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#17▸ Posted: 19 Dec 1997, 06:14 PST
I closed the window. I drank water. I woke my sister and told her I was scared, not the whole thing, just that much. She is in the kitchen making toast and acting annoyed in the normal way, which is helping more than I expected.
The instructions are still buzzing at the edge of everything, but I am not doing the next one. Not tonight. Please keep talking like this. It makes the room feel less tilted.
still listening |
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#18▸ Posted: 29 Dec 1997, 07:03 PST
Checking back. I made the toast like I said, then sat with my sister until she stopped shaking.
No doorway opened. No choir. I still feel something, but I am not leaving her alone for a sign.
still listening |
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#19▸ Posted: 08 Jan 1998, 07:21 PST
A signal is not the same thing as a command.
If it asks you to abandon sleep, food, medicine, family, or ordinary judgement, treat it as noise until proven otherwise.
not above, only before |
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#20▸ Posted: 19 Jan 1998, 08:02 PST
I still believe the seeded-first-wave is real.
I do not believe any clean source would demand exhaustion as proof. Pain is not a password.
skeptics welcome, tenderness required |
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#21▸ Posted: 29 Jan 1998, 08:44 PST
Same. My faith is intact, but the endurance-test talk feels wrong.
If ascension begins by making us cruel to our bodies, then somebody has misunderstood the message.
love + discernment |
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#22▸ Posted: 08 Feb 1998, 09:15 PST
[staff] I am pinning cult-rhetoric-watch in the reference thread. Please read the section on isolation, special chosen language, escalating sacrifices, and sleep loss.
No one here is authorised to test another member.
Moderator · Cork |
 Resident Skeptic ◆◆◆◆◆ Posts: 16,720 Joined: Apr 1998 From: Chicago, US |
#23▸ Posted: 19 Feb 1998, 10:06 PST
For newer readers, the RH material is old forum lore, not a settled map.
A lot of it works by suggestion: symbols repeat, people notice matches, and the matches start to feel aimed at them. That can be meaningful without being literal instruction.
kind skepticism department |
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#24▸ Posted: 01 Mar 1998, 11:32 PST
Practical check: eat something with salt, drink water, sleep before making vows, and do not drive if you have been awake all night.
If you hear a voice telling you to hurt yourself or prove devotion, call a real person and stay in a lit room.
be kind, keep notes |