Bryan Bishop

I just hope he’s doing so in order to help us fend off the OSDM’s tactics much like @111error was hoping to, and not in order to create a new sort of OSDM from us.

I feel you @nothenrygale, but Noah basically just confirmed what some of us were saying yesterday. This is about empowering us by first doing nice things we feel comfortable with, and…[Read more]

“Going theory that feels pretty damnn good.”

Exactly why you shouldn’t trust it, @thebuz. 😉

Just my two cents, but this message from Noah reads much more like him simply highlighting to @pandace88 that she gained power by taking ownership of this situation. As I was positing yesterday, it’s about legitimate self-realization.

An army (and who…[Read more]

@kingkill33

You either got it or you don’t, there’s a craft to being an Grade A doucebag.

Perhaps, but if so there’d be no reason for The System in the first place.

What Noah appears to be creating is a self-actualization course, but instead of the high-five positivity end result we’re used to seeing, the ultimate end game is designed to tur…[Read more]

Agree 100% that they’re not making anyone do anything, @meghanmayhem. I just don’t believe Noah is doing things because he’s a nice guy. I think he’s teaching everyone how to have agency, impact on the outside world, and how to step outside our respective comfort zones. And then, as you say, there will be a turn.

Basically he’s teaching us all…[Read more]

This is awesome. As somebody that’s been a Noah skeptic from the start, it’s impossible to deny that these kind of small tasks — giving us ownership of our agency, proving to ourselves that the things we do have an impact in the actual world — empower us, interaction by interaction.

No idea where Noah is eventually going, but assuming that self-…[Read more]

There’s a ton of great points in this thread and a lot of criss-crossing conversations. Had a couple of thoughts to drop in, so apologies if most (or all) of these have been discussed before.

1. Watching from afar (and now looking back), it seems pretty straightforward to me that the event was all about teaching people that they could affect the…[Read more]

@111error Has anyone ever told you that you have beautiful eye?

I wonder if we might be taking this too literally – and thereby missing the forest for the trees.

If Horace is a global string puller, he probably has a bit more finesse than just randomly calling people and saying “Go be ignorant because nothing matters; you’ll be happier that way.”

This is a guy that was (at least partially) behind an…[Read more]

Sometimes the theories we hold onto the tightest are the ones that keep us from having to face any uncomfortable truths.

Something tells me The Lust Experience is going to be full of uncomfortable truths.

Eager to hear what those attending tomorrow experience.

Just joining the choir here, but: this is AWESOME @daela. Thank you for putting the work into creating this resource!

Awesome theory as always, @larry. My mind is clearer now. At last, all too well, I can see where we all soon will be.

@daela This is really enlightening. I never received a specific challenge, but thinking about iConfidant through this lens the entire incident strikes me as a challenge in faith and trust: we received robotic introductions, no information, and in some cases were even warned about our iConfidants. Yet to move forward, we had to spill personal…[Read more]

@blondie I think we’re actually in agreement on that. If one doesn’t buy in, or believe The System can be of use, then the only logical choice is to reject it (and any overtures Noah makes). It only makes sense to get involved if one thinks they can actually get something out of the experience, or believe it will eventually deliver in some…[Read more]

Something that seems to be missing from this conversation is the idea of what each of us, as participants (or not) in The System, get out of the bargain. That’s the question that should drive our engagement, not fear that we might get taken advantage of by a cranky skinny dude who digs cologne.

Ostensibly, The System is meant to help people fully…[Read more]

Will have to miss this, unfortunately. Somebody sort out that cologne ID issue, alright?

@nothenrygale and BOS: Refusing to give things to people in need since 2017™.

@kortneydarling I do. #alwayswatching

@shaun I think that that was definitely the message intended with the flyers. One by one they disappeared, leaving me wondering what was in them. Then I discover with the last bag that it was the flyers… and am left to wonder who else out there might have more, and what they intend to do with them.

(Judging from the call to @thebuz, it sounds…[Read more]