On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 04:15:56PM -0800, Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> wrote: > At 05:21 PM 11/26/2002 -0600, Joshua Kronengold wrote: > >existing, self-proclaimed religons that don't have belief or reverence > >for a superhuman power -- Zen (the universal counterexample, and > >usually mixed up with a lot of superstitions that -do- have > >supernatural powers attached, but nevertheless); confucianism, and > >discordianism don't, certainly. > Discordianism I'm not familiar with. To cliam that Zen and Confucianism > don't have belief or reverence for a superhuman being is only possible for > those who know nothing about them. Get thee to the Illuminatus trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson. Seeing as this was the book that turned me into a libertarian before I noticed what it was doing and put my filters back up, the effect on your socialistic leanings will be interesting. :) The short version: Discordians worship chaos. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp