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Originally Posted by Butcho22
Just think of this as a hypothetical situation.
There are 100 extremely motivated people with a few billion dollars at there disposal and they will spend 60 hours a week doing nothing but working of getting this "religion" off the ground. The group is made up of scientists and writers, etc. Basically really, really smart people.
After finishing the framework they would start to market what they're offering. It would most likely be slow to spread at first.
But would it eventually take off if people kept devoting their time and resources to it over several generations?
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but imo it seems like it would be rather easy to make this happen with the right people behind it. (not me, just sayin)
If you wanted to get it going, I think you'd need to include some kind of ritual component to make it more of a religion and less of a philosophy.
In order to start it out, it would be good to have someone with a lot of charisma act as the "prophet," the person who promotes the group that came up with this new faith. If this person is really charismatic, you can get a small band of followers.
Then you would need an organization that somehow institutionalizes the charisma of the founders or the promoter. Once your promoter/prophet dies, along with the first generation of your practitioners, there needs to be something appealing to future generations, or the faith could peter out. The institution would remind people that Intelligism (or whatever the faith is called) has been practiced for generations. It would also hopefully retain some of the charisma of the promoter. Then it could gain converts and retain existing practitioners into the future.
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Yeah, I don't know. I think RGT should start its own religion and see how many internet converts we could get.