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29 JUL 1994
Religion a TFF joke?
The local project is primarily religious, flanked by entertainment and business. Is the religion a TFF joke? That's hard to call. Could the joke be sold to true believers as a missionary ploy? We want those true believers at the start. We want some weight in the proposal, some major commitment. It's easy to signal to any particular audience how to take the joke, to help them fall down on either side of the tightrope of ambiguity.

The joke also has appeal for me because the straight transformation route hasn't gone anywhere. I can't claim to offer that product. And that may be just as well. The joke has no stress, no promises, no struggle, no failure. It's much more fun than a grim and fruitless search for spirituality. And it's a way to relate.
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