If It Isn't A Religion Then What Is It?
A starfish, chopped into bits, will regenerate into dozens of starfish - so
is a chopped up starfish one starfish, or fifty? The problem lies in trying
to apply concepts of integer arithmetic to starfish, where they don't work.
Anyway.
Asking whether MOOism is a religion, an art form, a game, or some
sort of absurdist protest against the universe is like asking how many
starfish. These semantic categories were invented to explain a series of
phenomena - human behaviour. If we come across a phenomenon that breaks
those semantic categories, the fault is not in IT, but in THEM.
Still, it has some of the characteristics of
religion,
some of Art, some of
soap, and
some of a game. It has, however, very few
characteristics of a watermelon.
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edited for correctness and conformity with MOOist dogmas, catmas, and potatomas by the Association for Star-Bellied Sneetches.