The Church Of The Otters will, as it develops, contain many features of interest to worshippers of all stripes and strokes, including [but not necessarily limited to] the following:
- The Hall Of The Dead, wherein one may, in an online environment, chat, eat, sleep and work with dead humans or other formerly corporeal entities;
- The Holy Sacrificial Altar and Barbeque Pit, wherein one may slaughter, dress, roast and season one's favorite sacrifice in preparation for consumption and/or offering to the Great Otter;
- The Shrine Of The Dead Storage Units, wherein one may place one's deceased disk drives, tape drives, paper tape/card punches/readers, or any other mass-storage devices that may have passed on into The Great Beyond, in a great pile of inoperable machinery that may one day reach into Otter Heaven;
- The Online Confessional, wherein one may
- The Roll-Yer-Own Bible Machine, wherein one may randomly assemble any desired quantity of biblical texts, be they canonical or apocryphal, in any/all available languages/translations;
- The Do-It-Yourself Divinity Kitchen, wherein one may cook up deities of whatever shape, flavor and texture one desires; confess their many sins in private or public, that all may know and approve and forgive your thoughts and deeds, and gain much entertainment thereby;
- The Belief System Assembly Line, wherein one may select from any/all of the myriads of interchangable, modular Belief System attributes available, and construct a Religious, Political, Economic, Artistic or Athletic belief system [Game] to suit one's own desires [also known as the Game Designer's Workshop]
While construction proceeds, please feel free to browse the following resources, scan the Church archives, and pay obesiance to The Great Otter -- and it wouldn't hurt to submit to the Barfing-Yak *, either.
Alas and alack, the Church is in great need of rebuilding, and a more generic linking structure is currently being designed. Have mercy on us, eh? But at least the formerly broken links below have been fixed, at least as of C.E. 3 July 2001. Whew. The * (asterisk) following some labels provokes searching. And be sure to see this crucifixion. (Oops, it's gone now. Aw shit.)
NOW!! t'CotO's vast, inchoate, disorganized, massive archives are now online! Slowly being structured... Various sacred texts; apocrypha; pseudepigrapha; sutras; oracles. May the bird of paradise devour your brain, eh? Check'em out!
NOTE: Due to constant improvement / reorganization, it is NOT a good idea to link to any of the archived files, not yet. I'll have them all accessible via search engine Real Soon Now. Until then, just steal whatever looks interesting. And many of the archived files date back to MS-DOS days, when filename extensions weren't quite as standardized as now — so your browser may not know what to do with them! You can either download most (text) files (whatever the filename extension) and load them into a text editor or word processor, or wait until I've finished regularizing all the filenames. Yow.