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Who's Gru? Edit.: I googled the meme, sorry for the dumb question :D |
You're good. It's largely an American thing. |
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Does it count if the religion worships a dead god? Can we sneak in? ;) The World a God-Corpse Saint Erasmus's Sermon to the Assembled Chasind Barbarians: "My good men and women, I teach you: God is dead. Ah, but I see wide eyes and wider mouths! 'Could it be possible?' you think. 'This holy man has come to our wilds to preach the Death of God?' Ahh, my good men and women, but I say, 'Could it be possible? That these warriors and saints in their forest have not heard that God is dead?' Close your eyes and still your tongues, good men and women! Could things be any different? If your spirits were truly all-powerful, why is your world so full of hardship? Why diseases, evil men, and the hardships of this world? God is dead, I say. God lived once, but by his love for all things hath God died. Stay, and I will teach! Once, before any and all things, God lived. He was She, and She He--two in one, as the two lobes of your brains make one. God's majesty and power was as endless as the deep oceans and skies, as powerful as the very sun--indeed, more than my pitiful and mortal attempts at metaphors can speak! Yet, God was alone. With infinite love and care, God had nothing to love but Himself. Thus God began His work. With nothing but His Great Love for us all did he work, and nothing to work with but his very self. In His many eyes, sweeping past and forward in time and space, he saw us and knew of us, each and every one of us, as He knows every blade of grass and little flower. He made the two worlds for us, this one and the world Beyond the Veil where our spirits fly when released from form. There dwell the many spirits, like the ones who aid your tribe against its foes. Alas, that no spirits exist but a fraction of God's might! But such was his will, for in Love did He make us of Himself, and by making unmake Himself. Ah, I hear objections now from some! How can such a powerful God not be powerful enough to make without unmaking Himself? Proud fool! And how many of your own women have died in sacred childbirth, proud doubter? Make but an iota of God's work before you doubt! Yet, I shall speak the truth: for his love for us did God leave not one grain of himself unspent. What good parent would do otherwise? Thus, I teach you: all are fragments and shards of our dead God. You wish to know why life can be cruel, why men slay and hurt, why women die in creating? God is dead. We are children without our parents, who could neither live while He lived nor live without His presence. Thus, I and the church from which I hail act in His stead, to repay the Great Debt. Ah, the Great Debt! For as every child owes obedience to his parents for the very privilege of life, so we owe our debt to God! Yet, God is dead! Who, then, to repay? I teach you, good men and women, repay his shards and his sons! For is it not wisdom that credits be passed from father to son? I teach you, good men and women, the five tenets following from the Great Debt: I teach you Great Love, to love others as God loved you, such that you are willing to go unto death for your fellow shards! Yea, for the paradises beyond the Veil, made for us by God in his love, will not be closed for one who practices it in turn! I teach you Great Prudence, to take only what you must. Hunt only to feed, lean against another only as you must, live within your means. Do not be so quick to accumulate further debt upon the Great Debt you owe to God! I teach you Great Justice, to right the wrongs and settle debts for those shards who have turned their eyes from God and the love which bore them. I teach you Great Mercy, to be merciful in your justice and forget not that you are brothers and sisters from the same all-loving God! Punish as a father to his children, not a ruthless executioner. I teach you Great Peace, for war is a calamity in the eyes of our God. What father would wish to see his sons fighting amongst themselves? And what sons would we be if we defy his wishes simply because He has passed away? Strike not against your brother, Good Sons! By these ways you surely will not be barred from the gates of Paradise." Thus spoke one of the great holy men of Violanian history, long before the void law or even the republic. Yet his words still hold sway within Violan to this day. Theothanatism is a faith that culturally united the whole of Violan by virtue of its strange teachings. Because it posited that every other culture's gods were spirits--great shards of the original dead god--it was able to act in a syncretic manner, applying its teachings and forms over the top of the existing culture's religion and slowly changing the culture in line with its teachings. Though the specific forms and rituals differ heavily throughout Violan, all remain culturally united by the church even as strict belief in the literal teachings has died off in favor of strict atheism or agnosticism. It was, by backwoods ways, the church itself that built modern Violan's secular humanism. And so, while church attendance has fallen as it always does during the growth of atheism, it has not done so as drastically as many other faiths. Many still consider themselves culturally theothanatist if not strict believers, and view the church as a social ritual that binds the community. |
I’m just here to answer issues occasionally and post nonsense. |
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I've just saw this: Say hello to the Free Market Federation, a vast trade federation reaching it's ideals across the galaxy. We advocate a free market or laissez-faire economy and wish to spread this idea of economic freedom across the known universe. We love a good bit of roleplay, and all nations that support free markets of all degrees, no matter their politics on other topics, are welcome to join. LONG LIVE THE FREE MARKET! .... and all I have to say is that it's god damn impressive! Very nice work |
So. Fun fact: don't set up a colony in the international incident quest chain for the lulz. It'll take out your public protest rights and raise your authoritarianism and other bad stuff sky-high. Don't be like me. |
It's really surprising what some issues can do to you. There can be some seriously wack consequences for the most mundane things. Violan, Free Transhumanists, and The Lunar Republic |
I just chalk it up to the site's creator being an ultra-liberal who's ideologically possessed. Like the time my civil rights went down because I privatized public parks. |
I'll do some very liberal things in my country that have interesting consequences. The most notable one I've seen is that term limits absolutely tank your political freedom Violan and Free Transhumanists |
Still a work in progress, so I need ideas. Is the milky way okay? I like it because it has a grid so we can use coordinates to give locations of planets, trade routes, bases, etc. Its also an official NASA render so it's really high resolution. The only issue I see is that its centered around the sun, so it has to be important in our timeline too. MAP OF THE FREE MARKET FEDERATION
LONG LIVE THE FREE MARKET! |
A lot of our nations have lore tied to earth, either directly or indirectly, so I think using the milky way would be alright. I think it would work best if we could find one that uses the actual center point of the universe as the center but if it's not doable then it would probably be okay. |
If we are using Milky Way then I would like to call dibs on my favorite solar system - Mu Arae, or Eta Eridani (Mu Arae is prefered) |
There's thousands of star systems so everyone can have many. I will just label the major ones though like the capital and major population centers and fill in the area between with a bit of color. When I'm ready with the map you can tell me the polar coordinates and Ill put it on there. And just because it is a real galaxy doesn't mean we need to be realistic. You can make up a star system that we know doesn't exist and it wont be a problem. |
I used to have about 7 solar systems, but due to dying universe my civilization relocated its planets to main solar system... which is actually not a solar system anymore since I'm orbiting a black hole. |
Gentlemen, the ACA is undergoing a rebirth. We are currently undergoing a massive recruitment drive and are reaching out to all of our embassies so you are aware of the upcoming changes. If any of you would like to create a puppet to move to the region and assist in the reconstruction of a government there, you're more than welcome to do so. |
I used to span three local clusters, but since the universe is dying, I’ll have the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy that is surrounded by 9 main sequence stars that we just so happen to find and claim. |
The spread of my nation has always been relatively small as I only inhabit my core star system and two neighboring star systems with terraformed planets. ES Alpha and ES Beta lie in my home system and my other two planets, Centennius and Millennius, lie in two separate systems directly adjacent to my home system. Because of our small scope we've managed to largely avoid the resource problems by draining nearby stars and attempting to prolong the life of the three stars our planets are in the systems of. |
Well our convoys are still roaming around and draining unclaimed stars and harvesting resources of those fallen civilizations.... but at least we are trying to collect some additional information while doing so - in effort to preserve the culture... or what remained.... We've four sapient colossal AI minds with vast data access to help us accelerate our necessary scientific goals if we should survive as a civilization. Currently another 9 sapient super-computers are under construction. We've managed to take one step further in our analysis of our black hole's event horizon. For several centuries we've received anomalous reading from different time dilatation zones and after few huge datasets of readings it shows that there are constant variables within these anomalies. Anomalies seems to be maybe even some autonomous reaction on our actions, but there is still a huge scepticism around this phenomenon. So far it seems that more of our technology and energy signatures around the black hole causes different reactions - does it resonate somehow? Scientists asks.... And that is not everything... those who are using nanotech symbiotic technologies become describing to have weird thoughts, dreams and visions.. and everyone knows that many aspects of our technology and knowledge is based on scavenged technology of the Ancient civilization which origins are still quite... unclear, as well as how this civilization ended and disappeared. Nanotechnology is not the exception here... in fact, these symbionts remained unchanged.... Ministory 2: *whispering* ....Do you..... hear me...? "Yes.... yes I hear you!" shouted Overseer Ziran I. "WHERE ARE YOU? I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!" *whispering*... Always here.... You see me "no... no I don't" replied Ziran desperately. *whispering*.... Disappointing.... You DO see me... BEHOLD! A sudden surge of light out of the ever consuming darkness blinded Ziran as he fell from his revitalization unit. "AAAARGHT!... Another lucid dream... just a mere dream... alright..., but this one felt so real... and that voice... feeling like it would be my best friend yet it's terrifying, strange sentiment indeed" he wondered to himself. |
Haha, yes, all according to plan... I mean, uh. Thank you kindly. |
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