Anonymous ID: 659a7e Feb. 26, 2020, 9:12 a.m. No.8255492   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>5503

>>8255403

Multiple meanings exist.

Diwali, Divali, Deepavali is the Hindu festival of lights, usually lasting five days and celebrated during the Hindu Lunisolar month Kartika. One of the most popular festivals of Hinduism, Diwali symbolizes the spiritual "victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali

Anonymous ID: 659a7e Feb. 26, 2020, 9:49 a.m. No.8255761   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

Has anybody seen a commercial or ad for this new series on AMC called Dispatches From Elsewhere?

Its based on a movie called The Institute in 2013 that was on Netflix for a while, and I just so happened to see it way back when and know what it is.

I didnt know what to make of it at the time, but it was trippy as fuck, and it made me wonder how many of these are out there.

It was based on what they call an ARG (alternate reality game) and its similar to Cicada and what we are doing here, only scattered around a major metropolis.

 

Dispatches From Elsewhere

A group of ordinary people stumble onto a puzzle hiding just behind the veil of everyday life. They will come to find that the mystery winds far deeper than they ever imagined.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8965666/

 

A documentary on the Jejune Institute, a mind-bending San Francisco phenomenon where 10,000 people became "inducted" without ever quite realizing what they'd signed up for.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2386327/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

 

Game or Cult? The Alternate Reality of the Jejune Institute

The cryptic creator of alternate reality game The Jejune Institute says there's already another one out thereโ€”but it's a secret.

Cults rarely end on a high note: They hinge on anticipation, rather than results. Either they implode amid schisms and in-fighting, or they fail to deliver a promised apocalypse.

 

The Jejune Institute might have gone the same way. Over three years, the game/art installation/social movement became a living metafiction, encompassing a series of "episodes" staged around San Francisco as well as an online community. You might call it an alternate reality game, but its creator insists the term is insufficient.

 

Between 2008 and 2011, the Jejune Institute "inducted" over 7,000 players, many of whom did not know whether they were involved with a game or a religious cult. As talk spread of advertisements for "human force fields" and phone boxes which instructed you to dance in the street, the mysterious phenomenon was written up in the New York Times and a series of essays in The Awl. It culminated in the production of The Institute, a documentary which departs its genre halfway through, reneging its mission by turning into fiction.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jp54ky/game-or-cult-the-alternate-reality-of-the-jejune-institute