*gulp*

PARP is after me! A “parp” google not only finds the GNE, but a thread from a science forum I have been known to participate in!

Is PARP after you too?

Fight against PARP! Treat all serious PARP members like babies! Worked on the GNE chat…

Is there a list of all PARP members somewhere?

“Serious PARP members” -

Let me know who they are and I’ll have them removed immediately.

I’m a PARP member, but I’m never very serious about it. Or at least no more serious than I am about anything else.

/me raises hand also (whilst doing a silly walk).

Apparently I’m a member too… how’d that happen?

You better be careful, Yogi. YOU may not take it seriously, but they’re like the Mafia: once you join…

Oh, god! The horror!
There’s only one way we can counteract; every two minutes, everyone do a search for Ginger Altoids and/or Leisure Suits.

Unlike altoids, at least PARP has something to do with the game. ;)

Citizens of Instancia!: The PARP Manifesto

We, the members of the People’s Army for Revolutionary Principles (PARP hereon) do hereby state our principles that shall at all times be acted upon in the best interests of all citizens*1 of the game neverending proper as is due to commence summer of 2003.

PARP DO:

* oppose the oppression of the people.
* oppose stagnation of thought and activity.
* seek to reverse all oppression of the people by any means necessary.
* seek to reverse all stagnation of thought and activity by any means necessary.
* demand the taxation/tolling of funds for anyone entering the hub known as Civic Center, any future equivalent location, or any location where capitalist activities are known to take place.
* respond to the refusal to pay taxes/tolls with activity that citizens my deem to be “inappropriate”, “unpleasant”, “not fun” and “not what GNE is about”.
* act according to their own creativity, conscience, and consciousness.
* at any time, recruit citizens to carry out, covertly or openly, PARP activities. Refusal to cooperate my result in behaviour that citizens may deem to be strikingly similar to that behaviour that may take place on refusal to pay taxes.
* act leniently with reasonable/creative/unusual/unpredictable/sexually attractive citizens.
* respond openly to donations/gifts/ideas/conjecture.
* play.


PARP DO NOT:
* set moral or legal rules, guidelines or laws.
* seek to control

PARP BELIVE:

* in the absolute freedom of the individual.*2
* that familiarity breeds stagnation.
* in the advancement/development and natural progression of play.

PARP DO NOT BELIEVE IN:
* the attachment of emotion to purely theoretical and/or hypothetical discussion.
* the attachment of emotion to play.
* the aolisation of GNE.


All members of PARP are:
* Willing to listen to reason
* Not blinded by rules, rhetoric, guidelines, that which is deemed to be usual, CS gas, our own brilliance.
* Sane (as proven by certificates of sanity signed in duplicate by senior PARP members).
* Creative.
* Susceptible to tequila.
* Comfortable with their hypocrisy.


Any espousal of PARP principles by non-PARP members shall remain unrecognised by PARP.

*1 The best interests of the citizens of Instancia, when not obvious, shall be defined by PARP and its operating members.

*2 Except at such times that cause oppression of others, or cause the stagnation of thought and/or activity.