Correct Knowledge?
Jim Vandewalker
In article <3474d1b1....@news1.radix.net>, nosp...@radix.net wrote:
{
{ I have it on some authority that Jehovah Witnesses are
{ insulted by the concept of luck or somethinglikethat.
Hrm. This is good stuff to know.
{
{ I gotta know: what is Correct Knowledge?
{
Well, obviously it's better'n the Incorrect kind. Other than that...
--
Jim the Prophet
Licensed SubGenius Preacher
jim...@gate.net
ICEKNIFE
jim...@NOSPAMgate.net (Jim Vandewalker) wrote:
>{ I gotta know: what is Correct Knowledge?
>Well, obviously it's better'n the Incorrect kind. Other than that...
You're never going to get anywhere in goverment service with that
attitude, young man!
RevLurch
nosp...@radix.net (MegaLiz) wrote:
>"Yes. ALL THAT. I suppose I should have a big ol' NAPTIME sign on this
>She leaned toward me and hissed significantly, "Good luck is labelled
>next to Correct Knowledge!" then she disappeared.
>WHAT THE FUCK? I have it on some authority that Jehovah Witnesses are
>insulted by the concept of luck or somethinglikethat.
>I gotta know: what is Correct Knowledge?
Well, the term is batted around by everyone from psychiatrists to
physicists to philosophers when struggling with trying to determine in
as many words "how do we know if we know what we know," i.e., how do
we separate that which is correct from fantasy, opinion, delusion,
etc. The ancient Greeks wrestled with this problem, and the process
gave us the word "epistemology," the study of the limits, nature and
origin of knowledge. But what your annoying and cryptic visitor was
probably referring to was the inflexible Islamic belief that Allah
himself, speaking through Mohammed, was and is the source of ALL true
and "correct knowledge." The rigid, fundamentalist adherance to this
notion by the practitioners of what Levi Strauss called (and I find
and apt description) "a barracks Religion," may at least partially
explain the ease with which the believers are convinced to strap
explosives to themselves, contracts are put out on annoying
blasmphemous writers, women's heads are bagged and peoples' hands are
chopped off because they showed someone else the bottom of their feet,
and so on. Believers in Islam are allowed no personal revision nor
selective interpretation, whearas even in fundamentalist Christian
sects, the most violent aspects and teachings of the Old Testament are
taken as illustrative rather than as literal directives.
I don't know if that's what she was talking about, but it's all I can
think of. Don't see what any of it has to do with your saying "good
luck," though. Maybe she was just plain nuts.
Anybody eles have any ideas?
lurch
RevLurch
reve...@mindspring.com (Rev. Random the Other) wrote:
>ya...@meatlux.comdon (RevLurch) wrote:
>>nosp...@radix.net (MegaLiz) wrote:
>The REAL DEAL is that this is the time of year when ANYONE can dress
>like santa, get a bucket and ring a bell on any college campus, and
>make the big bucks. I am not joking; we know a girl who makes 99% of
>her yearly income this way. Last year she made $6000.00 in the two
>weeks before Xmas alone. Really. This paragraph's true. She even gave
>Pammy a hint if she wanted to try it: Make the santa suit kinda
>low-cut and sexy. Yowser!
I knew a couple of jerks in college that claimed to have financed a
trip to Jamaica and the purchase of a shitload of drugs and booze by
setting up a table downtown and collecting money for a "Drug Rehab
Clinic." The clinic, according to one of them, was their apartment,
and with the money they collected they "drug rehabbed the shit out of
themselves," or something like that. He said they were down there for
a week and didn't get hassled for permits or any of that crap, but
that was years ago, and he could have been lying anyway. Just the
same, I always thought it was kinda funny.
lurch
Rev. Ivan Stang
> "Obviously I am NOT in the mood to buy anything, so you can move along
> now." I started to close the door. "Good luck!" I finished.
>
> She suddenly looked like I had SLAPPED her. After all that rudeness,
> she was offended by the ONLY NICE thing I said to her.
>
> She leaned toward me and hissed significantly, "Good luck is labelled
> next to Correct Knowledge!" then she disappeared.
>
> WHAT THE FUCK? I have it on some authority that Jehovah Witnesses are
> insulted by the concept of luck or somethinglikethat.
>
> I gotta know: what is Correct Knowledge?
I dunno, but, like, Miss MegaLiz, can I like get real CLOSE to you and,
like, maybe, STAND ON YOUR FEET??
I won't bring any of them BUGZ wif me....
--
Copyright 1997 by Rev. Ivan Stang / 1st Orthodox Stangian
MegaFisTemple Lodge of People's Covenant Church of the
Wrath of Dobbs Yeti, Resurrected / The SubGenius Foundation,Inc.
PO Box 140306 Dallas TX 75214 / Fax 214-320-1561 / PRABOB
http://www.subgenius.com -- SubSITE of Slack
Jim Vandewalker
In article <656l6e$5...@camel21.mindspring.com>, The Sheetrocker's
Apprentice wrote:
{ By the way, I ain't no Christian. But religious crap sorta interests
{ me. PraisBlob.
{
{ lurch
Hmmm. Looks like some .sig material here.
Sister Pammy of the Soil
knuckle@FingerSandwitch (RevLurch) wrote:
>Maybe we should be doing a little planning ourselves, so we won't have
>to cobble excuses together and look like as big a bunch of damn fools
>as they did, if for some bizarre reason OUR aliens run a little late.
>
>lurch
>
How 'bout we say, "Our aliens are running a bit late."?
Rev. Random the Other
ya...@meatlux.comdon (RevLurch) wrote:
>nosp...@radix.net (MegaLiz) wrote:
>
>
>
>>"Yes. ALL THAT. I suppose I should have a big ol' NAPTIME sign on this
>>She leaned toward me and hissed significantly, "Good luck is labelled
>>next to Correct Knowledge!" then she disappeared.
>
>>WHAT THE FUCK? I have it on some authority that Jehovah Witnesses are
>>insulted by the concept of luck or somethinglikethat.
>
>>I gotta know: what is Correct Knowledge?
>
Err, pretty good, but this was a Jehovah's Witness, not a towelhead.
Prolly right anyhow, kinda.
Correct Knowledge is to KNOW the Witnesses are a ripoff, as Meg showed
that she understood when she closed the door, but to CORRECTLY give
them money anyway. It happens, sometimes, that people pay them off
just to get rid of them. It's almost like finding money in the
street, right NEXT to that, as a matter of fact. Maybe. That's my
idea. They are not that far removed from our own Church in this,
really. Maybe.
The REAL DEAL is that this is the time of year when ANYONE can dress
like santa, get a bucket and ring a bell on any college campus, and
make the big bucks. I am not joking; we know a girl who makes 99% of
her yearly income this way. Last year she made $6000.00 in the two
weeks before Xmas alone. Really. This paragraph's true. She even gave
Pammy a hint if she wanted to try it: Make the santa suit kinda
low-cut and sexy. Yowser!
Rev Random the Other
"jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way to the bank"
Rev. Random the Other
> trip to Jamaica and the purchase of a shitload of drugs and booze by
> setting up a table downtown and collecting money for a "Drug Rehab
> Clinic." The clinic, according to one of them, was their apartment,
> and with the money they collected they "drug rehabbed the shit out of
> themselves," or something like that. He said they were down there for
> a week and didn't get hassled for permits or any of that crap, but
> that was years ago, and he could have been lying anyway. Just the
> same, I always thought it was kinda funny.
>
> lurch
Soily and me once worked out a scam based on those cans in grocery
stores and gas stations urging people to give to "help leukemia victims"
and when you read them they actually use 98% for "administration".
<SOME of these are legit - I'm NOT talking about those here>
Anyway, we gathered up every pathetic image we could find: Baby seals,
March of Dimes kids, fire victim fund posters, puppys, pregnancy test
kit adds ...EVERYTHING.
Then we founded the "American Hemerocalis Foundation". It sounds vaguely
like a blood disorder, or SOMETHING charitable at least when you see it
with the baby seal or the cripple. (For the non-gardener, Hemerocalis is
the common daylilly.) Then the slogan: Give so that Others can Enjoy a
Better Life. Wooo!Wooo! It made ME feel like donating. What fired this
scam was reading that the can people are pulling down $3600.00 per
month, driving their route collecting CASH money. And I trust that they
report it ALL to the tax man, sure, yeah uh-huh. At least they have to
disclose how much actually goes towards the charity in tiny tiny print
on the back next to the monosodium glutimate and lark's vomit. Remember:
There is no problem so awful that you can't add some guilt to it and
make it worse.
GIVE
SO THAT OTHERS CAN ENJOY
A BETTER LIFE
If the Nursery doesn't work out, we're gonna unleash some pathos!
Rev. Random the Other
Give, or we'll kill this puppy.
TarlaStar
>knuckle@FingerSandwitch (RevLurch) wrote:
I thought the excuse was already in place. The Saucers are coming for
us...but only if "Bob" isn't able to cut a deal with the Xists to give
him more time to increase the amount of SubGenii cut into the soulmix.
Should "Bob" be able to buy us more time, then the earth will continue
as it has. I mean, unless those intergalactic junkies decide to snort
all of us up their giant hairy nostrils (or whatever the Xist
equivalent IS) and renege on their deal with "Bob."
Tarla
paid up
either way
*****
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civilize by teaching cowardice.You water down the standards
which would lead to bravery.You restrain the will.You regulate
the appetites. You fence in the horizons.You make a law for
every movement. You deny the existence of chaos.You teach
even the children to breathe slowly.You tame."-Frank Herbert
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RevLurch
>WHAT THE FUCK? I have it on some authority that Jehovah Witnesses are
>insulted by the concept of luck or somethinglikethat.
overlooked this line (sorta) in the other response. What you heard is
correct, at least as far as I know. Christians aren't supposed to
believe in luck. The bibble and its believers like to attribute
fortuitous turns of events to "grace," not luck, and Jehovah's
Witnesses especially, believing as they do in an old-school,
ass-kicking God, are expected to be grateful as hell for that grace,
since people are so evil and weak and wormy they should rightfully
and properly be smited and smoted and tossed into the abyss and all,
and would be if the God treated us the way we deserved to be treated.
When shitty stuff happens, we bring it ALL on ourselves, somehow.
Haven't quite figured out how they get all of this to add up, but I
think that's basically how it goes. James 1:17 is scripture oft-quoted
by X-ists to illustrate all this. It sez: 'Every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the father of lights,
with whom there is no variableness, nor shadow of turning."
Ah well. Still don't know how it relates to "correct knowledge."
Where the hell is NENSLO when we need him? For some funny reason I
feel he could shed some light on this
RevLurch
knuckle@FingerSandwitch (RevLurch) wrote:
>osp...@radix.net (MegaLiz) wrote:
>ext to Correct Knowledge!" then she disappeared.
>>WHAT THE FUCK? I have it on some authority that Jehovah Witnesses are
>>insulted by the concept of luck or somethinglikethat.
>overlooked this line (sorta) in the other response. What you heard is
>correct, at least as far as I know. Christians aren't supposed to
>believe in luck. The bibble and its believers like to attribute
>fortuitous turns of events to "grace," not luck, and Jehovah's
>Witnesses especially, believing as they do in an old-school,
>ass-kicking God,
just to clarify, Jehovah's Witlessesses aren't EXACTLY Christians, as
the creatively translated Bibles they lug around with them say Jesus
was an example of human perfection but not God himself or a third of
him and all of him, all at the same time. They found that whole
trinity business a tad confusing and chucked it, as I understand.
But they also believed the 6000 years of human history would end in
1975, and a shitload of people left the sect when THEIR saucers didn't
show on the appointed date, but boss Franz had a ready explanation and
now the period begins with Eve's, not Adam's creation, and no one can
figure out how much time elapsed between those two events. Still, they
say the end ain't far off.
RevLurch
>WHAT THE FUCK? I have it on some authority that Jehovah Witnesses are
>insulted by the concept of luck or somethinglikethat.
overlooked this line (sorta) in the other response. What you heard is
correct, at least as far as I know. Christians aren't supposed to
believe in luck. The bibble and its believers like to attribute
fortuitous turns of events to "grace," not luck, and Jehovah's
Witnesses especially, believing as they do in an old-school,
ICEKNIFE
jim...@NOSPAMgate.net (Jim Vandewalker) wrote:
>In article <656l6e$5...@camel21.mindspring.com>, The Sheetrocker's
>Apprentice wrote:
>{ By the way, I ain't no Christian. But religious crap sorta interests
>{ me. PraisBlob.
>{
>{ lurch
>Hmmm. Looks like some .sig material here.
yeah, but is lurch a signature, or is that stage direction?
MegaLiz
i.s...@metronet.com (Rev. Ivan Stang) wrote:
: In article <3474d1b1....@news1.radix.net>, nosp...@radix.net wrote:
: > WHAT THE FUCK? I have it on some authority that Jehovah Witnesses are
: > insulted by the concept of luck or somethinglikethat.
: > I gotta know: what is Correct Knowledge?
:
: I dunno, but, like, Miss MegaLiz, can I like get real CLOSE to you and,
: like, maybe, STAND ON YOUR FEET??
:
: I won't bring any of them BUGZ wif me....
Better NOT bring any of them SLIMY BUGZ thatsfersure, even so, if you
stand on MY FEET, I may be forced to employ my FOOT GLANS* (YES that's
GLANS) to scoot your feelers back to Singapore before you can say,
"EXCUSE ME."
*Note: this is NOT a sexual maneuver in any sense, you...you...
PODOPHILE!
-------------------------------------------------------------
"There's dogs in the ROAD!" -- Sparky
"Hit them." - Spunky
* alt.foot.fat-free: where you can collect yummy cheese!
Rev. Ivan Stang
In article <656m1q$e...@camel20.mindspring.com>, The Sheetrocker's
Apprentice wrote:
>
> Maybe we should be doing a little planning ourselves, so we won't have
> to cobble excuses together and look like as big a bunch of damn fools
> as they did, if for some bizarre reason OUR aliens run a little late.
>
COME now, Rev. Lurch! REALLY!
You'll frighten the children!
RevLurch
icek...@lanminds.com (ICEKNIFE) wrote:
>jim...@NOSPAMgate.net (Jim Vandewalker) wrote:
>>In article <656l6e$5...@camel21.mindspring.com>, The Sheetrocker's
>>Apprentice wrote:
>>{ By the way, I ain't no Christian. But religious crap sorta interests
>>{ me. PraisBlob.
>>{
>>{ lurch
>>Hmmm. Looks like some .sig material here.
>yeah, but is lurch a signature, or is that stage direction?
aigs hit, stage right.
thank you, thank you
Michael Townsend
In article <6572ph$r...@snews3.zippo.com>, !!!bmy...@ionet.net (TarlaStar) wrote:
--> Should "Bob" be able to buy us more time, then the earth will continue
--> as it has.
You fool! "Bob" isn't buying, he's SELLING!
--
mtow...@earthlink.net po box 4722 portland me 04112-4722
"More bulldada, less bullshit."
Elvis J.R.
> You fool! "Bob" isn't buying, he's SELLING!
Ah, a Chaoist with wisdom!
Carlos Froggy May
Rev. Random the Other (cmc...@nt.com) wrote:
: Soily and me once worked out a scam based on those cans in grocery
: stores and gas stations urging people to give to "help leukemia victims"
[...]
: Then we founded the "American Hemerocalis Foundation". [...]
: Then the slogan: Give so that Others can Enjoy a
: Better Life. Wooo!Wooo! It made ME feel like donating.
A corner grocery here in New Orleans for years had a can at
the register with hand lettering saying:
HELP CRIPPLE CHILDREN
It's always nice to know what cause your change goes for.
-- Frater Frogalogus
* Fro...@neosoft.com ** "The Information Super-Frog" [dibs] *
http://www.angelfire.com/la/carlosmay/