How to spread the gospel of vintologi

Leucosticte

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There should be a physical book produced. This should be distributed to prisoners, who have tons of time on their hands and nothing better to do than join a religion, as a way of showing they're trying to turn their lives back around, and to have a social group they can hang out with, etc.

In fact, ideally prisoners should get Vintologi accepted by the bureaucracy as an officially approved religion, so that they can hold services in the prison chapel, get a budget allocated to them out of state funds, and receive a bunch of other perks like getting to wear religious headgear, have religious feasts at taxpayer expense, etc. The Vintologi bible can also be ordered for the chapel library. See https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/5360_009.pdf and https://www.bop.gov/policy/technical/5360_02.pdf See also https://www.bop.gov/inmates/custody_and_care/religious_programs.jsp See also https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/exclusive-nation-of-islam-receiving-federal-cash-to-teach-prisoners and https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2019/jul/2/federal-government-pays-nation-islam-teach-bop-prisoners/ and https://www.bop.gov/foia/docs/islammanual.pdf and https://oig.justice.gov/special/0404/index.htm

What's the point of all this, from the prisoner's point of view? Well, religious services are some of the few programs available to prisoners, especially at the local jail level. Like every human, they feel a need to belong; and during times of incarceration, they probably feel rejected and frowned upon by society.

Every religion, with the possible exception of exclusive sex cults which have no relevance to prisoners, should try to get a foothold in the prison system, just because it represents low-hanging fruit; I mean, where else would you begin. You want to recruit the down and out. Alcoholics and drug addicts and whatnot. People in crisis.

Other crisis-addled people could include those who are going through a divorce or something, and have no friends who want to listen to their stories about what a bitch she's being. The church can offer emotional support and a sense of newfound purpose in these trying times; he can feel like he's leaving the past behind by joining this new group of people who don't know his ex and are the only ones who aren't going to believe her stories about how he allegedly raped her.

The incelosphere also probably represents potentially fertile recruitment grounds, though. It's all just a matter of marketing in a way that will be effective. Some losers won't see the benefit, but who cares about them; it's just as well that they are repelled by it. They would've been a liability anyway.
 
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Leucosticte

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@adolf512 Are you pretty good with Adobe? A zine would be a pretty good guerilla publishing method. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dygvdq/you-can-play-google-stadia-on-an-e-book-reader

It's easier to read and pass around a booklet like that than a stack of 8 1/2" x 11" pieces of paper. I'm just not sure how to do the formatting / layout / whatever. Maybe one of those outfits like Prison Action News would have some advice. Oh wait, never mind, apparently it's been discontinued. https://bostonanarchistblackcross.wordpress.com/pan/

Maybe this is how it's done? Adobe InDesign? https://www.indesignskills.com/tutorials/how-to-make-a-zine/
 

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The issue with creating a physical version is about references, there are 2 solutions to this

You can add shortlinks for references such as 1.vintologi.com or 1.vintologi.se for references

You can include material previously linked to in the bible, unfortunately this doesn't work for video references. The thing with video references is that it's really not ideal anyway, it's not even close to proper scientific evidence, the main advantage is that people tend to prefer watching a video over going over a 14 page scientific study.

In addition references such as scientific studies tend themself give references so you will have to cut it out somewhere.
 

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The issue with creating a physical version is about references, there are 2 solutions to this

You can add shortlinks for references such as 1.vintologi.com or 1.vintologi.se for references

You can include material previously linked to in the bible, unfortunatily this doesn't work for video references. The thing with video references is that it's really not ideal anyway, it's not even close to proper scientific evidence, the main advantage is that people tend to prefer watching a video over going over a 14 page scientific study.
The Holy Bible doesn't have any references other than to itself, right? Same with Ayn Rand's works. Her nonfiction used to quote her fiction, IIRC, which was confusing to me since in economics class, I was assigned to read Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal before I'd read any of her other works like Atlas Shrugged.
 

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The Holy Bible doesn't have any references other than to itself, right? Same with Ayn Rand's works. Her nonfiction used to quote her fiction, IIRC, which was confusing to me since in economics class, I was assigned to read Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal before I'd read any of her other works like Atlas Shrugged.
It's likely that most readers will simply ignore the references and just read the text, the main advantage with references is it gives the text more credibility and thus people are more likely to get convinced even if they dont actually verify that the sources given give support to the claims made.

Old religions such as christianity rely on their history and inertia, they have a lot of buildings and rituals to draw people in, you are at a significant disadvantage when trying to establish a new belief system aka religion.

Books such as the bible are also significantly longer, if we increazed the size of the vintologi bible to 300 pages the typical reader wouldn't have any real need for additional references, they could just read everything.

One issue is that most people dont have the patience to read 300 pages so ideally the most important info should be mostly at the beginning.
 
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