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Author: Heidi Lampietti
Publisher: RedJack
Published: 2005-03
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9781892619075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 10-page instructional booklet provides you with all the information you need to start, build, and maintain your own for-profit religious cult, quickly and effectively, and with a minimum of time and money. Also includes a section on pitfalls to avoid.
Author: Philip Athans
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-05-18
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 1440538824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYes, world domination and eternal adoration can be yours! "The way to make a million dollars is to start a religion." —Attributed to L. Ron Hubbard, founder of Scientology Wouldn't you like to control countless worshippers with a single word? To call forth bountiful offerings of gold and silver? Wouldn't you love to make your acolytes bow in awe of your greatness? Starting a new religion can be fun and profitable. You'll laugh along with Philip Athans (founder, leader, and sole member of the Church of Phil), as he shows you how to: Gather the flock and keep 'em coming back for more Organize mysterious and complex rituals Interrogate (or just ridicule) the hell out of nonbelievers Recruit celebrity spokespeople, from Tom Cruise to Uma Thurman If you've ever felt the need to sacrifice on an altar beneath a blood-red moon, or just make Friday a holy day (three-day weekend, anyone?), this is the only sacred creed you need. Live long and prosper.
Author: Dan Geddes
Publisher:
Published: 2012-12-02
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9789081999700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Enjoy this hilarious collection of satires, reviews, news, poems, and short stories from The Satirist: America's Most Critical Journal."--P. [4] of cover.
Author: Mookgo Solomon Kgatle
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-02-28
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 303069724X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPentecostalism is a growing movement in world Christianity. However, the growth of Pentecostalism in South Africa has faced some challenges, including the abuse of religion by some prophets. This book first names these prophets and the churches they lead in South Africa, and then makes use of literary and media analysis to analyse the religious practices by the prophets in relation to cultism. Additionally, the book analyses the “celebrity cult” and how it helps promote the prophets in South Africa. The purpose of this book is threefold: First, to draw parallels between the abuse of religion and cultism. Second, to illustrate that it is cultic tendencies, including the celebrity cult, that has given rise to many prophets in South Africa. Last, to showcase that the challenge for many of these prophets is that the Pentecostal tradition is actually anti-cultism, and thus there is a need for them to rethink their cultic tendencies in order for them to be truly relevant in a South African context.
Author: Fredrik deBoer
Publisher: All Points Books
Published: 2020-08-04
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1250200385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNamed one of Vulture’s Top 10 Best Books of 2020! Leftist firebrand Fredrik deBoer exposes the lie at the heart of our educational system and demands top-to-bottom reform. Everyone agrees that education is the key to creating a more just and equal world, and that our schools are broken and failing. Proposed reforms variously target incompetent teachers, corrupt union practices, or outdated curricula, but no one acknowledges a scientifically-proven fact that we all understand intuitively: Academic potential varies between individuals, and cannot be dramatically improved. In The Cult of Smart, educator and outspoken leftist Fredrik deBoer exposes this omission as the central flaw of our entire society, which has created and perpetuated an unjust class structure based on intellectual ability. Since cognitive talent varies from person to person, our education system can never create equal opportunity for all. Instead, it teaches our children that hierarchy and competition are natural, and that human value should be based on intelligence. These ideas are counter to everything that the left believes, but until they acknowledge the existence of individual cognitive differences, progressives remain complicit in keeping the status quo in place. This passionate, voice-driven manifesto demands that we embrace a new goal for education: equality of outcomes. We must create a world that has a place for everyone, not just the academically talented. But we’ll never achieve this dream until the Cult of Smart is destroyed.
Author: Dagobert D. Runes
Publisher:
Published: 2003-01-01
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780758164087
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Butterfield
Publisher: South End Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780896082533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKButterfield, an ex-Amway distributor, dissects the dynamics of this "Free Enterprise" empire with an insider's insight.
Author: Tom Lutz
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2006-05-16
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1429978066
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of Crying, a witty, wide-ranging cultural history of our attitudes toward work—and getting out of it Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, there has been a chorus of slackers ridiculing and lampooning the pretensions of hardworking respectability. Reviled by many, heroes to others, these layabouts stretch and yawn while the rest of society worries and sweats. Whenever the world of labor changes in significant ways, the pulpits, politicians, and pedagogues ring with exhortations of the value of work, and the slackers answer with a strenuous call of their own: "To do nothing," as Oscar Wilde said, "is the most difficult thing in the world." From Benjamin Franklin's "air baths" to Jack Kerouac's "dharma bums," Generation-X slackers, and beyond, anti-work-ethic proponents have held a central place in modern culture. Moving with verve and wit through a series of fascinating case studies that illuminate the changing place of leisure in the American republic, Doing Nothing revises the way we understand slackers and work itself.
Author: John Bonner
Publisher:
Published: 1876
Total Pages: 945
ISBN-13:
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