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The Next Pop-Culture Based Religion?

Rainbow Mage

Rainbow Mage

Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
Okay, so we now have Jediism and Sithism. What do you think will be the next culture based religion? Maybe the church of Pokemon? That'd be funny
 
dust1n

dust1n

Zindīq
Gentoo said:
Is this a problem?



I don't see people finding spirituality in different places as a bad or even funny thing..
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I disagree.

"Greetings.
We are not of this planet.
We do not understand
Your strange customs.
Your planet's ecosystem
Is failing.
Your leaders deny this.
Explain.
Your leaders deny this.
Your leaders deny this.
Your leaders deny this.
Your leaders deny this.
Why
Do your leaders lie to you?
Why
Do so many of you believe these lies?
Explain
Your strange customs.
Why
Believe these lies?
Save the planet.
Kill yourself.
Save the planet!
Kill yourself."





Church of Euthanasia

"Why did we do this? As many of you are no doubt aware, the population summit concluded this week in Cairo. If you have been following it in the papers, you will know that almost nothing of any substance was accomplished. Most of the conference was devoted to an acrimonious battle with the new Vatican-Muslim alliance over whether the various charters that were signed could contain the words "abortion" and "contraception."

Meanwhile, entire nations are starving to death, while Americans watch it on television. Almost every day for the last month there has been at least one article in the Boston Globe about overpopulation. Many of them have stated clearly that the population is expected to double in twenty years. This news might as well be on the sports page; the spectacle continues without interruption.

The turbines still spin, the oil is still sucked out of the earth, the cars and trucks still poison the air. The consumers still stand in line in supermarkets to buy food wrapped in plastic. The ideals displayed on American television still dominate the daily lives of billions of human beings. What will man do when even the bottled water is poisonous? What will he do when the air makes him sick, and the sun is so strong he can't go outside anymore?

The planet is a living being, and quite capable of self-defense. If the two-leggeds cannot control their numbers, she will do it for them, and her measures will be harsh. Read the Hopi prophecies. Many of them have already come true. Now is the time of "koyaanisqatsi," or "life out of balance."

The Internet is the backbone of the so-called "cyberculture," an impossible vision of the future in which men "rule" the Earth through machines. It is for this reason most of all that we felt it so important to target the Internet. Messages were delivered to the Whitehouse, to heads of corporations, to high-ranking members of the military, to scientists, professors, and just regular folks. Needless to say, many of the recipients are upset. This is a regrettable, but necessary consequence of any Dada action.

Dada turns people upside down, by temporarily destroying one or more of their everyday assumptions. The suspension of "normal" assumptions allows messages that would ordinarily be screened out to penetrate, even if only for a short time. The method is unpleasant, but highly effective when dealing with strong indoctrination such as that provided by television programming, or university education, for example. Internet users are by and large highly educated members of the elite, and therefore very likely to be indoctrinated.

The Internet is far more than a communication system, a web of wires and computers: the Internet is a set of assumptions, based on the specific world-view of its creators. Who are these creators, and what is their world-view? The Internet depends directly on the institutions of the consumer culture, including the federal government, the military, and the universities and corporations that cooperate with them. Let us not forget that the Internet has its roots in ARPAnet (the Department of "Defense") and NSFnet (the National "Science" Foundation). The Defenders of Science. Why are they defending science? Who are they defending it from?

They are defending it from us, my friends, from the Church of Euthanasia and many other groups like us who oppose their senseless war with our Mother the Earth. Their schools teach that what cannot be measured, does not exist. This is Empiricism, the foundation of the Spectacle, the principle that Socrates died for. Their leaders say that everyone is entitled to as much as they want, of whatever they want, if they have the money to buy it. This is the American Way, of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness for the violent and ruthless. Their elites are determined to fight to the bitter end for their world-view. Their God is Moloch, who eats his children, leaving only filth, solitude, and ugliness. In the words of the Cree People:

  • Only after the last tree has been cut down,
    Only after the last river has been poisoned,
    Only after the last fish has been caught,
    Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.
    Let us pray.
    Spirits of the four directions, East, South, West, and North,
    Powers of the Elements, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth,
    Wheel of the seasons, Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter,
    Be here now, as we invoke this sacred space,
    And for a moment in time, free ourselves from all limitations,
    From all delusions of separateness.
    Be here now, and help us, to draw our spirits down
    From the lonely flights of the ego, into our bodies,
    And let us be filled with the joy of your limitless light,
    Beyond the bounds of time,
    Where night and day,
    Birth and death,
    Joy and sorrow,
    Meet as one."
 
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Rainbow Mage

Rainbow Mage

Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
Seriously though, how would a church of Harry Potter or something be formatted? Would it consist of building some kind of Philosophical way of life and precepts around the 7 HP books?
 
dust1n

dust1n

Zindīq
Spirituality can be find in many places. IMO, I would be many 'ism's if I assigned one to anything that aids my walk down an inner path, especially a pop culture item; it's all speculation.
 
Rainbow Mage

Rainbow Mage

Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
Yeah, I'm open minded. I'm not closed off to other ideas besides my own. I go with what works for me, and I'm sure other people do too. A lot of people criticize my weird blending of Kemetic religion and Buddhism on both sides of the fence, but it is what works for me. I have respected Lord Buddha and his teachings since I was 12 years old. I suppose it makes it easier when you suscribe to a theistic school of Buddhism (Pure Land), but don't think I don't still get some heat from other Buddhists, especially Therevadans, who feel that belief in gods is a trapping of the lower unenlightened mind.
 
monta

monta

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I think this is the kind of thing the phrase ''other peoples business'' was invented for.

Why do you care, how, or if other people pray.
 
Jeremiah

Jeremiah

Well-Known Member
Yosef1986 said:
Seriously though, how would a church of Harry Potter or something be formatted? Would it consist of building some kind of Philosophical way of life and precepts around the 7 HP books?
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How is it any different then a religion based off fantastic stories of mythological characters? Could not all religion have been "pop-culture" at some point in time?
 
Rainbow Mage

Rainbow Mage

Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
I'm not saying it's any different and I wasn't putting that out there in a mocking way. I'm seriously curious how a church of Harry Potter might work.
 
no-body

no-body

Well-Known Member
Arguably these movements began with discordianism in the 1950's and from that the parody religion the church of the subgenius... everything since then has been a pale imitation, the notable exception being pastafarianism.

I agree with the others in who cares, or what's the point. People do some mighty strange things, it's not shocking they would bring that to religion. Besides most "real" religions followers already make a parody of their own religion.
 
Gentoo

Gentoo

The Feisty Penguin
In light of all this, I'm reminded of a Futurama quote from the episode "Hell is Other Robots":

Professor Farnsworth: Oh, why couldn't [Bender] have picked a more mainstream religion, like Oprahism, or voodoo?

;)
 
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