Sorry to double post, but I don't want to exceed the limit for symbols per post.
The basics of Epsilonism (certain facts only).This is a catalogue of:
- How we're suppose to join.
- How we're suppose to live as members.
- What the Epsilon Program gives us.
- What we're expected to believe.
And
- Other info, that doesn't fit into the other categories.
This catalogue post is made up of only the most basic undeniable facts (speculation is what other posts are for) and it's subject to improvement.Sources:
- The official Epsilon Program site: http://www.epsilonprogram.com/
- San Andreas: Cris Formage's interview at WCTR Entertaining America, with Lazlow.
- San Andreas: Epsilon Program advertisements on the radio.
- San Andreas: A statement made by a caller (Epsilon member) on the radio show "Lonely hearts".
- San Andreas: WCTR news.
- Vice City Stories: Vice City Public Radio: New world order. Host: Dwayne Thorn
- GTA IV internet.
- San Andreas: A statement made by a caller (Epsilon member) on the radio show "Gradening with Maurice".
How we're suppose to join:According to the Epsilon site we're suppose to:
- Travel "through the dawn" to the pass pictured in some un-known brochures.
- Look for a red truck with a dent on the right fender.
- Raise the left hand and recite the words: "Take me to to my father-father, brother-uncle. Kifflom."
- Wear a blindfold.
At that point the Epsilonists would do the rest.
According to one of the testimonials at the Epsilon site, we're also suppose to give up our identity, at some point.
According to Cris Formage in one of the commercials, and the "Give Money" page of the Epsilon site, we have to call "1-866-FUN-CULT".
The contact page of the Epsilon site asks us to visit their enlightenment center and says that we can get reservations and directions from:
webminister@epsilonprogram.comHow we're suppose to live, as members:Most of the tenets are just facts that we're suppose to believe. There's actually very few things that say anything about having to do anything.
1: 12 tenets of Kifflom: 7. Men are supposed to lie with nine new partners a week. Women are supposed to lie with six, except for in July, when they must lie with five men a day. If there are no women, we are allowed to make them. "
From sand, from garbage, out of thin air!".
According to the back-bag wearing Epsilon pedestrians, we're also suppose to spend time in partner-sharing parties.
2: The Epsilon site tells us to read the Tract. "Cris Formage tells us in his wonderful book,
It Happened To Us All, that the TRACT will be written when we are all ready. However, Cris is also very clear on another point - although the TRACT has not yet been written, it can still be read by those that are willing to read it."
All we have to do to get the Tract is send a check or money order to "Cris Formage - Epsilon Cult of America - PO Box 10012 - Grand Canaria - Cayman Islands" and ask ourselves "Do i need an imaginary friend? Do I want to believe? AM I EVERYTHING I NEED AND LESS AND MORE?".
3: According to the Epsilon site, we're suppose to have "peace of mind". If we don't have it, then the Epsilon Program will provide it for us, if we donate an unspecified amount of money to the Program, by sending a check or money order to: "Cris Formage - Epsilon Cult of America - PO Box 10012 - Grand Canaria - Cayman Islands".
4: According to one of the testimonials at the Epsilon site, we might have to wear light blue clothing.
5: According to Cris Formage (in one of his radio commercials), we have to tithe 8.75 % of our financial income to the Epsilon Program. "Tithe" refers to giving a percentage of ones income to the church one belongs to. The amount is normally 10% (in fact the word "tithe" means "tenth").
6: Accordig to Cris Formage (in the interview), we don't actually
have to do anything (other then tithe money). "
It's a fellowship of like-minded adults who tithe money in exchange for salvation and merit badges. Every single thing we do is voluntary, including the swinging and making things up."
7: Accordig to Cris Formage (in the interview), we have to "make things up".
8: Accordig to Cris Formage (in the interview), we're allowed to be famous and have a nose and/or breast surgery.
9: Accordig to a caller (Epsilon member) on the radio show "Gradening with Maurice", we're allowed to have a large garden and feed animals (and possibly humans) to meat eating plants.
10: Accordig to a caller (Epsilon member) on the radio show "Lonely Hearts" (part 1), we're allowed to stalk the people we like.
11: Accordig to a caller (Epsilon member) on the radio show "Lonely Hearts" (part 3), we're allowed to have a lot of children, but we can't really talk about it, or maybe he just didn't want to talk about it? Also, raising our children into soldiers is an Epsilon tradition.
What the Epsilon Program gives us:Sources (see at the top of the page) are marked as
blue.
- It helps people give up "smack". The Epsilon site.
- It helps people find real meaning, in wearing light blue and proclaiming our real religion. Kifflom! The Epsilon site.
- It helps people to get rid of their fears, much better than "Inversion Therapy" ( http://www.fearitdoit.com/ ). The Epsilon site.
- If your lost, it will make everything "okay", for "lots" of money. The Epsilon site.
- It's an experience that will change your life. The Epsilon site and Cris Formage (commercial).
- It will put all our "mortal fears" at "ease". The Epsilon site and Cris Formage (commercial).
- It brings us to "light". Cris Formage (commercial).
- It allows us to no longer covet our neighbours ass. Cris Formage (commercial).
- It gives us "salvation", for a price. Cris Formage (interview).
- It gives us merit badges. Cris Formage (interview).
- It lets us be happy and free from thought. The Epsilon site.
- It lets us know the answers to the questions: "Why do trees talk?"; "Why are there dinosaurs?"; "Why do people die meaningless deaths?"; "Is there other intelligent life in the universe?" and "Why do I have to be monogamous?". Cris Formage (commercial).
- Reading and understanding the Epsilon Tract will open the secrets of the universe to us. Cris Formage (commercial) and Dwayne Thorn at VCPL.
- Figuring out the meaning of the universe, allows us to do whatever we want. Dwayne Thorn at VCPL.
- It helps us stay calm in "social situations". Cris Formage (interview).
- Epsilon lets us find our true self. Cris Formage (interview).
- It lets us know that religion is a "deeply personal" experience. Cris Formage (commercial).
- The Epsilon Program is either "running the government and Vinewood", or it's "an idea whose time has come". WCTR news.
- It gives us "meaning" that literature and philosophy can't give us. Cris Formage (commercial).
- It provides us with friends. Cris Formage (commercial).
- It gives us "sexual conquest" (if we crave it). Cris Formage (interview).
- It lets us experience "family betrayal" (if we crave it). Cris Formage (interview).
- It lets us experience "class warfare" (if we crave it). Cris Formage (interview).
- It lets us really feel "like we are a part of something" (if we crave it). Cris Formage (interview).
- The Epsilon Program, unlike Vinewood, doesn't "let us down". Cris Formage (interview).
- It lets us talk to invisible friends. Epsilon member at WCTR news.
- Everything is explained, if we lie with nine new partners a week. Cris Formage (interview).
- It lets us really communicate with our ancestors, for money. Cris Formage (interview).
- In the Epsilon program, there are no series finales. It goes on, and on, and on. It doesn't abandon us. Cris Formage (interview).
What we're expected to believe:Sources (see at the top of the page) are marked as
blue.
- Everything in the above points.
- 12 tenets of Kifflom: 1. The world is 157 years old - FACT! The Epsilon site.
- 12 tenets of Kifflom: 2. Dinosaurs are a lie that people believe because they are weak - FACT! The Epsilon site.
- 12 tenets of Kifflom: 3. You are happy, you just don’t know it - FACT! The Epsilon site.
- 12 tenets of Kifflom: 4. We all come from the same tree - FACT! The Epsilon site.
- 12 tenets of Kifflom: 5. Everyone is related to everyone else, except for people with red hair - FACT! The Epsilon site.
- 12 tenets of Kifflom: 6. Sperm does not exist - it is a lie spread by biology teachers - along with everything else you have ever been told - FACT! The Epsilon site.
- 12 tenets of Kifflom: 8. Aliens exist and are present on earth. If you have a birth mark, you may be descended from Kraff, the famous Emperor of the 4th Paradigm - FACT! The Epsilon site.
- 12 tenets of Kifflom: 9. Trees talk, but only some people hear them - FACT! The Epsilon site.
- 12 tenets of Kifflom: 10. People who believe in something live much longer than atheists, and they have eternal life thrown in for good measure - FACT! The Epsilon site.
- 12 tenets of Kifflom: 11. If you believe this and turn you hands and wallet over to EPSILONISM, you’ll live a happy life. Otherwise you are doomed - FACT! The Epsilon site.
- 12 tenets of Kifflom: 12. KIFFLOM - HAPPINESS IS YOURS! KIFFLOM! The Epsilon site.
- Points are irrelevant, as long as we're happy. Cris Formage (interview).
- We're descended from sponges, but most people don't know this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge Cris Formage (interview).
- The world is 157 years old and its age does not change. Cris Formage (interview).
- Cris'es time has come and so has Lazlow's, if he lets it. Cris Formage (interview).
- Cris knows the truth about Lazlow. Cris can see past Lazlows jokes and into that scared little boy beneath. Lazlow, Cris'es friend, like a lot of other people, is being lied to. Cris Formage (interview).
- If we are not happy, Epsilon can make us happy. Epsilon site and Cris Formage (interview).
- According to Cris, his lies are better then the ones told to Lazlow. Cris Formage (interview).
- Cris "got laid" in the morning of the day of his interview. By twins. They each laid an egg and Cris formed out of them. Cris Formage (interview).
- The Epsilon Programs price on salvation is a price worth paying. Cris Formage (interview).
- Darius Fontaine can kiss Cris Formages ass, but Cris does not think that he would like that. Cris Formage (interview).
- The rich cry too. Cris Formage (interview).
- Darius Fontaine is the devil and he knows that even tho he makes people kill their families, the people aren't really afraid. Cris Formage (interview).
- The Epsilon Program is destiny. Cris Formage (interview).
- The Epsilon Program seeks out the convenient bits from every faith to create a religion that is uniquely American: expensive, promiscuous and entirely meaningless. Epsilon site and Cris Formage (commercial).
- If we join Epsilon, we will be brought to "light". Cris Formage (commercial).
- We will never see a real dinosaur. Cris Formage (commercial).
- The Epsilon Program does not exist in just one time or place. Epsilon site.
- Dinosaurs never existed and science is a lie. Cris Formage (commercial).
Other info, that doesn't fit into the other categories:
- The Epsilon Program existed in 1984, if not even earlier. The time of GTA Vice City Stories.
- There's a business in GTA IV, called "Chiropractic overnight" (GTA IV internet: "www.Chiropracticovernight.com/index.html"), which is sponsored by the Epsilon Program. GTA IV internet.
Edit: Aug 22, 11 8:56am