Cargo Cult - Who is John Frum? He is known to us by many names, this Visitor from Elsewhere, dispenser of endless abundance and wielder of mysterious technologies: John Frum, Quetzalcoatl, Osiris, "Bob." His cargo is splendid, his generosity boundless, his motives beyond our understanding. But across the ages and around the world, the stories all agree: one day he will return, bearing great gifts. Our theme this year asks three related questions; who is John Frum, where is he really from, and where, on spaceship Earth, are we all going?
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by H.G.Crosby » Thu Jan 10, 2013 10:26 am
Introducing Frum Properties™ and Resort Pods.
an asteroid belted community.
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by FIGJAM » Sat Jan 12, 2013 6:42 pm
Quick, hold Larry's hair!!!
Should have called him Ralph or Chuck.
Don't buy your burn....build your burn!
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by Ugly Dougly » Sat Jan 12, 2013 8:59 pm
Joseph Campbell wrote:We are the children of this beautiful planet that we have lately seen photographed from the moon. We are not delivered into it by some god, but have come forth from it. We are its eyes and mind, its seeing and its thinking. And the earth, together, with its sun, this light around which it flies like a moth, came forth, we are told, from a nebula; and that nebula, in turn, from space. So that we are the mind, ultimately, of space. . . .
No wonder, then, if its laws and ours are the same! Likewise our depths are the depths of space, whence all those gods sprang that men’s minds in the past projected onto animals and plants, onto hills and streams, the planets in their courses, and their own peculiar social observances.
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by Simon of the Playa » Mon Jan 14, 2013 8:26 am
dont forget to cry at your own burial.
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by Simon of the Playa » Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:00 pm
resistance is futile.
everything you know will be assimilated.
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by Simon of the Playa » Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:20 am
i have seen the Tard, and he is us...
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by H.G.Crosby » Wed Jan 23, 2013 8:11 am
Kastom=Kaczynskismso, who's going to the on-Playa TED talk with me?
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by Ugly Dougly » Wed Jan 23, 2013 11:16 am
Society is going to need technology-free pseudo-paleo playcamps to keep our souls from turning to mush.
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by Roberto Dobbisano » Thu Jan 24, 2013 1:20 pm
got bob?
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"People will think we're a bunch of out-of-control cross dressing fascists"
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by Simon of the Playa » Sat Jan 26, 2013 8:31 am
dig it, hep katz und kittenz...
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by H.G.Crosby » Sat Jan 26, 2013 9:57 am
once you on da boat, it's hard to get off...
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by knowmad » Sat Jan 26, 2013 5:58 pm
The Russian Cult of Gadget Hackwrench
From time to time extremely bizarre and weird cults are born. One baffling insertion in the list of bizarre cults is the Sect of the Gadget Hackwrench. The members of this cult believe in a Disney cartoon that is Gadget Hackwrenchfrom the famous the “Disney's Rescue Ranger TV show”,as being a divine being. She is considered to be the most untouched and perfect sibling of the great god on Earth. The members of the Gadget Hackwrench cult fervently believe that she is some sort of a goddess. They consider her to be firm, adorable and sanguine and that her degree of technical knowledge is practically unachievable for any existing mortal being. These are just a few of the testimonies of the sect followers.
What is completely bizarre is the fact that this hero or goddess that they believe in is a Disney cartoon. The members of the cult burn candles around a poster size image of the cartoon and chant to her to grant their wishes.
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by Roberto Dobbisano » Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:14 am
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by Ugly Dougly » Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:00 am
To Create Your Very Own Cult1) Begin by creating your own reality. You do this by keeping your members away from outsiders. An isolated farm in the middle of Idaho is good but if such a retreat isn't available, impose a form of self-censorship. If it's not of the cult, it's of the devil.
2) Next set the leader and his/her inner circle up as the only link to paradise...only they hold the keys to the kingdom.
3) Remember to make increasing demands. Start small but keep it going and eventually you'll have your followers standing in line to turn over all their worldly possessions.
4) Keep turning out stories about the greatness of the leader. The more unbelievable the more they will be believed. Your members have already been conditioned from the time they were children to accept things like coming back from the dead and walking on water.
5) Remember to use your converts to bring in still more converts. This has the double advantage of picking up new disciples and (even if that doesn't always work) the mere act of proselytizing will further cement the commitment of those already in the fold.
6) Keep everybody busy. This doesn't allow time for potentially critical thought. Let the minds of the masses wander and who knows, they might put two and two together. For this reason, long sermons - the longer the better - and interminable work shifts are essential. And when you aren't haranguing them and they aren't being kept busy...make sure they're at least singing.
7) And finally, keep your flock fixated on the carrot. The payoff is just around the corner and only they will be the ones paid off. The clouds will part and they will be raptured up and then, boy-oh-boy, won't all those non-believers be sorry.
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by trilobyte » Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:11 pm
Some kind of 'build-a-cult' camp could be a lot of fun.
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by Simon of the Playa » Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:54 pm
8. purple hi-tops, purple kool-aid, just make sure it's purple, because nothing rhymes with purple.
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by Ugly Dougly » Mon Jan 28, 2013 10:51 am
Sure, Heaven's Gate, People's Temple, Scientology, whatever.
The truth is you are swimming in Kool-Aid.
The Default World owns your soul!
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by junglesmacks » Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:50 am
This thread would be way cooler if it was entitled "Show Us Your Tits!"
Savannah wrote:It sounds freaky & wrong, so you need to do it.
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by unjonharley » Mon Jan 28, 2013 11:58 am
Any time ole buddy.. But with me it pay for view
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by junglesmacks » Mon Jan 28, 2013 12:18 pm
unjonharley wrote:Any time ole buddy.. But with me it pay for view
PayPal link time! We could start a FleaBay type auction to see certain Eplayan tits.
That would be RAD.
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by thisisthatwhichis » Mon Jan 28, 2013 1:16 pm
I agree with you, junglesmacks.... everytime this thread pops up I read: Show Us Your *****.... And my mind begins to hummm.....

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