the netpope was inspired by the F.U.C.K.U.P. divination system in the Illuminatus! trilogy. reduced to the simplest of explanations, npope gives i ching readings for days and events. (as provided by the BBC world news service.)

the BBC nor any of its companies is in any way related to this site or the author.

if you have a question you'd love cast, put it in the 'question / situation' box and press 'go!'. if you'd like npope to parse an rss1.0 (or lower) feed, put it in the lower box and press 'go!'. your results will print out in the lower left hand box. then, click on any hexagram icon to examine the reading.

question/situation:

valid rss1.0 (or lower) url:

question/situation answers are generated live and fresh for each query. urls are queried a maximum of once an hour and have cached replies. (it won't update the content for at least an hour, no matter what.)

what/where/who:

• .. is the original F.U.C.K.U.P.?
• .. is the Illuminatus! Trilogy?
• .. is the idiot who made this?
• .. are those lined symbols?
• .. is the choir of chaos?

today and history:

the reading under 'today' denotes the overall ruling state for all events occuring today. 'history' denotes the last 5 days worth of these states.

events:

each event has three fields. the first field is the hexagram for the event as per the link in the next field. the link field will take you to a lead story on the BBC international website. the third field rates the overall importance of an event as determined by the netpope.

• [ x ] no relevance
• [ - ] small relevance
• [ + ] significance
• [ ++] strong significance

disclaimer

Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson hold copyright over the Illuminatus! Trilogy and the concept of F.U.C.K.U.P. all this other derivative crap is copyright rjmb. except the text of the i ching, of course. he doesn't have a copyright on that.