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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26 DEC 2008The InquisitionTriple logic is a challenge to learn, and also a challenge to the age-old established orthodoxy of serious world. What kind of opposition can we expect? Theoretically none. Defenders of orthodoxy live in flatland and can see only seriousness, which they will defend to the death. Funniness passes over their heads, is disregarded, has no impact on serious world. Funniness is not seen as a threat. Only an alternative serious view would be seen as a threat. Serious world will attack only our seriousness, performing the valuable service of quality control. Far from opposing funniness, serious world enforces funniness. It hastens its succession. Instead of fighting old thinking for a generation, we can apply triple logic right away. But first we have to unlearn our seriousness. Every student planning to become a funny heretic is first sworn in as a secret agent of the Inquisition. We're going to put our old thinking to use, detecting seriousness, performing quality control. Must be funny is the rule we follow, applied rigorously at every step. If we're even a little bit serious, serious world can latch on to it and pull us down. We apply this analysis to every funny statement, plan, theory, action, idea, invention, attitude, performance or proposal. If any of our secret Inquisition agents detects seriousness -- busted!
577726 DEC 2008Funny religionAfter we've learned triple logic and thinking in 3-D we find we have to avoid any serious effects or involvement with serious world. Then we might wonder where we can apply this new knowledge we've worked so hard for. One of the prime fields we can choose is religion, which has no connection to reality and is guaranteed freedom from the Inquisition. We can claim funniness is salvation and the higher consciousness of the new age. We struggle against the original sin of seriousness which will be with us until we die. We follow the One Commandment: must be funny. We seek to build funny world, which is heaven on earth. We have all the components of a millenarian religion out to save souls and transform the earth. Of course we don't actually do that, which would be serious. False promises and a good show are the way to go. Required viewing: Leap of Faith, 1992, starring Steve Martin. We offer an upgrade from legacy religions to the latest 3-D technology, with a conversion chart from traditional to funny terminology, to migrate whole congregations with no loss of faith.
577826 NOV 2008Funny world party gameYou have been gathered here tonight for a secret revolutionary mission to create funny world. Serious world, to which we all belong, is about to self-destruct. The survival of humanity now depends on you. Our task is to create funny world, which follows the rule: must be funny. Here are your secret badges.
This is about more than survival. Funny world is a vast improvement over serious world, an evolutionary step up. But serious world does not want to let us go. Must be funny is a heresy, and the agents of the Inquisition are everywhere. So we must disguise our subversive activities as party games.
573629 OCT 2008Funny love and funny moneyOur disbelieved claim is that funny love is the ultimate and best kind, just as funny money is the key to abundance. By condemning and eliminating all serious love, we appear to gut it of all value, just as funny money is worthless. Yet we enact the illusion of abundance with funny money, and enact the illusion of great love with funny love. With funny money we can afford to be generous in rewarding funny people. Funny love is similarly abundant, and all funny people are our lovers. There's more than a hint of radical truth in that, and true-false-funny flirting is an age-old practice where we enjoy forbidden intimacy with no consequences. Funny world will be full of breathless, urgent and promiscuous love, limited by its absurd polygamous goals. There is no pressure to bring it to fruition, or fear of the same, and we're free to take the play in any funny or satisfying direction.
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13 OCT 2008Funny world may be silly and trivalBut our act can go to the opposite extreme of seriousness, creating maximum comic contrast. The future of our world and souls is at stake, and this reduces to making funny money. We have to do what we love to do, and funny money is a theatrical facilitator.
567812 OCT 2008Make funny moneyThat's the grassroots quest which builds worlds and saves souls. Yet funny money is bogus. Nevertheless it justifies whatever we want to do. It echoes the false god of serious world. What a joke! We have to make funny money, our new god, but since it's worthless, we can associate it with whatever we want, which makes it very valuable. That looks like another advance. From worthless to priceless, a magical transubstantiation, an alchemy we can all perform to connect funny money with our highest values. This is high technology that can power a funny money economy, but it must remain a joke. It's not even a serious game currency. It's purely theatrical, procedural, as we invoke our worthless currency to get what we want. Then it's a communal joke, an open secret, that we use our worthless stage money to enact transactions of greater value than we could achieve with serious money.
567711 OCT 2008Funny charityIn these hard times people don't have any funny money. So in addition to helping them, we give them some. Well, of course nobody has any funny money until they join funny world and learn how to make it. This scenario parodies the serious money shortage. In our game world we commiserate and offer help and love and funny money. We also offer hope, that you too can learn to make funny money, and return to abundance, and help others.
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True, False or Funny? Getting your way with triple logic 2008 archives
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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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