IllogiBooks:The Book of Zimizmizm

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“Contained herein are words I myself have written.”

~ Reverend Zim_ulator

Introduction

32,000 years ago, some people walked into a cave in Malaysia and drew images. These are the earliest known works of art to date, and there is reason to believe the spirit of artism extends 200,000 years or more, perhaps across species boundaries to Neanderthal and others. The spirit which moves the artists hands, which moves the mind to appropriate spaces, is ancient by our standards. It is ceaseless, meandering, powerful, caressing, and above all perhaps, enduring. This spirit is based in an archetypal Spirit, like the Hero, the Mother, the Father. I propose it is this Spirit that compels humans to believe themselves part of the greater whole, to found religions, to take vows, to obey, to empty their pockets, to be corrupted, to be saved, to be enlightened, to be a fool, to rule over others, to be under anothers thumb, to stand awestruck at the majesty of the Universe, to be bored to tears, to be elated, to be clinically depressed.

Spirituality touches us in many forms. It can be profoundly personal or communal and social. It can be deep or shallow.

And do not dismiss the shallow, as the Pharisee dismissed those more sinful than he at the temple. The shallow, those seemingly less-than-mindful among us, serve their own purposes. By serving a purpose, I mean their actions are as key to our evolution as any other, mindful or otherwise. I mean that people we judge good or evil, useful or useless, are each and every one a key equal in value to any other person.

This book is part of a series thousands of years old. It hearkens back to the first time someone cared to write about something other than taxes or grain storage, the bookkeeping of the day. Ideas preserved for posterity, and eventually, in the name of God or Gods. The Baha'i Faith has an interesting idea called Progressive Revelation. As humanity progresses through the ages, God sends messiahs to teach us what to remember, what to forget and what's new. Krishna, Buddha, Moses, Zoroaster, Christ, Mohammed and others are considered legitimate messiahs, and for them, Baha'u'llah in the 1800s is the latest model. They've got a whole bunch of holy books with a whole bunch of new ideas about how to do things.

I like that idea because it explains a lot about a force of nature like the idea of a sun god explains a lot about the sun. Here I appropriate this idea for my own perverse pleasures, and twist the idea of sacred texts into a category containing anything that contributes to knowledge, or even purports to do so. That means almost any book, really. Even accounting text books contain deeper meanings than their seemingly blase' content conveys. How do we count things? Why do different things get counted differently, have different values, behave differently over time... a Quickbooks manual contains kernels of civilization that predate the first Pharaoh.

So what's all this, then? Well, firstly I shall try to be faithful to our core principle here; Illogic. I shall also try to be funny. I shall point to things bigger than you or I, make references to other faiths

Inspiration 1

Yea, and we walk through the the kneehills of the IR signature of Illogica, we fear no Logos, nor seagulls nor twine, for upon our shoulders is the burden. For it is only through the Fellowship of the Bent of Mind that the straightened may be bent, and the bent made straight. As the Illogos of potential and actual coalesce, their jagged counterpoints float up and are skimmed by the Holy Fishnet of the Kaizumer. The differences and the sums compose the Tune of the Otherverse. Feel honor, for this is the beginning of the inspired creation of the Book of Zimizmizm. Or don't. It doesn't matter now, and it might matter later... or not.