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[Schwebel7]

About Ascensionism, I was searching about it and came across this yahoo group, https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/transhumanreligion/info . Looking around i clicked on the conversation linked and started reading the "cults" conversations, you can find the original post at the bottom of the page going back to 2006, https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/transhumanreligion/conversations/topics/16 .

Heres some text from this link,

"I know there have been discussions regarding a name, symbol, etc. When
we go about these, we will need to keep in mind an overall general feel
to the organization we want to create. We also want to make sure we
don't step on Dirk's toes. For example, I think he has taken the
name "ascensionism" although I don't see how it relates to the sim
world."

and some more from another conversation


"We will need to build a website and I would like to have membership
features, messaging and other such capabilities. I am a decent
designer, but it's a bit beyond my abilities. I would like to see about
recruiting some high end web talent, but we just aren't at a recruiting
stage. "

[Schwebel7]

In short, Ascensionism is a couple of fruit cakes who originated on a yahoo group chat.

[unknown-PC]

[Endzo]

New Facebook post and strawpoll.
https://www.facebook.com/AscendToday/photos/a.379162418853259.1073741828.378223432280491/588903954545770/?type=1
Looks like another inmate is up for judgement.
"INMATE #161461. CRIME: ____ __________."

Meanwhile, a friend pointed out to me that we never did get all of the story on twitter with the 1-59. There are still gaps.
12/1
21
22
24
25
31/1
32
33
36
37
38
45/2
47/1
48-55

[Floki]

Inmate 161469

[EricTwister]

[afternoonofthefaun]

[Endzo]

It looks like the Twitter account is posting story fragments again because a couple people are sending it messages in the format of
@ASCENDTODAY Send #
Where # is a line (or line fragment) number. We are still missing:
12/1
25
31/1
32
33
36
37
38
45/2
47/1
48-55

We may understand these lengthy polls better with this information, especially the large missing section near the end.

[WhatIsTruth]

1| 1. INT. OFFICE. AFTERNOON

2/1&2| : STANLEY CULPA' proclaims a nameplate, lying along the front of an office desk, beside a monitor screen and computer keyboard. A frail old man, STANLEY, sits leaning towards the screen from a leather chair, his eyelids sagged in a bored expression.

3| Framed awards for 'Employee of the Month' and '20 Years of Service' hang on the concrete wall behind Stanley's bald head.

4/1&2&3| The old-timer's gaze slowly drifts from the Solitaire game on his screen to the adjacent room, visible through a large glass pane. In the centre of this dim adjoining chamber, an empty electric chair waits, with thick cables running from its base, through the wall of Stanley's office, into his computer.

5/1&2&3| Opposite Stanley, the handle of the iron door leading into the execution chamber rattles. The door slams open, and Stanley straightens up with a jolt. Uniformed prison guards drag a stony-faced man into the chamber and begin strapping him to the electric chair.

6/1&2| Stanley watches the task from his office in silence, until a BEARDED GUARD draws a red curtain closed, covering the glass window between the two rooms. Text flashes on Stanley's monitor screen:

7| INMATE #162315.

8| CRIME: MASS MURDER.

9/1&2| Stanley pushes the 'execute' button on his keyboard without hesitation. Muffled screams echo through Stanley's of fice as the lights flicker for a few brief seconds. Maintaining a poker face, Stanley returns to his game of Solitaire.

10|

11| 2. INT. DINING ROOM. EVENING

12/1&2| Stanley sits alone at the end of a long table in an ornately decorated dining room. Harpsichord music plays softly. A suited BUTLER enters, places a roast dinner before Stanley, and hands him a newspaper. Stanley reads the headlines:

13| CAPITAL PUNISHMENT SUPPORT GROWING IN EFFORT TO REDUCE PRISON OVERCROWDING. PRISONS TO SAVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ANNUALLY.

14| BUTLER

15| The warden called about another pay rise for you, Sir.

16| Stanley smiles and starts carving his meal.

17|

18| 3. INT. OFFICE. MORNING

19/1&2| Stanley arrives at his office's ebony door, to find the prison guards already waiting in the next room, with an inmate sitting in the electric chair. The prisoner stares Stanley down, tapping an imaginary wristwatch impatiently.

20| BEARDED GUARD

21|(shouting through the glass)

22|Where've you been? They're piling up!

23/1&2| The guard pulls the red curtain closed before Stanley has a chance to reply. Looking slightly shocked, Stanley swiftly executes the inmate for 'TERRORISM'.

24|MONTAGE BEGINS (WITH SHOTS AND SOUND EFFECTS GRADUALLY INCREASING IN SPEED, BECOMING RHYTHMIC)

25| -The guards bring in a new prisoner and strap them down.

26| -The bearded guard pulls the curtain closed.

27| -Stanley glances at the inmate's crime on his screen.

28| -Stanley pushes the 'execute' button.

29| -Muffled screams, lights flickering.

30| -Repeat.

31/1&2| and faster, with the new inmates' on-screen crimes appearing in the following order: ARMED ROBBERY, ASSAULT, DRUG TRAFFICKING, FRAUD, TRESPASSING, EXCEEDING THE SPEED LIMIT, GRAFFITI, PUBLIC URINATION, PARKING OFFENCE, CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT A PARKING OFFENCE.)

34|

35| 4. INT. LIMOUSINE (DRIVING). MORNING

39| 5 EXT. ROAD OUTSIDE PRISON. MORNING

40/1&2| The limo pulls up to the roadside opposite the prison. Stanley steps out onto the pavement, grasping a cane. He watches the vehicle drive up to a red traffic light, beside a waiting police car.

41/1&2&3| Stanley looks down the road to the crosswalk, then to the flimsy cane supporting him. Then he looks over to the prison. Stanley grins determinedly and struts across the middle of the road. Reaching the other side, at the gates of the prison, Stanley spots a street sign:

42| JAYWALKING STRICTLY PROHIBITED ON PENALTY OF DEATH.

43/1&2| Stanley glances around worriedly, to notice two police officers emerging from their car, approaching him. Stanley drops his cane and raises his shaking arms above his head.

44| 6. INT. PRISON CORRIDOR. EVENING

45/1| Now wearing a bright orange prison jumpsuit, Stanley is being dragged down a narrow corridor in chains, by the same guards

46| BEARDED GUARD

47/2| ht side, you won't have to worry about any hard labour, (CHUCKLES) just one last job, and you're good at it. Special warden's orders...

56| (sternly)

57| Go on. Do your job.

58| Stanley slowly hovers his hand above the 'execute' button. He closes his eyes.

59| CUT TO BLACK.

[EricTwister]

[Floki]

Hmmm.

[Endzo]

Looks like first poll typed A so there is a new one up:
https://strawpoll.me/4482555

[TheLurker]

[Ecowatcher]

I got this email today...

ENTER CALL SIGN (8 char. max):
ENTER DIRECTION (N, E, S, W, NE, NW, SE or SW):

[Endzo]

New poll up: https://strawpoll.me/4492466
Looks like we are playing Hangman perhaps? S won the last poll and now we have S's filled in on the crime: