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View Poll Results: Is this a good idea
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Yes, and the donation thing is a good idea.
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Yes, but it should be free.
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52.63% |
No.
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01-22-2008, 06:43 AM
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I Live Here
Join Date: May 2007
Location: So Cal
Posts: 5,193
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Quote:
mmfwmc wrote
I could write an html poll pretty easily, I'd just need to find a place to host it.
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Poll Daddy
Never give a zombie girl a piggy back ride.
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01-22-2008, 06:49 AM
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#17
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Guest
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Quote:
ubs wrote
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Good idea.
The saying my father taught me was "If at first you don't succeed, read the instructions." These days it should be "google the problem."
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01-22-2008, 09:57 AM
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Obsessed Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Oxford, UK.
Posts: 2,330
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I'm ready. I have one ready to come off the blocks.
"You care for nothing but shooting, dogs and rat-catching, and will be a disgrace to yourself and all your family"
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01-22-2008, 10:21 AM
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I Live Here
Join Date: May 2007
Location: So Cal
Posts: 5,193
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Quote:
a different tim wrote
I'm ready. I have one ready to come off the blocks.
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Damn! That was fast. Does it have a conversion plan?
Never give a zombie girl a piggy back ride.
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01-22-2008, 01:14 PM
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#20
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Member
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Finland
Posts: 204
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Sure, make it free. If someone wants to make money out of their artificial religion, they are free to take the L. Ron Hubbard way. Everyone should just agree not to ridicule the religion in a way that scares off the marks believers.
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish." ~Albert Einstein
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01-22-2008, 03:45 PM
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#21
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Guest
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I wasn't intending for us to make money. Just the site as a whole. So, what should the criteria actually be? Check as appropriate, or add some of your own:
[ ] Believability (how easy it would be to convince people)
[ ] Marketability (how easy it would be to attract people)
[ ] Practicality (How easy it would be to actually run the church if we were serious. i.e. virgin sacrifices are probably out)
[ ] money making/personal power potential (the benefits to being on top)
[ ] Humour (it might be better to make this a separate award)
Also, would anyone who thinks its a bad idea care to explain why? I'm curious.
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01-22-2008, 04:02 PM
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#22
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Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Charlotte, NC
Posts: 233
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No, thanks. New religions are being created all of the time. Who was it who did the study of the "Cargo" religions in the South Pacific?
I will lend this bit of advice. From my own limited studies of the various insanities we call religion, you absolutely must have a holy book--some sort of scripture. It doesn't matter how fucked up it is, but it has to be written down in black and white and it has to have come from the mouth of whatever fucking god you are claiming to be speaking for.
The Torah is insane, but it's written down. The New Testament is loopy, but it's written down. The Koran is bloodthirsty shit, but it's written down. The Bhagavad Gita is a bunch of nasty fever dreams, but it's written down. Dianetics is pure madness, but it's in print. The Book of Mormon is wacked-out fuckwaddery, but it's on paper. The various Sutras are full of monkey dung, but there you have it.
Bottom line: You gots to have a Holy Book!
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process imbedded in the human spirit--Abbie Hoffman.
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01-22-2008, 04:38 PM
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Reading my last post, I wasn't completely clear: I didn't plan for the site to make any money from suckers following the religion - just from us having an excuse to donate.
I agree about the holy book thing, but I think that our holy books need to be limited to 2000 words or less. I'm not prepared to read much more than that for fun.
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01-23-2008, 05:21 AM
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#24
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Guest
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It's a fun idea but I couldn't muster coming up with a religion. Not enough free time.
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01-23-2008, 05:59 AM
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Guest
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Quote:
mmfwmc wrote
Reading my last post, I wasn't completely clear: I didn't plan for the site to make any money from suckers following the religion - just from us having an excuse to donate.
I agree about the holy book thing, but I think that our holy books need to be limited to 2000 words or less. I'm not prepared to read much more than that for fun.
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You just need some sort of software that will fluff the core material into more words. But it also has to have some serious fuzzy logic and a pervaricator function. And a random number generator.
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01-23-2008, 07:29 AM
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Member
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Charlotte, NC
Posts: 233
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Quote:
skribb wrote
It's a fun idea but I couldn't muster coming up with a religion. Not enough free time.
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Same here. I have enough trouble stealing time from my eight-hour job to write novels. Creating a new religion is just too much effort. I reckon Ted Kaczynski has the time. He already has his manifesto out there.
If you're lazy, you could base it on the Unabomber's Manifesto.
Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process imbedded in the human spirit--Abbie Hoffman.
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01-23-2008, 07:55 AM
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The Original Rhinoqurilla
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Somewhere Not-So-Cold with Mountains
Posts: 4,829
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Any artists/graphic artists want to make a poster for my new religion?
EDIT: I should put that the style I'm looking for is something similar to the propaganda pieces of Alexander Rodchenko.
Wait just a minute-You expect me to believe-That all this misbehaving-Grew from one enchanted tree? And helpless to fight it-We should all be satisfied-With this magical explanation-For why the living die-And why it's hard to be a decent human being - David Bazan
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01-23-2008, 11:18 AM
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#28
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Guest
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I like the idea, but seems a bit rum for the people putting all the work in to have to shell out. On the other tentacle, I like the fact that having to pay a fee to enter would formalize the competition, limiting the competitors to those who are serious about it, so that it wouldn't become a free for all. It shouldn't be too difficult to make it free for all, but not a free for all, though.
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01-24-2008, 12:22 PM
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The Original Rhinoqurilla
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Somewhere Not-So-Cold with Mountains
Posts: 4,829
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There are no artists at our fair forums interested in immortalizing the SBA?
Wait just a minute-You expect me to believe-That all this misbehaving-Grew from one enchanted tree? And helpless to fight it-We should all be satisfied-With this magical explanation-For why the living die-And why it's hard to be a decent human being - David Bazan
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01-25-2008, 11:38 AM
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General of the Attacking Army
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Pittsburgh
Posts: 12,904
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I'll be a judge.
Categories:
Creativity
Believability
Profitability
What else?
I will grieve. Grief is not a theistic concept. ~ Sternwallow
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