I'm predominantly against organized religion, so I'd vote for a Republic.

But I mean... he's benevolent AND all-knowing.

It's not like he/she/it necessarily has this vague tome filled with weak parables and allegories up for interpretation, resulting in a lot of petty arguing and squabbling between earthly folk who can't figure out what god is or what he's trying to accomplish. We have his predisposition laid out in front of us, conclusively. There'd be a god--he's good--and he knows everything.

Yeah, yeah, "good is subjective", whatever. To me, it's pretty obvious what benevolent would mean if you're someone who is omniscient. As long as the god isn't omnipotent, I don't see any real disadvantage, even if it is a religion. The only reason I'm against organized religion right now is because all of the gods we have dreamt up of fucking suck, and there's no way to even prove that they exist (mostly because they don't).

But I mean, I refer to my initial response... I don't really see any disadvantage if we're conclusively told, "Yeah, there's this benevolent god character who's gonna show you the way". I mean, shit, sign me up.

I don't even think you could even call that a religion, much less a theocracy, as Meta pointed out.

If you look even deeper (but still not that deep), Tyler was pretty much asking for the rule to be broken anyway. The idea is that he wanted to build an army, essentially. He knows how humans work--you tell them to do something, they don't fucking listen. They do the opposite. Tell them not to talk about Fight Club--they do it anyway. Now we have this information spread, and a whole bunch of these new losers signing up every day. "I see a lot of new faces tonight. That means a lot of you have been breaking the first two rules." Notice how there's no real punishment for that. It's pretty much what he wanted all along. As for why he thought this reverse psychological method of doing this was more efficient, that's up for interpretation. In my opinion, it was Tyler's way of giving them "free will", or at least, his way of tricking them into thinking they had any. It's an army created not by force, or by indoctrination, but by the viral concept taking a life of its own.

Not to mention, it teaches the average castrated, consumerist white male how to break rules.

The secrecy only helps to the extent that he only needs an army big enough to carry out his iconoclastic tasks, and without the secrecy, it would cause a lot of commotion in the real world, which would be ultimately detrimental to Tyler's ideals.

So no, Tyler doesn't actually give a shit--it's all the better that the first two rules are broken. To him, the more space monkeys, the bigger Project Mayhem can potentially become, and the more mayhem he can eventually cause. They're rules designed to be broken. And yeah, like Aria said, if you didn't... know that? I'm afraid you missed the point entirely.

She's so overrated.

There isn't a point of choosing to have fun (or meaning for that matter) at all. There are no 'points' within and throughout the multi universe. Points are merely temporary, flawed measurements. Everything is a macrocosm reflecting inner machinations.

I strongly disapprove of the ways in which you "choose" to spend your time and have "fun".

Quote from: Verbatim on January 01, 2015, 01:59:55 AM

What's the fucking point?

Fuck around tbh

As if we don't already do that here?

If they're willing to talk at all, I think it would be best if they smoothed things out in private, but at the same time, the drama monster within me HUNGERS I'd like to see them work things out in public as well... because I like both of them and it just kinda upsets me to see two transfolk at odds with each other, when they ought to be in alliance. It would warm the cockles of my heart.

But no, I think they should just be adults and talk it over in private. This ain't Jerry Springer.

Why don't any games I give a shit about have multiplayer betas <_<

Well then, don't use the word "actually", because that implies that what you said was contrary to what the OP said. And it wasn't.

This year is going to be one of my worst years, actually.

Well that's an odd way of saying it.

Not really; it's me we're talking about. I have this intense (perhaps irrational) hatred of alcohol.

Yearly reminder that champagne is literally the worst shit ever. People drink this shit.

I'm honestly curious as to just how different the site's gonna be. Is it a total transformation?... Or is it like... Sep7agon HD.

New Years Resolutions are pointless, because they almost all fail.

Set New Year Goals.

I'm not even sure if you're being purposely stupid here.

I wouldn't put it past you.