I want you to laugh Someday, somewhere, somehow -- everything will be funny for everyone.
-- Robert Stone, Damascus Gate.

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


must be funny Manual of faith and practice
Contents -- edition of 23 MAY 2006


1. Faith
Seriousness and original sin

The good news
Repentence
We realize we are powerless and cannot change by ourselves
Redemption, forgiveness and remission of sins
The last shall be first
Sacred meme
Backwards compatible
Traditional/funny religion conversion chart
No religion

Funny is as funny does
Serious in pursuit of funny is no vice
The true believer and salvation
All saved, all lost or who cares?
Obedience that comes from faith
Faith without works is dead
The Trickster

Redeeming Laughter by Peter L. Berger
Funny rapture
Divine intervention

2. Escaping temptation by the Serious One
The purpose trap
The time trap
The insanity attack
The identity trap
The righteousness trap
Boundary control
The Inquisition
Make it funny

Pure faith in funny

3. Funny science
True, false or funny?

The truth will set you free?
Mirror world
Third logical dimension
Flying in the third dimension
Laughter overrules lies
Quantum thought

Why funny?

4. Funny mission
Funny mission fields
Mbf mission statement
Missionary conversion
Spreading the sacred meme
Party a lot
Divinity school
Treat recruits as god

Funny sacrifice
Funny paranoia
The funny police
How to stay funny
And now for something completely serious
Mbf as obvious

Goal is funny production, not consumption
Funny performance
Funny promotion of bliss
Funny is a safe outlet for our energy

Energy and funniness
Two kinds of disbelief

Side benefits of missionary work
Quantum thought
Triple joke
Let us pray

Funny as higher consciousness

5. Building Funny world
The answer and the quest
The answer becomes a clue
Visions of funny future

Funny world: story, game or reality?
Funny world as play
Commedia dell'arte

Playing off serious world
Funny school and funny factory
Funny world
Funny world fantasy and science fiction
Funny nudity
Love and sex in funny world
Funny sex: hypersexuality

Funny history

6. Funny money
Talisman
Why funny money?
The funny money story
Funny money monstrosity

Funny money has no plans
Is funny money secular or religious?
The Church of the Almighty Dollar
Middle of the road religion
Funny money basics
Informal funny money
Funny money inflation

Funnies
Stage money
Build funny world: make funny money
Being and action

Funny money
Funny money adjusts to reality
What to do with funny money
The laugh standard
The $100/hr standard
Sex-based currency
Funny economics Q & A
The funny economy
Funny money and funny economy
We can't make what we can't measure
Don't be cruel

7. Funny games
It's only a game

Missionary game
Story game
Investment game
One-on-one network game
We're in an adventure game
Funny chaos
Game design
Funny money matching funds
Funny money and Time Dollars



Bizarro strip 4-9-2000

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The Inquisition

Triple 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!

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Funny religion

After 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.

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26 NOV 2008

Funny world party game

You 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.

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29 OCT 2008

Funny love and funny money

Our 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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Added to archives, resonant with current thinking:
04 JUL 1994

Content and tone of TFF story for random acts

SET IN PRESENT? The scenario is of a revolution under way. You are asked to join a mass movement that clearly does not exist. False and funny. YES.

SET IN FUTURE? A fictional game scenario. Not as funny. We can explore futures in secret game levels, called planning.

NAIVE OPENNESS? Present as a sincere religious mission. Pious language will be funny.

OUTLAW UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT? A more dynamic joke that involves recruits in secrecy, and gives rise to the Inquisition later on. This goes with the story of a secret revolution under way. Language just the opposite of pious, could include free love. YES.

So we're back to outlaw tone and outrageous content, going for entertainment value. This will secure the widest distribution.

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Funny world may be silly and trival

But 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.

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12 OCT 2008

Make funny money

That'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.

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11 OCT 2008

Funny charity

In 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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Keep on reading in archives: September 2008 contents


 

Frequently questioned answer

True, False or Funny? Getting your way with triple logic

An Interview with God

Manual of Faith and Practice

Abundance and meaning

Quotes & aphorisms

Funny sex and nudity

Life of Saint Hick

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"How do I save my own life?" the poet asked.

"By being a fool," God said.
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Do nothing. Time is too precious to waste.
-- Buddha
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WAFFLE IRON:

Why on earth would you want to iron a waffle? Wouldn't that just flatten out all the little squares? No, I believe waffles should be dry cleaned. Pancakes, of course, should always be ironed.

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