Welcome to this silly fun world building literary project to turn our mascot Wiggles into a deity.
In this category you’ll find a basic overview of the entire literary universe of the HoW (House of Wiggles), a new religion which offers a space for everyone, religious, spiritual, or atheist to explore the meaning of life together based on the one golden rule ‘don’t listen to anyone who tells you they know the answers’.
Here you can:
- Post suggestions and ideas to help with the world/character building
- Give feedback and ideas on others stories
- Join teams and collaborate on writing stories
- Create your own stories set inside the HoW Universe.
If others like a story here they become cannon, or law, and other writers can/should set their stories in a universe where that story took place.
Backstory
This started because a lot of members asked us about doing spirituality themed kindness activities, which doesn’t fit at Public Happiness Movement, we’re solely focused on people and kindness, but i kept on idly exploring the idea.
What project could we direct them to that would benefit humanity and create more kindness in the world? What would it look like if we did do religion?
This the, is the outcome. A fictitious world, a world building bible, about a new religion which united society by offering a shared space for everyone, religious, spiritual, or atheist to explore the meaning of life themselves, and together. For self-exploration and based on kindness, community connection, partying, and one golden rule: ‘don’t listen to anyone who tells you they know the answers’.
How it might look and how that would impact our world at various points in the future?
Is Wiggles a god?
He is a very good boy.
The full HoW bible is based on Github here
Intro
An endless stream of people ask to create religious or spiritual activities here, which doesn’t fit with our Community Values, so we decided to create a place to direct them to. This is a silly fun side project to turn our mascot Wiggles into a deity.
A space for everyone, religious, spiritual, or atheist to explore the meaning of life together based on the one golden rule ‘don’t listen to anyone who tells you they know the answers’
Mission statement
To soften religion/spirituality and create a fun place full of dance and kindness
Goals
- To create a space for self exploration and warm, friendly discussion, where extremists, charlatans and snake-oil sales people can’t manipulate others as no-one will listen when they say they know the answers
- To bring closer community connections by creating a space where people can worship, meditate, explore and meet to be part of an epically fun social vibe together, rather than in their own insular buildings
Inspiration
My own efforts to explore spirituality or religion in public settings have always met with the faint whiff ..or sometimes strong stench of B.S. I asked a good friend and world renowned mindfulness expert why i kept running into this feeling every time i tried and they said to me ‘Don’t listen to anyone who tells you they know the answer’.
That really helped as in all those settings there were people desperately trying to tell me they were sure they were right. They just knew. Some believed it, but how can anyone be so sure of themselves on something we can never prove? I suspect many didn’t, especially those in leadership positions, and were faking it for social status, influence, power, money, or to sell the latest crystal supplement or suppository.
That advice was a huge help as it explained what was wrong in all of those settings. They are a perfect place for people who want to manipulate you as there’s no way to prove what they are saying is right or wrong, only how convincing they are.
This led to the idea for The Church of Wiggles. A place where people could meet and explore their own religious/spiritual journeys together. A place where people with different beliefs can have fun together and not argue about who’s right as everyone agrees that no matter how much they believe something, no-one really knows for sure.
Why Should Wiggles be a God?
Because he’s a very good boy.
Oh, and because its a wonderful symbolic reminder that The Church of Wiggles is a playful place focused primarily on fun and community, where we believe religion and spiritual beliefs, or lack of them, are a fun journey that are an important part of the human experience and they should never be taken to be taken too seriously.
The goal can be described as antidogma, and uniting local communities where traditional religions divide, simply by basing much of their social lives around just one group. Also fun, just as Wiggles would want it to be.
Wiggles Official Title:
The Great Golden Potato
Brainstorming
- Titles of apostles can be potato related also, to keep the humour and allow the ability to mock other faux religions and in-groups who use titles and cult-like behaviours to incentivise members ever inwards; like the mormons, scientologists, kkk, free-masons. Its our hope that anyone who joins The Home of Wiggles will forever be prevented from falling for these traps as we’ve made them obvious to spot and too ridiculous to take seriously
