The Current Cult of Nomic Patterns of Worship

Immutable Patterns are indicated by this format . Mutable Patterns are indicated by this format . Proposals are indicated by this format . Rejected proposals are indicated by this format . Information following Patterns such as notes of Amendments, voting dates etc, are not part of the Patterns. This should be fairly clear.

101. All worshippers must abide by all patterns of worship then in effect. The patterns in effect at the beginning of worship are the Initial Set, Patterns 101 - 117 (immutable) and Patterns 201 - 218 (mutable).
102. Initially forms of worship on the 100's are immutable and forms of worship in the 200's mutable. Forms of worship subsequently awarded Holy Sanction or Holy Transmutation (changed from immutable to mutable or vice versa) may be then be either mutable or immutable regardless of their number. Initial forms of worship may be transmuted via Holy Transmutation.
103. At each time, all members of the congregation may be either a Glorious Leader or a Faithful Follower, no worshipper may be both. There may only be one Glorious Leader at any time. The term 'worshipper' in the patterns of worship may refer to either the Glorious Leader or a Faithful Follower.
104. The Glorious Leader for the First Great Cycle will be Mary Gardiner.
105. A pattern change is any of the following:
     1. The enactment of a new pattern of worship via Holy Sanction.
     2. The repeal of an old pattern of worship via Holy Destruction.
     3. A change in a pattern of worship via Holy Reformation.
     4. The transmutation of a pattern of worship via Holy Transmutation.
107. All changes in the Pattern of Worship properly proposed will be sanctioned or discarded by recourse to the Democratic Wisdom of the worshippers via voting. They will receive Holy Sanction only by majority vote of a quorum of worshippers.
108. Any proposed change to the Pattern of Worship must be posted to the Holy Mailing List nomic@ophelia.weblink.com.au
109. No Pattern of Worship shall take effect earlier than its receipt of Holy Sanction via a majority vote, even if the new/amended Pattern explicitly states otherwise. No Pattern shall have retrospective effects.
110. The Glorious Leader shall give each proposed change to the Pattern a number for reference. These numbers shall begin with 301 and each successive proposal shall receive the next integer, regardless of receiving Holy Sanction, Reformation or Transmutation. If a Pattern receives Holy Reformation, it will take the number of the proposal to Reform it.
111. Propsals for Transmutation of an immutable Pattern will receive Holy Transmutation only upon a unimous legal vote of a quorum of worshippers. A proposal for Transmutation must be explicit, not implied in the wording of a proposal for Reformation.
112. In the event of a conflict between a mutable and immutable Pattern, the immutable Pattern takes precedence. For the purposes of this rule, a proposal to Tranmute an immutable rule does not conflict with this rule.
113. The state that constitutes Enlightenment may not be changed from acheiving n Tokens of Enlightenment to any other state of affairs. The magnitude of n and the means of earning Tokens may be changed and Patterns that establish a Recipient of Enlightenment when worship must be discontinued may receive Holy Sanction, and whilst mutable, be Reformed or Destroyed.
114. A worshipper always has the option to discontinue worship rather than continue until the conclusion of the Great Cycle, or incur penalites in their quest for Enlightenment.
115. There must always be one or more mutable Pattern/s. Changes of Patterns (constituting Sanction, Destruction, Reformation or Transformation) must never be prohibited by the Pattern.
116. Changes that affect Patterns needed to allow or imply Pattern changes are as permitted as any other change. No Pattern change is prohibited on the basis of self-reference or self-application.
117. Whatever is not expressly Prohibited by a Pattern is permitted, except for Changes to the Pattern, which is permitted only when a Pattern or set of Patterns explicitly or implicitly permits it.
201. Quorum for a proposed Change of Pattern will be 20% of worshippers at the beginning of the prescribed voting period for that change.
202. All worshippers begin with 0 Tokens of Enlightenment. Tokens may not be gained, lost or traded with other worshippers except as explicitly permited by the Pattern.
204. A proposal to Change the Pattern shall be made to the Glorious Leader . As soon as possible, the Glorious Leader will assign that proposal a number and post it to the Holy Mailing List.
205. The voting period on such a proposal shall be one week commencing from the post by the Glorious Leader to the mailing list.
206. Each worshipper has exactly one vote, asside from the Glorious Leader, who has none.
207. A vote is cast by being e-mailed to the Glorious Leader. The Glorious Leader must not reveal any votes until after that period. Any worshipper not voting shall be deemed to have abstained.
208. At the end of such period, the Glorious Leader shall reveal all votes. If the Glorious Leader's consent is required, then they shall grant it or refuse it at that time. Failure to do so shall constitue consent.
209. The required votes for a Change in Pattern which will alter the powers of the Glorious Leader shall be:
     • Two-thirds of legally voting worshippers or,
     • A majority of legally voting worshippers if the Glorious Leader consents.
     Otherwise a proposal must earn a simple majority of votes. This Pattern is superseded by any Patterns specifying the number of votes for Holy Transmutation.
210. An adopted Change takes place at the moment of the completion of the vote that authorized it.
211. Worshippers who voted against an adopted change will receive 10 Tokens of Enlightenment each. Worshippers whose proposals are adopted shall receive a number of Tokens between 1 and 15 (inclusive), as determined by the Glorious Leader. Worshippers whose proposals are not adopted shall lose 10 Tokens.
212. If two mutable Patterns conflict, or two immutable Patterns conflict, the Pattern with the lowest number will take precedence. If one of the conflicting Patterns explicity states its deference to, or supersedance of, the other Pattern, then it defers to, or supersedes the other Pattern as stated, regardless of numbers. If both Patterns claim deference or supercedance, than the numerical rule again governs.
213. If worshippers disagree about the legality of a Change or Proposal, one may invoke judgement simply by insisting upon it in an email submission to the Glorious Leader. If a judgement is invoked, the Glorious Leader must invoke a judgement as soon as possible by selecting a Judge in accordance with the rules and distributing the identity of the judge and the email submission to the mailing list.
214. If Judgement was invoked by a worshipper, the first Judge shall be the Glorious Leader. If Judgement was invoked by the Glorious Leader, the first Judge shall be a worshipper other than themself chosen by them. In all cases, if a Judge beyond the first must be chosen, they shall be selected by the Glorious Leader, and may not be the most recent Judge or the invoker of Judgement.
215. The Judge has one week to deliver a Judgement. If they fail to do so they shall lose 10 Tokens of Enlightenment and a new Judge shall be selected. A Judgement is made by submitting it to the Glorious Leader who must then deliver it the mailing list as soon as possible.
214. All Judgements must be in accordance with the Pattern. If the Pattern is silent, inconsistent or unclear, the Judge must consider the spirit of the Pattern and custom before applying other standards.
215. The Glorious Leader shall do the following if necessary:
     • Recruit new worshippers.
     • Maintain a list of all worshippers and their status, as determined by their Tokens, and provide it on the website.
     • Maintain a complete and correct current Pattern and make it available on the website.
     • Make a determination when required by the rules.
301. A worshipper is one who is, according to the Software, a member of the mailing list nomic@ophelia.weblink.com.au.
     Voting closed 2/6/2000.
     Voted for by: Tim Allen, Tim Scott, Andrew Bennetts. Voted against by: Daniel Ford.
302. A worshipper receives Enlightenment if they accumulate 300 Enlightenment Tokens. If more than one worshipper acheives 300 Tokens simultaneiously, all such worshippers receive Enlightenment. When a worshipper has received Enlightenment, the Great Cycle ends. If the Cycle ends in this manner:
     • If only one worshipper received Enlightenment, that worshipper becomes the Glorious Leader.
     • If more than one worshipper received Enlightenment, the Glorious Leader chooses a replacement from among the number of the Enlightened.
     At this time, all worshippers Enlightenment Tokens are reset to 0 and a new Great Cycle commences, with all Patterns, and proposals of changes retaining the status they had at the end of the last Cycle.
     Initially Pattern 203.
     Amended. Voting closed: 2/6/2000.
     Voted for by: Tim Allen, Tim Scott, Andrew Bennetts, Daniel Ford.
303. A new position is created, the 'Keeper of the Holy Data'. The Keeper of the Holy Data shall:
     1. Be responsibile for maintaining the website and in particular the records of the Patterns.
     2. Be sufficiently rewarded for their resulting intimate knowledge of the Patterns by gaining 5 Tokens per week.
     3. Initially be Mary Gardiner.
     This position may be traded for 30 Tokens at the agreement of the holder.
     Voting closed: 2/6/2000.
     Voted for by: Tim Allen, Tim Scott, Andrew Bennetts. Voted aginst by: Daniel Ford.
304. That the Provider of Infrastructure be sufficiently renumerated. 'Infrastructure' is any equipment involved in maintaining or enhancing the website or mailing list. "Sufficient renumeration" for the purposes of this Pattern be 5 Tokens per week. The initial holder of this position shall be Timothy Scott.
     Voting closed: 2/6/2000
     Voted for by: Tim Allen, Andrew Bennetts. Voted against by: Tim Scott, Daniel Ford.
305. Any vote posted by a worshipper to the mailing list and not directly to the Glorious Leader, shall be invalid.
     Voting closed: 2/6/2000
     Voted for by: Tim Allen, Tim Scott, Andrew Bennetts. Voted against by: Daniel Ford.
306. For the purposes of this Cult, there is no Higher Power, Deity or otherwise.
     Voting closed: 2/6/2000
     Voted for by: Tim Allen, Andrew Bennetts. Voted aginst by: Tim Scott, Daniel Ford.
307. There is a Player named The Force of Darkness, whose sole purpose is to vote against every single proposal.
     The Force of Darkness may not accumulate Tokens, become Enlightened or become Glorious Leader, and this Pattern supersedes all Patterns relating to the awarding of Tokens, the subscriptions of players to the mailing list or otherwise human-centric Patterns, and all Patterns relating to Enlightenment and methods of choosing the Glorious Leader.
     Voting closed: 2/6/2000.
     Voted for by: Tim Scott, Andrew Bennetts, Tim Allen. Voted against by: Daniel Ford.
308. That the first week of any proposal be a refinement week, where suggestions for ammendments, and changes of phrasing can be adopted by the proposee at their will.
     As a result the proposal will be marked as draft and final on the web-page.
     Voting closed: 2/6/2000
     Voted for by: Tim Scott, Tim Allen. Voted against by: Daniel Ford, Andrew Bennetts.
309. Proposal's have no number until the Glorious leader puts them on the web page. And that the web page be the official register of interest.
     Voting closed: 2/6/2000
     Voted for by: Tim Scott, Daniel Ford, Tim Allen. Voted against by: Andrew Bennetts.
310. Elvis is the King and this Pattern has no relationship or bearing on any other Pattern whatsoever.
     Voting closed: 2/6/2000
     Voted for by: Tim Allen. Voted against by: Tim Scott, Andrew Bennetts, Daniel Ford.
311. The regal hue typically described as "Purple" is designated to be the Immutable Colour.
     Voting closed: 2/6/2000.
     Voted for by: Tim Allen, Tim Scott, Andrew Bennetts. Voted against by: Daniel Ford.
312. If the purple you are seeing is not purple, then you are not seeing the True Purple.
     Voting closed: 2/6/2000.
     Voted for by: Tim Allen, Tim Scott, Andrew Bennetts. Voted against by: Daniel Ford.
313. Bureaucracy is the patron deity.
     Voting closed: 2/6/2000
     Voted for by: Tim Allen, Tim Scott. Voted against by: Daniel Ford, Andrew Bennetts.
314. Judges may be bribed with an agreed number of Tokens, to be specified by individual Judges.
     Voting closed: 3/6/2000
     Voted for by: Tim Scott, Tim Allen. Voted against by: Daniel Ford, Andrew Bennetts, Britta Koch.
315. That the number of votes for and against any proposal, as well as the number of worshippers tacitly abstaining and explicitly abstaining (four numbers) be recorded against the pattern being voted on as soon as the vote is declared.
     Voting closed: 6/6/2000
     Voted for by: Andrew Bennetts, Britta Koch and Tim Allen. Voted against by: The Force of Darkness.
     Numbers for: 3, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 7.
316. That the quorum required for a Holy Transmutation be a number of worshippers not less than the maximum of the two numbers "3" and "half the number of voting worshippers (rounded up)". In the case where there are less than 3 voting worshippers, quorum is exactly the number of voting worshippers.
     Voting closed: 6/6/2000
     Voted for by: Tim Allen. Voted against by: Andrew Bennetts, Britta Koch, TFOD.
     Numbers for: 1, against: 3, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 7.
317. Any member receives one (1) Token for their first, and only their first if more are allowed, vote for or against any proposal. Abstaining either explicitly or implicitly, earns no Tokens.
     Voting closed: 9/6/2000
     Voted for by: Andrew Bennetts, Britta Koch. Voted against by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 2, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 8.
318. Any person formally putting forward a proposal shall be considered to have voted for it, and not be awarded any Tokens for the voting on thereof, and this Pattern supersedes Pattern 317 if it exists.
     Voting closed: 9/6/2000
     Voted for by: Andrew Bennetts, Britta Koch. Voted against by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 2, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 8.
319. That only proposals shall be considered valid and put on the web page and be voted on that contain the holy letter 'b', and that any Worshipper who puts up a proposal not conforming with this (hopefully soon-to-be) Pattern lose 3 Tokens of Enlightenment, unless they mention the color Purple, at which they shall be shown mercy and lose only 2.
     Voting closed: 10/6/2000
     Voted for by: Britta Koch. Voted aginst by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 1, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 9.
320. That the Worshipper at the moment commanding the highest number of Tokens of Enlightenment, if there be only one, shall be known as "Revered Child of the Purple Harf", and that they shall sign and be addressed as such in their emails.
     Moreover, the Worshipper commanding the lowest number of tokens, if there exist only one, shall be known to all as "Unworthy Toad of Ignominy", and shall sign and be adressed as such in their emails.
     That changes in these titles shall be announced within 24 hours of their occurring on the Holy Mailinglist, and that 24 hours after the arrival of that email in the archive any Worshipper who address people on the mailing list incorrectly shall lose 1 Token of Enlightenment.
     [If these people sign incorrectly, it shall be seen as a sign of humility of the Revered Child or a sign of shame on the part of the Toad].
     Voting closed: 10/6/2000.
     Voted for by: Britta Koch. Voted aginst by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 1, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 9.
321. The force of darkness is to be known as Charles. This rule is to superceed rule 307 if it exists.
     The force of darkness is to be always refered to as "The Force of Darkness" and is to be considered all powerful and all knowing.
     Voting closed: 9/6/2000
     Voted for by: Charles Prabhakar. Voted aginst by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 1, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 9.
322. 1. That any Worshipper whose Proposals become Patterns gain extra tokens after the following scheme:
        1. one token if the overall number of Voters was Prime
        2. one token if the number of Voters for the Proposal was Prime
        3. one token if the number of Voters for the Proposal is a Divisor of their overall number of Tokens of Enlightenment at the time of the Votes being counted.
     2. That any Worshipper whose Proposals are rejected lose extra tokens after the following scheme:
        1. one token if the overall number of Voters was not Prime
        2. one token if the number of Voters for the Proposal was not Prime
        3. one token if the number of Voters for the Proposal is not a Divisor of their overall number of Tokens of Enlightenment at the time of the Votes being counted.
     Voting closed: 11/6/2000
     Voted for by: Britta Koch. Voted aginst by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 1, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 9.
323. That all Prime Numbers shall be considered Holy, and shall be treated with awe by all Worshippers, and that the Holy Prime Number 11 (Eleven) shall be considered the Patron Saint of this Nomic (the number of letters in "Cult of Nomic" is 11).
     Voting closed: 11/6/2000
     Voted for by: Britta Koch. Voted aginst by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 1, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 9.
324. That the Glorious Leader may take a 'leave of absense' and declare that another, to be known for that period as the 'Inglorious Leader' shall perform the duties of the Glorious Leader and that all votes shall be sent to the Inglorious Leader during the period. The Inglorious Leader shall have full authority to receive votes and to declare Proposals to be passed or not. They shall not be a Faithful Follower or vote during their period as Inglorious Leader.
     Further, the Glorious Leader may take leave of absense only for the maximum voting period on a proposal. Otherwise they must make a Proposal for the worshippers to vote on regarding their absense, and if that proposal fails, the Great Cycle is declared ended, and the worshipper with the highest number of Tokens becomes the new Glorious Leader. This rule is subject to 114, and supersedes all other rules regarding the Glorious Leader, and voting.
     Voting closed: 11/6/2000
     Voted for by: Mary Gardiner. Voted against by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 1, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 9.
325. That Worshippers can bet on whether proposed Changes to the Pattern will succed or not, following these restrictions:
     1. The Worshipper who has proposed the change is not allowed to bet.
     2. Every other Worshipper may bet only once, either "for" the proposal i. e. that it will be accepted, or "against", i. e. that it will not be accepted.
     3. Worshippers can only bet Tokens of Enlightenment from those they have already earned, i. e. no one can bet negative amounts or bet more than they have.
     4. Bets should be placed with the Glorious Leader, and not be made public.
     5. When the results concerning a Proposal that was betted (bet?) on are made public, the Glorious Leader takes the betted Tokens out of the Betters accounts, finds out whether there is / are a Winner / Winners and, if there are, splits the collected Tokens evenly between them. If the number of Winners is not a divisor of the number of collected tokens (i. e. there'd be partial tokens), these are collected into the Purple Jackpot. The Purple Jackpot is under the Glorious Leader's influence, who may reward Worshippers with Tokens out of it or may just let it grow and forget about it.
     6. That the number of Tokens betted (bet?) this way be no more or less than 3 (three), to make the distribution of Tokens among the Winners easier on the Glorious Leader.
     Voting closed: 24/6/2000.
     Voted for by: Britta Koch, Tim Scott, Andrew Bennetts. Voted against by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 3, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 5.
326. Proposals which fail to reach quorum may be, at the request of the original proposer to the Glorious Leader, be re-proposed with their original number.
     Proposals may be re-proposed as many times as the proposer chooses. Each time the proposal fails, the penalty for failure (in Tokens) shall be doubled. The reward for success shall be static.
     Voting closed: 24/6/2000
     Voted for by: Britta Koch, Tim Scott, Andrew Bennetts. Voted against by: TFOD. Numbers for: 3, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 5.
327. Any worshipper may be cast out into the void by a unanimous vote of at least 70% of eligible voters, rounded up. If the number of voters is less than ten, the number of votes required to cast a worshipper out into the void shall be the number of eligible voters minus one. One who has been cast out in the void shall no longer be a worshipper for the purposes of these Patterns.
     Voting closed: 9/6/2000
     Voted for by: Andrew Bennetts, Britta Koch. Voted against by: TFOD.
     Transmuted from 317.
     Voting closed: 24/6/2000.
     Voted for by: Britta Koch, Andrew Bennetts, Tim Scott. Voted aginst by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 3, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, explicitly abstaining: 5.
328. That Pattern 208 be amended so that the first sentence reads "Worshippers who voted against an adopted changed shall receive 10 Tokens divided equally between them, rounded down to the nearest token."
     Voting closed: 26/6/2000
     Voted for by: Britta Koch, Andrew Bennetts. Voted aginst by: Tim Scott, TFOD.
     Numbers for: 2, against: 2, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly absatining: 5.
329. A Judgement is either TRUE, FALSE or UNDECIDED. It may be accompianied by reasons or arguments. These shall be refered to as Patterns of Judging, shall be allocated numbers beginning at 101 on the imaginary axis (starting at 101i) and shall be binding unless already or subsequently in conflict with any Pattern on the real axis whatsoever, in which case the real axis Pattern supersedes the Pattern of Judging.
     Amended from 213.
     Voting closed: 26/6/2000.
     Voted for by: Britta Koch, Andrew Bennetts, Tim Scott. Voted against by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 3, against: 1, explicilty abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 5.
330. Initially, all new patterns of worship are mutable.
     Transmuted from 106.
     Voting closed: 26/6/2000
     Voted for by: Andrew Bennetts, Tim Scott. Voted against by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 2, against: 1, explicilty abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 6.
331. The Keeper of the Holy Data may edit proposals after they become Pattern Changes to make the prepositional 'that' clause an absolute statement, as is most purply fitting for a solid, well-voted upon Pattern.
     Voting closed: 26/6/2000
     Voted for by: Andrew Bennetts, Tim Scott. Voted against by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 2, against: 1, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 6.
332. That Proposal 111 be made mutable.
     Voting closes: 19/7/2000.
     Voted for by: Britta Koch. Voted against by: Daniel Ford, TFOD.
     Numbers for: 1, against: 2, explicitly abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 7.
333. That Proposal 103 be made mutable.
     Voting closed: 19/7/2000.
     Voted for by: Britta Koch. Voted against by: Daniel Ford, TFOD.
     Numbers for: 1, against: 2, explicilty abstaining: 0, implicitly abstaining: 7.
334. That the Worshipper at the moment commanding the highest number of Tokens of Enlightenment, if there be only one, shall be known as "Revered Child of the Purple Harf", and that they shall sign and be addressed as such in their emails.
     Moreover, the Worshipper commanding the lowest number of tokens, if there exist only one, shall be known to all as "Unworthy Toad of Ignominy", and shall sign and be adressed as such in their emails.
     That any worshipper having made no proposals during the current Great Cycle be known as "The Undeserving Swine of Calumny" and that they shall sign and be addressed as such in their emails.
     Any worshipper who does not post to the mailing list for more than one week (168 hours) without sufficient reason (which should be announced beforehand) shall be known as "The Lazy Snail of Incommunication" and that they shall sign and be adressed as such in their emails.
     That changes in these titles shall be announced within 24 hours of their occurring on the Holy Mailinglist, and that 24 hours after the arrival of that email in the archive any Worshipper who address people on the mailing list incorrectly shall lose 1 Token of Enlightenment.
     [If these people sign incorrectly, it shall be seen as a sign of humility of the Revered Child or a sign of shame on the part of the Toad, the Swine or the Snail].
     Voting closed: 19/7/2000.
     Voted for by: Britta Koch, Daniel Ford. Voted aginst by: TFOD.
     Numbers for: 2, against: 1, explicitly abstaining :0, implicitly abstaining: 7.
335. At any time, 10 Enlightenment Tokens can be exchanged for a Tasty Chocolate Karma Donut (or TCKD), which are rather delicious. This change can be accomplished by requesting the Glorius Leader.
     Proposed by: Brian Whitmore. Voting closes: 27/7/2000.
336. That Pattern 307 be amended so that the first sentence reads "There is a Player named The Force of Darkness, whose sole purpose is to vote against every single proposal, except for proposals for Holy Transmutation, on which it does not vote."
     Proposed by: Mary Gardiner. Voting closes: 27/7/2000.