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Everfalling
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 		SF Secrets bit on the Jejune Institute:

http://sfsecret.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/jejune-institute-induction-center/

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The Jejune Institute is possibly the most remarkable secret in San Francisco. I recommend NOT watching this video and heading straight to 580 California St. (Noon-5:30pm, Tues-Sun) and taking the elevator to the 16th floor. The rest will fall into place. While you only need 15 minutes for induction, try to allow 2.5 hours for a proper experience.

This secret may change the way you interact with San Francisco, and the Universe. If you still need a little taste of the HUGE magic behind this secret, watch this short video.


good stuff :3
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Sarah Morrill
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 		Another Entrance
It is possible to enter 580 California without going past ground floor security. I know because I did it.

I entered from the underground parking space.

On my first attempt I was stopped by a parking official. But then I found a different route and wasn't stopped by anybody.

I was too exited/afraid to remember how I did it, but I did it. You'll have to take my word for it.

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CaptKing
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 		Ah yes, the "Sapelle Mohongany" elevator. Actually, for a short while that elevator was covered in Black tarp, made it quite eerie on the inside.

Though you dont NEED to bypass security, this is one way to do that. Sometimes the guards can be kinda jerks.
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ariock
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 		On my second entry in one day into the building, I walked past security with my two compatriots directly to the elevators. Hit the sixteenth floor button...and nothing.

We were able to go to an unrelated floor, but not the 16th.

We went back and talked to security, and he allowed us up to 16.
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CalBruin
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 		Thoughts against the grain
A question of evidence
Sorry to shed some doubt on EPWA's Nonchalance, but the only evidence that EPWA has against Coleman's Jejune Institute is missing.

I mean Eva's missing is the missing evidence that would prove EPWA is correct in their being anti-Jejune.

We still do not know whether or not Dr. Coleman is responsible for Eva's missing. Did the Jejune Institute kidnap her or did she manage to find her mother and she is lost Elsewhere.


P.S. Of course Dr. Coleman is bad, he graduated from that no good school called Stanford.

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Sarah Morrill
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 		Doubts
I have my doubts about those who are "missing" Eva. It could be she went AWOL because they're after her.

I have my doubts about Commander Fourteen. He extols nonchalance yet he sounds militaristic.

I have a feeling that things might not be what they seem.

Maybe we shouldn't try to help find Eva.

Maybe Commander Fourteen hijacked EPWA to establish a base from which to attack Mr. Coleman for purely personal reasons. His voice has the edgy timbre of a jealous man.

And maybe Eva would have something to say about that, if/when she feels safe to come in from the cold.

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 		Sarah and Cal: I've been having the exact same thoughts throughout this entire narrative. I mean, armbands, commanders, "missions" they sound, exactly the way you put it, "militaristic." I'm still happy to stay in the EWPA character, since they have done so much to help us out. But if they ever show their "true colors" I'm defecting Wink
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 		The rebels become militaristic when the Cole man steals from them or uses their creations for his own prophet.
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Everfalling
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 		Re: Thoughts against the grain
A question of evidence
CalBruin wrote:
Sorry to shed some doubt on EPWA's Nonchalance, but the only evidence that EPWA has against Coleman's Jejune Institute is missing.


it's not missing. it's all still there. go to the EPWA website and type in &_invent

also look at the OMNI articles about how Octavio basically was in the right place and right time to steal all the ideas he now presents as his own.

of course there's no direct evidence that the jejune institute had anything to do with Eva's disappearance
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in fact it seems more like she was spirited away by her mother to elsewhere via Niel the hobo
but i don't really think the EPWA ever claimed Octavio was responsible for the 'kidnapping' but only that they were spreading false nonchalance.

I have to admit Commander 14 is the only member featured in that chat log that kinda stands out as being the only one who wasn't (at least as far as we know) wronged personally by Octavio. Everyone else had something they were working on that was then stolen by Octavio and rebranded under the JI. The only personal connection he seems to have with anyone is Blair because he lived nextdoor to them.

There's also the EPWA card in Elsewhere to consider. they see the EPWA as "A misguided attempt at saving nonchalance through bureaucracy, they view themselves as effective shepherds of the lost tribe." so maybe they're not BAD but missing the point somehow by building structure around something supposedly structureless?
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 		Re: Thoughts against the grain
A question of evidence
Everfalling wrote:
There's also the EPWA card in Elsewhere to consider. they see the EPWA as "A misguided attempt at saving nonchalance through bureaucracy, they view themselves as effective shepherds of the lost tribe." so maybe they're not BAD but missing the point somehow by building structure around something supposedly structureless?

I always thought it was funny that those cards exist on the Institute's site because an (assumedly) EPWA cracker broke into the server and left all that info there for us to find, and that's the description given of the EPWA. Maybe some people within the organization don't take it as seriously as 14 does? Who can say?

And maybe 14's not really that much of a hard-ass, but he acts like one because people respond to it and get motivated? Or maybe it's just because he was in the US Air Force earlier in his life and he's used to/prefers that regimented structure. (More on that later, but his card says he's a pilot + that smarty Tungsten pointed out to me last time I saw him that the Soon Obsolete font is like what the Air Force uses + something that was included in the invitation received by those of us who participated in the Transaction points to an Air Force base north of SF.)

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Sarah Morrill
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 		I don't have answers or even theories. Just doubts. Like the assumption that JI is guilty of patent theft. Would anyone connected with EPWA make that much of an issue over money?

If JI is actually spreading false nonchalance, they are the enemy. Certainly. But again, there is something about C14, other than his words, which seem disconnected from nonchalance, especially of the divine variety, and disconnected from public works, here or elsewhere.

Missions of a higher nature have leaders, not commanders.

When I put my life on the line for divine nonchalance, it won't be because of patent infringement. And it won't be because I'm "commanded" to do so.

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Sarah Morrill
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 		and it's not wild lilac
When I was in the 7th grade, we figured out that the first person who loudly asked who was it that just passed gas was usually the guilty party.

I mention that because there's something about C14 that smells.

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Everfalling
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 		You'll excuse me if i don't take your doubting concerns about C14 terribly seriously considering all those lame URL's you posted with an ad on each going to your personal bookstore. I'm far more wary of you than the commander.
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Sarah Morrill
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 		Oh no. I don't mind at all.

For all I know, my doubts might have no validity at all.

I'm lame in more ways than one.

And you are certainly justified to be wary of me.

I'm often wary of myself.

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