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FirstLight

(14,987 posts)
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 03:36 PM Mar 9

I'm gonna be a Cult leader....

I've been watching some fun shows lately on cults and it's really NOT that hard to dupe people. ( current administration as proof).

I already have the property in a remote area, and need the human workforce to fix it up and make me a shrine...And they will provide all the $$ to fix everything with their tithes. No taxes. I can die as a Goddess on Earth and be revered and loathed ...and taken care of with little to NO work of my own!

I just gotta start with some disillusioned Gen zers and give them a laced brownie...they will follow me to the ends of the Earth!
Just gotta think of a good "hook" to get them to stay and fall for it. I'm not narcisisstic enough to say I'm God, but maybe a messenger? I can fake a good trance and voices?

Anyone who wants to help me developo the scam is in for a cut Help me think of some good stuff! I can sell crystals or make my own substance from mud and pass it off as Holy Cement ...

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I'm gonna be a Cult leader.... (Original Post) FirstLight Mar 9 OP
Friend of mine once said... 2naSalit Mar 9 #1
Wasn't that L. Ron Hubbard? JoseBalow Mar 9 #3
Maybe... 2naSalit Mar 9 #5
You could select some arcane music that you enjoy... Harker Mar 9 #2
That's what I'm talking about! FirstLight Mar 9 #4
I've been brain storming, FirstLight Niagara Mar 10 #6

2naSalit

(96,519 posts)
1. Friend of mine once said...
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 04:21 PM
Mar 9

"If you want to gain control over a lot of people real fast, start a religion."

Harker

(16,105 posts)
2. You could select some arcane music that you enjoy...
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 05:52 PM
Mar 9

and tell them the answers to all of the mysteries of the universe (and your supremacy) are to be found within. The Blue Öyster Cult, John Coltrane, Barry Manilow, et al. Anything might work.

Pick a literary work to serve as scripture...

FirstLight

(14,987 posts)
4. That's what I'm talking about!
Sun Mar 9, 2025, 07:31 PM
Mar 9

Let's play with this fun idea...

I'll go to the used record store and search for some obscure polka to slam dance to!

Niagara

(10,517 posts)
6. I've been brain storming, FirstLight
Mon Mar 10, 2025, 05:45 PM
Mar 10

How much remote property are we talking here?


I've had YouTube videos in my recommendations that I've been watching for everyday people to survive the high cost prices of housing and other necessities.


People are getting together and organizing communities often referred to as Cottage Communities/Co-Housing or Pocket Neighborhoods. They all pool together and have their own sperate living spaces but share the land, helping bringing down living costs. I find this interesting and inspiring.


If worse came to worse, I think that we could pull this off if we really had to. There are some members here on DU that I would be willing to work together as a team. I'm just throwing this out there just in case we ever had to plan for survival.

I have to be honest, I don't think that I could have dinner every single night with everyone in a community because there are times I need downtime for myself. I'm naturally an introvert but I also need people to be around with and to converse with at other times.


This video is about 30 minutes long.



This video is over an hour long but certainly worth the watch.

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Just a thought.
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