By Sc*entology-tier I mean filing like a recognized religion for tax purposes, devotees registering as ELO~Nologists on the religious survey blank, and so on.
I think the chances are roughly a coin toss. If the writer of Battlefield Earth can start a cult/religion that's still going after a bet, maybe that's something that :my-hero: can pull off too.
L. Ron Hubbard actually had some level of commitment to the bit. He wrote books and traveled around doing seminars. Bought a big house where his followers lived. He captained a cattle boat.
He put in the time and energy to make his thing happen at a level I can't imagine Musk doing. Musk is one of the laziest capitalists on planet Earth. He barely does a thing at his factories except toss some ideas around sometimes. He can't even follow through on purchasing twitter. Musk is personally a complete worm and people like him less the more they're exposed to him.
Musk's best bet at starting a cult is doing it how he always does things, he'd have to buy an existing cult and then rename himself the founder.
Agreed. Yet according to a remarkably :debatebro-r: exchange I had minutes ago, he can't be called a failson (because he's too successful off of other people's backs, so that nullifies it somehow), no matter how ignorant and lazy he is and no matter how much is handed to him or spooned into his mouth. :galaxy-brain:
Definitely a success son in that his father is a racist grifter sex weirdo and Elon is the same with much more money
Fair take.
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So what you're saying is that WE should create Elontology and sell it to him for a couple hundred mil?