----- ) )-0----)000(----0-( ( ( ----------------------- ) +-0-=0+ T + C + A + H + R +0=-0-+ ( ----------------------- ) ) )-0----)000(----0-( ( ----- "To aid in the incubation, breeding, and release of butterflies in Asia." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vol. 02, Iss. 15 The Sermon of Disseminare ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As much as it amuses me to drag it through the mud, I do adore religion. What self-professed student of memetics wouldn't appreciate such a powerful system of information transfer. My favorite part of religion is the quotes in the form of verses. The books of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam excel at this. There is something so exquisitely delicious about religious verse; I believe it's the numeration system that makes biting into these bits of meme so tasty. The problems with these verses is that they are too well known. What if I needed a occult-sounding verse for my textfiles? Could I expect to find something in the Quran or Apocrypha that I didn't have to manipulate all out of context? I was reading "The Book of Mormons" the other day and wondered if I were capable of creating a religion for my personal use. Am I not qualified? I've studied the techniques of transmission. I've studied polyrhythmic verse. I spent 30 seconds filling out the form on the Universal Life Church's website to become ordained. I was qualified -- nay, I was chosen to write religious material. With that flash of enlightenment I crafted "The Sermon of Disseminare", a religious device to myself, for myself. Like all religious text, it has holes big enough to drive a truck through -- or dare I say holes big enough to plant the base of a really large cross? Logic, however, isn't the point... I await for that wonderful time about five or six issues from now, when this particular textfile is wiped from recent memory. I shall then quote verses from "The Sermon Of Disseminare" within my textfiles. Then I shall sinisterly laugh at the thought of the brand-new and unsuspecting reader of TCAHR wondering who the hell Disseminare is as I use his quotes to back up my ideas. You may join me in laughter if you understand the joke; the rest of you may furrow your brow in imitation of confused Neanderthals. I've heard that helps with the pain brought about by the thought process. The Jaguar TCAHR CEO ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Sermon Of DISSEMINARE CHAPTER ONE | 6 These artisans will | delight and dazzle your eyes In the beginning there was | as they lay waste to your only action. | world. 2 The mothers and fathers of | 7 They would clutter your our species lumbered about | homes with false treasure without true understanding of | built by those who dream in the ideas contained within | vain for them. each other. | 8 They will pay your leaders 3 As they evolved from ape | for their silence. to human, so did their | 9 Such is the way of language from analog to | another concept without digital. | morality: capitialism. 4 The howls of the past gave | 10 If it is evil, you have way to words upon which were | made it so with your consent. bequeathed the concepts which | formerly howled within silent | CHAPTER THREE heads. | I do not write to denounce 5 With language, woMan was | the evils of technology, was able to inspire | capitialism or language. questions and to question | 2 Becoming the enemy of one inspiration. | will led you to become the 6 Thus language is mother to | enemy of the others. art and to science. | 3 The forces of technology 7 As technology improved, | and capitialism would not language's inherent qualities | function without knowing the of fidelity, fecundity, and | needs of the people. longevity had empowered it. | 4 To live without modern 8 Once a woMan would could | technology is to hide your only yell hir discontent into | needs from the world; what a crowd and potentially | need then of capitialism? infect a few. | 5 Without capitialism, 9 Now SHe was now capable of | technology would die as would spreading discontent through | our ability for mass the recorded word. | communication. 10 Language had become too | 6 It must be remembered that dangerous. | if these three forces have no | morality, then these three CHAPTER TWO | forces may be bent to our | will. Language, in itself, has no | 7 Do not buy or work for morality and is used by all | that which you find woMen of all idealogies. | questionable, for you will 2 While it may free the | only strengthen capitialism's common woMan, it is also the | darkness. chain forged by those few | 8 Do not turn from woMen in power. | technology lest your share of 3 For every rich philosopher | power in the world is taken and poet of the past, there | from you. are hundreds who could not | 9 Never communicate that in afford to be heard. | which you do not believe, 4 Do not be fooled by the | lest that falsehood be the artisans of technology; the | idea that enslaves the world. only reason the technology | 10 A universal memeplex of was given to you was the | goodness can only evolve if profit in affordability. | we adhere to the same 5 If there is money in | standards we would want of giving it to you, there is | the universe. Amen. money in keeping it from you. | _________________________________________________________________ / _______________________________________________________________ \ | / \ | || TCAHR wants your children, but will settle for your writing. || || Got an idea for an article? Perhaps a rebuttal to something || || you read here? Send 'em in and bask in the reflected glory || || of a meglomanatical would-be dictator and his attempt at || || world infection. 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