Bokononism

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An appealing pack of foma by Kurt Vonnegut

A karass is a "team [of people] that do[es] God's Will without ever discovering what they are doing". [ 1 ] Humanity is organized into many such teams. One can try to discover "the limits of [one's] karass and the nature of the work God Almighty has had it do ... but such investigations are bound to be incomplete." [ 2 ]
A wampeter is "the pivot of a karass, around which the souls of the members of the karass revolve." A karass has two wampeters at any time, one waxing and one waning. [ 24 ]
A kan-kan is the instrument which brings one into his or her karass. [ 1 ]
A granfalloon is "a false karass, [...] a seeming team that [is] meaningless in terms of the ways God gets things done." Examples of granfalloons are "the Communist party, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the General Electric Company, the International Order of Odd Fellows -- and any nation, anytime, anywhere." [ 42 ]
Foma are "lies" [ 118 ]; "harmless untruths" [ frontispiece ]; "a useful and harmless sort of horseshit". [ ?? ]

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