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Starting
Your Own Cult, with Dr. Emeril Lazarus
It is truly unfortunate
that those of us who have been blessed with the Call, the Command to Lead
our People to the Promised Land, still have to deal with the trivial details
of this mundane world.
Money is one of these
harrassments that we, as leaders, are cursed with having to procure to
keep our Mission afloat. At some point you will have squeezed out as much
capital from your new recruits as they have. At this point they become,
in body if not in soul, what business people call liabilities--they are
not adding anything financially to the organization, but you still have
to feed and clothe them.
There mare many options
to keeping the costs down on those last two items, but today we are going
to look at how the souls you have saved, and Illuminated with your Grace
and Vision, can help you and your cause in this Vale of Tears.
With my second cult,
the Divine Children of the Orthodox Moor, I set the organization up as
a Church, so that people could donate money freely and be rewarded by
Caesar, the government, with tax benefits. This is an approach you may
want to consider--as long as you are still on speaking terms with the
government. A related approach not tried very often is to have a legitimate
church front that funnels funds to the Real Church of God you have created
behind a barricaded and heavily armed barrier.
Of course, you still
have a pool of potential labour with nothing better to do with their time
than Worship your Received Vision and Proselytize to the Masses, trolling
for new recruits.
Put them to work!
Because they've already
given you their souls inconveniences like labour laws and minimum wage
will not stand in your way, as they do the Captains of industry.
Indeed, blessed witht
he opportunity to do God's Work, you will find your Soldiers of Christ
eager and conscientious workers, doing whatever task you assign them with
zeal and committment.
Some ideas to take
advantage of this energy are easy-to-make crafts like wallets or "Jesus
loves you" leather bookmarks. Keep items small and easy to carry
as your recruits are also your distribution division. Direct marketers,
door-to-door salesmen and cults all feed off each other in this area,
so watch what the local people are doing.
Repackaging ready-made
items like flowers, pencils or bumper stickers has potential too. Anything
with a cheery message is a sure winner and will keep spirits high!
One idea I've never
been able to follow through on is to create a shoe manufacturing plant
and use my cult's cheap labour to manufacture runners for some large multi-national
company--competing directly with the child labourers of Indonesia! Have
they been saved? Why should they get the contract? The shoe company has
the benefit of being able to put "made in America by Americans"
on their product and I, or rather, the Lord's Work, receives the means
to carry on.
I leave this idea
for one of you to follow through on.
Treating
your recruits as a resource, and following traditional business models,
will help keep the Word of the Lord--as Received by You--going for many
years to come.
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