HAHA, Only Serious: A Preliminary Study of Joke Religions

[Telarus]

https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/9336/Thesis%20Laurel%20Narizny.pdf?sequence=1

Judging from the abstract, this Laurel person is on the correct Motorcycle.

-=Presented to the Department of Religious Studies
And the Honors College of the University of Oregon
In partial fulfillment of the requirements
For the degree of
Bachelor of Arts
June 2009=-

Abstract: Not all spiritual activity is commonly acknowledged as "religion." In a broad sense, religion is defined as the various ways humans negotiate their relationships with the transcendent, whether alone or in communities. The struggle to reconcile traditional pre-modern religious ideas about the world with the postmodern worldview, heavily influenced by the "deep play" that uses humor to break the hold of logic on the human mind, has given rise in the past sixty years to a new phenomenon: joke religions. A synthesis of occulture, counterculture, carnivalesque inversion, and vernacular reactions to institutional religions, joke religions are "authentic fakes" that are simultaneously authentic religions and humorous satires of other religions. They can be subdivided into satirical religions such as Discordianism—sincere religions, focused heavily on deep play, that can provide genuine religious experiences—and parody religions such as the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster—insincere, atheistic, extended parodies. Since there are virtually no scholarly works about joke religions as of yet, this paper is intended to be a starting point for future research.

EDIT: Oh, yeah. I found this by googling 'radiofreediscordia.org'..........

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I am mortally offended.

To whom do I complain?  Or even challenge to a duel?

[Cramulus]

*marks for later reading*

[Requia ☣]

He cites the wikipedia talk page. 

The talk page.   

[BabylonHoruv]

I note PD gets short shrift as the home of a copy of the principia itself and the radio station but no mention is made of the forums or black iron prison.

[Lies]

SHe cites the wikipedia talk page. 

The talk page.   

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[Faust]

He cites the wikipedia talk page.  

The talk page.  

Actually I can see that being more credible then the actual article.
It could be used to show discordians in discussions while the article is just piss.

[Suu]

Please note this is an undergrad study and not a graduate study. Of course it's going to suck. Homegirl probably just wants to pass with a C so she can go back to blowing frat boys on her parent's dime.

[LMNO]

Well, she needs to learn how to do it somehow...

[Suu]

Yeah, somewhere along the line I realized I did college wrong.

[LMNO]

Too many blowjobs, or not enough?

[Suu]

All I did was go to class, go to practice, and go to work. There wasn't much time for anything else.

[LMNO]

Too many blowjobs, or not enough?

All I did was go to class, go to practice, and go to work. There wasn't much time for anything else.

The conclusion draws itself.

[Suu]

NCAA Division I Sports: Do NOT fuck around, or you're going home to community college. 

[Triple Zero]

He cites the wikipedia talk page.  

The talk page.  

Actually I can see that being more credible then the actual article.
It could be used to show discordians in discussions while the article is just piss.

This is true.

I tried to make the article on Simple Wikipedia a bit more accurate (it's not as heavily moderated), but I'm not sure if it's still the same.