What form should the printed Vintologi take?

[Leucosticte]

It could be a little booklet like this one of these pocket U.N. Charters or U.S. Constitutions: https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/jack-straw-speaking-at-the-iisswaves-the-un-charter-booklet-11203-2447985a https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/01/history-of-the-pocket-constitution-these-miniature-versions-of-americas-founding-charter-became-popular-before-the-tea-party.html

Vintologi is a short enough document that it can fit comfortably in someone's pocket, which you want people to do, because for one thing, it might stop a bullet or a shank someday, and for another, you want them to be able to hold it up on national TV at impromptu or scripted occasions (like at a national convention) where they can use it as a prop to say, "Well I don't see anything in the Book of Vintologi about ..." or "Well the book I go by is ..." in making some point.

Or, in one-on-one private conversation, where someone is opening up about a crisis they're having, "You know, my life was a wreck too, till I discovered this" (whips out Book of Vintologi). If it's a small booklet like that, it's easier to just give to someone and get them to accept it, since they probably figure it only cost a buck to make or something. A more expensive-looking book, they might decline to take. Plus it's easy for them to just put in their pocket if they're busy with other stuff at the moment and can't be encumbered with carrying a larger book.

To make the prison edition of Vintologi, it may be necessary to take a permanent marker and cover up the nipples and crotch area of naked females in accordance with incoming publications regulations. https://www.bop.gov/policy/progstat/5266_011.pdf

 

[Admin]

We can have more than one printed versions. Some followers will want a big uncensored versions while a short uncensored versions will be required in other scenarious (or any other combination of censorship level and length of the book).

 

[Leucosticte]

We can have more than one printed versions. Some followers will want a big uncensored versions while a short uncensored versions will be required in other scenarious (or any other combination of censorship level and length of the book).

Zines are considered an entry-level form of publication, since you can just bring out a bunch of double-sided sheets on a laser printer, fold them, and staple them together in the middle; but if toner costs 5 cents a page, then that's $4/book for 80 pages. It's actually cheaper to get it professionally done than to do it yourself at home, because then you're spending only about $2/book, maybe less. Usually you have a minimum order of 25 with those, but if you don't have 25 people to give your book to, you haven't really set your sights very high anyway.

I think with publishing, there are also a lot of fixed costs involved in getting everything set up, such that you get steep volume discounts if you're ordering a lot of copies. The main advantage of a zine is that all you really have are variable costs. Plus you don't have to worry about a lot of the idiosyncrasies that can be involved when dealing with commercial printers, such as needing to put a bleed area in your PDF, etc. https://www.lifewire.com/adobe-indesign-document-area-1078492

(Geez, is toner really that costly? That implies that for an $80 cartridge, one is only getting 1,600 pages out of it. I guess that's not too bad, but since I basically write about an average of 10 pages a day to prisoners, that means I have to change cartridges about twice a year. Yeah, that sounds about right, actually.)

 

[Oxblood]

I think we need two versions. One which is small and distributed online with short statements and links to longer discussions and stats/studies. Another version, bigger and complete, available through Amazon or edited and printed.

Then flyers, small propaganda persuasive speeches and images.

 

[Leucosticte]

I think we need two versions. One which is small and distributed online with short statements and links to longer discussions and stats/studies. Another version, bigger and complete, available through Amazon or edited and printed.

Then flyers, small propaganda persuasive speeches and images.

Shall we form an advisory committee on style? (See forthcoming PM)

 

[Oxblood]

Shall we form an advisory committee on style? (See forthcoming PM)

I don’t know. The idea to create memes is good. I appreciated the one inspired by my meme, Chad (psychiatrist) VS Virgin (doctor) remodeled, which is a better version of the original one.

We should also start translating the main text and promote it in national communities.

 

[Leucosticte]

I don’t know. The idea to create memes is good. I appreciated the one inspired by my meme, Chad (psychiatrist) VS Virgin (doctor) remodeled, which is a better version of the original one.

We should also start translating the main text and promote it in national communities.

Yeah, first we need a good English version, though. It needs to be free enough of grammatical and punctuation errors, for instance, that the meaning is always clear.

Actually, what might be good is to have a Swedish version that could be authoritative, kind of like how Muslims have their Quran in Arabic and consider that more authoritative than any translation.

If you're going to write a holy book, you should probably write it in your mother tongue, although I wonder, did the writers of the New Testament speak Greek as a first language? Some dude on Quora said they probably spoke it as a second language.

Anyway, if Vintologi is written in Swedish, then that gives people an extra burden non-Swedes need to carry in order to become true scholars of the faith, which makes them part of an elite just by having this knowledge. Incidentally, this also, in addition to the talk of geeky stuff, helps put up a racial wall between this religion and non-whites, because no black dude is gonna learn Swedish, for instance, since it's not a tongue of his ancestors (he can't claim they wuz Vikingz and try to feel proud about that). Therefore, no black dude is gonna try to get into the inner circle if that's a requirement for being considered a serious Vintologi scholar. Black dudes just wanna go to a diploma mill and be called "Reverend Doctor" on that basis; they don't want to do any actual hard work.

We don't even have to discriminate against them; they'll deport themselves. Someone had an article somewhere about how Starbucks also could get rid of blacks if they would add more bookshelves, play classical music, etc.