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Kaliayev · Boot Joined: 25 Feb 2007 Posts: 14 Location: UK

I'm doing the ritual. I did something similar before (not as explicitly occult, but otherwise similar) before and the idea does not unsettle me.

Of course, I do have a couple of advantages, such as having absolutely no belief in magic at all (I've tried it) and some psychology background (I'm no expert, but I know a bit). Most rituals are a way for symbols and ideas to imprint on the mind to change the way it thinks.

If anything, I can see such a ritual reducing paranoia, in the long term. Samurai were told to meditate on the idea of them dying, and the Buddhist Sutra of Mindfulness goes even further with that train of thought. That way, by overcoming revulsion and fear, life would be seen as infinitely precious, every second of it worth living.

However, if you really want to try and talk me out of it, feel free to have a go. I'm always opening to listening to ideas, if you have specific reasons.

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:33 pm

daniele schutt · Guest

hi i was lurking here since two days and I'm interested in where all this story will end...

In one of these videos they say to call them and then there was this number 702 203 8573... I'm Italian and so for me it would be too expensive to call but one of you should do it.

on YOUTUBE some of the videos,tha sim very silly,are signed by the dead kids or something else.THE STORY IS WEIRD BUT NOT THE MOST WEIRD
I'VE LIVED.

I've read many pages but reading all will require too time...can some of you tell me the story and what exactly is?
I would like to know if this is real couse if so it is very cool and I'll could help you.

What yhe hell is the ritual? I colud do it for I'm not scared of all this story
Thanks for the attention.

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:12 pm

warneverchanges · Guest

Hi Daniele:

Not all of the videos are integral to this story, some of them are parodies and "fan videos". The videos that are actually relevant all follow the same pattern and you can find out more at http://happycube.wetpaint.com.

Also, the Dead Kids Foundation isn't important, so don't try to call them.

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:19 pm

LadyLovelylocks · Decorated Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 187 Location: Sweden

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:20 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:49 pm

Kem2000 · Boot Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 37

Ok, I've read all 68 pages now and decided that I shall make this my first ARG, i'm too interested and creeped out not to do so!

So, yea, I'll have the same username one the Cube forums,

One More to the team!

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:08 pm

NocturneDeMorte · Kilroy Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 1

After being scared shitless for the last few days, i think ill be joining in on this ARG.

Still trying to make sence of the whole backstory, theres lots of info to dig through and get my head around.

I'll try to help out whenever i can.

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:26 pm

Christian Synthare · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 5

Couple things.

1. I'm in. Will help if I can.

2. No way in hell am I doing any type of ritual. Anything that asks you call up such negative energy is bad news, no question.

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:25 pm

grandmasterstab · Boot Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 56

Same here, I'll be watching curiously tonight but there is no way in hell I'm participating.

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:34 pm

gigagigagiga · Boot Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 17

What the hell? WHY is Ilovetofix now trying so hard to convince everyone this is real and not an ARG now? What the heck is he doing?

E: If I could swear on this board, I would. Ilovetofix, if you can read this, you are a moron and a fraud and I hate you. I'm not doing your stupid ritual. No one should. And if something goes wrong and someone's hurt in this, it's going to be all on you.

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:10 pm

faster · Boot Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 61

re: A QUESTION TO ANSWER -

I'm still not activated, but wanted to share my thoughts on this somewhere. I'm a psychologist - an experimental one at that, should it sway you in matters such as this Wink

- and I feel it should be pointed out that were this "a psychological study" it'd have to be someone's high-school project, pet project of some description, or pop-psychology for non-academic media (I realise that this is not entirely inconsistent with some of the comments made on the HC board - likewise I realise the 'low-budget' nature of this does not rule it out). Why? There's not an ethics board in the (Western) world that would permit research of this nature; it violently contravenes anything we'd consider to be acceptable practice. Likewise, no peer-review journal would touch it for exactly the same reasons, so there's no chance of it ever being published in a respectable journal.

I realise that in the past psychologists have done some pretty dark stuff - Watson's "Little Albert" experiment, Milgram's obedience/electro-shock tuition, and Zimbardo's "guards and prisoners" study spring to mind - but the ethics of psychological research have changed and developed much since then: these days, for example, you can't even deceive participants about the true nature of the research unless it is "essential" to the experiment, and even then they need to be thoroughly debriefed at the end of the experiment and they must agree to use of any data collected from them.

To sum up: the APA's principles of psy research ethics include things like nonmaleficence and integrity. This obeys neither, and breaches most of the other rules and guidelines at the same time. This is not a psychological study.

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:21 pm

ThingerMajinger · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 3

After reading this for the past few days, and being slightly disturbed by the audios and videos. I came to the conclusion that this might, as a poll in the cubing forums said, be the work of a Maniac/Cult. I'm really starting to believe so.

After looking at this:

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:25 pm

grandmasterstab · Boot Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 56

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:38 pm

gigagigagiga · Boot Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 17

Activation, Schmativation. This has gone too far. I'm glad I never registered for that stupid board.

**Posted:** Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:41 pm