Those who FTBA?

[Noah Miller]

Have you ever seen an instance where a nerdfigher becomes the aggressor in a situation? Does that, in turn, revoke the nerdfightism? Thoughts down below...

[Kieran Arthur Charles McDonald]

well i think that if a person forgets to be awesome once then it wouldn't revoke the nerdfighter-ness, but if someone who likes to say that they are a nerdfighter but always forget to be awsome and doesn't do anything to decrease world suck shouldn't be classed as a nerdfighter. an example i have seen of a nerdfighter forgetting to be awesome is myself when it gets to exam season. i lose sleep and don't eat properly, which makes me extremely grumpy and very likely to snap at someone (usually at one of my friends, but they have known me long enough to know what i am like near exam season) 

[Danno]

indeed.  maybe it's the Christian in me...but the point seems to be to try to be more awesome and include others so we can encourage them to improve too, not to exclude people just because they aren't perfect (what would a perfectly awesome person even be like?)

we say, 'Don't Forget To Be Awesome.'  i've never seen, or heard, 'or else.' 

[Kieran Arthur Charles McDonald]

good point, alot of religions/groups of people/clubs etc have some sort of punishment if you break the rules. but if there were to be a punishment, there would have to then be guidelines about how you should be punished, and under what circumstances 

[Danno]

so i was backtracking a little... following the silly, John says something that i think sums up his feelings on this point.

b2.0 mid-march

[Julia Chapman]

HA! DFTBAOE...

[Noah Miller]

well i have to wonder, what define "awesome". for some people, awesome may be protesting funerals of the dead (i.e. West Borough Baptist Church). on the other hand, this is the EXACT opposite of awesome (i.e. everyone else in the world). Which leads me to ask, 1) what defines awesome and 2) if it's the definition is within the perspective of the person, is there such thing as world suck? I know it seems like it's an obvious question, but is there is no defined set of "awesome" rules, then it can be molded to can anything you do awesome, thus meaning there is no world suck to be had. So my challenge to you: make a set of "awesome" guidelines that either everyone agrees on, or enough people agree to have a defined awesome/suck line.

[Tazlima]

Oooh, criteria for "awesome!" I like it!

I'll take a crack at defining "awesome" in the Nerdfighter sense (how I see it, anyway).

1) Awesome = anything that reduces ignorance.  Nerds are brainy beings, they should want to spread that around.

2) Awesome = happiness/peacefulness.  We don't want to go around invading other countries, or picking fights for no reason.

3) Awesome = standing up for what is right.  This is the only time that definition 2 might need to be overlooked.  Fighting is bad, but fighting a mugger to protect an old lady is awesome. 

4) Awesome = individual rights.  A "whatever floats your boat" mentality should be our default position, except in cases where someone's preference would impinge on other people's liberties.  i.e. You can live how you want, but you can't kill people, since that keeps them from living how THEY want.

5) Awesome = fun.  Anything that is fun and makes people smile helps increase the awesome in the world.

Ok, there's my basic awesome outline.  Feel free to make changes or additions.