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	Bokononism
		Bokononism finds its roots on the Carribean island of San Lorenzo in the 1920's.
		It was there and then that Bokonon first preached on the folly of understanding and the hollowness of truth with which he won the people over.
		He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
	bernd.wechner.info /Bokononism (151 words)

	The Books of Bokonon
		The holy scripture of Bokononism was the ever-growing "Books of Bokonon", written by Bokonon -- a British Episcopalian Negro from the island of Tobago whose real name was Lionel Boyd Johnson [ 48 ] -- as a way to distract the people of San Lorenzo from their pitiful lives.
		I have also tried to cross-reference these snippets to the numbered sections of the novel, where you may read of scripture in the context of Vonnegut's story.
		To whom it may concern: These people around you are almost all of the survivors on San Lorenzo of the winds that followed the freezing of the sea.
	cns2.uni.edu /~wallingf/personal/bokonon.html (0 words)

	The Books of Bokonon
		The holy scripture of Bokononism was the ever-growing "Books of Bokonon", written by Bokonon -- a British Episcopalian Negro from the island of Tobago whose real name was Lionel Boyd Johnson [ 48 ] -- as a way to distract the people of San Lorenzo from their pitiful lives.
		The boko-maru is a Bokononist ritual for "the mingling of awarenesses".
		To whom it may concern: These people around you are almost all of the survivors on San Lorenzo of the winds that followed the freezing of the sea.
	www.cs.uni.edu /~wallingf/personal/bokonon.html (1870 words)

	Bokononism Information
		Bokononism is the fictional religion practiced by many of the characters in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle.
		Many of the sacred texts of Bokononism were written in the form of calypsos.
		Bokonon describes his own religion as foma, created for the purpose of bringing comfort to the people of Bokonon's island.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Bokononism (478 words)

	Bokononism - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bokononism is the fictional religion practiced by many of the characters in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle.
		"Bokonon" was the way the natives of San Lorenzo, the tropical island where the shipwrecked Johnson started his religion, pronounced his family name.
		Bokonon describes his own religion as foma, created for the purpose of bringing comfort to the people of Bokonon's island.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Bokononism (297 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bokononism, founded by McCabe's accomplice Lionel Johnson (or "Bokonon"), however, is outlawed - an idea Bokonon himself conceived for the purpose of spreading the religion and making the residents of the island happier.
		Bokononists are liable to be punished by being impaled on a hook, but Bokononism privately remains the dominant religion of nearly everyone on the island.
		Bokononism itself seems to be loosely based on Voodoo and Catholicism, themselves also very prominent in Haiti.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=San_Lorenzo_(Vonnegut) (360 words)

	Bokononism
		Bokononism is the fictional religion practiced by many of the characters in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Cat's Cradle.
		It is based on living by the untruths that make one happy.
		Bokononistic sex is a union of two souls achieved by placing the soles of two people's feet together.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bo/Bokononism.html (47 words)

	Bayard's Explanation of Bokononism
		As Bokonon himself reports the adventure: A fish pitched up By the angry sea, I gasped on land, and I became me. He was enchanted by the mystery of coming ashore naked on an unfamiliar island.
		Bokonon says of his first book: "Of course it's trash" The Sixth Book of Bokonon All that we know of this book is that it is devoted to pain, in particular to tortures inflicted by men on men.
		Bokonon speaks of the hook, the rack, the peddiwinkus, the iron maiden,the veglia and the oubliette.
	members.tripod.com /~Bayard/bokonon.html (3999 words)

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		Bokononism is persecuted in much the same way non-conformist religions or religions in general were persecuted in despotisms.
		Bokononism, religion en masse of San Lorenzo, is the illegal religion whose believers, if caught, are sentenced to death as religions were persecuted in totalitarian countries.
		Bokononism, the religion of San Lorenzo, is shown to flourish spiritually while lacking in caporeal strength due to persecution, just as the world's religions have been.
	www.msu.edu /user/kunzfran/e112.htm (1439 words)

	College Papers-Cat's Cradle (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The story of Bokonon and his religion begins with the dictator of San Lorenzo and Bokonon at first Shteyrenberg 2 being friends, but then they decided to govern San Lorenzo by themselves.
		Bokononism says that one cannot touch soles with another person without loving them, and therefore sole touching is a good thing since it promotes love.
		Bokononism says that that all religions (including Bokononism) are nothing but a pack of hideous lies, which should be completely ignored.
	www.college-papers.org /free_essays/book-rep/cats-cradlemnn.html (855 words)

	Writing and Style, Pictures
		Bokonon himself tells you not to believe in Bokononism because, like all other religions – according to him -, it is all a lie and his words are not to be trusted.
		Only, this is the way Mona constantly lives, where she never has to worry about consequences and never has to feel any real emotion for anything because, to her, life itself is a game.
		Julian is a man who lives rationally and according to principles that are rational, while Bokononism is completely irrational from start to finish, but is so much so that it appeals to so many people.
	www.greatestjournal.com /users/kreepykitty/3559.html?mode=reply (1219 words)

	Article: Dubious Truths: An Examination of Vonnegut's Cats Cradle, by David Michael Wharton
		Bokonon serves the same purpose as the Tralfamadorians in Slaughterhouse-Five or Kilgore Trout in nearly every Vonnegut tale: he voices whatever off-the-wall observations the author chooses to toss out concerning the general state of things.
		Bokononism, unlike most religions, is quite openly founded on outright lies, a pack of foma as Bokonon himself might say.
		Consider that although Bokononism is, in the words of its own founder, "shameful lies," the lives of the characters in the novel nonetheless demonstrate that it has many useful things to say.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2003/20030324/truths.shtml (2429 words)

	Vonnegut Essays
		Bokononism is a witty, satirical retort to the methods that God uses to play his joke.
		As Bokonon prepares to make himself a permanent reminder to God that he was in on the joke all along, he says: "I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who" (231).
		Bokonon, we learn, is a religion that is made up of "bittersweet lies" (12).
	clem.mscd.edu /~english/3230/vonnegutF99.htm (8107 words)

	Bokononism Essay (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bokononism is the only religion that admits it is all a bunch of foma, or lies.
		Bokononism is a religion that could lead to the destruction of the world.
		Bokononism is a destructive religion because it allows people to be self indulgent and there are no principles to base a foundation on.
	www.exampleessays.com /viewpaper/57321.html (303 words)

	Studyarea.com's Free Essays Site - "Cats Cradle"
		He learns that the reason Bokonon was outlawed was to give the religious life of the people more zest, it was Bokonon's idea.
		Bokononism is a ridiculous religion, yet all the people of San Lorenzo put faith in it.
		It even gave Bokonon himself hope, the lies of his religion allowed him to laugh in the face of death.
	essay.studyarea.com /essay/Book_Report/36.php (887 words)

	San Lorenzo (Vonnegut) at AllExperts
		San Lorenzo also has its own native religion, Bokononism, a religion based on enjoying life through its untruths, and that people are designated into groups.
		Bokononism, founded by McCabe's accomplice Lionel Johnson, however, is outlawed by McCabe, with Bokononists liable to be punished by being impaled on a hook.
		Bokononism itself seems to be loosely based on Voodoo and Catholicism, themselves also very prominent in Haiti.
	en.allexperts.com /e/s/sa/san_lorenzo_(vonnegut).htm (395 words)

	Bokononism: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.
		...Bokononism Bokononism Bokononism is the fictional religion practiced by many of...
		...also describes an imaginary religion, Bokononism, together with several concepts that are central to it.
	www.encyclopedian.com /bo/Bokononism.html (133 words)

	Critical Analysis
		In Bokononism, Vonnegut suggests that God created man because he was lonely, once again not to serve a greater purpose.
		The founder and figurehead of Bokonon tells of how he would like to die by climbing a mountain, taking poison to petrify his body, and end up "lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who," (Cat's Cradle, p.287) a permanent reminder that anyone can be a God.
		Bokonon created the term “karass,”; which is a life team in which people are organized into doing “God’s Will without ever discovering what they are doing (Cat’s Cradle 2).” People can be manipulated in to believing they are sticking to their “master plan” without any evidence or indication that this is their “Zah-mah-ki-bo,” or fate.
	www-scf.usc.edu /~jhein/criticalanalysis.htm (2529 words)

	bokononism - Community Info
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		The boko-maru is a Bokononist ritual for "the mingling of awarenesses".
		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.
	community.livejournal.com /bokononism/profile (0 words)

	15 Things Kurt Vonnegut Said Better Than Anyone Else Ever Has Or Will \| The A.V. Club
		The great joke of Bokononism is that it forces meaning on what's essentially chaos, and Bokonon himself admits that his writings are lies.
		At the same time, there's a kindness to Bokonon's belief that this is all inevitable and just part of being a person.
		Jonah recalls her with a bemused fondness, ending the anecdote with this Bokonon quote.
	www.avclub.com /content/feature/15_things_kurt_vonnegut_said (1206 words)

	Brookfield Public Schools: Rachel Lellis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Established by an outlaw called Bokonon on the island of San Lorenzo, the religion is not in the slightest bit based on truth.
		Though the dictator threatens to execute those who practice Bokononism, he is secretly a Bokononist as well, thus creating the illusion that one is risking his life to practice his religion.
		For instance, Bokononism, a religion that is based on falsities, is composed of intertwined lies that are like the entwined strings of the catâs cradle.
	www.brookfield.k12.ct.us /page.cfm?p=3058 (2408 words)

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		Bokononism, the religion in Cat's Cradle, is not a Christian religion.
		In fact, the founders of Bokononism were quite conscious that it exists merely to give meaning to their followers lives.
		Whether these illusions are in the form of Bokononism, Tralfamadorian ideology, or the false middle names in Slapstick.
	members.tripod.com /~shreikey/vonnegut.html (1904 words)

	WowEssays.com - The Role Ofreligion And Morality In Cat's Cradle
		It is called Bokononism, and it reveals just how human it is to permit fate to have its way, and just how futile it is to fight against it.
		The basic tenet of Bokononism, according to Vonnegut, is that people should live by whatever foma (harmless untruths) make them happy.
		People, according to Bokononism, should do this so that fate seems much less prevalent in their lives, and so that they feel that their own free will is the main force in their lives.
	www.wowessays.com /dbase/ac2/wuj208.shtml (1131 words)

	Essays.cc - Cat’S Cradle
		Throughout the text, Vonnegut uses the religion of Bokononism, which is a fictitious faith founded on the basis of deception, to establish that people can prosper and be happy under false beliefs.
		After exploring the theory of Bokononism, and machinations of the men behind it, the reader is left wondering if Vonnegut is implying that democracy and our American ideals could be, perhaps, an elaborate hoax.
		In one of his last statements, Bokonon states that this God is hardly the all-loving entity he is perceived to be.
	www.essays.cc /free_essays/c2/xaj35.shtml (968 words)

	Writing.Com: Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
		A culture in which Bokononism is outlawed under penalty of death, though everyone in the country practices it.
		He is so ashamed he converts to bokononism right then and there.
		The novel is full of bends and twists and delights built on the grotesque nature of humanity.
	www.writing.com /main/books/entry_id/436661/printit/1 (367 words)

	Kurt Vonnegut
		In Cat's Cradle the religion of Bokononism is first introduced.
		Bokononism was Vonnegut's take on life and religion.
		Bokononism reoccurs in Vonnegut's later works as well.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/j/w/jwv123/assignment6.html (671 words)

	Cat's Cradle & truthful lies (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This is shown through Bokononism, the characterization of the Felix Hoenikker, and through Vonnegut’s syntax.
		Throughout the novel constant references are made regarding the infamous lies of Bokononism.
		Bokonon states “All of the true thing I am about to tell you are shameless lies.”(5) Yet the people of the desolate town of San Lorenzo choose to believe his lies.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper.php?nats=MTAxMToyOjE,0,0,0,0&request=31942 (254 words)

	blog.myspace.com/rickadelic
		Bokononism is the religion of which I speak.
		The similarities between Bokononism and Buddhism or Taoism are both few and many, which i have to assume was Vonnegut's intention.
		For starters; there was a verse from the Book of Bokonon which really hit home with me. On the ignorance of learned men: Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
	blog.myspace.com /rickadelic (1569 words)

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