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Pierley/Redford Dissociative Affect Diagnostic
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aileenberon
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Joined: 07 Apr 2011
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I got the same email and took the second test. My result:
Quote:
Your client has big dreams and a desire to impress the world, but is wary of alerting the powers that be to this fact, less they be thwarted. Client may be overly cautious and feel that he or she deserves more out of life, having accepted rejection as a state of existence. Flattery will often serve you well in dealing with such a client.

This individual feels overwhelmed by the requirements placed upon him or her. The world is seemingly ever more difficult to handle and consequently there is an ever increasing desire for release and safety. Any offers of peace will be viewed favorably.


There is another "if you would like to continue testing" link at the end, this time linked to Waiting_for_EmailSPLATemisary.com

Seems to be a placeholder since he mentioned that " the client broke off all contact". But he also mentioned that "their website is impenetrable" and the website www.emisary.com actually exists. There isn't much there beside a map and this:

Quote:
secrecy is power.
true wisdom is always free.


And in the source code:

Quote:
no man may carry his own leash

In properly organized groups no faith is required

"The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not,

each mind is saved as reason yields


IG?

PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:32 am
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Ofiuco-notlogged
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If you go through the rest of the blog, there's more. He keeps saying, 'These are legitimate doctors doing valuable work'. and eventually Dr. Pierley gave him pills to take. Still reading though.

Brierley and Medford, as we pointed out, do exist, and are scholars of depersonalization disorder, but Wikipedia says there is no currently existing test for the disorder. Couldn't find anyone with the name of a President on the page though. Hmm.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:43 am
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n_i_c_k
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Joined: 16 May 2008
Posts: 226

Well, I used the website and it wants you to select a city of which you will be emisary to. Emisary?

Quote:
em·is·sary
noun \ˈe-mə-ˌser-ē, -ˌse-rē\
plural em·is·sar·ies
Definition of EMISSARY
1
: one designated as the agent of another : representative
2
: a secret agent


So it's spelled incorrectly. But that could be because they're Austrian doctors?

Anyways. I selected Birmingham UK because that's where I'm from. Entered my personal identifier as "mrnickgc" and my ARG email address. I got a page telling me my registration won't count unless I confirm through the link they send to my email address which looked like this:

Quote:
in order to activate and reserve Birmingham, please click here:

Birmingham


fantasies of power are a sign of weakness.


- emisary -


Which took me to a black page with this on:

Quote:
you will be contacted when emisary begins public outreach. you are now emisary.


Smells gamey to me.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:46 am
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OneEyedGod
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Joined: 23 Apr 2009
Posts: 238
Location: Germany

Did you miss the form on the left, where you could enter your city and email?

After entering this and submitting it said:

Quote:
an email will be sent to you. until you have confirmed, your city will remain uncommitted.


Okay, that was quick not a minute after entering my information I got an email from no_replySPLATemisary.com.

Quote:
in order to activate and reserve [name of the city i entered], please click here:
[Link with the name of the city i entered]


fantasies of power are a sign of weakness.


- emisary -


Clicking the link lead me to another page labeled "outreach" telling me that:

Quote:
you will be contacted when emisary begins public outreach. you are now emisary.


I'd say it is IG...

PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 9:52 am
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aileenberon
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Joined: 07 Apr 2011
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I found an email address for emisary: researchSPLATemisary.com

(http://www.emisary.com/correspondence)

And this makes sense now:

Quote:
Aha! Turns out I was spelling their name with two 'S's instead of one, which explains the first few minutes of extreme confusion…


PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 10:20 am
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enaxor
I Have No Life

Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Posts: 2395

On the story of the test page, he has included a link to a fake test he came up...


Quote:
So about 100 people sent emails asking me to continue testing. Perhaps unwisely, I decided to amuse myself and created a new test of my own design that had no solution, which I sent out to all the respondents as a joke:

http://www.hypnoid.com/test2/


...view source on this page, you'll see this at the very bottom: "To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else." ......

....for next test: 65 6d 70 74 79 64 6f 67 40 68 79 70 6e 6f 69 64 2e 63 6f 6d


The hex leads to another email address emptydogSPLAThypnoid.com

*eta - The quote in the source code is from Emily Dickinson.
**eta - The Emisary website was registered just a couple of months ago, February 7,2011 with Domains by Proxy.
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10/05/2007, 04/23/2009, 07/02/2015
The world is a much dimmer place.


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TremereBear
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Joined: 15 May 2005
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Hi guys Smile I lurk mostly but i'm in while waiting for The Facilitator to come back. I've signed up to be the emisary (?) for Phoenix Smile

Game on

PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:27 am
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QAlchemist
Veteran


Joined: 15 Feb 2010
Posts: 102

I did both tests, sent emails to both, and signed up as 'emisary' for Clarksville, TN.

'In properly organized groups no faith is required' -- quote from G.I. Gurdjieff, a mystic that was a proponent of what he called 'The Fourth Way'

'The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not' - quote from Ingrid Bengis, who wrote a well-known book on sexuality.
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Currently playing: The Game of the Gods

PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 11:42 am
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demonpunk
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Joined: 21 May 2008
Posts: 61
Location: Schenecta' Dreamin' in the 518

Those questions on the tests were awesome and it gave me an eeriely accurate diagnosis even though I only picked whichever stood out to me more. Signed up Schenectady,NY or as I like to call it good ol' "Schenecta' Dream" the happiest ghetto on earth Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 12:49 pm
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willowrain
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I signed up for my hometown (which I'd rather not post =P) guess we'll see what happens now o.O

PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 1:29 pm
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Zobot257
Entrenched

Joined: 21 Feb 2011
Posts: 805
Location: Wandering...

I sent some emails to a few of the accounts we've seen so far. We'll see what comes up. I will register for my hometown tonight...

PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 2:34 pm
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Iscabibble
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Joined: 02 Mar 2007
Posts: 66
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia

This was my response:

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Though quiet on the outside, you are often the hidden hero; someone who rushes in when needed and then after the emergency is over fades back into the woodwork. Because of this sense of duty and honor, you can also on occasion be rigid in your viewpoint and unyielding in the face of other ways of thinking. Usually cynical and rarely trusting of others, you maintain a small set of intimate friends. These bonds are stronger than most. You are always grounded in the present moment. Your close bonds can also lead to clique-ishness and a tendency to gossip about those who are deemed less worthy. You are an integrative thinker, collecting data from a wide range of sources and applying it to your worldview. You can become overly task-oriented. In stressful situations you often withdraw from the world to seek peace in contemplation. You often seem cold and withdrawn. Often you will withdraw rather than verbalize your discontent.


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OneEyedGod
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Location: Germany

Wow, totally missed the other two addresses.

Anyway, wrote mails to both.
To emptydog, just asking, who I am writing to and why the address was hidden and to researchSPLATemisary.com, asking for more info on their research and telling that I found them through the tests.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 4:39 pm
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Ofiuco
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Joined: 27 Nov 2005
Posts: 365
Location: The Void

This smacks of SAVER Corp, but the test is so cool and interesting I'm willing to hang in and see what happens!

Emailed various emails. My city was already taken, so I picked a nearby suburb. :)

I will say... you only have to click select once. Not 18 times. Just one time.

So far it seems that you only get the email if you pick a city that hasn't already been done. I tried to do one that was already taken by someone else in this thread, so I was forced to go with a nearby suburb.

PostPosted: Thu Apr 21, 2011 7:37 pm
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reesylou
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Been lurking on this. Taken the tests - forgot to capture the response on the recent one, but it was reasonably accurate (and the first was also quite accurate).

That is surprising if this is only a game with no psychologist behind it.

I'm in at the moment.

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