Author Kurt Vonnegut, who is most famous for his novel Slaughterhouse-Five, created Granfalloon, which is defined as a "false karass" in the fictional religion of what?
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Granfalloon A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel "Cat's Cradle"), is defined as a "false karass". That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is meaningless.
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Kurt Vonnegut Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ( ; November 11, 1922April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel "Slaughterhouse-Five" (1969).
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Assianism Assianism (Russian: Ассианство , "Assianstvo"; meaning the "religion of the ese", in Russian асов, "asov") is a Scythian movement of Native Faith practised in Russia, based on the traditional folk religious beliefs of the Ossetians, modern descendants of the Scythians. The religion is known as "Assianism" among its Russian adherents, and as "Uatsdin" (Уацдин, literally "True Faith") by Ossetians in their own language. It started to be revived in a conscious and organised way in the 1980s, as an ethnic religion among the Ossetians, who have since largely embraced it. Scythian religious groups are also present in Ukraine.
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James Strang James Jesse Strang (March 21, 1813 – July 9, 1856) was an American religious leader, politician and self-proclaimed monarch. In 1844 he founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Strangite), a faction of the Latter Day Saint movement that he claimed to be the sole legitimate continuation of the Church of Christ founded by Joseph Smith fourteen years before. A major contender for leadership of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints during the 1844 succession crisis, Strang made overtures to Brigham Young and Sidney Rigdon and all of the other church leaders to remain in their offices and support Strang's appointment by Joseph Smith, however most of the apostles rejected the appointment. Rigdon claimed leadership of the church as the senior member of the First Presidency and Young claimed it as senior member of the Quorum of Twelve Apostles. Strang returned to Wisconsin and established his church headquarters there, excommunicating the apostles who did not support him, including Young. During his 12 years serving as Prophet, Seer and Revelator of his church, Strang reigned for six years as the crowned "king" of an ecclesiastical monarchy that he established on Beaver Island in the US state of Michigan. Building an organization that eventually rivaled Young's in Utah, Strang gained nearly 12,000 adherents prior to his murder in 1856, after which, most of his followers rallied under Joseph Smith III and formed the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
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Latter Day Saint movement The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s. Collectively, these churches have over 15 million members. The vast majority of adherents belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), with their predominant theology being Mormonism. The LDS Church self-identifies as Christian. A minority of Latter Day Saint adherents, such as members of the Community of Christ, believe in traditional Protestant theology, and have distanced themselves from some of the distinctive doctrines of Mormonism. Other groups include the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which supports lineal succession of leadership from Smith's descendants, and the more controversial Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which defends the practice of polygamy.
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Skoptsy The Skoptsy (Russian: скопцы , also transliterated as Skoptzy, Skoptzi, Skoptsi, Skopzi, Scoptsy, Skapetz, and other spellings) were a coitophobic secret sect in Tsarist Russia. The Skoptsy are best known for practicing castration of men and the mastectomy of women in accordance with their teachings against sexual lust. The movement originated as an offshoot of the sect known as the "People of God" and was first noted in the late 18th century. The Skoptsy were persecuted by the imperial government and later by the Soviet Union, but enjoyed substantial growth before fading into obscurity by the mid-20th century.
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Otherkin Otherkin are a subculture who socially and spiritually identify as partially or entirely non-human. Some of them surmise that they are, either spiritually or genetically, not human; however, this claim is unsubstantiated. This is explained by some members of the otherkin community as possible through reincarnation, having a non-human soul, ancestry, or symbolic metaphor. Some scholars categorize this identity claim as "religious", because it is largely based on supernatural beliefs. Adherents more typically deny the religiosity of otherkinism, referring to it instead as simply a congenital condition, or a metaphysical state of being.
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Atheism in Hinduism Atheism (Sanskrit: निरीश्वरवाद , "nir-īśvara-vāda" , lit. "statement of no Lord", "doctrine of godlessness") or disbelief in God or gods has been a historically propounded viewpoint in many of the orthodox and heterodox streams of Hindu philosophies. In Indian philosophy, three schools of thought are commonly referred to as "nastika" for rejecting the doctrine of Vedas: Jainism, Buddhism and Cārvāka. Though "nastika", meaning heterodox, refers to the non-belief in the Vedas rather than non-belief in God, all these schools also reject the notion of a creator god.
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Aetherius Society The Aetherius Society is a millenarian, New Age, UFO religion. It was founded by George King in the mid-1950s as the result of what King claimed were contacts with extraterrestrial intelligences, whom he referred to as “Cosmic Masters”. Regarded as firmly based in Theosophy, the Aetherius Society combines UFO claims, yoga, and ideas from various world religions, notably Hinduism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Stefan Isaksson notes that it has “become a complex religious belief system that includes an extraterrestrial hierarchy of various spiritual masters and such concepts as universal karma and religious healing.” The religion's goal is to prevent worldly destruction by improving cooperation between humanity and various alien 'masters', and by using 'spiritual energy' to improve the spiritual calibre of the world. The society has claimed that various disasters may be prevented or relieved by prayer, often aided by "Spiritual Energy Batteries" meant to store healing psychic energy The society also believes that it is to make the way for the "Next Master," a messianic figure who will descend upon Earth in a flying saucer, possessing 'magic' more powerful than all the world's armies. The society is named after Aetherius, a being King claims to have telepathically contacted and channeled. Aetherius is believed to be a Cosmic Master from Venus, as are Buddha and Jesus. The society's membership, although international in composition, is not very large. David V. Barrett suggested in 2011 that the worldwide membership was now into the thousands, with the largest number of members being in the United Kingdom, United States and New Zealand.
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Chaos (Warhammer) In Games Workshop's "Warhammer Fantasy" and "Warhammer 40,000" fictional universes, Chaos refers to the malevolent entities which live in a different timespace, known as the Warp in "Warhammer 40,000" and as the Realm of Chaos in "Warhammer Fantasy". The term can refer to these warp entities and their influence, the servants and worshippers of these entities, or even the parallel universe in which these entities are supposed to reside. The most powerful of these warp entities are those known as the Chaos Gods, also sometimes referred to as the Dark Gods, Ruinous Powers, or the Powers of Chaos. Similarities exist between the Warhammer idea of Chaos and the concept of Chaos from Michael Moorcock's Elric saga, which also influenced D&D's alignment system. Further similarities can be seen with the godlike extradimensional Great Old Ones of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's stories.
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Discworld gods The Discworld gods are the fictional deities from Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series of fantasy novels. The Discworld, being a flat disc supported on the backs of four elephants on top of a giant flying turtle, exists in a region of the universe where reality is somewhat less consistent than it appears in our own, more mundane corner of existence. Because reality on the Disc is so fragile and malleable, belief has a tendency to take on a life of its own, and gods are far more obvious to the people of the Disc than they appear to us.
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LDS fiction LDS fiction (or Mormon fiction) is an American niche market of fiction novels featuring themes related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the LDS Church, see also "Mormon"). LDS fiction now accounts for more than half the sales of some Latter-day Saint book publishers.
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Kormos Kormos or Kormoz (Turkish: "Körmöz" or "Körmös") is the spiritual devil of the Altaic people. Kormos means in Turkic languages "does not see" or "blind."
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Genocide Superstars Genocide Superstars (often referred to as or shortened to Genocide SS) was a Swedish hardcore punk, rock n' roll band. The band was formed in 1994 in Örebro, Sweden. The lyrics, themes and surrounding artwork tended to revolve around subjects such as violence, totalitarianism, alcohol use, women and motorcycles. Despite the name, the band had nothing to do with national socialism, and never approved of such opinions. As the members were veteran parts of the 90's crust/hardcore movement in Sweden, chance is the opposite is true; rather than having right-wing sympathies, they were strongly against it.
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Yarsanism Yarsanism is a syncretic religion. Its followers, known as the Yarsani, Ahl-e Haqq , Ali-Allahi or Kaka'i (in Iraq) (Kurdish: یارسان‎ , "Yarsan", Persian: اهل حق‎ ‎ "Ahl-e Haqq" "People of Truth") are an ethno-religious group primarily found in western Iran and eastern Iraq, and are mostly ethnic Goran Kurds, though there are also smaller groups of Turk, Persian, Lori, Azeri and Arab adherents. The total number of Yarsanis is about 5,000,000, of which an estimated 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 are in Iran.
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Ijun Ijun (いじゅん ) is a Shinto-Ryukyuan-derived religion founded by Takayasu Ryūsen (1934-) in Okinawa. This modern religion started in 1972 and in 1980 became registered under the Religious Corporations Law ("Shūkyō Hōjinhō"). In the same year the movement joined the "Shinshūren" (Federation of Japanese New Religions) and started its overseas activities.
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Kibology Kibology is a parody religion, named after Kibo, the central figure. Practitioners of Kibology are called "Kibologists" or (sometimes more disdainfully) "Kibozos".
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Great and abominable church In the Latter Day Saint movement, the great and abominable church (also called the great whore of all the earth) is a church described in the Book of Mormon and other revelations by Joseph Smith. The great and abominable church is identified as being synonymous with the Whore of Babylon described in chapter 17 of the Book of Revelation. Although many Latter Day Saints have associated the great and abominable church with the Roman Catholic Church, official publications of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) have discouraged this interpretation.
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Deadeye Dick Deadeye Dick is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut originally published in 1982.
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Polydeism Polydeism (from Greek "πολλοί" (" 'poloi' "), meaning 'many', and Latin "deus" meaning god) is a polytheistic form of deism encompassing the belief that the universe was the collective creation of multiple gods, each of whom created a piece of the universe or multiverse and then ceased to intervene in its evolution. This concept addresses an apparent contradiction in deism, that a monotheistic god created the universe, but now expresses no apparent interest in it, by supposing that if the universe is the construct of many gods, none of them would have an interest in the universe as a whole.
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Kaliflower Commune The Friends of Perfection Commune is an American Utopian community in San Francisco, CA. The San-Francisco-based commune was founded in 1967 on principles of a common treasury, group marriage, free art, & selfless service. They were originally called the Sutter/Scott Street commune, & commonly referred to by non-members as the Kaliflower commune after their newsletter of the same name. Because of their publishing activities, which allowed them to spread their philosophy, they became a significant influence on Bay Area culture. Many members of The Angels of Light, a free psychedelic drag theater group, originally lived in the "Kaliflower" commune. The name Kaliflower came from their publication of the same name, titled after the Hindu name for the last and most violent age of humankind, Kali Yuga.
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Mangani Mangani is the name of a fictional species of great apes in the Tarzan novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs, and of the invented language used by these apes. In the invented language, "Mangani" (meaning "great-ape") is the apes' word for their own kind, although the term is also applied (with modifications) to humans. The Mangani are represented as the apes who foster and raise Tarzan.