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Started by froclown, October 08, 2007, 10:11:08 PM

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Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law
                                         THE RADS & The Normals
In the year 2305 of the vulgar era, a passing piece of space junk of unknown
origin collided with the earth. The contents of its payload dissolved into the atmosphere,
infected the entire planet with a virus capable of genetic alteration. The more freethinking
individuals, approximately 30 of the population was more susceptible to a minor
genetic mutation. The only known side effect was that their bones required a small
amount of Cesium to remain stable. The remaining 70 were unaffected by the insistent.
The only reliable is by measuring the amount of radiation emitted from an individual.
There is no danger of harm form the small level of radiation that occurs in these
individuals. The effected however became known as Rads, noting their higher radiation
level, and the unaffected referred to themselves as Normals. These two groups-associated
began to associate less, and soon developed their own cultural practices.
The Rads, adopted a belief system in which the individual was respected more
that one who blindly follows rules. The related to each other under the rule that as long of
as no one is prevented from doing their own thing, no law was broken. People seldom
transgressed this law. The structure of their society was supported by the fact that since
no one interfered with another's will; people were more likely do their part to help others.
The people helped out and did there part, not because of a of law, or social norm, but
because they knew it would be better for the group as a whole. With in their own Group,
they got along and few problems arose. When problems did arise they would dissolve the
argument by in the way that brothers fight over a shared goal. This way, the Rads lived
happily without any set of strict laws or social norms, besides try to be nice, and don't
restrict others.
The Normals created a vast network of laws and social rules. It was not allowed to
sit certain ways, to walk on certain roads at certain times, to dress in certain way, and
even their speech was limited to a specific rhythm and syntax. They were given schedules
that said when they should be where; doing what, and it was punishable to do otherwise.
If any one was caught breaking any of the laws, they were sent to be reconditioned;
which consisted of torture by electro shock when questions concerting the law were
answered wrong. Despite having so many laws, people continued to be miserable and
stressed out. They feared that there might be troublemakers out somewhere walking east
down a west sidewalk, or talking with strange confusing accents. To help people relieve
these fears, there government, a which consisted of a group of people who performed
vastly complex bureaucratic procedures and wasted thousands of trees worth of paper per
day, would constantly create new laws, and revise old one, so they would be even harder
to understand. These new laws instead of relieving fears only created more criminals,
this made people even more afraid. The Normals continued to live stressed out by the
number of laws they had, while in constant fear of people who might transgress those
laws.
Normals and Rads would seldom interact; both groups had beliefs about the
others, which were mostly false. The Rads had to eat special Cesium enhanced cereal, to
prevent their bones from breaking. Cesium, was however poisonous to Normals, and so
they would refuse to eat it. When they were children, many Rads would refuse to eat the
Cesium, due to it bitter taste, parents would tell them they would become Normals, if
they didn't eat it. They myth stuck, and most 3rd generation Rads, believed that Normals
became that way because they wouldn't eat breakfast. This leads Rads to mock Normals
for their anal behavior, by throwing breakfast foods at them. Normals were frightened of
Rads, because of there "Bazaar and unpredictable behavior". The Normals believed the
Rads were incurably insane, since having not been through the original conditioning
process, the most Rads did not respond to reconditioning. Besides their unruly behavior,
the Normals also feared the Rads because they were radioactive. The media propaganda
that was broadcast to the Normals homes described radiation poisoning as a slow painful
way to die. The reason for this was to educate people not to mess with radioactive
material, but many Normals believed the Rads were radioactive as well. Not wanting to
die in agony, it was not uncommon to see less educated Normals running away screaming
and crying when they witnessed some one behaving strangely.
To prevent panic and harm, the Rads would spend weeks learning the current
Normal rules before attempting to enter any of their cities. They would learn to act
completely like Normals, they would avoid radiation screens, and purchase visitor
schedules at the appropriate time and place. They would learn to speak in the proper
tone and rhythm for their location, and remember which direction to walk at what time.
Even the most skilled Rads, usually were found out, which would generally cause panic,
a crime that was punishable by death, because it cause many others to break rules and
thus need reconditioning. When panic was avoided, they were quickly quarantines, and
exiled form the city. For this reason, Rads seldom attempted to enter the bound of
Normal Cities. Some of the braver Rads would attempt to play tricks on the Normals, by
showing up, breaking all kinds of rules, and running away, before they were captured.
Those that succeed attained temporary social status, until something more impressive
came along.
The Normals had strict religious practices, which request that people sacrifice
their time and money to God. These practices were to keep them conditioned into
believing that "higher powers" exist in some abstract way, to which it is necessary to
make sacrifices out of love, in exchange for protection and the hope of eternal happiness.
This was of course a ploy by the state to trick people into willingly giving up giving up
their time to jobs and give up their money as taxes. This religion taught that the best thing
one could do is to give up ones life for ones God. In fact the biggest part of the doctrines
centered around one specific man, who gave his life to God so that he would give up the
grudge he had against of everyone else. Which, clearly demonstrates the Normals belief
that it was best to give up your life serving the society's goals. This religion taught that
these meta-physical speculations about God were absolutely true and to doubt them was
wrong and worthy of punishment by being snubbed and gossiped about by others. These
beliefs had been part of an on going tradition for over 2000 years, all because a man once
told people to be nice to each other, instead of blindly following the rules of ancient
Hebrew society.
The Rads as a whole didn't have any religion. There were no laws concerning
religion, so it was all right to believe in any gods or spiritual being in fact it was ok to
believe any sort of nonsense you liked, so long as you didn't tell other people what to
believe. From this many beliefs about the nature of existence and other meta-physical
topic struck many debates and arguments, but since none of it was really taken too
seriously, in the end they laughed it off and went about there business. The reason
metaphysics wasn't taken serious, was that it wasn't really known, but speculated at. The
Rads took very little seriously, as they knew that everyone speculated a great deal more
than the actually know about anything.
The Rads, like the Hutterites, separated from the Normals, and built there society
bases on helping each other out. The Hutterites however, have a lot of rules like the
Normals. In our society, the when the Hutterites enter our cities, it is like when the Rads
entered the Normals city, people don't understand the Hutterites belief sand may be
prejudice or uncomfortable around them. If on the other hand, we were to enter a
Hutterite village, we would feel out of place. Like the Rads in the Normal city, we would
have to first learn all their rules, and would probably still not quite fit in.
In our culture, the Rads are like people who are free thinkers. We don't purposely
segregate based on independence, but it occurs due because the free thinker is less likely
to follow social rules they don't agree with. The genetic cause for prejudices exists
however, our society hold many beliefs about race and other genetic factors, which
although false, still influence peoples' behavior. People use these beliefs to organize
individuals into groups, based on physical features like race. One can then know how to
react to people in each group. Free thinkers are both respected and feared in our society.
They are valued to there contributions to society through discovering new ways of doing
things. They are feared however, because the free thinker doesn't fit easily into any kind
of group. The beliefs about there behavior based on physical features is quickly shown to
be false, and they react to situations in such an unpredictable way, that a set of beliefs
cannot hold them. People fear the free thinkers, just as they did the Rads because they
don't obey the strict rules that govern everyone else. In our society unpredictability is '
feared above all else, thus people are put into groups to increase predictability, and
ungroup able, thus unpredictable people are most feared.
                            Love Is The Law, Love Under Will.

Messier Undertree

  Hey froclown, do you know what happed? Oh, by the way, this is nothing to do with
  this thread. I went to Yoshinoya the other day. YOSHINOYA! And there were
  so crowded and I couldn’t even find a place to sit. Then, I found the
  advertising saying “150 yen off!.” My goodness! How come you are all coming,
  and sitting at Yoshinoya for just “150 yen off?” I saw a familie, like four
  of them with their kids. This guy’s saying “All right, your dad is ordering
  an extra large bowl.” What a pathetic! Hey you bastards. I can give my 150
  yen. So, just give me a break alright? Yoshinoya should be a place where
  people are fighting, like two jerks facing on each other against “U shaped
  table,” then one of them can be stubbed to death by any chance. This is how
  Yoshinoya’s suppose to. This ain’t a place for no woman and no kid. Alright,
  I finally found a place to sit. Then, the jerk next to me was ordering a
  large size with putting extra juice on it. That pissed me off once again.
  Hey jerk, we ain’t order “putting extra juice on a bowl” no more today!
  What a stupid you looked: ordering extra juice with his goofy face! Do you
  really want to eat a beef bawl with extra juice on it? I really want to ask
  you, interrogating you for an hour. Don’t you just want to say “an extra
  juice!?” As a professional Yoshinoya customer, I would rather order “extra
  scallions.” This is the coolest way. You get more scallions, and less beefs.
  This is it! It can be the best, if you put a raw egg on it. No one can beat
  this. But you have to be careful because if you order this way, the Yoshinoya
  employees gonna put you on their black lists. This can be so dangerous,
  like a risk of fighting with a double edged blade. So, I don’t recommend
  the beginners to do this... froclown, you’d rather ordering some ordinary set menu
  instead.

LMNO

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