Lettuce Pray

[Kate]

I'm a great fan of parody religions, I like the Flying Spaghetti Monster, that has a laugh at creationism - Flying Spaghetti Monster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Church of Google is very funny too - » The Church of Google - "... the search engine Google is the closest humankind has ever come to directly experiencing an actual God ..."

This is a good little intellectual test to see if your ideas on god are philosophically consistent - The Do-It-Yourself Deity.

This forum was described as the First Church of Esmoking once. Many of us are evangelists when it comes to getting off cigs and onto ecigs. We have our experienced esmokers - gurus if you like. So are we a cult or a religion? Does a cult become a religion when there are a certain number of converts? Hopefully esmoking won't be banned before we get to critical mass. If it is banned we'll have to have a secret society instead.

Maybe we should have dogma, tenets and rituals to keep us busy. We could have silly handshakes like the Freemasons.

Bless you all
Syster Kate

 

[Kate]

This is where I went today to celebrate the solstice -

 

[slianfoxob]

oh, kate. you are an endless source of amusement.

i followed the flying spaghetti monster hardcore for about a month...haha

if the scientologist can do it, why can't we...


Foxy

 

[Kate]

... absolutely, Scientologists aren't the only ones who can make up wacky worshipfulness

We are the eBunnies of La La Land and we worship the gods of Nik O'Teen, the wholey Vapour.

 

[katink]

Nice Kate

* Waves to all the old friends and aquaintances here - sorry, been terribly busy for a good while; but back to being able to take a look at what everyone here has been up to meanwhile now *

(and Kate sure seems to be still spreading smiles among many)

 

[Kate]

Hi Katink *waves* it's nice to see you posting. I was wondering where you were and if you'd become tired of us

 

[katink]

...and if you'd become tired of us

'Course not Kate!

 

[jimmy2pax]

Interesting, I've never met a religious person who smoked.

Kate, you should do one of your polls to find out how "religious" smokers are, generally.

 

[Kate]

Hi Jimmy, I hadn't thought about that but it would be interesting to see.

I know a few nuns/ex nuns and most of them smoke.

I'll set up a poll tomorrow, it's too late to be thinking much about it now.

 

[keys]

Kate that church sign web site is awesome! I couldn't help but immediately put a few of them on my band's web site, (right below the videos):

DAWGS

 

[Frankie]

I laughed at that and now I fear God will smite me with a thunderbolt

For a cult to become a religion we need a couple of martyrs. It´s an absolutely necessary precondition. Any volunteers to go to Iran and vape in fron of the religious police building?

 

[Kate]

Ha, I like it, martyrs are a must. The folk who vape ecig.com juice will probably fit the bill soon

I don't think we should have any smiting, brimstone and fire or eternal damnation to be honest. That stuff is all too over the top melodramatic. We would be a much friendlier faith if we just had good old fashioned telling offs and time outs.

 

[Frankie]

Fear the Auto Clean Cycle, sinners!

 

[Kate]

Have any of you tried this philosophy game - The Do-It-Yourself Deity

My god/s turned out a bit wimpy to be consistent with my views.

 

[TheEmperorOfIceCream]

I've never met a religious person who smoked.

Joan of Arc?

 

[Kate]

Joan was a witch, they all smoke

 

[Kate]

There's not much happening on the forum tonight (no good fights ) so I thought I'd suggest some inspirational reading -

"Thoughts tend to comfort or frighten us more than things. For example, the belief in an unsafe universe leads to perpetual anxiety, whereas the thought of a safe environment produces a feeling of comfort. ..."

Have a look at this poll about faith. Organised religion isn't well subscribed but it seems there are a few more spiritual and First Church of Esmoking folk around.

 

[Kate]

Kate that church sign web site is awesome! I couldn't help but immediately put a few of them on my band's web site, (right below the videos):

DAWGS

Ha, nice Keys.

Here's another custom sign site you might like - Custom Sign Generator Widgets - Thousands Of Web 2.0 Image Generators

 

[Frankie]

I consulted I Ching about my present situation in which both my Foggers died and I had to take all the other batteries out of the cold, recharge them and start using the various devices I amassed. The question was aimed at how this influences my stop-smoking effort/state. Now, this is interesting, because you do not type your question in there, just throw coins:

53. Gradual Development
Line 4:
The geese gradually advance to the trees.
Some will find a flat branch.
Without fault.

Being temporarily in an unusual situation, that one needs to deal with in a provisional manner. Nothing wrong with that.


(Consult the Yijing / I Ching online)

 

[keys]

Kate, thanks again! It was about time I got my picture on the cover of the Rolling Stone!
DAWGS

. . . although I'm not likely to send five copies to my mother.