Is it normal to want to make fight club a reality?

A cult, you want to start a cult. So do i, who wouldn't.

I'm a mild mannered middle aged female, and even I get wrapped up in that fantasy.

I realise this thread is pretty old, but I just wanted to give my two cents: If your reason for wanting to start a fight club is to destroy and rule the world, then you haven't understood the message Palahniuk was trying to convey.

ill join

This place is sort of like a online support group so in one sense you totally are.

In all honesty starting a "fight club" isnt such a great idea, we did the same thing when I was around 22 and we would get together on Fri nights, have a few beers and box each other. We ended up with more then we bargained for with broken noses and black eyes because as the Miller Budweiser equation states the absolute value of testosterone cannot be devalued by outside independent variables and when the female quotient has been removeded from this equation testosterone will overwhelm other independents.

{testosterone} + Beer + females = sex

Removing females from the equation, in much the same way as the movie, will result in :

{testosterone} + beer /=/ sex

The interaction between testosterone and beer will occur naturally but without the female variable the equation cannot equal sex hence unpredictable circumstances will occur. In our particular test cases black eyes and broken noses, its also been hypothesized by a colleague of mine that there is a strong probability that masturbation may be one of these unpredictable events as well without the female independent variable. I happen to agree with him.

If you're planning your whole idea for destroying the world based on a movie, then you're not that smart, and you will definetly be stopped with ease.

Good film, though. "Tyler Durden".

People reiterate what they see on screen all the time. It's in our nature to try to mimic and make better what we see. But we tend to overestimate ourselves and end up irritated more times than not.

I guess if you're a teenager then this kind of power fantasy might be normal. But if you're an adult it sounds a bit infantile.

I may have been a bit off kilter when I had written this but I don't wish to completely retract the question nor will I remove it. Even my ideals were a bit warped at the time but it is close enough for ammendment. *I don't want to just bomb cities, that is crazy. *Our plans, however unrealistic, did not stem from the movie or the book. *It may be a bit arrogant, but this isn't a power trip, it's a way forward. We feel progress is at a stand still. We've stopped working on making space exporation easier and cheaper and we've moved on to... making iPods smaller and more "useful." *I really am a benevolent person, as we read I am working on becoming a doctor. *Finally, I don't feel as if I missed the point of Fight Club. It was the elimination of our status as consumers and put us back into a world of survival of the fittest. "I say let's evolve. Let the chips fall where they may." It wasn't that I rewatched the movie and said, "Hey, that'd be fun!" I thought that maybe, just maybe, this really could be the way forward. If we drop this cloud of consumerism maybe we can finally push on for the benefit of man. Just as one final note: Tyler said that they didn't own the revolution but he certainly did make the rules.

-Someone who is taking this a bit more seriously than I thought I would.

I got kicked out of a Chuck Palahniuk reading for drinking beers and heckling him. True fuckin story!

Nope. No thanks.

I agree with most of the other posters: not abnormal, but kinda immature.

Also goes completely against the message of the book. That's like looking at 1984 and saying "HEY, I WANNA RECREATE LANGUAGE TO CONTROL WHAT PEOPLE THINK; THAT SOUNDS COOL"