Troper's Beliefs

That is indeed why they are becoming so uncommon. Apparently people had thought that they were all dead and gone and the discovery of a few remaining families who practiced it came as a surprise. It is dying though and I doubt it will last much longer. An interesting little group, but not one that is long for this world.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

This makes them sound like a tribe of indigenous people...

People aren't as awful as the internet makes them out to be.

They sort of are in a way religion wise.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

Parody religion lists religions of the same type as Discordianism.

• Bokononism, a fictional religion from Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle, where one major point is that human happiness is more important than truth, even scientific truth. Another is that Bokononism freely acknowledges that all its tenets are false.
• The Cult of Vi and the Church of Emacs parody the "religious" aspect of the Unix editor war
• Church of the Sub Genius, often regarded as a parody of religion in general, with elements of fundamentalist Christianity, Scientology, new-age cults, pop-psychology, and motivational sales techniques amongst others, has become a movement in its own right, inspiring several books, art exhibits, rock albums, conventions, and novelty items.
• Discordianism, although many Discordians specifically view the label of 'parody' as dismissive, arguing that the inlaid humor and silliness are just as profound and legitimate as that of any other form of spiritual pursuit. See also Rinzai.
• Iglesia Maradoniana ("Church of Maradona"), an Argentinian group of fans of the top association football player Diego Armando Maradona.
• Jedi Religion, In 2001 following an Internet campaign, the fictional Star Wars "religion" Jedi became a parody religion in several Commonwealth countries as 1.5% of the New Zealand and 0.7% of the UK population stated their religion as Jedi in the official census[3] (see Jedi census).
• Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

• Eventualism, a subtle parody of Scientology.
• Festivus, a holiday "for the rest of us."
• Invisible Pink Unicorn, a parody of theist definitions of God. It also highlights the arbitrary and unfalsifiable nature of religious belief, in a similar way to Russell's teapot.
• Kibology, a humorous Usenet-based satire of religion, partly parodying Scientology.
• Landover Baptist Church, a satiric parody of Fundamentalist Christianity.
• Last Thursdayism, a joke version of omphalism, created to demonstrate problems with unfalsifiable beliefs, and the variant Next Wednesdayism inspired by John Landis' running movie gag See You Next Wednesday.
• Pastafarianism, or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a parody of intelligent design Creationism, and religion in general as a modern version of Russell's teapot.
• The Great Pumpkin, a Santa Claus–like being in the comic strip Peanuts, an application of Christmas mythology to Halloween.
• The Western Branch of American Reform Presbylutheranism, the Christian denomination attended by most residents of Springfield in the animated TV series The Simpsons. It has been used to parody many religious beliefs and activities, though its absurdly long, qualifier-filled name is a parody of Protestant denominations in particular, as is the history of its founding: centuries ago, Presbylutherans split from the Catholic Church during the "Schism of Lourdes" to defend their "holy right to come to church with wet hair," a right the Presbylutheran church later abolished.
• The worship of "Ceiling Cat," a feline version of the Judeo-Christian God. His enemy is "Basement Cat," a feline version of the devil.
• The First United Church of the Fonz, a religion founded by Family Guy character Peter Griffin after disagreeing with the religious views of his father.
• Tarvuism, a spoof religion that British comedians Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper are working on for TV channel, Adult Swim, that will parody instructional religious videos such as those of Scientologists and Christians.[2]

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A lot of those aren't really all that similar to one another.

I think of those, Church of the SubGenius is probably the closest to Discordianism.

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Discordianism = awesome. I'd make the Principia required reading if having required reading wasn't so anti-Discordian.

Somehow you know that the time is right.

Perhaps you can make it forbidden reading. Would that work?

"Atheism is the religion whose followers are easiest to troll"

I honestly think there's a handful of people who take "Jedi" seriously.

Maybe you and Tomu could start a proper organized religion.

I honestly wouldn't mind hearing of some the the "mass subconcious" theories, they seem rather intriguing.

Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers.Proverbs21:15 FimFiction account.

Somewhere between an Agnostic and a Deist.

edited 1st Sep '11 4:28:33 PM by TuefelHundenIV

Who watches the watchmen?

Agnostic theist, maybe?

Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers.Proverbs21:15 FimFiction account.

JOIN ME, TUEFEL. IT IS FUN.

Especially if you're a polytheist!

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

Justice: That is actually much more accurate a description.

Who watches the watchmen?

Protestant Christian. United Methodist Church if you want to get specific.

"Dr. Strangeloid, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Cleanlink" - thespacephantom

Pragmatic Shaman.

A single phrase renders Christianity a delusional cult

Care to elaborate? I am intrigued...

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

Like Chaos Magician, but while a Chaos Magician seeks whatever s/he sees fit to gain power, I seek spiritual fullfillment. My focus of worship is Helel/Lucifer, whom I venerate as a god of light, with the sun and light gods of all faiths as avatars to be summoned in rituals. Everyone else can pick whatever gods they feel like.

A single phrase renders Christianity a delusional cult

I see...

How do you practice?

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

I mostly just chant and pray. To do something more specific I would make a ritual to do so, but for the moment I am gathering materials.

Like I said, I am pragmatic, and things as diverse as enochian rituals and alfablots can be done if I feel like it.

A single phrase renders Christianity a delusional cult

Interesting...

I don't really have any rituals save for when at temple during a holiday. Things like offering water or candle walking are done. Well there is the bowing to The Buddha images I guess? I do meditate and do yoga daily however and I do chant on occasion.

But Buddhism and Shamanism are rather different then.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

I suppose in general it has to do with the way religions depict interactions with divinity. Both indian religions and abrahamic religions ask little more than devotion, and praying/chanting, but they also don't offer magicakl traditions, aside the more ascetic things like the Qaballah and Tantra.

By contrast, traditional western pagan traditions (as well as other traditions like mesoamerican paganism, Voudon and so) focus more on what you can do by devotion to a deity; offer sacrifices in a ritual, you have the means for a spell.

I am fairly in between; I spend more time doing simple praising, sacrificing my time instead of something tangible, but if I wanted to do what a shaman really does, that is magic, I'd have to prepare a ritual.

edited 1st Sep '11 6:49:40 PM by Gannetwhale

A single phrase renders Christianity a delusional cult

I see...I'm not really big on god worship and devotion what with being Theravadan.

Though I am devoted to Guanyin to an extent and do pray to her on occasion.

If someone wants to accuse us of eating coconut shells, then that's their business. We know what we're doing. - Achaan Chah

With his typical speed, THE EARTH SHEEP is now responding to posts about 4 pages ago about the Trinity!

(page 9, if you were curious)

I think I've posted something like this somewhere around here before, but fuck looking through all of these topics for it. Basically how the Trinity works is thusly: (What, thusly isn't a word anymore? Shuck that jive!)

First, you've got this, the Nicene creed, which is the ancient description, but it's not incredibly helpful, and its wording is kind of opaque.

Anyway, you've got three guys, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.

Father: This is the head guy, the supervisor. He plans things out, and he's got the power to back them.

Son: The blue collar worker, he gets his hands dirty and gets things done. Is the only member of the Trinity with a physical body. All of his power comes from the Father.

Holy Ghost: Does H.R., he is the one that resides 'everywhere and nowhere'. His lack of a physical body enables him to occupy us, but not in a creepy, demonic possession sort of way. He subtly nudges our feelings, hopefully towards our salvation.

So basically, whenever God is planning something, He's called the Father, whenever he is physically doing something, He's called the Son, and whenever he's influencing people, He's called the Spirit.

Oh and whoever linked this◊ and said it doesn't work out, logically, I present to you this diagram.

Still Sheepin'

Speaking of weird things, I remember getting a letter of invitation from the Order of Druids a few years ago.

I'll admit my first thought was "any room for Feral?" >_>

I'm Christian, specifically Episcopalian (or Anglican, whatever British people call it).

Largely Jewish, although I migrate in some ideas from other religions as I see fit.