Today's Topics:
Rival Cults
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To: subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Rival Cults
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 93 03:12:45 -0500
From: Michael Travers <mt@media.mit.edu>
Due to an apparent Slack Suppresor field that has enveloped this list,
we bring you a message from a rival cult. Why can't YOU flame like
this? Make up a religion, proseltyze on the network, make big bucks.
For extra credit: find the line in the following that the Firesign
Theater (the Four Wise Guys) precog'd back in '71 or so. Life imitates
parody, as usual.
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ADORE
A Divine Operating Religion of Excellence.
DISCLAIMER
If I speak with authority, it is only because I am author.
Homer Wilson Smith homer@rahul.net
PREAMBLE.
RESPECT means RE SPECT. SPECT comes from words like SPECTACLE,
SPECTACULAR, and SPECTATOR or in other words TO SEE. Thus RE SPECT
means to RE SEE, to SEE AGAIN. Specifically it means WILLINGNESS to
SEE AGAIN. What we respect we are willing to see again and are glad
we saw in the first place. What we do not respect we are not
willing to see again and are not glad we saw at all.
THOUGHT and ACTION.
Thought IS action. It is action on the mental plane. Thought
gives rise to emotion which is action on the emotional plane.
Emotion gives rise to effort which is action on the physical plane.
All of this is caused by personal responsibility which is action on
the spiritual plane. Action means movement and change caused by
you. Action arises from responsibility and takes place on the
spiritual, mental, emotional and physical planes of existance.
Thus the idea that we have the right to hold (think) ideas of
any kind or nature, but not necessarily to ACT on them is self
contradictory and denies that thought IS action of a very effective
nature. People are responsible for their thoughts as well as their
deeds, because THOUGHT IS DEED.
The ADORIAN CREED.
'We have the right to decide for ourselves what is true and to
try to act from those beliefs what ever they may be. In return we
have the duty to accept challenge and counter efforts from our
fellows around us whom our views affect. In this way right is
balanced by duty.'
We believe in a balance of Duties and Rights for all people
including children, and that fair exchange is the foundation of
life. For every Duty there is a Right. For every Right there is a
Duty. Rights are fair chosen exchange for fair chosen Duties. You
choose and are responsible for both. You have a Right to have
Duties. And you have a Duty to have Rights. No one ever told it to
you that way before.
We believe that the fundamental Duty is Honor, and that the
fundamental Right is Dignity.
Honor is the ability to make, keep and trade fair chosen
promises. The basic promise is to ADORE OPERATION. Adoration IS
operation. If you adore something, operate it. Operation is
conscious observation, decision and action.
Dignity is being the Sole Operator of youself.
Creation, Discovery, Expression and Trade correspond to
Religion, Science, Art, and Business, which correspond in reverse
order to Body, Heart, Mind and Soul. These in turn relate to
Effort, Emotion, Thought and Personal Responsibility.
ADORE
stands for
A Divine Operating Religion of Excalibur.
Copyright (C) 1983 by Homer Wilson Smith.
JUSTICE of CALIBER is the KIND SHIP EXCALIPER.
Caliber means Worth.
Via Harmonies and Kindship,
Intelligence and Sensitivity,
Star Cap(tain)ability and Operating Know-How.
CALIPERS are used to measure CALIBER.
The CALIPER of the CALIBER of SOULS is the
QUESTIONS they have ASKED and the ANSWERS they have REJECTED.
Ex means without.
Ex Caliber means without Worth.
Ex Caliper means without Measure.
Excalibur is the two edged Sword of Excaliber and Excaliper.
Of Worthlessness and Worth Beyond Measure.
Of Omni No Class, and Omni Out Class.
Those who can handle the spectrum, live.
A WIZARD is anyone who is a WIZ with the SWORD.
The SWORD is stuck in the STAR ROCK of your MIND
by
YOUR OWN PRESENT TIME OPERATIONAL WIZARDRY.
A KING is anyone who can FREE and WIELD EXCALIBUR
for
THEMSELVES and for OTHERS.
King Authur was able to pull the sword from the stone, because
he was willing to put it back in again so that others might try.
The others would not have done so had they been able to pull it out,
so they were not able to pull it out at all.
Excalibur has many Divine Operating Religions.
Adore is an English operating version.
Any part of ADORE may be copied or reprinted for any reason
except for commercial resale as long as this disclaimer is reprinted
in its entirety. For commercial enterprises please contact the
author at homer@rahul.net. End of Disclaimer.
PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION.
ADORE has many operating principles. Five of them are:
Class is an attitude. That ALL should live forever and be my
friend.
The Paths of Lovers Cross in the Line of Duty.
For every Duty there is a Right. For every Right there is a Duty.
The Purpose of Creation is Trade in Expressions of Discovery.
Desire is Sovereign.
The THREE PURPOSES OF AODRE-L.
1.) To provide a forum for the discussion and criticism of the
Adorian view. Adore is an operating religion open to analysis,
criticism, change and improvement. Its only claim to fame is
workability. If it don't work, it ain't true. What means work?
Frees YOUR spirit from chains.
2.) To provide a forum for a wide ranging discussion from ANY
point of view on any and all subjects important to life including
but not limited to Religion, Science, Art and Business; Creation,
Discovery, Expression and Trade; Body, Heart, Mind and Soul; God,
Man, Woman and Child; Mimicry, Harmony, Counterpoint, and New Beat;
and the Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual planes of
existance.
3.) To provide a forum where anyone can feel safe to say what
they have never felt safe saying before on other lists or in life.
You will not be censored either for WHAT you say nor HOW you say it.
You may attack either ideas or the people who hold them. You may
use rudeness, ridicule, irony, sarcasm, scorn or any other method
that suits your feelings of the moment. Expressions of hostility,
bitterness, anger, fear, sorrow or apathy are acceptable. You can
even show people some respect.
TWO CAVEATS.
Firstly, do not treat others in any way that you yourself are
not willing to be treated. Be willing to take what you dish out.
You WILL get it back. Expect this to occur.
Secondly please remember that the purpose of this list is
CONTENT. You are not requested to send personal flames via private
e-mail, in fact this is discouraged. We all want to hear what you
have to say especially if it moves you so.
Thus if you choose to flame some person or idea please keep the
content-to-flame ratio of your communication greater than or equal
to 50 percent. That is all we ask. If you increase the flame,
increase the content. Make it meaningful. You are not mad for no
reason. If you get the reason across, the anger is ok. Ok?
If you absolutely can not stand people getting mad, or feel a
complusive need to stop people from venting their feelings through
words of any kind, then you do not belong on this list.
If you can not stand confrontation or direct and personal
affrontery for the idiocy or correctness of your ideas, then you
MUST stay off this list.
The 50 PERCENT RULE.
If you say,
'I hate Christians'
that is 100 percent flame and 0 percent content.
If you say,
'I hate Christians because
'They believe in Hell forever for some people.'
that is 50 percent flame and 50 percent content.
If you say,
'I love Christians'
that is 100 percent flame and 0 percent content.
You have a Right to balance your Duties with Rights, and you
have a Duty to balance your Rights with Duties.
Thus your Duty to deliver content, may be balanced with your
Right to deliver flame. You Right to deliver flame must be balanced
with your Duty to deliver content.
If you follow these rules, everything will be ok.
HIGH CRIMES and HANDLING of SUPRESSIVES.
There are a few circumstances that might get you bounced off
the Adore-l list. More likely, you will be roasted until you choose
to leave on your own accord. However there are a few things that
should not be tolerated.
1. Violating the spirit of wide open, high content
communication (which includes EMOTION) with frivolous filibustering,
or direct efforts to suppress (STOP) WHAT someone says or HOW they
choose to say it as long as they stay within the 50 percent rule.
Also included are efforts to get someone to not express a
viewpoint by claiming how much you have been offended, insulted or
hurt by it. We really don't care. You can try to change the
offenders mind, you can let them know you hurt, if you must you can
even try to hurt them back, but NOT with the intention to STOP
other's communication or expression. You can try to CHANGE people's
minds, but as long as they believe what they believe, they are
allowed to express it.
2. Direct threats of imminent physical violence or other
illegal activity.
It is ok to say 'You should have your head blown off for that idea.'
It is ok to say 'I wish I could blow your head off for that idea.'
It is NOT OK to say 'I am going to blow your head off for that
idea.'
If we are going to play this game of fire, we gotta have a fire
extinguisher. THIS is it.
The main reason is that killing people does not change their
minds. They just come back in their next life mad as hell with a
tendency to do to others (YOU) what was done to them.
PEOPLE WHO SHOULD NOT JOIN ADORE-L.
Adore-l is open to all people of any race, creed, color,
religion, sex or affectional preference.
However, you join the list in order to have your position
scrutinized, torn apart, analyzed, criticized, detested, flamed and
maybe even agreed upon.
If you wish to change other peoples minds, you must be willing
to have your mind changed too. If you feel that your positions are
not ones that you would be willing to change regardless of what
evidence was presented then you do not belong on this list. Those
who feel that a debunking of their faith would present a perilous
danger to their life and their stable data should go elsewhere for
their socializing.
On the other hand if your faith can stand self correction and
improvement through observation and logic, then of course you are
most welcome on ADORE-L.
There is not one person on Earth whose faith can not stand some
correction in the light of certainty. We are on Earth because we
were 'cast out of Heaven'. Who now is pure and perfect? Or even
right?
If you take offense or find hurt easily in ANY matter then you
do not belong on this list.
You are not on this list to have your views respected. That is
for whimps. You are here to have your views torn apart. If they
survive the trial by fire then you will be all the stronger for it.
So will the others who came to see things your way.
There should be no respect given to tradition, deeply held
beliefs, heart felt views, life long committments to any given
lifestyle, majority views, or any other kind of sacred cows that can
be imagined. You have a right to your views, others have a right to
attack them. If you chose to express your ideas on Adore-l you
elect yourself FAIR GAME. If you elect to do this, your duty is to
accept and deal with what ever comes your way and your right is to
return in kind.
You can always sign off and get lost.
RESPECT.
Respect should be accorded only to CERTAINTY and WORKABILITY.
Certainty is not measured by your ability to PROVE your
position to someone else. It is measured only by your ability to
prove it to yourself. This is personal integrity. You can never
prove to another that you have spoken to God. You can only get THEM
to speak to God. If they do not have the confront for this, this
does not invalidate the possible truth of your own encounter.
Certainty is measured against a standard of PERFECT CERTAINTY.
An example of a perfect certainty is the certainty that YOU have
that YOU exist and care. If you doubt that you exist, then you
doubt that others exist, and you doubt that they can feel pain and
can be affected by your actions. People who doubt they exist are
soon weeded out of society by those who have a grip on reality. (If
you doubt that you exist, do you doubt that you doubt? Are you SURE
you DOUBT? Good. Then certainty exists and so do you.)
LIFE IS A HOLO-DECK.
One common false certainty that most people are walking around
with is that the external universe of Matter, Energy, Space and Time
is not a Dream. Life is a Holo-Deck. And although the external
universe of Matter, Energy, Space and Time is a convenient
explanation for the Consistancy and Horror of this Dream, it is none
the less wrong and a gigantic escape from the responsibility of
having created your own existance in this Universe. It is also an
escape from your own Solo Operating Divinity. Consciousness is
real. Matter, Energy, Space and Time are idols of stone before
SOURCE. They are a DREAM and we dream together.
Workability is measured against total freedom. Total freedom
is having what you want and not having what you don't want. If you
want to have things that you don't want (so you don't get bored) you
should be able to have that too.
An end result of working on the ADORE-L list should be a
realization that the world you are in is the best of all possible
worlds. A world that you CHOSE willingly and with full awareness of
the consequences, including choosing forgetfulness of your choice.
(Forgetfulness is cured by re-operating it.)
You could have chosen a namby pamby sweetness and light
everything is fun all day long kind of world. And you HAVE chosen
this kind of world a million times, but THIS time you chose a world
called Killer Pit. You CAN change your mind.
With this realization should eventually come the ability to
leave this universe at will. However you came here willingly in the
beginning, so once you can leave, you will probably decide to stay
for a while. You do have a few friends scattered around the
wasteland you know, who might appreciate your help.
You help them by teaching them that the WAY IN is the WAY OUT.
The WAY IN is the WAY OUT.
To COME in, you have to BE out. Thus practicing coming in,
puts you out. The universe is like a door that once PUSHED closed,
needs to be PUSHED closed AGAIN to open. PULLING on the door to
open it is an endless trap. Eventually ALL learn to open the door
by pushing it closed again. However for some it may be a long time
between now and then, as you can not move your house around town, if
you have locked yourself inside it. In Excellsis Deo.
CHRISTIANS.
Although I was born and raised a Christian, Christians are my
favorite subject for target practice. People of all religions,
denominations and faiths whatsoever are welcome on this list,
however some Christians and other Purveyors of Damnation will not
find a warm welcome nor a fertile ground for their efforts to
undermine serious religious discussion.
We are ALL Immortal Sons of God (SOURCE). Anything less is a
lie. There is a Devil, MILLIONS of them in fact, as most of the
public doctrines of present day Fundamentalist Christianity well
evidence.
There IS however a Christ, and there is Christhood. All men
strive for this state of consciousness, and will one day re-attain
it. Yes, you had it once. You CHOSE to leave it. Your leaving it
was not an act of deceit as some would have you believe. It was an
act of ADORATION. An act of PRIDE, MAJESTY, MAGNIFICENCE, GLORY and
SOURCE. An act of COOL, CLASS, HALCYON, SIN-SONG, THRILL and
ROMANCE.
The FALL was self chosen with full awareness of the
consequences.
However in our view Christ did NOT die on a cross of wood at
the hands of men. This is a fairy tale invented by Christian monks
trying to encode what really happened.
Chris died on the Cross of Pride and Shame. Christ died in the
flesh and was reborn in the flesh AND the spirit, so that YOU do not
have to die in the flesh to be reborn in the spirit. There is no
magic to it. He learned a few tricks which if you pay heed will
save you from killing off your body in your efforts to go free.
Further there is no Hell forever for non believers. This is a
doctrine of the fallen and not of the Almighty.
There are Heavens and there are Hells. People go through these
both after death and before death. For the perfect but undeveloped
and irresponsible spirit they are preparation for the soul's
continued existance in another body on Earth or elsewhere.
The existance of both Heaven's and Hells can not be said to be
GOOD for the soul as they BOTH rob the soul of the idea that he/she
is Responsible. They turn repsonsibility into accountability,
reward and punishment, which further degrade the soul into lifetime
after lifetime of living evil.
However all Heavens and Hells and involvement with bodies end
one day. (When the soul learns to CREATE them and hand them out for
free.) Only Peace and People are forever.
THE ADORIAN VIEW.
The Adorian view is that we all are Immortal beings,
responsibile through DIRECT CHOICE not only for our own existance in
this universe, but for the universe as well. Those that believe in
DEATH FOREVER or HELL FOREVER for ANYONE, or who can see no personal
prior responsibility for their existance on Earth and the
circumstances of their birth, will find themselves very much under
scrutiny as the source of the problem rather than as the solution to
the problem.
Death forever, and Hell forever are both lies. They are lies
born of MAJESTY and SELF CHOSEN FORGETFULNESS. Forgetfulness can be
cured by practicing it, by making it self chosen again. This will
be discussed at length on the Adore-l list.
Adoration IS operation. If you ADORE something, OPERATE it.
Operation is conscious observation, decision and action. Adoration
is the only Truth. Yes even adoration of lies. But the Truth
always wins out in the end. It is the ADORATION that makes it so.
So let's get down to business. Keep the content to flame ratio
greater than or equal to 50 percent, keep it important, and keep it
from the heart.
OPENING FRUIT for DISCUSSION.
SOUL SPIRITUAL GOD RELIGION CREATION NEW BEAT
MIND MENTAL MAN SCIENCE DISCOVERY COUNTERPOINT
HEART EMOTIONAL WOMAN ART EXPRESSION HARMONY
BODY PHYSICAL CHILD BUSINESS TRADE MIMICRY
SOUL CAUSE CREATOR SPIRIT SCOPE PRIDE
MIND THOUGHT MASTER MALE SPAN MAJESTY
HEART EMOTION APPREHENTICE FEMALE DEPTH MAGNIFICENCE
BODY EFFORT CREATURE BABY FIELD GLORY
SOUL TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY GOD I AM COOL/CLASS
MIND MASTER OF OFFENSE MAN I KNOW HALCYON
HEART MASTER OF DEFENSE WOMAN I WANT SIN-SONG
BODY TOTAL NO RESPONSIBILITY CHILD I DO THRILL/ROMANCE
Some of ADORE.
GURU means G, U R U! Gee, YOU ARE YOU!
WIT'S END.
WIT is INTELLIGENCE. WIT is LAUGHTER.
WIT'S END is the END
of
INTELLIGENT LAUGHTER.
GOD of JEM.
JOKE stands for Justice Of Kindship Excaliper.
JEST stands for Jokes of Eternal Self Treason.
JEST stands for Justice of Eternal Self Truth.
JEM stands for Joy in Eternal Miracles.
JOY stands for Joke's On You.
Miracle is the Undreamed Dream Come True.
SIN-SONG means to SING another SOURCE DONE WRONG SONG.
SIN-SONG is not SIN as long as it is just SONG.
MAJESTY means MASTER of JESTY, mastery of laughter.
SIN-SONG is born of MAJESTY.
However, MAJESTY is born of such CLASS as to make you
SING SONGS of SIN for EVER, for FREE.
The GOLDEN KEY.
Tragedy and Travesty, Romance and Sin,
Miracles and Majesty, THAT's where I've been.
Miracles and Majesty, Romance and Song,
Tragedy and Travesty, THAT's where I've gone.
The fact that I'm still here, is PROOF don't you see?
In the OMNI LONG RUN, it is better to BE.
Halcyon and Thrill, High Cool and Romance,
Class and Free Fancy, Power the Dance.
Pride is our willingness, our willingness to BE,
I ADORE ME FOREVER, for EVER for FREE.
HIGH PRAYER from ADORE.
Oh Gorgeous and most Excaliper Lord,
Master of Magnificence and Respect,
Of Tragedy and Travesty, Miracle and Majesty,
And Keeper of the Golden Temper,
Idol and Worshipper of all things,
I behail thee with gorgeous Glory,
And Fair Chosen High Alleluiahs,
For Ever, for FREE.
AMEN means Adore Majesty Excaliper Now.
AMEN means Adore Makes Excellent Nonsense.
OMNI SOVEREIGNTY.
SOURCE stands for
SOVEREIGN OMNILORD of UNANIMOUS REGENCY and CALIBER EXCALIPER.
SOVEREIGN OVERLORD of UNIVERSAL REGENCY and CHRISTLY EXCALIPER.
REGENCY is UNIVERSAL ACCEPTANCE by OTHERS
OUTSIDE of one's own NORMAL OPERATING JURISDICTIONS
by VIRTUE of
NEEDED, WANTED and ACKNOWLEDGED
SUPERIOR OPERATING KNOW HOW.
You are a SOURCER.
SOURCERS like to SOURCE SOURCERY.
Usually on APPREHENTICES.
APPREHENTICES are APPREHENSIVE about APPREHENDING SOURCERY.
SOURCERS CAST SOURCERY from SOURCE by
CASTING PRIDE BEFORE MAGNIFICENCE.
SOURCE gets into a REGAL FURY if you spell its NAMES WRONG.
They are SOURCE, SOURCERY, and SOURCER or SOURCERER.
Pronounce them as you kind, but if you LEAVE OUT the U from the
word SOURCERER you leave out the UNANIMOUSNESS of his REGENCY.
YOU SEEK the GRAND SPRING PHRASES,
And SO SHALL YOU FIND,
For the TRUE LIES will FREE YOU,
To OPERATE as YOU KIND.
The only SIN of the GODS was PRIDE.
They were PROUD of their POWER.
They took PRIDE FROM their POWER.
Why take PRIDE from your POWER?
POWER does not cause PRIDE.
PRIDE CAUSES POWER.
NO PRIDE causes NO POWER.
ANTI PRIDE causes ANTI POWER.
PRIDE is the SOURCE of MAJESTY, INTELLIGENCE and ALL ABILITY.
PRIDE is VISION of POTENTIAL because PRIDE is SOURCE of POTENTIAL.
They never told you that one.
PRIDE is CAUSE.
The PRIDE taken FROM POWER is ALWAYS LESS than
the PRIDE it took to PRIDE the POWER in the first place.
You are an ADORABLE OPERATING PRIDE SOURCE.
There is nothing higher or better than PRIDE.
Except maybe Eternal Peace or Eternal Omni Sovereignty.
Finite Operating Pride is Humiliation.
Infinite Operating Pride is Humility.
Conceit is the certainty that Pride is finite.
Arrogance is the certainty that Pride is useless.
Vanity is Infinite Operating Pride wasting away
from
Arrogance and Conceit.
DESIRE is SOVEREIGN.
Power, Freedom and Halcyon stem
from the goal to ADORE OPERATING CLASS.
Pegasus had Wings of Pride.
Eternal Omni Pride.
She awaits her flyers.
The Gods should ride their high horses again.
Do it right.
From ADORE.
A Divine Operation Religion of Excellence.
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