[Jake OParticipant]

I’m in! I will have to leave early for a birthday, but will be there for a drink.

[Jake OParticipant]

wow, this is very interesting. I know some other aspects of tension have had a relationship to the bible and Hebrew eg anoch being similar to enoch

the idea of hearing with acceptance seems very relevant to the teachings of the OOA thus far.

And the idea of opposites you talk about above is definitely something that has been discussed greatly and is definitely something tension plays with.
For example, the book image, once discovered, was placed inside another image of vanta black. So there you have the darkest color discovered and the “light” sitting inside of it.

[Jake OParticipant]

congrats russell! now it’s time to give your apartment a good cleaning!

[Jake OParticipant]

such an amazing book. If you’re familiar with blackout haunted house, it is a big influence on them as well.

The fragmented narrative and post modern structure definitely has something in common with the way tension is telling their story. However, I feel like ultimately tension’s story will be a bit more straightforward and less abstract.

and yes, it is tremendously unsettling.

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[Jake OParticipant]

I stand with Flying Spaghetti Monster.

At least I can eat him/her when I don’t like their style anymore.

[Jake OParticipant]

oh I agree, I’m not saying he’s innocent and I’m not saying he hasn’t or won’t kill someone. He’s just prone to exaggerate, so until I see something, anything to support his claims, I don’t believe it.
After all, this is a dark world we’re playing in.
In the meantime, BOS haven’t killed anyone at all to my knowledge or even claimed to commit any act of violence. So take that as you will about the OOA

[Jake OParticipant]

I’m not saying all story points need to be cleanly resolved. We just have zero physical evidence that III has committed any of these crimes.

Addison, a murderer, showing someone, a single person, pictures of people she claims are now dead is not strong enough to persuade me of anything.

In seven, we have seen the killer’s handy work for the whole length of the movie, so it’s not asking the audience to take much of a leap to assume that there’s a head in the box. But I would also argue, this leads to what the film leaves the audience with, a giant moral conundrum about Brad Pitt’s choice to shoot the killer and on top of that WITHOUT having seen what’s in the box himself which effectively places the audience in his shoes. What a great fucking scene!

I can agree with you on the OOA. We definitely have far more evidence of wrongdoing by them than of BOS, of which we have none. However, until I clearly understand what the hell BOS is doing, I have no intention of siding with them either.

Also, why choose a side when I haven’t been asked to?

As for game of thrones (I’ve only watched the show), if I don’t see it on camera, I don’t believe it. But that’s television, they love bringing people back from the dead!

[Jake OParticipant]

while I can agree with some of what you’re saying about keeping the story moving, I disagree with something as major as choosing a side or what you believe in. When they have presented us with actual events and story points that we’ve witnessed, it allows everyone to make a more informed decision.

For example, we have now witnessed Addison commit murder. This makes me not want to follow her and if she is with the OOA, then I probably would choose not to follow them.

However, III telling us he has killed or maimed a major character, but not showing us any viable proof makes that heresay.
In game of thrones, if they had a character tell us Jamie Lannister is dead, but we never saw it, would we be satisfied? I think everyone would question whether he was actually dead first and if he was actually dead the audience would be mad at the storytellers.

Similarly, we have no evidence that Benny/Mark actually offed himself. Other than a phone call from Tom, this is hardly a good reason to believe he is actually dead and actually further complicates things as Tom could have killed him.

The BOS camp is secretive and gives me practically zero reason to care what they are doing. All we know is they are against the OOA.

My overall point being, there is ample reason to still not have picked a side. Not to mention some of us have never been directly asked to choose a side.

[Jake OParticipant]

Whoa! What’s in the boxxxxxx????? What’s in the boxxxxxxxx?????

[Jake OParticipant]

bummer you will not be able to go.
yeah, I agree, if someone could create a live version of house of leaves, wow, that would be awesome (and most likely very expensive. Haha)

[Jake OParticipant]

the familiar is the author’s massive new story. It is a 27 novel series! Part 3 is coming out soon, 1 and 2 are available to buy

[Jake OParticipant]

here comes dat boi

[Jake OParticipant]

those are on deck for me!

[Jake OParticipant]

😜😳😞😝😬🎃

I just wanted to post some emojis

[Jake OParticipant]

@mike III controlling her does make sense except, I agree with @thegilded she has declared herself to be gatekeeper 2, which we know III is not down with. And she was very confident about it.
I feel like if III was around she would’ve taken him out too. This would place power firmly back in the OOA’s hands, IF she is being controlled by them, which seems more likely to me

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