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Is Goonswarm getting a Scientology vibe?
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David Cedarbridge
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#81 - 2013-06-17 07:16:11 UTC
HabeousCorpus wrote:
Say what you like about scientologists and those other victims, the Mormons, their religion might be based on a cynical attempt to make money by a wacky founder that has since metasticised into a poisonous growth and ...a sad reflection on the gullibility of people all too aware of their own mortality:

in the end its just hilarious.

Not to say Mormons or Scientologists are difficult to get a long with or anything, I find them sweet and endearing, unlike like those crazy christians who ignore the precise parts of their own holy book that contain the actual teachings of Christ, or the equally wild and woolly salafist muslims who are just itching to throw their lives away.

But you do have to give it up for people who will seriously do their utmost to believe in Xenu or magic glasses in order to not think about death.

I think the founders of EVE got the Amarr just right as the future of religion. Still crazy after all these years. Still violent. Still thinking they are right and everyone else is wrong.

The thing is without death, there would be no religion, and thus no Amarr.





It really took two pages for the "I hate religion" post to come up?
Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#82 - 2013-06-17 14:38:01 UTC
Well, whatever you say about Goons, they are by far the most artistic alliance in the game. Some of their recruiting posters, etc. are really first-rate, IMO. And the Mittani is one of the best bloggers/writers, in terms of creativity and entertainment value. The Goon mentality isn't really my thing personally, but got to give credit when credit is due....

(Some links to Goon art)
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c156/PinkFlagg/Eve/everyshipcounts.jpg
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/256/823/2d1.jpg
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/256/813/955.php
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/256/819/b75.jpg
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/256/821/479.jpg
http://cdn.tmcdn.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline_stopgap/public/guide-cover_1.jpg?itok=2PuvLr8h
Ramona McCandless
Silent Vale
LinkNet
#83 - 2013-06-17 14:44:12 UTC
If it doesn't involve blood, it isn't religion.

"Yea, some dude came in and was normal for first couple months, so I gave him director." - Sean Dunaway

"A singular character could be hired to penetrate another corps space... using gorilla like tactics..." - Chane Morgann
DarthNefarius
Minmatar Heavy Industries
#84 - 2013-06-17 15:02:46 UTC
David Cedarbridge wrote:
HabeousCorpus wrote:
Say what you like about scientologists and those other victims, the Mormons, their religion might be based on a cynical attempt to make money by a wacky founder that has since metasticised into a poisonous growth and ...a sad reflection on the gullibility of people all too aware of their own mortality:

in the end its just hilarious.

Not to say Mormons or Scientologists are difficult to get a long with or anything, I find them sweet and endearing, unlike like those crazy christians who ignore the precise parts of their own holy book that contain the actual teachings of Christ, or the equally wild and woolly salafist muslims who are just itching to throw their lives away.

But you do have to give it up for people who will seriously do their utmost to believe in Xenu or magic glasses in order to not think about death.

I think the founders of EVE got the Amarr just right as the future of religion. Still crazy after all these years. Still violent. Still thinking they are right and everyone else is wrong.

The thing is without death, there would be no religion, and thus no Amarr.





It really took two pages for the "I hate religion" post to come up?


Its not 'I hate religion' so much as it is I HATE LIES & LIARS
An' then Chicken@little.com, he come scramblin outta the    Terminal room screaming "The system's crashing! The system's    crashing!" -Uncle RAMus, 'Tales for Cyberpsychotic Children'
Amarra Mandalin
A Blessed Bean
Pandemic Horde
#85 - 2013-06-17 15:12:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Amarra Mandalin
Khergit wrote:
an opinion that turned into idolatry --

"And the Mittani is one of the best bloggers/writers, in terms of creativity and entertainment value."

(Some links to Goon art)
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c156/PinkFlagg/Eve/everyshipcounts.jpg
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/256/823/2d1.jpg
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/256/813/955.php
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/256/819/b75.jpg
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/256/821/479.jpg
http://cdn.tmcdn.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline_stopgap/public/guide-cover_1.jpg?itok=2PuvLr8h


This is definite cult mentality. I mostly like their artistic stuff, but geeeez..

*holds up a cross, backs away slowly and makes a dive for the holy water and garlic*
Muad 'dib
State War Academy
Caldari State
#86 - 2013-06-17 15:16:32 UTC
The goons arnt that serious on the inside tho it looks like it on the outside.

Thats the difference between Scientologists and Goons, Scientologists believe their own crap :P

Cosmic signature detected. . . . http://i.imgur.com/Z7NfIS6.jpg I got 99 likes, and this post aint one.
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#87 - 2013-06-17 16:10:34 UTC  |  Edited by: silens vesica
Callic Veratar wrote:
WTB goonswarm skinned DC-8

Brilliant.

Muad 'dib wrote:

Thats the difference between Scientologists and Goons, Scientologists believe their own crap :P

I tried believing in my own crap, but then a stray dog came by and ate it.

Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.

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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#88 - 2013-06-17 16:48:58 UTC
Amarra Mandalin wrote:
Khergit wrote:
an opinion that turned into idolatry --

"And the Mittani is one of the best bloggers/writers, in terms of creativity and entertainment value."

(Some links to Goon art)
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c156/PinkFlagg/Eve/everyshipcounts.jpg
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/256/823/2d1.jpg
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/256/813/955.php
http://i3.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/256/819/b75.jpg
http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/masonry/000/256/821/479.jpg
http://cdn.tmcdn.org/sites/default/files/styles/inline_stopgap/public/guide-cover_1.jpg?itok=2PuvLr8h


This is definite cult mentality. I mostly like their artistic stuff, but geeeez..

*holds up a cross, backs away slowly and makes a dive for the holy water and garlic*

Did holy water and garlic stop the French Revolution and Napoleon? Bolshevism and Stalin? Nonsense-ism and Kim Jong Il?Rock and rollism and Elvis?

See, this is where TEST is doomed to fail. They had the hubris to try to make themselves in the Goons' image. But they have no Charismatic Leader. And some not very titillating blog posts. And art-wise, just one pretty-good dinosaur pic. They need a lot more work in the organizational branding and cult group-think development department.
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#89 - 2013-06-18 02:30:58 UTC
Some of the posters for newbies are pretty nice.

Can someone leak the posters that have doctrine fits on them?

Triggered by: Wars of Sovless Agression, Bending the Knee, Twisting the Knife, Eating Sov Wheaties, Bombless Bombers, Fizzlesov, Interceptor Fleets, Running Away, GhostTime Vuln, Renters, Bombs, Bubbles ?
Amarra Mandalin
A Blessed Bean
Pandemic Horde
#90 - 2013-06-18 09:32:41 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Quote:


*holds up a cross, backs away slowly and makes a dive for the holy water and garlic*


Did holy water and garlic stop the French Revolution and Napoleon? Bolshevism and Stalin? Nonsense-ism and Kim Jong Il?Rock and rollism and Elvis?

See, this is where TEST is doomed to fail. They had the hubris to try to make themselves in the Goons' image. But they have no Charismatic Leader. And some not very titillating blog posts. And art-wise, just one pretty-good dinosaur pic. They need a lot more work in the organizational branding and cult group-think development department.


This would be an interesting discussion, but I don't want to get shot at with CAOD arrows --->
Hicksimus
Torgue
#91 - 2013-06-18 10:56:00 UTC
I came in to see what a Scientology vibrator looked like and I am leaving disappointed.

Recruitment Officer: What type of a pilot are you? Me: I've been described as a Ray Charles with Parkinsons and a drinking problem.
Aralyn Cormallen
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#92 - 2013-06-18 11:08:50 UTC  |  Edited by: Aralyn Cormallen
Sarah McKnobbo wrote:
Confirming John Travolta & Tom Cruise to FC for goons in the current warQuestion


AttentionAttention Now the guy playing Kenny Loggins on Mister Vee fleets makes sense. Could it be...

Although, now I have a mental image of DBRB dressed up like Travolta from Saturday Night Fever. This is going to be hard to scrub out...
Rhodopsin Pserad
Ho Theos Geometrei
#93 - 2013-07-07 19:14:17 UTC
Inxentas Ultramar wrote:
Goons play a video game.

Scientlogists wreck families, enslave and dehumanize children and have a disturbingly fascist view of a Clear world. I'd say they have nothing in common with Goons. Scientlogy is disgusting and immoral, not worthy of the label of religion and any individial taking anything Hubbard ever wrote seroious is batshit insane.

If this post offends you, then you can go R2-45 yourself.


Scientologists and Blizzard both do that....

I'd say Eve has a pretty fascist view of humanity but I'm concerned I might get banned. I don't really know how much organization it takes to hold down zero-sec as I'm relatively new to the game, but my assumtion is that if you can manage and hold onto more than a few star systems, that takes more than a dumb person. Ever played WoW? Ever seen 40 WoW players trying to follow the leader? It's like herding cats.

"Does the Eagle know what is in the pit, Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?"  "Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip."
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#94 - 2013-07-07 23:05:27 UTC
Hicksimus wrote:
I came in to see what a Scientology vibrator looked like and I am leaving disappointed.

Too bad.

Try a thorax.

Triggered by: Wars of Sovless Agression, Bending the Knee, Twisting the Knife, Eating Sov Wheaties, Bombless Bombers, Fizzlesov, Interceptor Fleets, Running Away, GhostTime Vuln, Renters, Bombs, Bubbles ?
Domanique Altares
Rifterlings
#95 - 2013-07-07 23:15:26 UTC
I'm still waiting on my trip about Goonswarm's personal Opux Luxury Yacht filled with nubile subservient girls, wherein I will be inducted into the inner orders of the religion for a low low price of 40 billion isk.
Jimmy Morane
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#96 - 2013-07-07 23:28:08 UTC
Rhodopsin Pserad wrote:
Inxentas Ultramar wrote:
Goons play a video game.

Scientlogists wreck families, enslave and dehumanize children and have a disturbingly fascist view of a Clear world. I'd say they have nothing in common with Goons. Scientlogy is disgusting and immoral, not worthy of the label of religion and any individial taking anything Hubbard ever wrote seroious is batshit insane.

If this post offends you, then you can go R2-45 yourself.


Scientologists and Blizzard both do that....

I'd say Eve has a pretty fascist view of humanity but I'm concerned I might get banned. I don't really know how much organization it takes to hold down zero-sec as I'm relatively new to the game, but my assumtion is that if you can manage and hold onto more than a few star systems, that takes more than a dumb person. Ever played WoW? Ever seen 40 WoW players trying to follow the leader? It's like herding cats.


Ahhha! So YOU are the one running around the forums today necroposting! P
Proletariat Tingtango
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#97 - 2013-07-10 04:49:49 UTC
James Amril-Kesh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#98 - 2013-07-10 04:54:51 UTC
Doc Fury wrote:
Naomi Hale wrote:
Is the Mittani becoming the new L. Ron Hubbard?


L. Ron never falsely claimed to be a Lawyer

Neither did Alex Gianturco.

Enjoying the rain today? ;)
Rhodopsin Pserad
Ho Theos Geometrei
#99 - 2013-07-10 16:36:01 UTC
Jimmy Morane wrote:
Rhodopsin Pserad wrote:
Inxentas Ultramar wrote:
Goons play a video game.

Scientlogists wreck families, enslave and dehumanize children and have a disturbingly fascist view of a Clear world. I'd say they have nothing in common with Goons. Scientlogy is disgusting and immoral, not worthy of the label of religion and any individial taking anything Hubbard ever wrote seroious is batshit insane.

If this post offends you, then you can go R2-45 yourself.


Scientologists and Blizzard both do that....

I'd say Eve has a pretty fascist view of humanity but I'm concerned I might get banned. I don't really know how much organization it takes to hold down zero-sec as I'm relatively new to the game, but my assumtion is that if you can manage and hold onto more than a few star systems, that takes more than a dumb person. Ever played WoW? Ever seen 40 WoW players trying to follow the leader? It's like herding cats.


Ahhha! So YOU are the one running around the forums today necroposting! P


Sorry, I browse while I mine, I don't usually pay attention to dates when I'm looking through stuff. I couldn't even tell you how I arrived at this thread.

I wonder necropost anymore, obviously. Can't you tell?

Seriously though, it takes 20 min for this retriever to fill up....

"Does the Eagle know what is in the pit, Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?"  "Above all, you can believe in Providence in either of two ways, either as thirst believes in the orange, or as the ass believes in the whip."