Yoism

Yoism claims to be "the world's first open source religion." It began in the mid 1990's and has around 100 participants in the Boston, Massachusetts area, where it is centered, and an undetermined number world-wide, who call themselves Yoans.

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Yoism was modeled on the successful development of open source software and specifically on the subsequent explosion of interest in Wikipedia, a system for collaborative development of a compendium of human knowledge. In direct analogy to Wikipedia, Yoism was designed to be a collaborative collection/creation of a system of religious memes that best comports with the actual life experiences of people everywhere.

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