AGENDA

system(pwd %GROUP%); // get group location

cout << $importantReading;

//group.get(name);j // 

while ($purpose==null)

{

std::cin >> $purpose;

cout << $purpose; // pipe program as such as runtime: prog >> purpose.txt

}

import(purpose);

group.get(name); // group not instantiated until purpose is imported

/***************************************************************************************************

* First Order of Agenda: Member Honorifics.

* Secondary Discussion points: Insignias, subsidiary groups, organizational/governmental structure

* , member roles:: specifically purpose creators

*

* Functions to be implemented:

* Outreach ; Official Standings ; Official Flag (see insignia above) ; Scheduleate ; intergroupal

* spartans ; LAN PARTIES : 

***************************************************************************************************/

[ MAILING LIST : ]

VACLAV HAVEL'S THE GARDEN PARTY

group name discussion:

Oberlin in Outerweb/Outerspace; 

-implies "let's just do random stuff": good or no?

-elspeth: yes! that's the point.

-josh:  no, that's silly.

-should read articles from the onion (sam)

-fave article: one about a self-serving spaceship.

elspeth: "The Meeting Group", or "The Successful Group"

-josh: "needs to sound meta"

-elspeth: "The Group"

-ron: that sounds self-important

-elspeth: new group names each meeting - spend each meeting figuring out our name

-ron really likes this!

-sam: members come prepared to present their research/reasoning for our name. end meetings with a vote.

-josh: would get boring

-ron: any completion of formal documents should just say "Undecided" or "Undetermined"

-josh sums up:

-we do random things every week that are completely unrelated but "help us exist" every week

-not do any any "actual activities", but do only things that perpetuate our existence (email, meetings, etc)

(-brief discussion about Amnesia and horror games and how josh was shunned for a week by his friends for wearing Conner's mask while they were playing this game)

-sam's parents are in as well as on vacation

-elspeth: we should do peyote

-vote cast: official name is Undecided (in official capacity) - but until official paperwork must be completed this is not our name. therefore we need to register and legitimize ourselves among all of the other "groups that don't exist"

-volunteers for determining agenda: elspeth and ron, and TBD per meetings

-sam: agent same, lazerlord, lotus star

-ron: mission statement: "To ensure our continued existence by determining our purpose"

-josh: create OberWiki page, as well as other legitimizing documents

-sam: create alternative world history explicating existence of this group

-next meeting: 6:30 next saturday science center lounge

-sam will make mailing list and wiki

-next week's agenda: alternative world history plus other things.

-elspeth: variable meeting spaces, depending on weekly needs

-it was a dark time, and there was only one thing and it was the 0th axiom.

-the year was 1998. fallout has destroyed much of humankind.

-and only one assumption was still considered to be true.

-that we must all band together in a group in which none of us could decide what to do.

-and this group would be a group of people. with a name. dedicated to something.

-the group's continuously changing state of existence would reflect the future times of unable-to-decide-ness.

-from without dark time an energy rose in the distance.

-an energy whose light was yellow and green, and whose colors embodied the very being of some essence. and it was dark and bright at the same time. and it was a lifeform of some type.

-and people saw it and they said, "This is definitely something, but we don't know what."

-And they saw that it was good.

-they decided to call this object Something.

-and they were dedicated to it.

-then they realized that to fully understand this thing called Something which they were dedicated to, they had to talk to the group called Group which was dedicated to itself.

-Group considers all responses.

-and in this way, this inner play between different groups, different things, in this way was the first society of this unsure name played out, as were most other things in this manner.

-and thus the people came to know of the Group, and of Something.

-and through this knowledge they came to know of themselves.

-until one day.

-those people who were not in the Group and were not dedicated to something became jealous of the unanimity of the Group.

-and they said to the Group, "You who are dedicated to the Group: why do you not tell us mroe about Something? Do you withhold that information from us?"

-And so the Group established the first law of human nature: misinformation.

-it was 200 in some time scale, but it was 200 in the relatively memorable years of Earth's history. and there was an underground war that had been going on for nearly twenty years and whose end was nowhere in sight, and this war was closely tied to the misinformation of humanity: one side was essentially for the misinformation, and the other side was a group who opposed them.

-but the people underground felt oppressed when they used their drills to break through the surface

-and this continuity became known as the informaiton paradox

-and so it began

-and so it continued for this way for some time

-until one day it stopped.

-and there was much rejoicing.

-and so the second of law of human nature was established: games.

-games; a type of thing which many people like to spend their time with. in fact almost anything can be considered a game if you thought about it right.

-this however lead to the problem of the existence of winners and losers

-indeed, which created further conflict.

-in gladiatorial games, though, we can all agree that there are winners and losers, as they all found out.

-and it so happened that the members of the Group, more often than not, were the winners.

-so they came up with the corrolary to the second law of human nature: most outside the Group lost the game.

-a man speaking somewhere out of turn somewhere out of the sky said: you shall never speak fo the game ever ever again.

-(The Group = bad name)

-Thus games became the greatest taboo in this new social group.

-and the group was unable to play such games as apples to apples and make up a story

-however, as is want to happen, that which is forbidden became increasingly attractive over time.

-indeed, passions increasingly intensified over playing any game

-or even, all games.

-and one day, the members of the group, and this is many years later so there were many new members, began to question why they could  not play games.

-and they came up with few answers. and all of these answers were unsatisfactory.

-one answer was that everyone outside was a loser. so to continue playings would be to jeapordize the Group's members' status as infinite winners.

-and that way the Group was the largest game of all. but this only lasted until the Others besieged the earth with their great spaceships.

-and thus the second war began, not between humans but between humans and Otheres. and the two wars were synchronic.

-and thus the combined conflict of two wars: humans realized that they must band together or be eliminated.

-why don't we have this recorded in our current history books?

-it was at about this time that AlfaWolf, terrorizer of the northern seas, came into a large amount of rice.

-the relevance of this will be explained out.

-the rice, as it turned out, was fuel for the energy ball - the Something - and so AlfaWolf approached the energy ball with the rice, as the people and lazerlords realized that infusing all the rice in the energy ball could bring about the end of the universe.

-instead, they convinced the Something to only eliminate all currently existing history books.

-all currently existing history books was many and many and many. AlfaWolf asked them about the wiseness of this decision, which was very drastic. and AlfaWolf asked that some of the history be included in a metaphorical/allegorical way, to guide people in the future.

-and so the history books left to the world were not those of fact but only those of meaning.

-and this also led to the creation of the interwebosphere.

-the "internet," as we know is a series of tubes.

-also it is for porn.

-and the interwebosphere was established and for one brief moment all of the Others temporarly lost use of their tongues.

-and froze in space.

-AlfaWofl took this opportunity to destory their mothership.

-a few remaining ships were left confused with no higher authority to which to obey.

-indeed, utter chaos ruled the universe.

-but from out of hte chaos came order.

-in the form of new history books published in texas.

-in losing his dominion over the universe, Chaos became sad and lonely.

-Chaos, whose name we also know by Chronos, had some other friends. as we may recall, they were called Gaia.. etc; The Titans and their descendants. so when Chaos was sad, it was probably caused by the fact that Zeus imprisoned him in Tataurus. and the Greek -gods are actually the Ancients from Stargate. and the Ancients took the place of the Others. but they're benevolent. and ancient.

-speaking of ancients, there was one guy who was pretty cool and that was the doctor.

-who was wearing a Fez.

-but humankind did not agree with Fezes, so either the doctor or the Fezes had to be done away with.

-but then they realized that thsi was dumb and they all got Fezes.

-humans overthrew the ancients. because they hate benevolence.

-but bowties are still out of the question. and then the Group came to Oberlin.

-(are you sure the Group isn't just everywhere?)

-the  Group is not orthodox, but not reform either. Groupifarianism.

-and as the Group came to Oberlin, it likewise spread into the hinterlands of northeast Ohio. and the universe.

[ summarized by WALKING GIRAFFE ]

group name:

0.0 or Undecided or The Club or The Group or Axiom 0

vote to vote on issue?

we should have speakers

and guest speakers

vote: 4 in favor

who wants to speak in favor of each name?

should we vote for a speaker to speak in favor of voting for or against a name?

vote fails

"i can't hear you because i'm not paying attention." - lazerlord

"this is so stupid and not fun at all." elspeth

josh: we should let anyone who likes to put forth their opinions about the names.

vote: 4 in favor, 3 opposed.

now opinions.

sam: i don't think we should vote for a name right now. i think Undecided is a good indicator of what we are. there are some cool names but i think we should decide on some governmental systems before we go about this process.

elspeth: sam should be dictator.

ron: don't want to vote for one but dictator should take power by force.

sam takes power.

kills himself.

but is still dictator.

we should have a name that will get us into Oberlin official system, not Undecided.

we need A Name to "brand" - Undecided doesn't suggest our existence.

if we were to vote on a name now, we should immediately make a point in our charter about never being able to vote on our name ever again.

an official name does not equal the referent for group.

vote to choose name now: fails

temporary name is Undecided, until official decision is made.

flag design:

creative: white, blue and red

symbol selection

colors should all represent each other

ron thinks this is awesome.

how do we do this? choose things that are iconic for their color and color them with other icon's colors.

should be threatening.

lots of red.

black red and orange.

black, gold, and dark red.

purple and red

dark red

yellow and black, appropriately proportioned.

should have at least one "nice" color.

lilac.

violet.

deep red.

deep red represents the blood.

no, it represents black.

what about symbols of our history?

the yellow energy orb.

japanese rice designs.

should be japan's flag.

reread description of energy orb.

should have dinosaurs.

no dinosaurs in our world history...

should be very simple.

could have flag and coat of arms, separately.

basic shapes.

ron gets appointed moderator/supreme chancellor. immediately begins planning a coup.

three-dimensional flag.

no, flag should be rectange. pain to make if not rectangular. not recognizable as a flag.

flag should be fluid.

false. can put this in context of other flags.

should be a lantern.

cloth flag is good so we can drape it over a couch and area of our meetings can be transformed.

should be a rectangle, says josh stickler.

guest: flag will become flat on retina. what matters is projection.

vagina symbol luck pendant. five clitorises for good luck. buddhist.

symbology should not reflect biology.

flags are really meta and the whole point of having a flag is that it's supposed to mean something.

open and closed brackets of a set?

people like this.

box brackets, not swirly ones.

or curly brackets around an orb. whoa.

elspeth hates the curly brackets. square brackets are better.

square brackets are better than nazis.

violence.

on a different topic, there is a website.

minutes from meeting will be uploaded post-haste

at what moment exactly does haste happen, and when is post-haste?

quickly.

everyone is strongly encouraged to take story we created and turn it into something cohesive loosely based on what's there and submit

and listen to a cool song

make some notes for next time, suggestions, desires, fantasies.

flag ideas etc.

will create google page.

josh will work on making us an official oberlin club.

sam appoints josh official paperworker/Undecided-Oberlin liason.

Comrade Liason

Public Relations Officer.

next week we should have a very organized and authoritarian agenda.

we should break into places.

ron will compile a list of things to do for our next meeting.

mini meeting to happen over thanksgiving.

don't decide anything really important. will compromise mission of group.

we should make graphs.

pie charts.

people should be appointed to specific roles. like graph maker. conversation topic maker. once basics of this group is established, we'll need something to talk about.

ron thought purpose of group was to figure out how to establish group. sam says it doesn't have to be just that. ron says oh, ok.

each person should stick to assigned role.

military strategists.

forum setup.

whole point of group is doing all of the ridiculous logistic stuff.

elspeth: that's boring.

sam: better to have some kind of agenda in place.

next official meeting should be after break. unofficial meeting over break.  next saturday 630. week after sat 630. december 4.

[ ORBITAL, COMRADES. ]

0101204.185 Convention .:. { i = 002 } ...:

0101204.185 PROCEEDINGS ...:

[ summarized by Lazerlord-elect Sam ]

Chapters 1-22 of  my immortal were read aloud.

[ ORBITAL, COMRADES. ]