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Thrice-Gay Him-mess
Driven relentlessly by Arts Divination Horny & Divers thinges otherwyse
Firm believer in bodging one's way to the ineffable
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One must ask: how, then, did he gain their validation? Because –ms AT might be surprised to find out– one is as one does even if the goal is clout chasing
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Thing is it is correct. Where humans are there too should be trees. To be under their shade to cool our brows with our breath
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Whatever it is, don't pay the extorsion cost
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May it fall further
May the model become unmade
May a solar flare wipe the source code
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Also, beware of just so stories.
Ffs we are in the post modern. We need to be skeptical of lofty narratives.
Narrative is myth, is apprehending a truth through a lie
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The chaotic substrate from which atoms of distance & time & stuffness & light spring forth, that haze which is Herculean thundermight that causes color & touch to be pangu-formed from the surface-egg of the waters
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Of Alcibides drunk singing the mysteries of eleusis, as the Herma break to his torch, to a popular melody which i another age Nero will work in his harp as flames lay Rome low
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We would not have gotten Gus if someone with a measure of sense had offed Sulla while on campaign.
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He is cheap & he is stupid & he is an agent of accelerationists.
He is an Antichrist or antiwashington
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A cheap conjuror & sham. Weak of spirit he either lies or allows aerial spirits to deceive him
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One does not want to be as Abraham was: uncertain & swayed to evil for the sake of obedience
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When I position ethics as the foundation of mysticism (that is to say: figure out what is right & wrong & based on that explore the gods) it is a framing of the spiritual as a move from the known (one's own self) to the unknown (the gods)
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It's like poetic writing. One wants to hit evocative not purple, understandable but not cliche, novel but not incomprehensible
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There's also what Pratchet calls Headology coming in play, the getting in the right mindset, the feeling we have done enough to merit the spell working
& also the cumulative effect of doing what others did...
& then also the fact that some magic is from outside. Spirits do have predilections
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Nevada... I'm not shaming just curious as to the confluence of factors that causes that particular proclivity. Is is like a majority or just a plurality; is it a spidersgeorg situation with Cirque du Soleil?
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Yeah the little one evokes a cake pop
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Inwardly it is the nourishing of the connection with the world, of spreading one's roots & mycelia, that one might break bedrock & damn rivers & link with others in the forest
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One being funnier than the other is no reason to side with them or either.
To pick a side is to play the game wrong. One must be like France with the Guelphs & Ghibelines
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When society codifies the erotic as a conquest & domination, all conquests, all expressions of dominance are suffused by the erotic.
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That in these animal names is expressed a simple thing:
Honesty & shamelessness, living in harmony with the world, is what one ought strive for.
Can any man be called more satisfied than Diogenes after telling the conquering son of Philip to move because he was blotting out the sun?
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...to choose their own mate. Justice & mercy for the guilty makes the innocent more secure from attacks by the state.
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It is tragic that some think Rights & decency are finite 0-sum resources, when they very much are not. Extending these things bolsters those which others already have. Extending the franchise to women solidifies the vote of poor men; gay marriage strengthens the ability of straights...
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This year we have seen so much of education bend itself at the whims of fascists that a reckoning by academia is overdue.
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No idea what could be done though I bet some rather insightful people have good ideas & insights about the matter & I just wish universities would listen to these people rather than the would be CEOs
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Which leads to biased results if not outright fraud across all disciplines. It works in tandem with land corporatization & emphasis on sports teams to degrade the purpose of educational institutions.
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It is the Arrows of Herakles which he poisoned with the Hydra. That's it. Everything else is numinous because of who uses them
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In Hellenistic myth there is 1 (set of) weapon(s) I can think of that is magical regardless of who wields it (the arrows of Eros & Apollo are magical because of who wields them not because of the arrows themselves; the thunderbolts of Zeus are more godlike than weaponlike (cf Astrape & Bronte))
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Or giving a certain mood or aura to the bearer.
The skill at battle that was the warrior's to bring to the table.
After all if the sword did both the cutting & fighting what does it need the man for?
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So when one reads of magical weapons in antiquity (it is the sagas that have the greater number) the spells woven into the steel are often less about doing more damage & are more about being rust proof, not needing sharpening, not slipping in hand (or being prone to slipping & causing harm)
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that there have been comparable or even worse massacres is a testament to the inventiveness of our species & an indictment against our maker. That we have not taken up the call of never again is proof of our lacking education
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One of the first times I've felt my certitude of the human soul be shaken was learning of the desolation visited upon Nanking.
That the incident makes a humanitarian paragon out of a Nazi ought be enough to sketch out the outline of the horror.
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Useful in mathematics can be a matter of aesthetics.
Of being able to be written in what is the equivalent of a pun, or whose symbol patterns permit the breadth of eternity be that of a penstroke.
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Especially reading more academically oriented texts because those footnotes give a bunch of context & clarity, help understand what might be going on with the magickz
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The Ancient Holy trees, obvs, it's where they kept their calendar.