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I'm not Toto, this isn't Kansas

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55 pointsiamelgringo16 comments

I don't understand, how could the wedding guests wander into the adjacent room and not remember how to get back?

"We had one small section of the country club building (basically a large room) and the edges of the property leading down into the river valley."

If this story is true, my guess is they were either wandering the grounds or wandered through the role-playing room into "the edges of the property"

Then they started running into people dressed as wizards and elves all telling the portal story and they were so thoroughly convinced that they figured a better chance to getting back to the wedding was to find a wizard than to try walking back to the clubhouse or the grounds closer to it.

If I were in the Olive Garden, and suddenly I noticed that all the waiters and patrons were androids, and all of them claimed I was a computer simulation of a 2009 Homo Sapien running for their entertainment, I don't think my first thought would be "If I just leave the Olive Garden, all of this will go away" To these folks, a dozen people in scale mail would probably be nearly as convincing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

I believe the sudden appearance of this link here owes a hattip to James Andrix:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/cn/instrumental_vs_epistemic_a_bardi...

(note that the times on LW are advanced ahead of Bay Area times, so yes, this was posted more than 4 hours ago)

Just so you all know, The Landmarkforum is based on est. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training The people at The Landmarkforum bought the "technology" from the people who ran/own(ed?) est.

The basic premise of the article is that there is a reality external to ourselves that can be known outside of our particular systems of language and culture. If there isn't a transcendent "Truth out there" that can be grasped by a particular value system (science, religion, etc) then it is perfectly understandable that two people were convinced they were living in a different world. In other words, all worlds are "fantasy worlds," or if you like, "all worlds are real within the context of their particular systems of language."

Fiction? Non-fiction?

I can't tell.

Fairly entertaining either way :)

That is kind of the point isn't it.

$2 bill doesn't give it away?

Those really exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_two-dollar_bill

True, but just try using them at a Taco Bell. Man, you should hear what happened...

Two dollar bills were also common currency in Canada in the 90s, until we replaced them with two-dollar coins.

(I'm not actually disputing the parent comment, just for the record. It just reminded me of something.)

I carry at least a couple $2s around constantly, as well as dollar coins and half-dollars, for tips. Whenever I travel, I pick up a few dollars worth of non-US currencies at the exchange booth, so I can throw one or two in with a normal tip.

For a long while, I thought that getting tips in a strange currency format doesn't make any difference. After working a coffee bar for a few years, "it's the thought that counts" took on a lot more meaning for me.

I carry a $2 bill in my wallet most of the time.

Sorry to be a pedant, but shouldn't it be one of either: * I am Toto, this isn't Kansas * I'm not Toto, this is Kansas

Dorothy does after call say "Toto, I don't think we are in Kansas any more..."

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