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The man who founded a religion based on 'The Big Lebowski'





People who intuitively perceive 2,500-year-old Chinese and Greek concepts, while nodding to California's detached hippie philosophy and quoting droll lines from “The Big Lebowski,” which turns 15 this year, are joining a revelatory religion that has illuminated its U.S. founder in northern Thailand.



Dubbed "Church of the Latter-Day Dude," the group also invites "mellow, unflashy chicks who hang around in their bathrobes and take baths with candles and whale sounds," says the religion's Dudely Lama, Oliver Benjamin.



"Everyone feels oppressed by society's pressures," Benjamin says.



"Everyone wishes they had more freedom. Everyone wishes they could be more carefree, to worry less about money and status."



Benjamin's church is heavily influenced by the Tao of Lao Tzu (6th century B.C.), Epicurus (341-270 B.C.) and the “The Big Lebowski,” a 1998 film written and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen.



The film stars Jeff Bridges as a surreal, hilarious, ironic, marijuana-smoking, satirical, 40-something character nicknamed "the Dude.”



Read the rest here:



http://travel.cnn.com/bangkok/life/doctrine-chiang-mais-church-latter-day-dude-explained-206793



Here's their website:



http://www.dudeism.com/ordination



They say the use of the word dude does not single out males and that dudette is incorrect. (something like that)



Maybe these guys will rival Scientology.

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Nicnic
23:56 Aug 11 2014

This seems like it's taking the piss more than anything.



Scientology, unfortunately, believes the shit they spout.

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