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What is lacking is a rich tradition of art and symbolism within this culture, as compared to other religions. Dudeism lacks cultural substance. This movement needs to produce artistic, musical, and literary works that challenge and inspire our adherents in ways that explore Dudeism or Abideism as a coherent ethical philosophy outside of the "The Big Lebowski" setting. Ideally, a number of such works would be controversial in nature and would spark conversation about important matters in this community. As a new independent video game developer who is trying to figure out a way to explore Dudeism in an interactive work, I am not being hypocritical in suggesting this.
By the way, what's a JRPG?
Quote from: SagebrushSage on April 14, 2016, 02:09:32 PMWhat is lacking is a rich tradition of art and symbolism within this culture, as compared to other religions. Dudeism lacks cultural substance. This movement needs to produce artistic, musical, and literary works that challenge and inspire our adherents in ways that explore Dudeism or Abideism as a coherent ethical philosophy outside of the "The Big Lebowski" setting. Ideally, a number of such works would be controversial in nature and would spark conversation about important matters in this community. As a new independent video game developer who is trying to figure out a way to explore Dudeism in an interactive work, I am not being hypocritical in suggesting this.You're approaching the question of "What is lacking?" from an artistic/creative perspective, and I dig that, but I think you might be putting the cart before the horse. The "big" religions have existed in one form or another for centuries, but Dudeism has only existed for, what, maybe 15 years? And as this thread shows, discussions about defining Dudeism are still ongoing and we're really not much closer to reaching a universal consensus among Dudeists except for "Abide" and "Be cool", and even those are vaguely defined at best.I'm not saying art and symbolism are unimportant--far from it--but if we're going to use visual media to explain what we're about (beyond the currently available tee shirts and bumper stickers, that is) I do think it's important that any such media doesn't send the wrong message if Dudeism is going to be taken seriously. Artists aren't going to know what kinds of symbolism are "wrong" if we can't tell them, and we can't tell them until we know ourselves.On a semi-related note, I wonder if the Dudely Lama truly understands what he started here.
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