@collapsedsquid if you want to start a movement you need to make some bold claims that contradict conventional wisdom, setting you apart from the crowd and acting as useful shibboleths to identify your followers.
also helps if you have some sacred texts, but I understand those can take quite some time to write.
aspiring empiricists, or empies,
Someday, man. Someday I’ll have cultists.
well that’s a bold claim that contradicts conventional wisdom, so you’re off to a good start already!
Hey are any of us here, uh, not planning to start a cult?
Or at least an institution of collective living consciously dedicated to promoting and living out doctrines at odds with contemporary norms?
Yud’s like the Velvet Underground or something, not that many apostles but every one goes off to start their own
Uh, does a city-state count as an institution of collective living?