Someday, somewhere, somehow -- everything will be funny for everyone.-- Robert Stone, Damascus Gate.
Someday, somewhere, somehow -- everything will be funny for everyone.A Faith for the New Millennium
It's three words: Must be funny. It's the name, the whole doctrine and belief system, the one commandment, the discipline practiced by the faithful, the spiritual goal . . .more
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28 JUN 2009Finite and infinite cheatsFunny consciousness is like kids cheating the system. It's bad and nothing special, other than how good we are at getting away with stuff. It's our secret, potentially infinite. Sex, drugs and rock 'n roll may be carriers, but it goes beyond that. Any finite cheat or benefit is not enough in itself, but a secret system of unlimited benefits is experienced as transcendence, as becoming infinite, even before actual application. Getting your way with triple logic? That's too abstract. It would need a specific application in everybody's life. The promise of an infinite secret is broader, and raises our consciousness before we do anything with it, an instant reward.. Then we can enjoy funny communion over our infinite joke, and look no further for satisfaction.
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The one important thing I've learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously: The first is imperative and the second is disastrous. -- Margot Fonteyn6322 and quotes24 JUN 2009Trips to funny worldAn experimental addition to the mustbefunny website: Prescott, AZ trail maps, trips and photos for everyone, and guided tours for the faithful. mustbefunny.org/trailtours31 MAY 2009Fool's paradiseFool's paradise is an excellent goal, surely the highest realm of funny world. While it's commonly regarded as inferior and delusional, we know funny is the highest. If we should stumble upon paradise we can't stop there, but must press on until we've made it funny. . The Catholics have already colonized this area:
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Drugs, prostitution and cyclingWhat exactly does Dutch tolerance look like, in an everyday way? Three things come to mind: drugs, prostitution, and cycling. In the Netherlands, all three activities are legal. All three can easily lead to happiness, provided that certain precautions are taken. Wearing a helmet while cycling, for instance. -- p.20 The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner 2008
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22 MAY 2009Funny diceDice and funny. I never put them together before. Dice are strong medicine, dangerous, not for everybody. But must be funny can make them safe. Whatever we ask must be funny. 629422 MAY 2009Fool's gold and funny moneySome say we can't build a new funny economy without hard currency, and fool's gold fills the bill. Our official funny geologist, Donald Roth, says it can be found at the old Senator Mine. We're in the right place, Prescott, Arizona, founded as a mining town in the 1860s, with hundreds of abandoned mines in the area. We can organize funny treasure hunts. Fool's gold is iron pyrite, FeS2, forming cubic crystals. Our funny coins will be cubes and used as dice. Fans of Luke Rhinehart's The Dice Man (Morrow, 1971) will know that dice throws can send us in random directions and generate funny chaos. Oh, now I get Bizarro's May 19 cartoon. Bizarre coincidence.
629321 MAY 2009Using Humor/Tossed in SpacePlay. When did we get so serious? Stuart Brown says play is more than fun A pioneer in research on play, Dr. Stuart Brown says humor, games, roughhousing, flirtation and fantasy are more than just fun. Plenty of play in childhood makes for happy, smart adults -- and keeping it up can make us smarter at any age.
13 APR 2009Funny moneyYou may have noticed that serious money is going away, and this is causing some anxiety, but it's time to move on to new and better types of currency. Funny money is by far the best, and this is where we're headed. Unfortunately it is so advanced that it's understood at present only by small children. Funny money is money we make ourselves out of nothing. Now it's true that the government and the banks and financial geniuses learned how to do this and overdid it and got us into a mess. They were pretending it was serious money and even believed it. Their current failure may mean not only the end of serious money but also the end of their ability to issue fraudulent funny money. Which means we must now turn to young children to find out how to make funny money. Give them paper and pens and stickers and scissors and glue and they'll go to work, meaning play. They may even pretend it's serious money, and conduct funny business, but it's all play-acting, and nobody takes it seriously. Kids know how to do funny money right. Funny money must be funny, theatrical and worthless. The Wall Street wizards only got the worthless part right. So here's the first research job to be done: Encourage children aged five to ten to make funny money and see what they do with it. Provide materials, parties, bribes, appreciation and respect. They are our teachers. We're trying to learn what they know. The age hierarchy is turned upside down. Funniness declines with age, and the older kids may try to play serious games. We want this research project to continue, so that an ongoing group builds a funny world with their funny money. Everything in their funny world must be funny. Two key rules or instructions drive our efforts now and hereafter: (1) make funny money; (2) everything must be funny.
619812 APR 2009From cats to kidsWe can substitute children for cats in 6167. This has a lot of resonance, since we are trying to recover child consciousness, not just funny-clever egos. The children, like the cats, are trying to preserve and manipulate their adult support system, so they can continue to play all day. More than that, they want to use the current crisis to build funny world to replace serious world, which they don't want to grow up in.
619110 APR 2009Work and playIf we can earn the same amount for work or play, that makes work funny, an inferior choice because we've lost the childish ability to play. Then we exploit the people who can only work to support funny world and do what needs to be done in serious world. If we were all to make the superior choice of funny play, who would do the work? This utopia is available now to the lucky few, and is a valid goal, where work is automated or turned into play.
618803 APR 2009Money and consciousnessNew currencies produce new ways of thinking and relating. They can assist us in our millennial evolutionary change. Time dollars tend to shift us away from ego into a more social consciousness. Funny money aims higher still, raising us to the higher consciousness of funniness. Our top goal and instruction is "make funny money." Why then do we need time dollars? Because we are about 99% serious. Our funny economy doesn't stand a chance on its own. Time dollars, though stronger, has been struggling for the past twenty years. Maybe a strategic alliance can give them both what they need. Working for time dollars is like a day job. At night we can play with funny money and develop our funniness. With practice, luck and talent we may break into the entertainment business full time promoting time dollars.
617602 APR 2009Funny moneyFunny money has an ancient definition as money we make ourselves without anything to back it up. Of course that's what's bringing the financial system down. It's all funny money now, so we might as well get in on the act. If we want to make money in the future we have to make it ourselves. This can be funny money out of thin air, time dollars from an hour of work, or barter currency that reminds us that we are the original source of wealth, not banks or governments. We will add a new definition to funny money: Besides making it ourselves out of nothing, funny money must be funny. If it gets serious, we're moving into time dollars or barter or gambling or serious games. That places a boundary around funny money. 617302 APR 2009New currenciesAs the old money goes away we need to create new currencies to replace it. I'd like to present two new currencies, funny money and time dollars, which may do the job. Funny money is informal, play money, good for games and entertainment and for learning how to create new currencies. It's an education, social and recruiting arm for time dollars. We will follow a path from funny money to time dollars and see how the two relate. Time dollars are volunteer service hours recorded formally in an account for each worker, usually by nonprofits. The hours sometimes earn matching funds for the nonprofit, but are otherwise largely unappreciated. Nonprofits and NGOs throughout the world are in a position to become time dollars banks, with a global standard inflation-proof currency, to fill the needs left by the imploding discredited banks that are destroying their own currency. 6172APRIL 2009WIRED MAGAZINE/Scott Brown:Everyone must be funny.Because "funny" is becoming a language unto itself, the lingua franca of the wired world. ....I envision a future where humans communicate only in jokes. Keep on reading in archives: March
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To move
ahead we need a new set of lies.
"How do I save my own life?" the poet asked. "By
being a fool," God
said.
Do nothing.
Time is too precious to waste.
IF THE FOOL WOULD PERSIST
IN HIS FOLLY HE WOULD BECOME WISE
Of all our senses, the most highly developed
is nonsense.
Start off each day with a smile and get it over with. ~~ W. C. Fields
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