The Big Davitzski

Today I’ve done something that strikes me as both cool and uninteresting; I went to Dudeism.com and became an ordained dudeist priest.

Dudeism is a religion/philosophy that resulted for the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski. This movie, with the casting of Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Steve Bushemi, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, and Sam Elliot (as a cowboy, what else), is about Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski, a typical hippie slacker with an easy going approach to life who gets roped into a crazy scandal after some thugs mistake him for a millionaire (and one of them urinated on his rug, which really “tied the room together”), but despite the insane series of events, he keeps his lazy, harmonious state of mind in tact. The cult following (‘cult’ probably isn’t the best word to use when talking about a religion, but I digress) that resulted from this film was mainly do to the likeability of “The Dude” and his philosophy of kicking back and enjoying life. This philosophy led to the creation of Dudeism. Dudeism is basically a modern combination of Taoism and Buddhism (Buddhism, Dudeism, get it). Dudeists believe that ‘taking it easy’, and not stressing out is the best way to be happy, not to mention doing what you enjoy. For example, The Dude enjoys, white russians, marijuana, listening to music, and bowling; that doesn’t mean you have to, just do whatever makes you happy (unless it’s criminal). To me, this is a good religious and philosophical direction to go in, simply because dudeist won’t nail anyone to a wooden cross, put together an inquisition, or commit genocide via plane crashes because those thing go against the good willed nature of Dudeism. Becoming an ordained dudeist priest is easy, literally anyone can do it, all I had to do was point and click.It really isn’t something to take too seriously, but it shouldn’t be too hard to preach Dudeism, because I just did; and to all you bible thumpers who are probably planning to write nasty comments against my ‘blasphemy’, just listen to this: Many religious figures are considered dudeists due to their philosophical zen, ecspecially Jesus Christ. So in conclusion, being ‘Dude’ doesn’t mean you’re an unambitious, lazy slacker, it just means that you can kick back and enjoy the little things in life, and in a way, isn’t that all any of us wants, dude.

P.S. I decided that “The Big Davitzski” would be my title since believe it or not, that was my families surname back in Poland, but despite being Davitzski and Polish, I can find any evidence of Judaism in my family, go figure.