Is it normal to start a cult after learning theology in a university?

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I'm currently starting this cult called the Universal Church. In it I'm adding old exotic religions and philosophies, and joined an internet Australian Catholic University to get my degree in theology which hopefully I'll be studying. My religious cult is a philosophy so it's all thinking, I'm writing a painstaking 1,000-page book about it and some of its tenets are: the angels created the heavens and the Earth, your Reality is created via your Consciousness, thus matter isn't real, the Individual is just One, like no Other, and don't do Sexual Indecency. I'm planning to apply my education in theology to this so with the money invested I can erect an open roof with writing carved in the wall and a statue of myself as an angel, this religion is all about combining religions and making them One, rather than making things up, I'm not an Originator, I'm a Restorer. Concerning education in starting a cult, would this be normal?

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  • Dustyair
    6 years ago

    Don't forget to tell your followers they're bad people and you had to torture your son to death for them. Guilt is a very effective brainwashing tool.

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  • [Old Memory]
    6 years ago

    No; it's not normal or good to be delusional, and especially not to infect others with your delusions.

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  • Master.debater
    6 years ago

    You seem Crazy...

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    • Hansberger
      6 years ago

      What's crazy about this? I'm fulfilling Real Truth, and I think the Christians are wrong. And by the way, it's based on school learning.

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      • Grunewald
        6 years ago

        Not all schools are equal...

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  • Nickvey
    6 years ago

    why would you bother with a theology degree in the first place? PS. will you be getting all the pussy in this cult? or will you share it fairly with all the other members

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  • MrDexter
    6 years ago

    I planned on making a religion once. However getting a nonprofit approved and running is very complicated.

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    • Hateful1
      6 years ago

      Not really.

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      • MrDexter
        6 years ago

        Legally yes

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        • Hateful1
          6 years ago

          Have you tried?

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          • MrDexter
            6 years ago

            Yes, that is the point of me saying it. Running a nonprofit is complicated. You should do your research. You don't seem to have any idea how all this stuff works. It would be under a business.

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            • Hateful1
              6 years ago

              No. It is not a business. You would be getting tax exempt status from the IRS as a religion. Very different rules.

              Also, I guess complicated is a relative term.

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  • RoseIsabella
    6 years ago

    Can your cult shrink swollen hemorrhoids?

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  • McBean
    6 years ago

    Resurrection is the most effective motivator for indoctrination of the masses. Explain why resurrection of your followers is superior to all else.

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  • rayb12
    6 years ago

    There are Universalist churches

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  • suckonthis9
    6 years ago

    1) Angels did not create heavens.
    Angels are fictitious creatures of folklore.
    Heavens (plural) does not exist.
    Heaven (singular) is synonymous with space.
    Space is nothingness.
    It is impossible for something that does not exist, to create nothingness.

    Heaven, or nonexistent heavens, is not a 'the', since space is indefinite, and 'the' is a definite article of language.
    Although you could describe this space, or that space, and together describe them as various spaces, they are really all part of one congruous and contiguous space. There is only one space, and you are living in it.

    2) Fictitious creatures of folklore did not create "earth", either.
    Earth is formed from various geophysical processes, from space dust, and through the actions of microbiota and macrobiota that exist in, on, or near soils.

    The world that we live in, is not "earth".

    Perhaps you should study something that might be useful and beneficial to everyone, such as Soil Sciences, instead?
    We all need to eat, and this might land you a career in Agriculture.

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    • Hateful1
      6 years ago

      But it could be a conterminous dimensional body.

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      • suckonthis9
        6 years ago

        No it could not, for the following reason:

        So-called 'dimensions' are an invention of the human mind, that do not exist in nature.

        The term 'body', is often used generally and colloquially to mean 'mass'. The term 'mass' should be substituted when describing bodies of matter.
        It is also known that 'mass' and 'energy' are different forms of one another (please study Special Relativity), hence 'massenergy' bodies.
        Although the conclusions of Special Relativity are correct and true to nature, Special Relativity is seriously flawed conceptually, due to inherent human conceptions of reality of the human brain. In other words, humans are hard-wired to perceive reality in an incorrect way.

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        • Hateful1
          6 years ago

          Yes. It can for the following reasons

          So called "dimensions" are an invention of the human mind but it does not mean they doesn't exist. It simply hasn't been proven yet (physically). Germs where once creations of the human mind, dna, molecules, protons, quantum entanglement. Do I need to go on.

          And thank you for the overly complicated definition of mass. You must be breaking your arm patting yourself on the back for being able to understand this basic concept of physics.

          But since you like to be overly complicated. In this context (my context). Body means a large or substantial amount of something; a mass or collection of something. And before you get excited Mass in that context means a coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape.

          Your definition of mass means the quantity of matter that a body contains, as measured by its acceleration under a given force or by the force exerted on it by a gravitational field.

          Seriously it's great that you are taking physics. But if you go through life only viewing what others have told you to be true you will miss the point of science.

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          • suckonthis9
            6 years ago

            One can not simply suppose that something exists, and set out to prove its existence, without any physical evidence.
            If physical evidence for so-called "dimensions" has not been found through a thorough search, then it almost certainly does not exist.
            Is there anything that you, or anyone else, hasn't thought of, by any ways and means or experimentation, that provides any evidence whatsoever of these supposed "dimension" non-things?

            There is much actual physical evidence (direct and indirect) for germs, DNA, molecules and protons.
            Quantum entanglement is a property of subatomic particles, and as such does not actually exist. The subatomic particles do actually exist, as there is much physical evidence for this, but quantum entanglement does not. Quantum entanglement is an abstract concept, that seems to be an ubiquitous property of subatomic particles throughout the Universe, as we currently understand it.

            "Your definition of mass means the quantity of matter that a body contains, as measured by its acceleration under a given force or by the force exerted on it by a gravitational field."

            *This is completely false and misleading, and is not my definition.

            Any combinant or compounded object in the Universe, no matter what mass, that is or is composed of protons, neutrons, electrons and /or photons, is, or has the potential to become part of a 'body'. Any such object actually is, or has the potential to become part of, a 'massenergy body'.
            This should not be construed to mean that there aren't any other potential constituents of massenergy bodies, because there are.

            So-called 'forces', are an abstract concept, and as such, do not actually exist in this Universe, or in any other Universe.

            Gravity is not a field.
            So-called 'gravitational force', is also an abstract concept, and as such, also does not exist.
            What does occur, is curvature of space; although it should be understood that space is actually a non-thing.

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            • lordofopinions
              5 years ago

              "I think therefore I am."

              - Descartes

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            • Hateful1
              6 years ago

              Oh My God. Never mind that encouragement.

              The concept of multiple dimensions has been proven using mathematics. We currently do not have the ability to perceive them.

              Your are also saying one of my pet peeves. Under your belief if your can't prove something exists it can't exist. Under that assumption then nothing could ever exist. Why, because humans could not exist. Because we were not around to prove to ourselves we exist. And since we weren't around to prove that things exist then nothing could exist.

              Yes, there is a lot of evidence proving the existence of germs, DNA, molecules and protons, currently. But these things were believed before they could be proven. Mostly by Greek philosophers.

              Quantum entanglement is not an abstract concept. In face the conclusions of the Bell experiment had some loopholes that were just recently closed by the experiments run by University of Delft researchers, led by Bas Hanson, US National Institute of Standards and Technology researchers, led by Krister Shalm, and the University of Vienna researchers, led by Anton Zeilinger. Einstein even described it as "spooky at a distance" Try reading something after 1955.

              My definition of mass is the definition used in the dictionary. So, you define things differently then pretty much everyone else? I do have to admit I used the definition of gravitational mass. Another definition is inertial mass the mass as a measure of resistance of a body to changes in its motion

              An again you try to define "body" and "mass" in an unnecessarily complex way to make yourself feel smart. Oh and you just contradicted yourself in that statement.

              "So-called 'forces', are an abstract concept, and as such, do not actually exist in this Universe, or in any other Universe." Here you prove your complete lack of understanding in the basics. Not only of physics but of natural science. Your just said electricity does not exist. Magnetism does not exist. Gravity does not exist.

              Gravity is a force that causes a field. The field causes spacial curvature. Spacial curvature is currently being used to view distant stars using gravitational lenses.

              Any further commenting is pointless because you have know idea what your talking about, and have proven it superbly.

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