It's A Cult [06.01.2007]

[elixir]

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Summary
Daniel, Sarah and I, went to the location in The Hymn of One message. From there, we found the location for the seminar. - Jonas Faction: THE RESISTANCE

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What do we learn?

The Hymn of One is FUN!!!

Best Sarah line:

"This is getting ridiculous, I mean how long does it take to sing a song?"

Is the gaylien theory seeming more and more likely?

Yes, afraid so! With the idea of finding your own song so that you may truly belong.... Hmmm reminds me of a certain movie I've seen....

[milowent]

whoa -was this filmed yesterday? -- are those real fans DJ&S were talking to outside? That one guy who claimed to film it looks like the avatar of voyboy from the phorum ... where am i off for the scoops. will edit this post if i find out more.

ETA:
via lg15today blog, link to a fan video with info about the handouts from the HoO meeting:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc6VPuJG_Ys

the msg at the # on the flyer beneath the red stone says: "You have reached the Hymn of One. We are happy to hear from you. We'd like to take this moment to thank you for attending today's Hymn of One seminar. Please know that we take your candicacy very seriously. Our elders will be reviewing your audition in today's video over the next few weeks. They will determine who will join us and who will be singing the eternal song of the Hymn of One. Thank you."


ETA2:
It was voyboy. Via lg15today blog:

"i was there guys. i didn't want to post till after the vid was released.

there are two flyers one from under the red stone and one from under the blue stone. I took one from the red and started to get one from under the blue but karl started walking towards me and...well if you remember how he was to Daniel in the party scene then you can see why I got nervous and only ended up with the red one.

Just for shits and giggles - heres the number from the RED stone.
866 558 2749

The entire seminar was all real time and in character. The "fourthwall" was never taken down.

All the doubts that people had can be washed away, because this was VERY organized VERY well done and VERY safe. It was so well done. I was a bit surprised that so few (over 1 showed up. I know it was a work day, thats why I took a vacation day from work, and I suggest that the next time they do a live event, you do the same.

Just when I thought it couldn't get better - boom! I got to be in the episode with them (pssst! I am the guy that gave them the footage )

See the Hymn of One IS Fun!!!!!

stevemedigod wrote:
Oh, and another question- I guess from what you said, that they just came up to you during the seminar and cast you for the video part with scripted lines?

voyboy replied:
Well like I said there were very few of us there, and as we were gettng ready to leave, Amanda (aka Lucy) asked us if we would do that. Of course we were like "of course!"

ETA3: lg15today seminar rumours. hye quotes from below.

ETA4:
"I Went" via lg15 today.

[hyemew]

Lol I liked when the random guy was acting all inspired "they thought us to sing out our song..."
so Jonas is like wow I wish I could have been there...
and so he replied "I snuck a camera in there if you want to see footage", ever so non-chalantly as if all of us are camera-wielding fiends like BDJ.

Other questions: though this is an important (I guess) episode, it was uploaded to Jonas, once again breaking the 'everything to Bree's account now' rule to make things easier.
For the entire day, there was not an ounce of information regarding anyone having actually gone to the seminar or any word about anything, which is extremely odd for these ARGers. While there is no information, it can be safely assumed that there was no Bree chat disaster run on the place by thousands of people, as I kind of figured would be the case.
Also why in the movie does it look like there is practically no one there? It's convenient that the guy filmed it and not BDJ to avoid it turning into a publicity circus, but at the same time there was barely anyone there to get circussy about it. I certainly wouldn't expect them to walk into the belly of the beast though, but still, there looks like there was barely anyone there which seems odd for what was supposed to be a whole big seminar for 35 invited fans.

The LG15 blog does have some tidbits however, proving something really did happen:
"At the seminar, the audience was a mix of invited guests and possible actors including some from the fashion party video. The "plants" participated by answering questions and interacting with the 10 or so invited guests in attendance."

"There were some numbered documents distributed and a choice of fliers by teams or players. This part of the story is quite vague - the reports we have are vague, but we do have some partial information from a flier to share..." going on to say they were given fliers which list telephone numbers to call when they are ready to join the choir/hymn.

"An attendee reports that the red and blue stones and choosing between them seemed to be emphasized by Sonya as important." (So... Bree is in the Matrix?)

Also they played the hymn of one on kazoos, kind of weird...

Oh and Immant showed up and I think was invited to the seminar, since as we know he's one of the few fans known to be in the LA area. Well actually the blog is keeping secret all identities of fans confirmed to have gone unless they want the information released, but they made it obvious they were talking about him by emphasizing a certain doctor was there...

Overall though LG15 Today blog is not saying much and treating it all like classified information.

[milowent]

hyemew said:

Other questions: though this is an important (I guess) episode, it was uploaded to Jonas, once again breaking the 'everything to Bree's account now' rule to make things easier.

this rule no longer applies. they dropped it last month, though not explicitly.

Also why in the movie does it look like there is practically no one there?

see above. it wasn't well attended.

[hyemew]

Ahh I had missed that information from voyboy.
It really reinforces the question why did they do it on a Thursday? We all didn't quit our jobs to try and promote our youtube shows. If they had the no minors rule from the beginning I'd think perhaps it might have had something to do with keeping them away since they'd be in school, but obviously their mostly older fans would all have work. When you consider the number of fans at the phorum, especially lately which is definitely less than it used to be, and then consider the number out of those who'd be anywhere near SoCal, and then the number out of them who'd actually see the announcement in the limited 48 hour tops time between announcement and seminar, it's not hard to guess no one showed up. I'd think that the few that are in SoCal probably had work and we're about to take off one of their precious vacation days to join a cult (but of course voyboy did, but he's one of the few I'm sure.)

Kinda seems like a lot of work for not enough reaction, they should have done it Saturday or Sunday. But maybe the actors are more expensive on those days?

[milowent]

at the phorum, voyboy responds to lurker (who is obsessed with sarah)

"That of course was the best part. And I thought of you on my way home because of Alexandra. Let me tell you. The video camera doesnt do her enough justice. She is SO cute, and totally friendly.
(not to rub it in but I got a hug from her )"

[hookedonmonics]

All the attention on whether Sarah was seen or not seems a bit fishy.

Daniel: We were so close, we didn't get spotted by the Hymn of One crew. They might have seen Sarah.
Sarah: They didn't see me.
Jonas: Are you sure?
Sarah: They didn't see me.
Jonas: Are you sure?
Sarah: I'm positive, they didn't see me!

Jonas: Are you sure you didn't get seen, Sarah?
Sarah: Are you sure--
Jonas: Are you sure you didn't get seen?
Sarah: No!

I hope they don't make her an Order plant. At least she's being helpful and involved now.

[slainte]

GASP!!!! IT's A CULT!!!!? Whoa! Holy Smokes! So that's what all this has been about.
We are gonna git sum loose ends tied up now that's fer sher! Goooollly Sgt Carter

(oh for god's sake. why oh why oh why did fate send me here. Surely, there is a reason)

[Imparfaite]

Something doesn't add up for me.

If the 'seminar' was Friday (which is what I get the impression of. Unless I'm REALLY missing something.) why was the video posted BEFORE the seminar supposedly took place.

I hope that I'm just really missing something. Like that the seminar was Thursday??

[milowent]

imparfaite said:

I hope that I'm just really missing something. Like that the seminar was Thursday??

it was held thursday, for real.

[robtomorrow]

This comment from the main page sums up my impression of this video, unconvincing and totally underwhelming like the turn out.

Paulo Says:
June 1st, 2007 at 1:59 pm

So the blue stone is a paperweight for flyers?

[slainte]

wait, the blue stone is for walkers and the red stone is for fliers, no that's wrong hold on..the green stone is for fliers, job postings are under the blue stone and all applications go under the red stone unless you are applying for a non-exempt salaried position in which case please fill out parts two and three seperately, placing them under the yellow and violet stones respectively. Correspondence will inly be answered if it is placed under the black stone, look for responses under the white stone but please be aware that we can not answer all correspondence regardless of how stoned we are.

[Imparfaite]

Lmao Slainte.

Thanks for clearing that up too for me Milo.

Frankly... if Bree is flying higher than a kite and wasn't even at the seminar... well, in general, just how the heck did she know that what the troupe needed would be under the blue paperweight? What if they decided at the last minute to switch the stones around? And frankly, if I were putting papers under paperweights, I wouldn't be SO detailed as to pre-plan which papers go under which paperweights enough so that people can sneak it into a video.

I really hope that the blue paperweightstone is a red herring. Honestly, I do.

[curiousgeorge]

slainte said:

GASP!!!! Goooollly Sgt Carter

Please, spare me your gay Marine references Mister .

slainte said:

er

(oh for god's sake. why oh why oh why did fate send me here. Surely, there is a reason)

I see your only reason for existence is to entertain us, which you do quite well thank you.

[slainte]

it's important to have a purpose