My package of incense arrived yesterday from the people who sent me this email. I have to say, they were very prompt. They also have a great product. The incense came with some extra goodies, pictured below. I have put the purple button magnet on my refrigerator as a conversation piece and as a reminder to calm the f*** down.
The abundant literature that arrived with my package was very interesting. Here are some excerpts from the information about the Nazir Order of the Purple Veil:
An initiate of the NOPV wears solid, all purple, monastic garments at all times. Members of NMC live a reclusive, austere life, refraining from eating flesh, drinking intoxicants and cutting of the hair, among other disciplines.
You will find members of Nahziryah Monastic Community and our Order very seldom travel alone, never engaging in frivolous talk. We are reclusive.
A true member of Nahziryah Monastic Community and the Nazir Order of the Purple Veil, will first, foremost and always proclaim Nahziryah (all blessings and respect due) as his or her Spiritual Teacher and Guide.
Of course, there’s a whole lot more. I am struck by the ego it must take to get a whole bunch of people to wear purple all of the time and give their (capital letters!) Spiritual Teacher proclamations as such. Reverend Nahziryah does look like a modern day guru sort, as the drawing in the literature shows him with dreadlocks all the way down to the hem of his flowing robe.
It made me wonder if I could become a guru and start my own cult. Perhaps everyone could wear big movie star sunglasses (so as to block some of the view of the evils of the world), flip flops (to use in walking meditations where chanting would match the rhythmic slap, slap of the shoes) and coral toenail polish (to remind one of the beauty that lies even in ugly things). We would engage in LOTS of “frivolous talk”. My cult would support itself by raising purebred angora rabbits, dyed pink. Or, perhaps it could be the first cult ever (?) supported by Adsense. Hmm.
It’s always good to keep your career options open…
Instead of purple, you would probably go with pink, right?
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Makes me wonder what other interesting, unsolicited “literature” (or should I say propoganda) you will be receiving in the future now that you are on their mailing list.
Well it looks like a neat package Michelle. But if you do start that cult there is no way I’m joining.
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