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	I am an adherent of the only true modern oriental religion -
the Cargo Religion.  The Cargo Religion was founded in New Guinea
after World War II, and its main doctrine was the second coming
of the GIs.  Once again, a great fleet will appear suddenly on the
horizon, bringing jeeps and chocolate bars and spam.

Robb Crist
	YES, THEY ARE COMING - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT THE CARGO RELIGION

Q. Who is Akwe?
A. Akwe is from New Guinea.  He has come to help us, so we don't make the
same mistake they made, and fumble our chance of salvation as they fumbled
theirs.

Q. What is the Cargo Religion, and who believes in it?
A. The Cargo religion started in New Guinea, and at first Americans thought
it was just a naive cult of some ignorant natives, who believed the GIs
who came in 1942 were Gods.  Now we know that to different cultures, the
Cargo Opportunity comes in different ways.  We Americans were their cargo
opportunity and they blew it.  Now Akwe has come to tell us how to be
sure not to blow our opportunity.

Q. What was their opportunity, and how did they lose it?
A. In November 1942, Akwe's tribe was living the narrow and ignorant life it had led from
time immemorial.  All the tribes were against one another, yaws and other diseases
were rampant, people lived on grubs when fish were short, life was nasty
brutish and short.  Suddenly, a great fleet appeared on the horizon, and
thousands of men landed and befriended Akwe's people.  Doctors cured the yaws,
chaplains explained that cannibalism was wrong and that the tribes didn't have
to be enemies of one another, marvelous new foods like chocolate bars and
spam became available, and meaningful work in building air strips and roads
and setting up quonset huts became available.  But the GIs had not come just
to help Akwe's people.  A great war was going on, and everyone had to help.
Akwe's people were unprepared and were of little help to the GIs.  As a result,
when the war was over, Akwe's people had done little to win it, and the GIs
left and took their jeeps and spam and chocolate bars leaving only a memory of
a better time.  Only after some years, did the spiritual leaders of Akwe's people
come to understand that the departure of the GIs was not just bad luck, but
happened, because the people were not ready for their benefactors and not
spiritually and materially prepared to repay what had been done for them.
	Some of the New Guinea leaders thought that a second chance would
come if they only prayed for it, and many prayers were prayed, and a date
for the second coming of the GIs was announced.  But the day came and no
GIs appeared.  Akwe was the first to understand that each people has but
one opportunity.

Q.  What do the naive beliefs of these dumb natives have to do with us?
A.  Akwe has taught us that each people has its chance for a contact with
a higher culture.  We were their opportunity, and they lost it.  Akwe has
shown us what ours will be and that it will come soon.  We will soon be aided
by a culture as far above ours as ours is above the most primitive natives of
New Guinea.  But as with them, our betters will not have come just to aid
us, and if we react solely with selfishness, the benefits will be limited,
and they won't stay long.  They too are in a great war, greater by far than
any we have fought.  Our planet and our star are in one of the so-called
spiral arms of our galaxy, and for thousands of years, our spiral arm has
been invaded by the Outsiders.  The peoples of the Galactic Center have formed
a great union to defend the Galaxy from the outsider menace.  Our power is
as nothing compared to the billions and trillions in the armies and fleets
of each side.  But we can help.

Q. How can we help the Galactics when they are so much greater than we are?



Q. What will they bring us?


Q. How do you know all this is true?