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Interesting stuff - a friend also suggested calling on the "spirit of St. Jerome" whenever life gets you down, such as someone being rude at the grocery store, and you'll be helped to get merry all over again. I don't know about the sainthood thing = of course he's a Discordian saint, but that's a small feat for reasons I will explain at a later time, which for you will of course be an earlier time, so I guess you already understand . I also find calling on the "spirit" of Robert Anton Wilson to be helpful, he's always glad to grant one's wish for a healthy belly laugh.

About the reincarnation - what do you mean by this? Some people seem to think reincarnation is a single "soul" traveling between bodies the quality of which vary according to its actions/karma in various lifes. This "literal" interpretation of karma seems far-fetched - that the soul embodied in JG is literally the same soul embodied in King David. Robert Anton Wilson suggested a possible model for reincarnation in "Prometheus Rising", that our bodies are like "hardware" that is capable of running "software" such as thoughts, emotions, etc. So reincarnation may not occur in the "hardware" sense, but the same thoughts that operate on one person's hardware can easily be transferred and operate on another person's hardware. So this is one model for how it may seem that one person is actually the reincarnation of a previous person - since mental contents aren't bound by space/time locality, the same content can easily operate in the same people in different times or places.

Church of Subgenius split off from Discordianism. People think they're stupid jokes, but they're actually brilliant (or sub-brilliant) genuine religions in the original sense of the term, re-yoking people around the center, which in the Church of Subgenius' case is brought to you by a travelling salesman back in the 1950's, a man by the name of J.R. Dobbs (he goes by "Bob" ); they're a bit below my level so I don't really have much to do with them, but I think that's the basics of the story. It's said that you can understand everything there is to know about the Subgenii by contemplating upon the image of "Bob" for 5 minutes or the first 23 miles, whichever happens last.

Keep in mind: the stupider it looks, the more important it probably is.

<blockquote data-quote="lyserge" data-source="post: 3547093" data-attributes="member: 4506">Interesting stuff - a friend also suggested calling on the &quot;spirit of St. Jerome&quot; whenever life gets you down, such as someone being rude at the grocery store, and you&#039;ll be helped to get merry all over again.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know about the sainthood thing = of course he&#039;s a Discordian saint, but that&#039;s a small feat for reasons I will explain at a later time, which for you will of course be an earlier time, so I guess you already understand <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😁" title="Beaming face with smiling eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :grin:" src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/nexus/unicode/64/1f601.png" data-shortname=":grin:" />.&nbsp; I also find calling on the &quot;spirit&quot; of Robert Anton Wilson to be helpful, he&#039;s always glad to grant one&#039;s wish for a healthy belly laugh.About the reincarnation - what do you mean by this?&nbsp; Some people seem to think reincarnation is a single &quot;soul&quot; traveling between bodies the quality of which vary according to its actions/karma in various lifes.&nbsp; This &quot;literal&quot; interpretation of karma seems far-fetched - that the soul embodied in JG is literally the same soul embodied in King David.&nbsp; Robert Anton Wilson suggested a possible model for reincarnation in &quot;Prometheus Rising&quot;, that our bodies are like &quot;hardware&quot; that is capable of running &quot;software&quot; such as thoughts, emotions, etc.&nbsp; So reincarnation may not occur in the &quot;hardware&quot; sense, but the same thoughts that operate on one person&#039;s hardware can easily be transferred and operate on another person&#039;s hardware.&nbsp; So this is one model for how it may seem that one person is actually the reincarnation of a previous person - since mental contents aren&#039;t bound by space/time locality, the same content can easily operate in the same people in different times or places.Church of Subgenius split off from Discordianism.&nbsp; People think they&#039;re stupid jokes, but they&#039;re actually brilliant (or sub-brilliant) genuine religions in the original sense of the term, re-yoking people around the center, which in the Church of Subgenius&#039; case is brought to you by a travelling salesman back in the 1950&#039;s, a man by the name of J.R. Dobbs (he goes by &quot;Bob&quot; ); they&#039;re a bit below my level so I don&#039;t really have much to do with them, but I think that&#039;s the basics of the story.&nbsp; It&#039;s said that you can understand everything there is to know about the Subgenii by contemplating upon the image of &quot;Bob&quot; for 5 minutes or the first 23 miles, whichever happens last.Keep in mind: the stupider it looks, the more important it probably is.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lyserge, post: 3547093, member: 4506"] Interesting stuff - a friend also suggested calling on the "spirit of St. Jerome" whenever life gets you down, such as someone being rude at the grocery store, and you'll be helped to get merry all over again. I don't know about the sainthood thing = of course he's a Discordian saint, but that's a small feat for reasons I will explain at a later time, which for you will of course be an earlier time, so I guess you already understand 😁. I also find calling on the "spirit" of Robert Anton Wilson to be helpful, he's always glad to grant one's wish for a healthy belly laugh. About the reincarnation - what do you mean by this? Some people seem to think reincarnation is a single "soul" traveling between bodies the quality of which vary according to its actions/karma in various lifes. This "literal" interpretation of karma seems far-fetched - that the soul embodied in JG is literally the same soul embodied in King David. Robert Anton Wilson suggested a possible model for reincarnation in "Prometheus Rising", that our bodies are like "hardware" that is capable of running "software" such as thoughts, emotions, etc. So reincarnation may not occur in the "hardware" sense, but the same thoughts that operate on one person's hardware can easily be transferred and operate on another person's hardware. So this is one model for how it may seem that one person is actually the reincarnation of a previous person - since mental contents aren't bound by space/time locality, the same content can easily operate in the same people in different times or places. Church of Subgenius split off from Discordianism. People think they're stupid jokes, but they're actually brilliant (or sub-brilliant) genuine religions in the original sense of the term, re-yoking people around the center, which in the Church of Subgenius' case is brought to you by a travelling salesman back in the 1950's, a man by the name of J.R. Dobbs (he goes by "Bob" ); they're a bit below my level so I don't really have much to do with them, but I think that's the basics of the story. It's said that you can understand everything there is to know about the Subgenii by contemplating upon the image of "Bob" for 5 minutes or the first 23 miles, whichever happens last. Keep in mind: the stupider it looks, the more important it probably is. [/QUOTE]