When the rapture comes...

I could create an invisible army of 8 million men among you, from zero, on your dime, and with your own children. I'd only need two tools, both of which are readily available to me.

First, a charity of some kind; and second, the concept of educational perennialism. I would abuse your compassion, accept your kind donations, and spend that money on promoting my other message. As my message caught on more money would roll in from my new followers, along with more reverence for my cover cause.

If just 1 percent of your 400 million person population goes along with my training program and puts two children into it, you would have 8 million merciless homegrown soldiers on your doorstep within 15 years. On the other hand I could also import them from overseas on your dime, and you might never see it coming.

Details of the fact follow:

This is the Wikipedia page for this educational perennialism concept. I could use any other socially prepared foundational term that works for me. I would just have to fit it into my model. It's really only the screen or curtain, if you think of the saw the lady in half trick.

The concept is extremely flexible, yet has good bearing and strong foundations for the name and quote people. We need better education everyone already agrees we are not serving our children properly, and the term perennial fits in well with the lifelong learning idea.

This is the low down on EP:

1. Perennialists believe that one should teach the things that one deems to be of everlasting importance to all people everywhere.

This is the rationale piece, everlasting importance to all people. This statement basically tells people look up, the left hand says the future is the past. What are the people going to say in response? While they are figuring that out I move on to step 2.

2. They believe that the most important topics develop a person.

I agree. If educators say something is important I expect a fair portion of the people will listen and take a note for the future. An educator said this was important and they don't want to sound uneducated. You would want to carefully insert your messages as important ones. Remember this: Your Message Here

3. Since details of fact change constantly, these cannot be the most important. Therefore, one should teach principles, not facts.

An amazing spinning sentence that delivers the concept, "do not teach facts."

This was so elegant I had to use this EP concept for something. They're saying is F the Facts, it's the principles we need to focus on. How many details of a fact makes it a new fact? Water is wet or frozen, fresh or salt, potable or not. Is salt water still water? Is still water really water? Is water ice water or ice? Yes, no, who cares! F teh F!

It's the principles we are focused on. Water is one potential receiver-transmitter of wave energy, later we'll talk about waves.

4. Since people are human, one should teach first about humans, not machines or techniques.

Funny, since people are human I assume they are already experts on humans. Not only do they know them, they are one. However, I could absolutely teach them about these people and those people, and make them see the difference.

5. Since people are people first, and workers second if at all, one should teach liberal topics first, not vocational topics.

A more detailed reiteration of four.

Liberal topics first: Some sort of canon of history books to teach you how you are, once you know how they were and could be. They might mean art for all I care, and intend to teach your kids how to paint and play music first, then math and reading. Music is math plus system, so it might actually help.

I can use it otherwise, liberal topics first is a very, very flexible concept.

Workers second if at all. Most of us recognize that we have an economic structure that leaves people out in the cold unless they have acquired a desirable skill set.

By accepting this type of educational model you have just given me and my team permission to teach your children how people are first and then the skills they need to actually survive. At that point survival will mean do as I say.

We have done this by subjugating survival skills training into this interesting and tidy term "vocational." This was actually done before my time, but it's still a useful and ongoing idea. The subjugation of this type of knowledge is easier now than it was then, because desirable skills in the current job market might mean something totally different next week than it did last year.

Vocational, it sounds like vocal, like this is where we train professional talkers, vocational school. Sure, we'll teach you how to feed yourself, after we're done talking.

I personally would want to deliver this with a big revival to spark interest in the church and put the people that come in to see what it's about into service for me. It's easy to type people for what they're willing to do for you, as a ministry. This is Cultism 101.

Cult leaders are tool users also; remember this. They use sensory deprivation and bombardment, drugs, starvation/enforced fasting, hypnosis, strong threats and happily give proofs of their willingness to follow through on them.

They use these tools on children as well as adults. These things will stay with your children as they grow up. The reactions they have are uncertain, unless they've been trained and accepted a particular response to reiteration of impulses given while under the influence of these techniques.

I could easily put a happy face on this, something that looks very high-minded, kind, and far thinking, while using the exact same language to invite those who also desire unnatural power to join me. This also allows me to be overtly religious, while not alarming the secularists too much.

In fact, with a second team I could bring the secular people right in with the religious ones, with the same intended outcome for the work. They both have a branch of this EP concept, so it would not catch the attention of the non-religious as something unusual. It might be made to sound like common sense.

Power-hungry people can be any way you are, hippies, businessmen, church-focused, soccer moms, atheists. They do whatever it takes to fit in with your group then add their weird ideas to yours as you become used to them.

Sometimes they act superior to you and see if it sticks. If and when someone believes they are superior, they go back and look at what worked to cause that thinking in that person. Then they just push it along with minor adjustments until everybody agrees and accepts it as truth.

The outward message could be something as simple and unoffensive as "we should get along," while pointing at some horror elsewhere. When you notice the same thing is happening at home, they get right out in front of it so you think it's being taken care of.

If you continue to complain, they point to incorrect reasons, individual persons (the blame game), and invalid solutions to the problem itself. Before the non-cult people manage their case-full of undesirable options, the Lord's Army is marching down the street with no resistance. They own your place and your stuff, start over (from infant for those that believe in reincarnation, atheists to nil, all others to the back of the line).

When the rapture comes, can we have your stuff?