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Kerry Wendell Thornley (April 17, 1938 – November 28, 1998) is known as the co-founder (along with childhood friend Greg Hill) of Discordianism,〔〔 in which context he is usually known as Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst or simply Lord Omar.〔 He and Hill authored the religion's seminal text ''Principia Discordia, Or, How I Found Goddess, And What I Did To Her When I Found Her.'' Thornley was also known for his 1962 manuscript, ''The Idle Warriors'', which was based on the activities of his acquaintance, Lee Harvey Oswald, prior to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy. Thornley was highly active in the countercultural publishing scene, writing for a number of underground magazines and newspapers, and self-publishing many one-page (or ''broadsheet'') newsletters of his own. One such newsletter called ''Zenarchy'' was published in the 1960s under the pen name Ho Chi Zen.〔 "Zenarchy" is described in the introduction of the collected volume as "the social order which springs from meditation", and "A noncombative, nonparticipatory, no-politics approach to anarchy intended to get the serious student thinking." Raised Mormon, in adulthood Kerry shifted his ideological focus frequently, in rivalry with any serious countercultural figure of the 1960s. Among the subjects that he closely scrutinized throughout his life were atheism, anarchism, Objectivism, autarchism (he attended Robert LeFevre's Freedom School), neo-paganism, Kerista,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kerista )〕 Buddhism, and the memetic inheritor of Discordianism, and the Church of the SubGenius. ==Personal life== Kerry Wendell Thornley was born on April 17, 1938 in Los Angeles to Kenneth and Helen Thornley. He had two younger brothers, Dick and Tom.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kerry Thornley's Family )〕 On Saturday, December 11, 1965, Kerry married Cara Leach at Wayfarers Chapel in Palos Verdes, California. They had one son, Kreg Thornley, born in 1969. They later divorced. Kreg is a photographer, painter, musician and film maker.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kreg Thornley )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kerry Wendell Thornley」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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