Religion
I think the reason why I want to start a religion is because, more than ever, I feel like what I'm really doing is starting a _monastery_: a refuge from the world where the rules are understood to be different from the outside and accepted as such.
It isn't necessarily that I want to frame what I do as religion, so much as religion seems to be the most likely framing under which most people will back off and leave me alone. They might point and laugh, but they'll do so at a distance.
Religion
This isn't to say that there's no spiritual bent to my working. There is, and a lot of it. But I fully recognize that there's a different one for everyone. We're all on our own paths together, trying to figure out where we're going. I don't want anyone thinking I'm trying to start telling them where to go or how to get there. I can barely find my own feet some days. Even if I were ready for an apprentice, it'd be in the sense of "teaching someone how to help people," not my path.
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(( Yes, @Soreth, "when the magister is ready, the student will appear." Not there yet, thank the stars. I have time yet. ))
Religion
@literorrery A little time, a little time. It's not quite then yet. :)
Religion
Regardless, what I really want is a place where I can help build the kinds of cultural values that matter to me, and right now I don't have a strong sense that I can do that Outside; that world is just too... alien. I want to build an Inside that has firmer walls than gossamer, if I can, and this seems to be the best way to do it. If there's better, I haven't found it yet.