Someone explain this discordian thing to me. I kind of started to get it once then I stopped giving a shit.
It's kind of hard to sum up any belief system in a few paragraphs. Discordianism isn't so much a religion/belief system as the tools to build one. DIY spirituality/worldviews, kinda.
-It's a religion disguised as a joke disguised as a religion.
-It's counterculture that avoids mainstream integration like the freaking plague
-Heavy, heavy emphasis on sarcasm
-Operation Mindfuck is a fairly big portion of Discordianism: it's a kind of idealogical pranking. The idea is to confront people in the midst of their ordinary days with something that makes absolutely no sense and can't easily be explained. This tends to jolt people out of their little "reality tunnels" and opens them up to the possibility of new thought/ideas.
-Offers some interesting models/explanations of how the human mind works (Law of Fives)
-Deals a lot with the interrelationship of perceived Order and Disorder
-If religion is the opiate of the masses, Discordianism is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.
As of right now there's a very active/productive Discordian forum at PrincipiaDiscordia.com. Here's two of their latest works:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14714852/Sacred-Chao-Te-Ching(Some in-references, makes more sense after you familiarize yourself with the different terms/concepts)
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/bip/1.phpAlso, you're a Pope, too. What you do with that authority is, of course, up to you.