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October 30, 2011 at 6:53 am
The problem is simple.. Expecting it to happen for you. That has been the mindset of those who see this as a failure, it’s completely the opposite.
A lot has changed, but looking for the change around you, you’ll never find it.
Read throughout the record and understand some others experiences and how they differ from yours.
It is still completely possible to understand this, even now.
As I’ve said, the date is a symbol. What does it represent for you personally? How does your results compare to a lot of other results you have throughout your life? Understanding that is what moves you to what others are understanding now.
open
October 30, 2011 at 7:07 am
Ask yourself this: Why the amazing growth in people who are seeking answers to questions they themselves do even know how to ask? Is it just a coincidence? Outside your room, with distractions, nothing has changed for you. What about when it’s just you? When your left with your thoughts, what happens then? The material distracts you from that, and that has been an exercise of this from the beginning.
It is there, you can find it.
Originally posted by TNTarheel
Have you read Time's posts? She posted what she found...only two people even noticed. Perhaps Open's identity wasn't so important after all, yes?
Originally posted by sheba2011
Originally posted by TNTarheel
Have you read Time's posts? She posted what she found...only two people even noticed. Perhaps Open's identity wasn't so important after all, yes?
This is not necessarily directed at you, TNT, or Time. I am using this as a springboard for my own thoughts on this.
No, Open's name and address is not so important and had I found it myself, I would be the last person to post the details on a public forum as I also am a stickler for people's privacy.
That said, what was very much relevant and would have been helpful to know way back 100's of posts ago was the knowledge that Open is a person in their 50s with, as far as I can tell (as perhaps my google fu is failing me?), no sort of association with a cult or criminal activity or mental health issues.
Druid made a dramatic set of two posts in which he posted that a group collaborated behind the scenes to discover Open's identity. His post included a definition of "delusion." Then the thread got moved to chit-chat and people started getting banned.
Can you see how all of those actions -- by ATS members, NOT by Open --- combined to create an environment of paranoia???
Y'all had me convinced that Oct282011 was one of the following:
1) Nothing more than a 4Chan troll. Now I am questioning that, as I find it unlikely that a 50 year old woman participates in 4Chan trolls. I *could* be wrong. It's just that what I know of 4Chan's demographics, that does not add up.
2) Being run by someone who was mentally unstable and delusional. That could still be the case, yes. And I recognize that Druid posted that definition not as an accusation, but in such a way as to allow us all to make up our own minds. Can you, however, see how his first saying that he knew Open's identity would imply that he had additional insider knowledge by which his conclusion was the only conclusion? If there is something more that we are missing here, please do share it.
Otherwise, I'm going to have to call y'all on a "foul" here... same foul as those who suggested Adraves had a criminal record.
3) Worst-case scenario: a known cultist who was deliberately manipulating everyone's minds, targeting those who were most vulnerable and fragile and easiest to manipulate. If this is the case, and this is why the thread got moved to chit-chat, please provide us with the evidence!
I value people's privacy as well, but I also have no room in my belief system for besmirching anyone's name and reputation unnecessarily. People are innocent until proven guilty.
The actions by members of this group have disappointed me.
p.s. Then you have Adrave's chat log that Open posted, don't even let me get started at that. (Waves at Adraves). Adraves' own actions on that chat log were highly questionable but so where those who were accusing him of having a criminal record, going after him and booting him off IRC, and making death threats. What was up with that? Then you have others creating a private forum which was in no way secure, apparently so they could talk about Adraves behind his back. Then you have keyloggers being installed and you have Open sending out emails to people who never provided their emails to Open....my head is spinning...
I want explanations --- but not just from Open. I want explanations from the members of ATS.
Originally posted by mmirror
reply to post by Druid42
Thank you for your response. What about the puzzles from the main page: oct282011.com... Anyone get any more ideas on this? Does not seem to have changed much.
If the puzzles have not been worked out yet, then how does anyone expect to work out the meaning of the website?
Maybe if people are given the answer they would not understand it anyway (it may not fit their level of expectation). Maybe answers have been given? And people have ignored what they are simply because they do not satisfy them.
Here is my conclusion from what I see...
The website surrounds the concept of thinking not of the material. Ok...so people want a material result however. Secondly, the concept of the date thing in relation with disaster was a brilliant one...
Think about it this way...A lot of people have a high expectation of certain events to happen on certain dates...correct? What this shows is that peoples' expectation should not dictate their mindset, for high expectation only deadens the drive when it comes to dissapointment in the outcome. (It shows that your thoughts do not dicate the whole of reality, only your own reality.)
Dates have different meanings for different people. Each person had their own vision of what it all means. In the end the date came and went and a lot could tell what it was that had been fulfilled, some had their personal experiences and separate meanings. (A date that was set by Open, to which all decided to take on as their own.) Lastly, no one's fears were fulfilled. Time and time again people fear the onslaught of disaster, and yet we are all still here to invent some new dates to determine our future.
No one was forced to follow the website, yet seem so truly dissapointed in the fact that the results do not validate the time they spent experiencing the website. This dissapointment comes from a mind that expects a lot, but values little in my opinion. What you 'expect' is what you get! If you expect dissapointment you will recieve it, if you expect growth you will see it. Your 'MIND' dictates your every move.
Life's a stage to which we all play a PART of that game.
Originally posted by TNTarheel
What explanations would you have me give, Sheba? I still don't know the reason behind the website...that reason is known only to Open...any other "reasons" are pure conjecture.
EDIT: The info that was posted has to do with whom the 409 phone number is registered to...that doesn't mean that the same person runs the website.edit on 10/30/2011 by TNTarheel because: added editedit on 10/30/2011 by TNTarheel because: corrected grammar
Originally posted by mmirror
reply to post by Molimo
Yes exactly...what you see is what you get...Molimo you see value in what you experience! You also see value in people. This is what this experience has given you. Knowing that there are good people out there who are willing to share their experiences with others, not just one's that are always out to destroy and dictate negatively. These are things you earlier feared...yet now you write differently.
However some people are never happy with the results...it would not matter what you say, they already made their mind up from the beginning and like glue they are sticking to it, for they want merely to prove their own point.
The MIND dictates the outcome. This is a perfect example!