Should I join The Cult?

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No, you shouldn't.

they forums are awful.
And for the love of God, don't pay for a premium membership for the workshops. they haven't been functional for the past 11 months but there's nothing on the sign up page about it and you'll throw your money away if you do.

Good luck.

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Amen.


Tue, 10/03/2006 - 12:43

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You had me at 'Should I', Karb, you had me at 'Should I'... I'm joining up! No wait, I've been here three years as well. I'm quitting so I can come back again! No wait, shit, that's been done to death already.

Thanks for the grand tour and thanks for all the idiot warnings. Especially, thanks for pointing out that we are an independent and privately owned website, not a subsidiary of Chuck Palahniuk or Random House, Inc. We aren't financially underwritten, nor are we censored, called into the boardroom, whipped, beaten down or fired by any large corporate entity.

This means the tiny little fees for the premium membership option, for example, literally pay the web hosting, vB licensing and other necessaries. No revenue from this site goes to line the pockets of a certain author who's already rich. So, we especially don't need to hear from any Fight Club Fundumentalists that Chuck is a hypocrite or this website a sham if we charge just enough for certain things to keep the lights turned on.

This website was not created as a special platform for the verities, rants and hale good warnings of your anti-consumerist religion, those truths you spout from behind your $1,200 laptop, on your wireless internet connection, wearing your gap jeans and your hundred dollar motorcycle boots. We're willing to hear that stuff for sure, but don't point it at us. We operate lean enough that much of the moderation and various other good work on this board is volunteer labor.

[b]A Writer's Cult[/b] is indeed a labor of love, just not that mushy, Barry Manilow kind. Karb expresses it so well, I'm only adding footnotes. Newcomers, be yourself and be welcome.

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Tue, 10/03/2006 - 16:03

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Karb! You cuddle of a madman's membrane! Well mapped my good man:)


Sun, 10/08/2006 - 20:18

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WHooo! we've got a charter!


Sun, 10/08/2006 - 20:30

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it's no charter
i just don't want people to not join up out of stupidity or intimidation or whatnot

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Tue, 10/10/2006 - 00:38

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Word to your mother.


Fri, 10/27/2006 - 19:36

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Cool. I love digging old tapes out of my closet!!! Especially when you get a free post.


Fri, 10/27/2006 - 22:08

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I've joined the cult because I decided it was time for me to actually start interacting with other writers and I'm trying to get over my "greedyness" with my writing. Trying to grow and evolve. All that crap....hehe


Mon, 10/30/2006 - 04:51

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[QUOTE=Lupatria;890214]I've joined the cult because I decided it was time for me to actually start interacting with other writers and I'm trying to get over my "greedyness" with my writing. Trying to grow and evolve. All that crap....hehe[/QUOTE]

It's a good thing. Welcome! Just don't act stupid. You read the thing, you know what I'm talking about. I'm sure you'll do just fine around here. Have fun! If you really wanted to get to know some writers, I would suggest a premium account. Free memebers don't get a lot of writing things. The paying guys get workshops. But, that's ok. I'm a free-bee type guy. Tell us some more about you. Some secret stuff.


Mon, 10/30/2006 - 05:19

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Thanks for welcoming me but......don't act stupid? Come on, everybody acts stupid ocassionally, that's like me telling you not to fart. heh. I'm not so interested in workshops right now, I have different methods that are working for me. More about me.....
hmmmm
My fetish is secrets and all my fetishes are secret.


Mon, 10/30/2006 - 06:06

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i joined so i could find others who share my love of mammary glands...no really i did...ah fuck you..

It should be stated some were though not to mind the grammar nazi's, or the overly pretentious jibbuh jabbuh. The same people who post the above type stuff also jump right into the poop/genetal warts/std's talk with ease. Everyone is an equally bored piece of shit.


Mon, 12/11/2006 - 20:05

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I don't feel accurately described by "bored" or "piece of shit"


Mon, 12/11/2006 - 20:12

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You are a fondant snowman trapped in someone's stocking (the kind that gets hung by the chimney with care.)


Mon, 12/11/2006 - 20:18

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[QUOTE=Thag;903530]You are a fondant snowman trapped in someone's stocking (the kind that gets hung by the chimney with care.)[/QUOTE]
I mean snowPERSON


Mon, 12/11/2006 - 20:18

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Alright then. I can get on board with fondant.


Mon, 12/11/2006 - 20:20

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An anthropomorphic piece of candy.
It tastes sweet.
Eat too much and you get a stomach ache.


Mon, 12/11/2006 - 20:26

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[QUOTE=Vendetta;903526]I don't feel accurately described by "bored" or "piece of shit"[/QUOTE]yeah piece of shit was little bit much, but bored pretty much covers it.


Mon, 12/11/2006 - 20:43

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Mon, 12/11/2006 - 20:47

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I probably should've come here first.

Coming from a nation where our national hero's are a bunch thugs who chase a pigskin around a rectanglur field (the allblacks), the first guy to climb a mountain (Hillary, Everest) and a dude who broke the landspeed record on motorbike in the fifties, I feel a bit of a misfit.

Intelligent conversation's pretty rare here.

After reading choke at begining of the year I decided suicide wasn't the answer (I'm not kidding, or crying for help just stating a fact). Suffering is only suffering if let it be. Humilation is only hulimating if you want it to be.
So I'm trying to write a book about me n my mates experiences. With enough names and places changed so they don't kick my arse for exposing our secrets to the world.

on top of that I'm looking for entertainment.


Wed, 01/03/2007 - 04:02

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intelligent conversation abounds, we just like to keep it light most of the time so we don't all go suck a tailpipe

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Wed, 01/03/2007 - 04:07

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STlCKY THIS THREAD IMMEDIATELY.

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Wed, 01/03/2007 - 04:11

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yeah I get that a lot, when I'm trying to be funny people think I'm serious, when I'm being serious they think I'm taking the piss.


Wed, 01/03/2007 - 04:11

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This thread rocked when it comes to making me feel like I'm welcome here. Thanks a ton. I look forward to settling in and getting to be part of the community.


Tue, 03/27/2007 - 08:39

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Should've read this before I made my big coming-out announcement in the general's section 10 minutes ago. thanks

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Fri, 06/01/2007 - 02:35

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So I'm not just giving this a bump at all.

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Mon, 10/22/2007 - 21:54

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Am I already a member?


Tue, 10/23/2007 - 02:21

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lemon;911359 wrote:

Coming from a nation where our national hero's are a bunch thugs who chase a pigskin around a rectanglur field (the allblacks), the first guy to climb a mountain (Hillary, Everest) [I][B]and a dude who broke the landspeed record on motorbike in the fifties[/B][/I], I feel a bit of a misfit.

[I][B]THE FASTEST INDIAN!!!![/B][/I]

I love that movie. It was so well done, after I watched it, it became one of my favorite movies ever.

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Tue, 10/23/2007 - 04:40

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Re: Should I join The Cult?

Hi I am new just joined today But I have been a fan since fight club looks like a great site here


Fri, 01/25/2008 - 12:59

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Re: Should I join The Cult?

I'm brand new here and I'm still trying to figure out how everything works. I first got into Mr. Palahniuk's books once I read "Choke" and I just recently  finished reading all of his novels. I wasn't much of a reader before but now I have books lined up waiting to be read.


Sat, 02/02/2008 - 16:58