapping butts. We reformatted the article slightly; hope nobody minds. Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The source for references in this article, unless otherwise stated, is Ek- sen-trik-kuh Discordia as found at http://discordia.loveshade.org. All references to “Loveshade” refer to Reverend Loveshade unless otherwise specified. The collection Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia is an evolving Discordian and personist work edited by Reverend Loveshade. It mixes humor and absurdism with serious philosophy, promotes freedom including nudism and sexual freedom, and stands against various forms of prejudice and discrimination including sexism and, controversially, ageism. The collection includes factual articles, myths, humor, artwork, poetry, the fictional Smagmoid Kids Club, songs, quotes, and other material. An early version of the work was seized by authorities, and the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild that created it was the subject of a national and possibly international investigation by the American Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and several other agencies. This was for alleged crimes ranging from promoting illegal drugs and child pornography to sexual predation to terrorism. Origins According to the E.D. site, the work had several primary inspirations. These included the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild, a California college club promoting individualism, creativity and “ek-sen-trik tendencies” that was formed in 1981; a book about the Illuminati written by Robert Anton Wilson and given to Reverend Loveshade by Brother Goose in the late 1980s or early 1990s; The Loveshade Family formed by Gamemaster Loveshade in the early 1990s; and the 1994 Steve Jackson Games edition of Principia Discordia by Malaclypse the Younger with Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst. The introduction to the 1994 edition says the company was thinking of creating a sequel called Apocrypha Discordia if they got “enough high weirdness in the true Discordian spirit.” Loveshade submitted some original work, but the book was never published. So in 1995, Loveshade posted some of his work on a site hosted by BloodStar as part of the “non-existent Apocrypha Discordia.” Five Blind Men and an Elephant One of these pieces was “Five Blind Men and an Elephant,” which is described as a “rip-off” of an old Hindu/Jainist tale. In it five blind men touch an elephant to learn what it’s like, but each touches a different part. The one who touches the side says it’s like a wall; the one who touches an ear says it’s like a fan; the trunk toucher claims it’s like a snake, etc. They have a battle, which is stopped by a self-proclaimed Discordian oracle who says they are all right, and charges them for her explanation. This story became one of the most famous Discordian pieces written after the original Discordians were writing in the 1960s and 1970s, and appears on a number of websites. It was included in Rev. DrJon Swabey’s version of Apocrypha Discordia published in 2001, and has been translated into different languages including German. According to the E.D., after learning of Swabey’s work, Loveshade changed the name of the Ek-sen-trik Discordian’s work. He claims he had a dream-vision while hiding on a friend’s small farm in Texas on Mid Year’s Day, July 2, 2005. This featured a revelation by Goddess Discordia, her sister Goddess Harmonia, and their daughter, the naked Cherub Princess Shamlicht. Hundreds of monkeys, or Bonobo apes with detachable tails, flew out of Shamlicht’s butt. These monkeys “which spoke for the little angel,” told Loveshade to create Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia by swallowing the tails and recording the results. The reverend was then instructed to spread it far and wide, “for digested flying monkey tails make great fertilizer.” Who The Hell is E? As part of the group’s belief in personism, the collection advocates using the word “e” as a genderless substitute for “he” or “she.” This is to combat the sexism caused by gender stereotyping that begins at birth.
of the Woman’s Movement in the West, by Gamemaster Loveshade while a teenager in high school. The Gamemaster noticed that the first question asked about a newborn baby isn’t, “Did everything come out all right?” but “Is it a boy or a girl?” The word “e” has different forms:
“he”): Used instead of “she” or “he.” A person. Examples: E went to the store and bought a pineapple. es (usually said to rhyme with “his,” but can be pronounced “eez”): Used instead of “her” or “his” as a possessor or agent. Example: Who tried to steal es pineapple? em (rhymes with “him” or “m”): Substitute for “her” or “him;” pronoun objective case. Example: When The Agents of Greyface tried to take it from em, e hit them with five tons of flax. emself (rhymes with “himself,” or can be pronounced to rhyme with the letter “m” and “self”): Substitute for herself or himself; used reflexively, in absolute constructions and for emphasis. Examples: Did e throw the five tons all by emself? No, fool, e didn’t do it emself; e had help from a strong head wind. Five Basic Beliefs The core of the philosophy of the Ek-sen-trik-kuh is contained in the Five Basic Beliefs of The Loveshade Family. Their website lists the beliefs as:
an individual by society. TWO: We believe in the responsibility of the individual to society. THREE: We believe in the rights of a child to be raised in a loving, supportive and disciplined manner to prepare that child for life, and in the responsibility of caregivers to provide that environment. FOUR: We believe in personal freedom, in a free society, if it harms no one. FIVE: We believe in the principle of harmony, that accepting differences to achieve harmony is greater than excluding differences to achieve unity. The E. D. interprets the fifth principle as that of “harmonious discord” or the Latin “discordia concurs,” which is harmony created by combining disparate or conflicting elements. Discordia or Eris is the Goddess of Chaos, first lady of the Discordians, and Harmonia or Concordia is the Goddess of Harmony, first lady of the Mythics of Harmonia, who created part of the collection. Trouble with the Law The groups behind Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia have had a number of run-ins with the law. Perhaps the most serious of these included arrest and charges for promotion of child pornography, sexual predation and consorting with terrorists.
According to “The Mostly True Origin of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild,” the ECG was recognized as Most Active New Club on campus after it began on November 16, 1981. But within a year founders Alien and Zeus “created so much chaos and discord” on campus that they were up on formal charges including conspiracy against the college. According to the article, these charges were later dropped.
The problems for the creators of the E. D., the Discordian Divison of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild and The Loveshade Family, intensified shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States. According to a January 30, 2002 post in Illuminatus Inner Sanctum, cuteleaderjester (known in the E.D. as Saint The Mary), had asked to “be a Loveshade.” Reverend Loveshade responded:
a number of problems due to our activities: one was threatened by college administration five times, including three formal charges including conspiracy; at least one was threatened with a firearm; one was injured and held at weapon point (exact reason unknown--may have been unrelated to activism); at least one was threatened with arrest; one had two warrants for arrest (may have been unrelated); one repeatedly had badly needed funds withheld and had to borrow money for food (reason unknown); at least one lived on the street; at least one was followed; at least one was the subject of investigation; one was shot at (reason unknown);one was shot (this was probably an accident, however); at least one was threatened with murder; one had a career destroyed because of unverified charges that were never formally filed (reasons unknown); etc. Note that several of these may have happened to the same person. At least three of them happened to me; don't ask me more. Be careful what you wish for. :-) By the time of that post, BloodStar aka Alien Loveshade, mentioned in Swabey’s version of Apocrypha Discordia and the first hoster of Reverend Loveshade’s Discordian work, may have already gone into hiding. A search of the index of BloodStar’s site shows that it was regularly updated through the late 1990s until December of 2001, when the updates suddenly stopped. It hasn’t been updated since. Even more serious, family member and conspiracy theorist Dorian Loveshade was found at home after being dead for about three days, according to the article “Discordian, Personist, Writer-Activist, Sex Offender: Interviews with Reverend Loveshade” by freelance journalist Adam Newton. The cause of death was listed as cardiac arrest.
arrest.” It just means your heart stopped. It’s a catch-all term to use when a coroner doesn’t know the cause of death--or doesn’t want you to know.
Terrorism According to the interview conducted by Adam Newton, a local investigation expanded to become a national, and possibly international, investigation. This affected several members of the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild aka Ek-sen-trik Discordians. Some of this investigation was as a result of two plays-in-progress. One is named West End Trash, a selection of which is included in the E. D. The name of the other is being withheld by the Ek-sen-trik Discordians, but mentions Discordianism and also promotes nudism as acceptable for all ages--including children. According to Newton’s article, this play was labeled “obscene” and as promoting “child pornography” by a small-town Texas police officer, even though it was previously praised by theatre educators and professionals in California. According to a Snooze Letter for the Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia and the Discordian Division of the Ek-sen-triks CluborGuild, a selection from this play is also planned for the collection. In late 2001 and early 2002, a series of searches, seizures, and arrests in various parts of the United States were made by the FBI and other agencies. Some of the seized material had been intended for the collection Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia, then called “the non-existent Apocrypha Discordia.” Among these were the online wedding of three grooms, Apparently_a_pseudonym, Danacasso and Razmear to Saint The Mary, who at the time was age 15. This was performed by Reverend Loveshade, who supposedly had the wedding party strip naked. (The ceremony was hosted as an online chat, and from its description on both BloodStar’s site and the “oaficious Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia site,” none of the members of the wedding were in the same location as another, so the nudity was likely imaginary). According to Newton’s article, Danacasso, an artist who draws cartoons and nude and sexually-oriented works and is a contributor to the E. D., was questioned by the authorities and some of “es” work was seized. Similar problems happened to several others, including the seizure of writings and photos by Dr. Sinister Craven (who wrote “Six-Legged Sex and Violence,”) and the sometimes sexually-explicit diary of teenager Lorien Loveshade, who contributed to the E. D. as Mythics of Harmonia member Princess Unicornia. When the seizures began, Lorien Loveshade was age 14. (Unicornia and the younger Fairy Princess Yoshikyoko worked with Reverend Loveshade on “The Myth of the Adulthood Fairy,” which challenges prejudice and discrimination based on age and is part of the collection. While this particular work was created after the seizures, the anti-ageist philosophy it promotes was said to be a major factor in the group’s investigation.) Reverend Loveshade soon went into hiding, or was arrested: sources disagree. According to Reverend Loveshade’s Yahoo! Profile posted on February 12, 2002, and to a Illuminatus Inner Sanctum site posting made at about the same time, Loveshade was planning to be gone for a while. The E. D. site claims Loveshade went into hiding until July 2, 2005, which is about the time the site began. But sanctum member “George_W_Bust” said something different in a post made a year later on February 14, 2003. The member claimed that Reverend Loveshade had been investigated by the FBI and the Secret Service, was arrested, and was then in solitary confinement. The post suggested that this was “because of his fights for freedom.” The post links to Loveshade’s article, “Stripping Away American Freedom: A Call to Action,” that was posted on BloodStar’s site and is dated December 1, 2001. It recently was added to the Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia site. It says, in part:
give up anything to feel protected. This is true even if it means losing the very freedoms the terrorists are threatening. How many fundamental American rights and values will we violate in order to preserve fundamental American rights and values? The article advocates a call to action, to contacting representatives and organizations instead of doing nothing but complain to friends.
fundamental American freedoms being stripped away and did nothing. According to Newton’s article, members were actively writing and protesting against government threats to freedom in other countries as well. Part of their problems were due to protests they made both before and after the September 11, 2001 attack, and with information they possessed that authorities found during the seizures. Reverend Loveshade said:
some things we dug up that we weren’t supposed to know--even though our digging was legal. And I don’t think they liked our comments that anybody who would willingly die for a cause wasn't a coward. It’s a terrible mistake to underestimate your enemy.... Several mentions of these problems also appear on the Ek-sen-trik- kuh Discordia website. Property Returned and Charges Dismissed According to Newton’s article, as of May 2006 all property that had been seized by the FBI and held for three years was returned because nothing was found to be illegal. Those arrested (including one charged with possession of marijuana) were released from custody and all charges were dismissed or were never formally charged, except for one. The article doesn’t specify which charge this was, but does say that a judge was seriously considering dismissing it, and forgiving some of the group’s legal fees. The Future of Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia On the 23 Apples of Eris site, Rev. DrJon Swabey recognizes the beginning and planned future of “Reverend Loveshade’s Apocrypha Discordia” with links to one of the many sites that hosted portions of it. This site and others, including the collection’s official site, say that the collection which began in 1994 is being edited and is planned to be issued as a printed book. “The Origin of Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia” quotes Cherub Princess Shamlicht as saying the book should be finished in “5 years and 37 days, maybe more, maybe less. I am not an accountant.” This would mean a date in summer of 2010. But according to the group’s “Snooze Letter May 2006 Part the First,” the writing is almost completed, and the group is focused on getting illustrations. See also Apocrypha Discordia Discordianism Principia Discordia External Links Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia Plus BloodStar Illuminatus Inner Sanctum 23 Apples of Eris Lorien Loveshade’s Crib Logical Reality |
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| I, Reverend Loveshade, went into hiding, which seemed like a good idea at the time, but now seems cowardly. Some of my friends didn't hide, and suffered as a result. So maybe my idea wasn't so bad after all. But I'm very, very sorry they went through what they did. 'Stripping Away American Freedom: A Call to Action' was actually written by Alden Loveshade. At the time, more than one person used the 'Reverend Loveshade' name to throw off The Agents of Greyface. But the name is now mine, mine, mine! - R. L. |
| While Gamemaster Loveshade is usually credited with inventing the term, it may have actually been Alden Loveshade who came up with it. Alden won't say. Supposedly, it's an English language version of a genderless pronoun used in the galaxy BloodStar came from. |
| The name of the collection is Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht. It may or may not be finished by the time you read this, depending upon whether or not you're reading this after it's finished. |
| The name of the kids club is Shamlicht Kids Club, not Smagmoid Kids Club. In the beginning when the club was something of a joke, they didn't worry too much about consistency. They may actually have still been Shamlicht Girls and Shamlicht Boys when this was written. |
| 'Dorian Loveshade' was an honorary name given posthumously. We now refer to the late conspiracy theorist as Dorian Jack. Adam Newton's first series of interviews is, unfortunately, no longer online. But see Adam's later, greater Interview. |
| One of those postings, now missing, was "How to Raise a Terrorist." We would love it if anyone who has a copy would get it to us. There's still one agency that won't even admit it seized anything, even though we know it did. We filed for information on their investigation under the Freedom of Information Act, so are waiting to see if they'll tell us anything. The judge dismissed all charges, except for marijuana possession, which stood. But the county ran into severe financial problems, and not a penny we owed for legal fees was forgiven. |