I got bored and started rewriting the Bible in Akkadian and replacing Yahweh with Marduk. How do I get tax exempt status like a real religion?
>>539039120Stick with that and grow a following. Preach, etc... once you have a big enough following you can do it. Get one of your followers to do all the paperwork.
>>539039320What kind of paperwork is there?
>>539039741When you start getting donations to support your religion you need to file paperwork otherwise it is taxable.
>>539039785Guess I should ask the ATO before I take any money, thanks. Have you ever tried to be a cult leader before or nah?
>>539039970Depends how you define "cult" and>trylol. Can't talk about it.
target women and the simps will follow. But you need to be a womanizer and a really good manipulator to pull this off.
>>539040704Cult and religion are kind of interchangeable words I guess, cult sort of has non-mainstream connotations?At the moment I'm not really either but I do have a website with a lot of ancient religious material and since I bought the Bible into it and made it Babylonian and Marduk-centric I guess I'm a religion now.You sound like you might have some experience so any tips for a cult leader noob are appreciated, I really wanted to ask some humans before I asked an AI.
>>539040956Well I'm not really cute any more but I'm reasonably charming. Babylonian religion has a metric shit-ton of goddesses and I've got a video of that chick from the ghost in the shell mowing down a room full of male authority figures on page 2 of the Bible on my website so I hope that is a hit with the ladies.
>>539041366Cults happen kind of naturally. It's like if you were to write a story and eventually you start letting the characters come to life and flow through your writing. What happens if anyone notices is they start calling it a cult. That's when you know you've succeeded. You can't let them put you down. Don't worry if it doesn't work out though. There's millions of people who are all basically failures in this world. There's more truth to the major religions than you realize though they seem to get diluted and split up over time.
>>539041701I see, I don't really have a goal to become a cult leader at this point, I'm sort of interested to know if it is even possible though so I might give it a try.
>>539039120>have a source of psychedelics>organize group retreats with hypies and roasties>after a few sessions you get to know who is gullible and/or mentally ill>approach them with some schizo babble about how you know them from your past live or something>show more and more goodwill towards them, compliment them, help them out with stuff, hang out with them, etc.>increase the time spent with them so much that you are more involved with their lives than their own familiesfrom there onwards its self-explanatory and easy
>>539039120Cultivate until you can shoot laser from your palm.
>>539039120This film comes across as satire, but there isn’t a single lie mentioned the entire time.https://youtu.be/zvVHPVe525Q?is=nFHOXpqhyfgo2vmK
>>539039120I could tell you *actually* what is required but if I did it would probably be disastrous for society.
>>539043084What part of this society do you actually want to preserve besides maybe yourself (a natural instinct)?If the button to fulfill Solo Wing Pixie’s dream of a world without borders or governments was placed in front of me right now, I’d press it twice just to be sure.
>>539042893Well I don't really have a problem with psychedelic drugs per se, but we do have fairly oppressive drug laws in Australia, even marijuana is going to get you in trouble.I'm not really interested in grooming mentally ill people for sex either.I think if I ever got on Joe Rogan we would agree about a lot of shit though, I like the libertarian techno-futurist kind of stuff and would like to make the kind of religion that is as interested in Sagittarius A as it is in Marduk and Babylonian mystery religion, so psychedelics would definitely be an interesting bridge between the Starman waiting in the sky stuff and the machine elf stuff that many people already have as their de facto religion today.
>>539042994Why not go nuclear?
>>539039120Do what a guy my dad knew did>Move to India>Get a tiny space>Get a chair and donation jar>Tell passing jeets you're a god and donations earn blessings >wait>profit He was a college student who went traveling abroad for a bit, visited India, realized they'll worship literally anything, and pretty much paid for his schooling plus a lot of extra because they're such complete suckers for this kind of shit. Apparently his dad nearly had a heart attack when he found out, they're pretty religious, the people in my dad's hometown still laugh about it sometimes apparently.
>>539043046Wow that's really dark, but that's why I come here. Politics and sports are doing religion better than religion is these days, what the heck.
>>539043084Go on, I won't tell anybody
>>539043630Moving to India seems like a very high price to pay to become a cult leader. There are quite a few of them here but if I set up a chair and a donations jar and told people I was a god it would probably not go well, although I might end up in famous on YouTube.
