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Jim Jones always did it for me...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPtl2xR3Zzc
this is actually a pretty good/depressing watch
*kool aid
i just had to stop watching in case i dont do any work for an hour and a half.
i think the documentary i saw was different, it had his childhood friend saying how even when he was 8 he could make adults do what he wanted.
Reform Judaism
*Shiite
strong
Rasta
I think Taoism
involves the acquisition of super-powers at some stage, if you put the hours in.
Scientology. Followers include John Travolta, Tom Cruise and a
whole bunch of b list actors that are probably on crap sit coms. I want to be of that cool crowd.
my religion is
life
Doing the Alpha course.
Pretty hip.
Link?
Rasta, surely?
Being serious. The answer is no. The established religions started when
no one knew the workings of the world. Religions like Christianity and Islam are sort of spin offs from Judaism. Hinduism, Sikhism and parts of Buddhism are also linked. They all started when people needed answers. Which is fair enough. I'm not being silly but people now use Google for answers to questions and hence the new so called religions are pointless as we now know much more stuff than before.
Googlism
Only a matter of time
^ twat
Dudeism.
Very true. The way of the Dude is certainly a good way to lead your
life. A serene, minimalistic existence with a couple of nice but silly friends seems a nice way to go about life.
Catholicism WOW!
Do the inuit have a religion?
buddhism is kind of funky
Budism surely?
As in when posh gap year kids go to india and come back claiming to be buddhist.
got alot of time for the Quakers
Quakers are generally pretty cool
I was gonna start a thread asking what people know about Quakers.
Maybe this sub thread will do.
Go.
They make nice breakfast cereals?
founded amnesty international
and quaker oats?
give money to worthy secular causes.
my boss is a quaker
she's great
:-D
POTD!
Sufis are pretty cool
They have far out poetry and have full on massive music happenings with thousands of people where they listen to this hypnotic music called Qawwali and work themselves up into a frenzy.
so did Jim Jones' lot...
some of the music is really beautiful as well
Sain Zahoor is recommended
I've seen these guys in action on TV. Can the less mobile also get to
that frenzied state too?
is this at me?
Do you mean disabled people? I don't think that's the idea no. Saying they work themselves into a frenzy is probably not hitting the right note. The idea is that they can elevate themselves into a trance like state where communication with Allah is possible. More a mental than a physical thing.
Ok. Fair enough. I see what you mean. I've seen the Sufis spin
around and thought they'd reach an elevated state that way. Perhaps a hypoxic state may have something to do with the elevated state also.
Christianity is cool
so cool, in fact, that some people want to ban it
;-)
christianity has cool rock bands and rappers
Wican
Just because it's deemed acceptable to run around naked under a full moon.
yeah this, it is more religeousy than just generalised pagan
but im not that and yeah we all get to do it :D (although sometimes I stroll rather than run)
plus those really tall bright car park lights can be used if there is not moon
Jews for Jesus
hinduism has UFOs
hipsters like UFOs
Controversially what about Satanism?
You basically do as many depraved and bad things as you want.
pipe down Saville
No that's the BBC
and so we return
to sploshing
Paging Fuzzy Dunlop to the thread
Fuzzy Dunlop, you're needed in the 'cool religions thread'
The ultra-sound religion!!!
I've always considered
Shinto as basically non-harmful.
Big shout for Buddhism
How cool is a religion? How many wars are started on its behalf? Very few started in Sid's name that I can think of right now.
Problem of course with the word 'cool' is illustrated above: Buddhism in the UK is linked to the 'posh kids on gap year' thing illustrated above and therefore technically is anything but cool.
Nothing cooler than metta bhavana imho though.