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Your intro to the otter. How I got my name, stopped worrying, and learned to love the bomb.

Pope… Everyone is a pope

Hal …. From 2001, we share the same work ethic and react similarly to contradictory orders.

Tse…. From the Chinese for child or master.

Kometes, Greek base for comet, also means long-haired.

I am as they say a sitting contradiction, I tried walking and contradicting but found that too stressful. Why would an atheist, such as myself, have anything to do with Eris, goddess of chaos and strife? Well for the record I am a practical atheist,philosophical taoist/discordian.

SO….

What’s an Atheist ?
What’s a Taoist ?
What’s a Discordian ?

Atheist means without god. It does not mean that I do not believe in god. The phrasing of that question is part of the problem, especially with the recent 9th cicuit flap. It’s not “do you believe in god?” which predicates that a god exists, and it’s just my personal choice to believe or not. It’s “do you believe there is a god?” To which I have to say prove it:-) An omniscient, omnipresent monotheistic creation is contradictory imho. So for all practical day to day purposes there is no god. I sure as hell would not go to a faith based mechanic.

Taoism, Tao (pronounced “Dao”) means literally “the path” or “the way.” It is a universal principle that underlies everything from the creation of galaxies to the interaction of human beings. The workings of Tao are vast and often beyond human logic. In order to understand Tao, reasoning alone will not suffice. One must also apply intuition. See taoism.net for more info. In short it’s a way of living in balance with your surroundings that to my mind teaches a more useful interface with reality than the buddists avoidance. Anyone selling a hereafter imho is getting it wrong. I can’t deny there’s life after death, witness Travolta’s career for example, but again where’s the evidence? I’ve already taken Milton Berle into account.

Discordian. If organized religion is the opium of the masses, then disorganized religion is the marijuana of the lunatic fringe.Did you know that god is a girl and her name is Eris? Do a google search for the Principa Discordia, then have a little read. The central tenets, the law of fives ( the pentabarf) are included below.

There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess. There is no Erisian Movement but The Erisian Movement and it is The Erisian Movement. And every Golden Apple Corps is the beloved home of a Golden Worm.
A Discordian Shall Always use the Official Discordian Document Numbering System.
A Discordian is Required during his early Illumination to Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of Beef), of Buddhists (no meat of animal), and of Discordians (no Hot Dog Buns).
A Discordian shall Partake of No Hot Dog Buns, for Such was the Solace of Our Goddess when She was Confronted with The Original Snub.
A Discordian is Prohibited from Believing What he reads.
Before you dismiss these as arbitrary, which they most likely are:P, think about how the majority of people you know engage in practices just as “odd” There’s a lesson here which to me is that once you start thinking in the “law of fives” you can warp the world into your reality tunnel, how much different is that from the christians seeing the world through blood tinted glasses? Why is refusing to eat a hotdog bun for “religious” reasons seen as stranger as an aversion to pigs?

Hal….