I Will Ask You Questions - Now with MORE fantasy ecology!

Imagine that you are one of the first members of a cult which you truly believe in. How do you most effectively recruit for your cult without alienating your family and friends, who are members of a different cult?

Well I guess it depends on how similar our two cults are, ideologically speaking. If they have very much in common, I would probably try to play up the similarities, and then explain why I think that our philosophy is an improvement over the older religion.

If they don't have much in common at all, than recruiting my family is obviously a lot more difficult. But either way, I still probably want to try and recruit my family first. After all, they're the last people that I want to see following the wrong religion.

I would still have to be prepared to take no for an answer though, at least for the time being. Not everybody is willing to just change their whole outlook on life overnight. I'll let them think it over for awhile and try again in a few weeks or so, or maybe the next time that they're having a convienent crisis of faith.