ZankerH comments on The problem with too many rational memes - Less Wrong

80 Post author: Swimmer963 19 January 2012 12:56AM

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Comment author: ZankerH 19 January 2012 04:16:11PM 8 points [-]

He asked with the intent to publish the information, exposing this blatant brainwashing for what it is.

Well? Don't leave us hanging here, did this actually happen / where is it published?

Comment author: [deleted] 19 January 2012 10:15:25PM *  14 points [-]

The secrets include a night where they publicly read letters from every person's family (4 hour ceremony late at night) and you receive dozens from peers who've attended, a "naked bonfire" where you sit in a circle and hold a candle and cross and pray orally for a timed 10 minutes, and this one thing where they give you a poem at night about taking a rose from heaven and waking up with it and the next morning theres a rose outside your door, among other things.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 22 January 2012 06:47:52PM *  3 points [-]

this one thing where they give you a poem at night about taking a rose from heaven and waking up with it and the next morning theres a rose outside your door, among other things.

They seem to have borrowed the idea from Coleridge:

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then?