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Annual Mission Report of the POD: 2010

Annual Mission Report of the POD:

Aloha, all!

Once again it's that time of year when we look back to the year before and compare its progress to our expectations for it, based on our earlier assessment of prior time.

In the POD, we have various, yet very specific, roles to play in the POD community. As noted in last year's annual statement's conclusion, one can belong to multiple "bund" parties simultaneously, and serve a dual role in both a church-bank and as a participant in the administration of Atlantean Democracy via the POD forums.

Because our group has grown so drastically in the past year, from only 5 to now 19 members (on the main forum), and because there have also become satellite POD forums to the original on my site (benpadiah.com), I am posting this year's mission report as an open document for all.

To reiterate the point of the annual mission report:

Every year, the POD chief executives (the 7, 13°) must recollect the sum and substance of the preceding year's course of events. In this case, we will break down the span of time from later 2008 to now, in later 2009, into five main categories.

state of the POD from 2009-2010:

1) the scribd folders (January) - (group at 13 members)
http://www.scribd.com/group/34694-the-pythagorean-order-of-death

the oldest consecutively running site for POD members besides the IOBB2 forums on benpadiah.com. Containing updated info in discussion format, as well as hosting all relavent literature as pdf e-books, for free download. A most interesting new addition to this folder came March, this year in the form of "Pythagoras" ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/13825459/Pythagoras ) a biography of our founder and a history of our cult. This document, although less important than late last year's (November) "Ordo Historia" within our POD, will nonetheless prove imperatively pivotal to making our group more popular.

2) the myspace / facebook wars (April 2-25) - (myspace= 14, facebook= 18)
http://groups.myspace.com/PythagoreanOrderOfDeath
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=64916774930

In the middle of summer, the meme-exodus from myspace to facebook occured, and now, by the end of the year, 4 fewer members are on Myspace than Facebook. It should also be noted, not all the members of these two groups are the same as one another. This trend began because registering to scribd was easier than registering to my own site's IOBB2 forums, registering to myspace easier still, and registering to facebook proved the easiest of all. By the time the facebook site was established, many of the members there were already members on other sites too.

3) the sicksince collony (July) - (now at 15 members)
http://sicksince.ning.com/group/thepythagoreanorderofdeath

By far the most successful site-scenario tested so far has been on sicksince.ning, the website of a New Age hip-hop emcee (rapper). This community has proven very open minded to these ideas, and allowed a safe environment in which for them to flourish. This in turn has attracted new members and thus perpetuates a positive cycle. Alike the IOBB2 on my own site, for IO-studies, I have started an "Enochian Studies" school on the SickSince site too, and it has gotten 5 members in a week and a half.

4) the IOBB2 "learning lodge" (per annum) - (18 members)
http://www.benpadiah.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=14

Most activity during this last year was during the summer, when I taught the "Where the IO Stands Today" lecture series. Prior to this the May 18th departure from campus of Matthew reminded many of the sour grapes over Nilsson two years ago. Several new members joined, including some who have also posted in the NEXUS. As always, IOBB2 membership qualifies one for membership in the 6th degree of the POD "bund."

5) the executive circle (inner core of 5 "fellow travellers")

EARTH = Ben: happily married, 2.5 kids.
AIR = Steve: attending college, dating.
FIRE = Daryl: pulling life back together following divorce
WATER = Jon: living happily ever after at his mom's house.
SPIRIT = Steven: attending pre-law school classes at college.

SPIRIT remains in close contact with WATER and FIRE, who remain in sporadic contact with AIR and EARTH.

Conclusions:

This has been the most favourible year for the POD since its start, three years ago. The stormy weather between Nilsson and me at the start left the early membership in question. However, I remain in contact with all the other original "Reformed IO" group members besdies Nilsson, and none of them have contact with him either. He is anathama, and for now has slunk into the shadows.

Thus, I would consider this a bright day dawning for the POD. As such, we are planning some very exciting upcoming announcements for the near future involving the 3-d model for the board and dice-game, "Atlantean Democracy," as well as offering a new, 2010 revised version of the POD.pdf on scribd. As we begin this new year of work on the POD Project, let it to all members be known, we aim to restore Atlantean Democracy, we control the ECS, we use our ESP against neo-Sethians, and we are strictly Pythagorean idealists.

I hope all of you will please enjoy this free copy (via rapidshare) of next year's model of the POD.pdf. As always download and distribtue freely.
http://rapidshare.com/files/279318212/POD10.pdf
PEACE!
- Jon