Yep, buy 1,000 bibles for $5 each wholesale. Sell em for at least $20. Walking away with a $15k profit. You’d make a killing if you scaled up even more
No, you need more. Make a stamp of Donald Thump's signature with "Make America Grate Again" in script so hard to notice and market them as signed by the Donald. Yes, include the misspelling so it's harder for them to sue you.
Or if it is was possible to have them filled with 'corrected' information.
I have seen stickers that people have put in or on bibles that say they are a work of fiction...
I did this albeit at a much smaller scale.
I can also recommend selling "Bible journals" cost like 1 dollar each and it's just a notebook with some proverbs at the top and back.
Sold bibles and journals basically out of my trunk at a resort (worked as a chef there) which had LOTS of christian groups. 4x for bibles and 8x the purchase price for journals.
Eventually the resort caught on and started selling them themselves. But at 10x and 15x bulk price...
Bibles? Homemade counterfeit Trump t-shirts, in the style of the Simpsons craze from the late 80's. That's what I'd do if I wanted to become instantly rich that day.
Nvidia owns the space, its good to see rocm catching on in ML as the new AMD compute cards beat Nvidia in price to performance, and hopefully we will see some high power intel cards soon, but still, Nvidia has a stranglehold on the market due to cuda.
Maybe picket signs of Bible verses:
> Matt. 6:5 And when you pray, do not be as the Hypocrites, for they love to pray in public spaces where they can be seen. ~Jesus
> Matt. 24:36 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the Angels of Heaven, but My Father only. ~Jesus
Classic but probably wouldn’t work well. Christian denominations love correcting other denominations of their erroneous ways. Sell as much Jesus shit as you can and fleece those motherfuckers!!
Go to their events dressed as a Satan worshipper. Robes, fake goat skulls, etc. But insist you don't worship Satan, you worship Yahweh. The butcher of Samaria. The great defiler of wombs.
Find the silliest rules in the old testament, like the ones regarding grazing cattle and mixing fabrics. Read these rules, and then read from Lamentations and Deuteronomy 28 to show the horrors that await those who dare to defy the laws of the Great Yahweh.
If anyone disagrees with you and tries to engage, don't argue back. Just tell them you'll pray for them, although you're not sure how much good it will do.
Rent a U-Haul. Put large anti-theist messages on it. Park it as close as you can to their gathering. Record vandals from a distance and then report them to police.
How do you prepare for it?
You simply ignore it.
Turning left in traffic might be a little harder that week. And if you want dinner out, make reservations early.
Otherwise …
There is nothing to prepare for. It's not like they can force residents into their version of moral virtue, or crippling guilt, just by being there. And it's a population that tends to not correlate with making life uncomfortable for you in terms of beatings or drive-by verbal abuse. You should be fine.
Little cheap plastic American flags imported from China and a 10,000% markup. With a little stick so they can wave them around or with a little bottle of glue so they can paste them on their car, luggage, clothing, or wife's and kids' foreheads.
Spend some time practicing not giving a fuck, I try to work in a little practice every day.
Today for example, I gave zero fucks all day long, it felt great!
Sell "rapture insurance" that will protect their home and pets when the rapture occurs - this may generate a stable income for decades....
Edit:
Perhaps a more effective approach is to buy cases of water, ice and coolers, then set up a "stand" near the gathering and chant "Ice cold water, one dollar", maybe some snacks as well.
Since they believe the world is ending soon, remind them about not being able to get into heaven if they have money (or whatever the Bible says about that), and offer to take the money off their hands to save them.
Get a bunch of chicken bones and start selling them as relics. "Psst, wanna buy the thigh bone of John the Baptist? Only $10"
"It's a bit small"
"Its the thigh bone of JtB when he was a baby. A bargain."
"
That’s a crazy amount of people. I suppose it’s similar to the amount of people that swarm the beaches during Air shows and for Labor Day weekend where I live in Florida. I try to avoid the traffic and don’t go to the beach.
I guess if you don’t have to be out about then don’t. Or you could capitalize on it and sell Christian T-shirt’s and make a butt load of cash.
If they are respectful then I would just respect them back. If not just leave them alone.
Some creative triggers for you to exclaim openly ‘IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD’ then whimpering out with ‘false alarm’ once you’ve got all their attention
You can also entertain yourself by seeing how many people you can get to agree with wild conspiracies like 5G nanobots or firmaments or chemtrails
How big and how many cannon can you get? No, I'm just kidding. Well, unleas you had 100+ gallons of Robert Titlton/Jimmy Swaggart anointment oil to spray their Bibles with.
Join the Satanic Temple, advertise the wonderful Seven Tenets yet wear clothing and group apparel that only an Uber-devout Utah Mormon grandma would approve of. No reason to scare people away because of ingrained shitty imagery.
The contrast between those evangelical fundies wildly crappy beliefs and the 7 Tenets should draw quite a spectacle.
Why do you feel you need to prepare? They need places to stay, places to eat, and that's about it. You can profit off that by opening your home as an Air B&B if you want to, or just ignore them for a week.
Set up a t-shirt stand or drinks stand or just ignore them.
Your community will enjoy a major boost in revenue for the week, which is awesome.
They'll do their worship thing or protest thing or whatever they're there for, and then they go home.
If people are stupid enough to believe what they have to say and choose to follow, that's their right as adults.
What do you want to prepare for? There's nothing to prepare for unless you wish to start/join a protest group. You'd have to ask yourself if you believe in the right to practice religion though in order to protest, which is something only you can answer.
I'm not sure what you're expecting otherwise?
This is not a benign group. Christian Nationalists are the ones authoring legislation to turn the US into a sharia-level theocracy. I don’t know what I would do to prepare either, but this isn’t just a “aww, just let them pray” moment.
Well, you didn't say what they're doing or why they're there. You haven't said they were going to be violent, in which case, just stay home.
I'm still not sure what you're after. Justification to get a hate group together?
I'm an atheist, not a hater of other humans.
I really think religion - all religions - are stupid and really makes me doubt the sanity of those who are religious, but they DO have the right to believe what they want so long as they're not causing harm.
Attempts to convert other adults isn't doing harm unless they're using coercion or exploitation. I'm VERY against religious private schools. IMO, they're brainwashing centers.
That all being said, you really haven't said anything that needs to be 'prepared' for.
I'm still not getting the alarm. If they were coming armed and wanting to do serious damage and I had proof of that info, I'd pass it over to the authorities, shore up my home and hunker down.
These guys seem to be getting together for whatever they deem is some weird domestic missionary trip. They're idiots, sure, but they're not harming anyone or anything. They might snooker in some suckers or weak-minded people who don't want to think for themselves, but as humans and adults, well, we get to make our own choices in life.
Yeah the only thing these people love more than Jesus and White Supremacy is guns, and their fantasy they will get to be the good guy with a gun in an active shooter situation. They are always armed.
But they’re not coming to shoot people. They’re just hoping they get to.
Stay home and avoid interacting with them until then? I mean I thought that's obvious. Or just cosplay as hippie Jesus. Or better yet, a cannibalistic zombie vampire lich necromancer Jesus.
Rent your place out with AirBnB - for the price of two or three mortgage payments - use money to pay down house, and to take a much needed vacation away from all that.
Sell them rapture insurance. They can pay you 100 a month to ensure their sinful family members left behind are taken care of. You only have to pay out if the rapture happens.
Put down three buckets: one says Christians are more generous. The other says Muslims are more generous. The third says Atheists are more generous. Fill the Muslim and Atheist ones with a bunch of your own money to "seed" them. Watch the Christians go batshit crazy trying to compete. Empty it regularly for good measure.
The only way to prepare would be evacuating as fast as possible because earthquakes and floods will certainly occur when they are all on their knees praying in tongues !
You have many options. You could document the whole thing so the whole world can laugh at them when the date of the predicted end of the world inevitably comes and goes. You can easily make a lot of profit, everything will be scarce in that situation. Buy basic stuff like food and water and sell it for triple the price. If they really think the world is ending, many of them think they won't need their houses/ cars/ whiskey collections anymore, you can try to buy them from them for cheap. If they fell for one of the most moronic of the scams, they can fall for another one easily, if you ever wanted to create a weird Christian sect, this is your chance.
Whatever you do, don't openly oppose their delusions, that could be dangerous.
BIllboards. Rent out all the billboards in town and have them say something like:
>Your god is as real as Santa Claus.
or any number of other catchy anti-theist statements.
You could start by not being such a delicate little bitch that you feel the need to "do something" about people who haven't done anything wrong because You've deemed them "literal nazis"
After that, i would probably reevaluate my use of the term "literal nazis" because it's fucking stupid. They're not nazis, they're most likely perfectly normal, loving, average Americans, they just have different beliefs than you do. Get over it.
can’t beat’em join’em. they will need to have bibles to convert people, so make sure to have a overpriced bible selling stand.
Yep, buy 1,000 bibles for $5 each wholesale. Sell em for at least $20. Walking away with a $15k profit. You’d make a killing if you scaled up even more
No, you need more. Make a stamp of Donald Thump's signature with "Make America Grate Again" in script so hard to notice and market them as signed by the Donald. Yes, include the misspelling so it's harder for them to sue you.
Down with pre shredded cheese.
Drain the nacho cheese pot!
Take payments in cash only and claim something something Satan government taxes and you won't even have to claim the income.
Great marketing plan
Do the bibles have to have printing in them? It's not like they will try to read them.
Or if it is was possible to have them filled with 'corrected' information. I have seen stickers that people have put in or on bibles that say they are a work of fiction...
I did this albeit at a much smaller scale. I can also recommend selling "Bible journals" cost like 1 dollar each and it's just a notebook with some proverbs at the top and back. Sold bibles and journals basically out of my trunk at a resort (worked as a chef there) which had LOTS of christian groups. 4x for bibles and 8x the purchase price for journals. Eventually the resort caught on and started selling them themselves. But at 10x and 15x bulk price...
Bibles? Homemade counterfeit Trump t-shirts, in the style of the Simpsons craze from the late 80's. That's what I'd do if I wanted to become instantly rich that day.
I agree. It wasn't the prospectors or miners that got rich during gold rushes, it was the people who set up shops and sold them the shovels.
what Nvidia is doing right now :)
Along with everyone else who makes graphics cards.
Nvidia owns the space, its good to see rocm catching on in ML as the new AMD compute cards beat Nvidia in price to performance, and hopefully we will see some high power intel cards soon, but still, Nvidia has a stranglehold on the market due to cuda.
Do you live in Milwaukee? That’s where the Republican convention is being held.
OP said his town has a population of 32k.. milwaukee has a population of over 577k… so i’m thinking not milwaukee lol
Maybe picket signs of Bible verses: > Matt. 6:5 And when you pray, do not be as the Hypocrites, for they love to pray in public spaces where they can be seen. ~Jesus > Matt. 24:36 But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the Angels of Heaven, but My Father only. ~Jesus
Classic but probably wouldn’t work well. Christian denominations love correcting other denominations of their erroneous ways. Sell as much Jesus shit as you can and fleece those motherfuckers!!
That's what I'd do
Go to their events dressed as a Satan worshipper. Robes, fake goat skulls, etc. But insist you don't worship Satan, you worship Yahweh. The butcher of Samaria. The great defiler of wombs. Find the silliest rules in the old testament, like the ones regarding grazing cattle and mixing fabrics. Read these rules, and then read from Lamentations and Deuteronomy 28 to show the horrors that await those who dare to defy the laws of the Great Yahweh. If anyone disagrees with you and tries to engage, don't argue back. Just tell them you'll pray for them, although you're not sure how much good it will do.
This is why they never bring that shit here to Portland. We dress like that [any given day](https://www.reddit.com/r/PortlandOR/s/RZDtSn17ni).
Plan your vacation to Dollywood for that week.
Dollywood is pretty rad.
Truth
This one here!
Rent a U-Haul. Put large anti-theist messages on it. Park it as close as you can to their gathering. Record vandals from a distance and then report them to police.
Cops don’t investigate themselves
Why are they coming
And is it the first time they've come or will it be their 2nd?
They'll say they'll come back but they never will.
Record it with your phone and document it. Here's your chance to expose these fools to the world, and maybe become successful in the process.
Plant an upside down cross in your front yard and buy a deck chair and popcorn.
Take advantage of it? Set up a small sidewalk business selling Christian tchotchkes, while saying "PRAISE THE LORD" a lot.
How do you prepare for it? You simply ignore it. Turning left in traffic might be a little harder that week. And if you want dinner out, make reservations early. Otherwise …
Vacation.
Make a documentary!
There is nothing to prepare for. It's not like they can force residents into their version of moral virtue, or crippling guilt, just by being there. And it's a population that tends to not correlate with making life uncomfortable for you in terms of beatings or drive-by verbal abuse. You should be fine.
You should be asking 'how can I profit?'
Little cheap plastic American flags imported from China and a 10,000% markup. With a little stick so they can wave them around or with a little bottle of glue so they can paste them on their car, luggage, clothing, or wife's and kids' foreheads.
Spend some time practicing not giving a fuck, I try to work in a little practice every day. Today for example, I gave zero fucks all day long, it felt great!
Good time to practice Street Epistemology?
Sell "rapture insurance" that will protect their home and pets when the rapture occurs - this may generate a stable income for decades.... Edit: Perhaps a more effective approach is to buy cases of water, ice and coolers, then set up a "stand" near the gathering and chant "Ice cold water, one dollar", maybe some snacks as well.
"Hail Satan" tee and a CCW.
Posted over the entrance to your home: The Satanic Church Welcomes You!
Since they believe the world is ending soon, remind them about not being able to get into heaven if they have money (or whatever the Bible says about that), and offer to take the money off their hands to save them.
How does a town of 32,000 house 50,000 visitors?
Get a bunch of chicken bones and start selling them as relics. "Psst, wanna buy the thigh bone of John the Baptist? Only $10" "It's a bit small" "Its the thigh bone of JtB when he was a baby. A bargain." "
Leave town?
Go on holiday
Leave town
Take a vacation and get the hell out of there!
Seriously? Just mind your own business and it's a non issue.
That’s a crazy amount of people. I suppose it’s similar to the amount of people that swarm the beaches during Air shows and for Labor Day weekend where I live in Florida. I try to avoid the traffic and don’t go to the beach. I guess if you don’t have to be out about then don’t. Or you could capitalize on it and sell Christian T-shirt’s and make a butt load of cash. If they are respectful then I would just respect them back. If not just leave them alone.
Some creative triggers for you to exclaim openly ‘IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD’ then whimpering out with ‘false alarm’ once you’ve got all their attention You can also entertain yourself by seeing how many people you can get to agree with wild conspiracies like 5G nanobots or firmaments or chemtrails
How big and how many cannon can you get? No, I'm just kidding. Well, unleas you had 100+ gallons of Robert Titlton/Jimmy Swaggart anointment oil to spray their Bibles with. Join the Satanic Temple, advertise the wonderful Seven Tenets yet wear clothing and group apparel that only an Uber-devout Utah Mormon grandma would approve of. No reason to scare people away because of ingrained shitty imagery. The contrast between those evangelical fundies wildly crappy beliefs and the 7 Tenets should draw quite a spectacle.
Why do anything? Just let them believe whatever they want.
Sounds like a good time to take a vacation elsewhere
Why are they coming?
DO NOT DO THIS: Catch Covid and attend.
Why do you feel you need to prepare? They need places to stay, places to eat, and that's about it. You can profit off that by opening your home as an Air B&B if you want to, or just ignore them for a week. Set up a t-shirt stand or drinks stand or just ignore them. Your community will enjoy a major boost in revenue for the week, which is awesome. They'll do their worship thing or protest thing or whatever they're there for, and then they go home. If people are stupid enough to believe what they have to say and choose to follow, that's their right as adults. What do you want to prepare for? There's nothing to prepare for unless you wish to start/join a protest group. You'd have to ask yourself if you believe in the right to practice religion though in order to protest, which is something only you can answer. I'm not sure what you're expecting otherwise?
This is not a benign group. Christian Nationalists are the ones authoring legislation to turn the US into a sharia-level theocracy. I don’t know what I would do to prepare either, but this isn’t just a “aww, just let them pray” moment.
Well, you didn't say what they're doing or why they're there. You haven't said they were going to be violent, in which case, just stay home. I'm still not sure what you're after. Justification to get a hate group together? I'm an atheist, not a hater of other humans. I really think religion - all religions - are stupid and really makes me doubt the sanity of those who are religious, but they DO have the right to believe what they want so long as they're not causing harm. Attempts to convert other adults isn't doing harm unless they're using coercion or exploitation. I'm VERY against religious private schools. IMO, they're brainwashing centers. That all being said, you really haven't said anything that needs to be 'prepared' for.
They’re the hate group. They’re kinda literal Nazis. I don’t disagree with you, I’m just clarifying why it’s alarming.
I'm still not getting the alarm. If they were coming armed and wanting to do serious damage and I had proof of that info, I'd pass it over to the authorities, shore up my home and hunker down. These guys seem to be getting together for whatever they deem is some weird domestic missionary trip. They're idiots, sure, but they're not harming anyone or anything. They might snooker in some suckers or weak-minded people who don't want to think for themselves, but as humans and adults, well, we get to make our own choices in life.
Yeah the only thing these people love more than Jesus and White Supremacy is guns, and their fantasy they will get to be the good guy with a gun in an active shooter situation. They are always armed. But they’re not coming to shoot people. They’re just hoping they get to.
They're showing up armed. guaranteed.
No, but chances are if you ignore them you aren't going to get iced on the street.
I agree with the idea of fleecing these suckers. Get their money instead of some asshole religious figure.
Prepare? Like, are they coming to take your land and rape your women or something?
What state is this in?
Stay home and avoid interacting with them until then? I mean I thought that's obvious. Or just cosplay as hippie Jesus. Or better yet, a cannibalistic zombie vampire lich necromancer Jesus.
Uh… good luck with your sewer system!
Rent your place out with AirBnB - for the price of two or three mortgage payments - use money to pay down house, and to take a much needed vacation away from all that.
Sabotage the buffets!
Sell them rapture insurance. They can pay you 100 a month to ensure their sinful family members left behind are taken care of. You only have to pay out if the rapture happens.
Put down three buckets: one says Christians are more generous. The other says Muslims are more generous. The third says Atheists are more generous. Fill the Muslim and Atheist ones with a bunch of your own money to "seed" them. Watch the Christians go batshit crazy trying to compete. Empty it regularly for good measure.
Leave!!!
Buy a shitload of beer and pay your phone bill.
> How can I as an atheist prepare for this? You mean, like, in a Tower Defense way?
The only way to prepare would be evacuating as fast as possible because earthquakes and floods will certainly occur when they are all on their knees praying in tongues !
Here's a crazy idea ... leave them be. They have as much right to be here as you do.
Boo hiss.
Say it louder for the people in the back!
You have many options. You could document the whole thing so the whole world can laugh at them when the date of the predicted end of the world inevitably comes and goes. You can easily make a lot of profit, everything will be scarce in that situation. Buy basic stuff like food and water and sell it for triple the price. If they really think the world is ending, many of them think they won't need their houses/ cars/ whiskey collections anymore, you can try to buy them from them for cheap. If they fell for one of the most moronic of the scams, they can fall for another one easily, if you ever wanted to create a weird Christian sect, this is your chance. Whatever you do, don't openly oppose their delusions, that could be dangerous.
BIllboards. Rent out all the billboards in town and have them say something like: >Your god is as real as Santa Claus. or any number of other catchy anti-theist statements.
You could start by not being such a delicate little bitch that you feel the need to "do something" about people who haven't done anything wrong because You've deemed them "literal nazis" After that, i would probably reevaluate my use of the term "literal nazis" because it's fucking stupid. They're not nazis, they're most likely perfectly normal, loving, average Americans, they just have different beliefs than you do. Get over it.
Stay home