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ICQ, One of the Oldest Instant Messengers, Is Shutting Down (www.pcmag.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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ICQ will stop working on June 26. It's encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.

I stopped using ICQ in the very early 00s. I didn't know anything of it still remained.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

How did that end? I need details about all of it. The dreams, the seer, the treatment, the outcome.

If you don't mind.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They lost money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I didn't lose money because no money was involved.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Such a lazy take. Obviously you don't have any experience with the early internet occult scene. Why, then, would you give an opinion on something you know nothing about?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Early, late, or no Internet, the occult scene has always been a made up bunch of mumbo jumbo. One doesn't need experience with it to know that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You seem to know the subject. Who exactly are you referring to ? Are there some practices in particular that have caught your attention ? Some specific communities maybe ?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Nothing specific. Talking to ghosts, spirits, or seeing visions is a child's game. Getting someone to pay you money to talk to spirits ghosts, or see visions, is a con man's game. Both are made up, one is acceptable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Sounds like your view on the subject is mostly informed by Hollywood. A bit irrational if you ask me, and certainly very dogmatic.

If for some reason you decide to check out a fact-based approach on the subject i can recommend a few Youtube channels that are free, hosted by accredited scholars, and offer in-depth, well researched, long form content on the history of spiritual movements. It is so fucking interesting man. It's like the B-Sides of the history of ideas, and has a lot more impact on the Age of Science than you realize.