Follow or Be Doomed

Metaphorical Narrative

Two roads in night rain.
Left path glows with a neon sign: OR ELSE.
Right path is unlit but dry. A whisper trails from the left: “You’ll end up here anyway.”

You step to the right.
The neon hisses out behind you, revealed as a wet poster over a brick wall—no depth, no teeth.

Core Insight

“Be doomed” is a threat theater.
It hijacks risk-calculation, not outcomes. Once you run the numbers in daylight, it collapses.

• Name it: “Doom dealer — counterfeit forecast.”
• Run the worst case to zero: what actually happens if you don’t obey?
• Replace tribute with boundaries.

Saturday Experiment

1. Doom Math (2 min): Write the doom headline. Then list the real consequences, probabilities, and mitigations.
2. Boundary Line: One sentence spoken out loud: “We will not purchase safety with obedience.”
3. Clean Act: Take one micro-action toward the right path (email, calendar block, or deliberate rest).

Sunday Reflection

• Which part of the doom was a poster, not a wall?
• How did they price their safety before vs. after Doom Math?
• What boundary sentence do they want as a reusable line this week?