Eris = No Flying Spagetti Monster
For Mooslims and Pastafarians it may make no difference, but for those who follow the joke faith post-modern religion Discordianism, the IAU has named the minor planet formerly known as 2003 UB313, aka Xena aka “the 10th planet,” after their goddess Eris. According to their Principia [page 000015] not much is known about Eris:
Her geneology is from the Greeks and is utterly confused. Either She was the twin of Ares and the daughter of Zeus and Hera; or She was the daughter of Nyx, goddess of night (who was either the daughter or wife of Chaos, or both), and Nyx’s brother, Erebus, and whose brothers and sisters include Death, Doom, Mockery, and Friendship. And that She begat Forgetfullness, Quarrels, Lies, and a bunch of gods and goddesses like that.
One day Mal-2 consulted his Pineal Gland and asked Eris if She really created all of those terrible things. She told him that She had always liked the Old Greeks, but that they cannot be trusted with historic matters. “They were,” She added, “victims of indigestion, you know.”
At least the Greeks didn’t have two (2) “One True Symbol”s like the MOOs, nor did they confuse correlation with causation (in “Pirates are Cool”) like the Pastas (you can also correlate beer sales with teachers’ salaries).
September 29th, 2006 at 12:01 am
The symbols of the Halfy and the Psychic Halfy are not the only symbols within MOOism. There is also the Infinite Halfy, where the dot or cross is replaced with the infinity symbol (sideways 8). There are many others, but that would be getting a bit pointless in pointing them all out. You can even design new ones yourself. The dot can be replaced with virtually anything.
But the Halfy that uses the dot is the original. As that is the symbol from the MOOist runes.
September 29th, 2006 at 9:37 am
I stand corrected! Thank you, Half-Mad.