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Sherbert Hoover posted:would expect a country with this flag to be a little more chill
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Sherbert Hoover posted:would expect a country with this flag to be a little more chill
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crepeface posted:great news for this thread quote:Last October, Mr Herminie and six of his Seychellois co-accused were freed on bail. They were charged with the possession of items intended for use in witchcraft, conspiracy to perform witchcraft and procuring services related to witchcraft, according to local media reports at the time. quote:The prosecutor told a magistrates' court in the capital, Victoria, that he was withdrawing all charges against him. I assume Mr Herminie used witchcraft to force his opponents to withdraw their charges of witchcraft, and hell, I loving respect it
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# ? Feb 17, 2024 02:00 |
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tag you are self, im
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# ? Feb 17, 2024 07:53 |
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metaphor for sure.
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I don't know what "moonfoam" is supposed to mean so I googled aphroselenon and one of the first results was something named "Drawing Down the Moon: Defining Magic in the Ancient Greco-Roman World" which begins thuslyquote:This introductory chapter provides a definition of magic. One of the most useful adjustments in the recent scholarship on magic has been the turn to considering magic as a dynamic social construct, instead of some particular reality. Magic is not a thing, but a way of talking. Thus, magic is a discourse pertaining to non-normative ritualized activity, in which the deviation from the norm is most often marked in terms of the perceived efficacy of the act, the familiarity of the performance within the cultural tradition, the ends for which the act is performed, or the social location of the performer. Such a discourse always has a history, since such a way of talking about things shifts over time as different people do the talking. When one speaks of “magic,” therefore, one should always explain: “magic for whom?” Any specific piece of evidence from the ancient Greco-Roman world provides an example of magic for that particular person, from one particular perspective. To speak of “magic in the ancient Greco-Roman world” is thus to refer to the whole range of things that various people in those cultures during those times could label as “magic.” The chapter then considers the act of drawing down the moon. I'm still unclear what moonfoam is but Ok, I am probably that one
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# ? Feb 17, 2024 19:18 |
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I assume Mr Herminie used witchcraft to force his opponents to withdraw their charges of witchcraft, and hell, I loving respect it Speaking of practical results, I've been seeing a lot of them in my life from explorations into animism and shamanism over the last couple years, and especially the last couple months. I've posted a little about them in the UFO/UAP thread (trust me, it makes sense in context), and I was wondering if this would be a good place to crosspost some of my effortposts, and maybe go into more depth about it?
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# ? Feb 19, 2024 04:06 |
Squizzle posted:
moonfoam, absolutely
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# ? Feb 19, 2024 04:07 |
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Hatebag posted:moonfoam, absolutely more like goonfoam
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# ? Feb 19, 2024 07:05 |
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Can AI do magic? If someone trained a state of the art artificial intelligence on all the magical texts and theory they could find, what would happen I feel like this could be an exciting way to combine potential dystopian futures
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 17:26 |
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Cast a spell that will bless me with good posts on a gay internet forum. ChatGPT 🌈 Spell for Forum Fortune 🌈 Ingredients: 1 pinch of positivity 3 drops of creativity A dash of wit Rainbow-colored thread (optional) Instructions: 1. Find a quiet space where you can focus. 2. Light a candle to symbolize the flame of inspiration. 3. Mix the ingredients in a bowl, visualizing your desired posts shining brightly. 4. Recite the following incantation: quote:By the power of the rainbow's arc, 5. Visualize your forum interactions filled with joy and affirmation. 6. Tie a knot with the rainbow-colored thread to seal the spell (if using). 7. Blow out the candle, releasing your intentions into the universe. 8. May your posts be as vibrant and captivating as the rainbow itself! 🌟
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 18:24 |
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as soon as someone here finds a dash of wit we can try it
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 18:25 |
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oh my god
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 19:20 |
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Can AI do magic? do you believe in magic
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 20:01 |
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:Can AI do magic? yeah but i dont see what the other two paragraphs have to do with it
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 20:05 |
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Sherbert Hoover posted:Cast a spell that will bless me with good posts on a gay internet forum.
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 20:07 |
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Sherbert Hoover posted:as soon as someone here finds a dash of wit we can try it my mars is in groucho and my venus is in dave barry
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 20:07 |
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Al! posted:yeah but i dont see what the other two paragraphs have to do with it
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 20:08 |
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:do you believe in magic what does your heart tell you, H.P. Hovercraft Al! posted:yeah but i dont see what the other two paragraphs have to do with it I was thinking about AI lacking a sense of right or wrong, but I have since remembered this is actually famously associated with wizards as well edit: I have since gotten your joke too LITERALLY A BIRD has issued a correction as of 02:03 on Feb 26, 2024 |
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Sherbert Hoover posted:
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# ? Feb 25, 2024 23:29 |
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I was thinking about AI lacking a sense of right or wrong, but I have since remembered this is actually famously associated with wizards as well Sherbert Hoover posted:Cast a spell that will bless me with good posts on a gay internet forum.
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# ? Feb 26, 2024 07:16 |
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witness sorceries https://i.imgur.com/xm1eUmt.mp4
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# ? Feb 26, 2024 16:26 |
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now that we have established Forums User Al! can perform magic and Forums Users Orbs and LITERALLY A BIRD can sometimes get jokes, I want to go back to my cannabis-influenced thought yesterday Because like, the way I see it, there are two big reasons behind an individual perceiving "magic" (generalized) as not being real. A person might believe in the idea of magic without knowing how to perform it. I believe violin music is real. If someone hands me a violin, can I create music with it? Absolutely not, I don't know any of the other things needed to be able to operate that violin in ways that would produce what other people agree to be music. A person, a scholar of music, might also know all the practical theory behind playing a violin without having a violin or a bow of their own to try to play. With no violin, there is no reality of violin music; only theory. So then the two requirements for magic to be real to an individual are that the individual have knowledge of how to operate the system, and also belief that they are capable of operating the system, or at least willingness to try. A learning program trained on a database of hundreds and thousands of primary and secondary sources on ancient and modern magic would have an unparalleled depository of knowledge about the operating system, and if it were told the system is efficacious it would not be troubled by insufficient "belief." It would just go Oh, okay, and start creating output (spells) in this new language (magic), informed by thousands of years of information and unburdened by whether the language it is using is or is not "real." And then you know, since a lot of people seem afraid of theoretical omnipotent future AIs these days I started picturing a world ruled by Techno-Merlin, the unkillable AI in the Cloud who knows every way to use magic spells and has no moral compunction about ensorcelling human society when it sees us making problems its magic could fix.
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Also I guess golems and ushabtis and such are themselves just magical AIs, come to think of it. Squizzle posted:witness sorceries ...maybe these guys too...
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This article is so long and most of the people who would want to read it probably follow the UFO thread and already clicked on this when D-Pad posted it there. But I am finding it convenient that my post history in here is basically a depository of links to articles about magic that I find interesting, and although it is really long it is also really good, so here it is. https://www.secretorum.life/p/the-most-dangerous-idea quote:The traumatic secret is this: the laws of physics can be bent or in some way transcended by extreme states of consciousness, “a visionary warping of space and time effected by the gravity of intense human suffering”. Most, if not all, supernatural phenomenon are manifestations of this warping. quote:In traumatic transcendence, we see reality responding to an acute state of consciousness in some individual. However, there may also be a sense in which this happens “chronically” in response to states of collective consciousness. This leads to a startling conclusion, one that forms a central theme of Kripal’s work: culture directly affects the real by mediating and constraining the kinds of consciousness experiences which people are capable of having. In a very literal sense then, the metaphysical paradigm of an age determines the metaphysical truth of that age. quote:[But] traumatic transcendence seems to require something more than just trauma. quote:Most late-stage religions distrust mystics and lock them up in monasteries or hermitages; they rightly fear the renewing but disruptive effect of theophany. Eventually, for most of the religion’s followers, even the theoretical possibility of unmediated experience of the divine is lost, or thought of as the preserve of specialists and madmen. Here's why I care enough about whether magic might be real, and whether other people have the opportunity to think magic might be real, to continue posting about it in here by the way quote:There are countless theories about why human and animal sacrifice were so widespread and pervasive throughout history, but as far as I can tell there has been no consideration of the (unsettling) possibility that sacrifice actually works. In other words, the sacrificial suffering and death of conscious beings does reliably (or unreliably) cause some form of supernatural phenomenon to occur as traumatic transcendence. Ancient peoples perceived this and attributed the efficacy of sacrifice to appeasement of the gods. quote:Recall the theory that was advanced earlier, “the metaphysical paradigm of an age determines the metaphysical truth of that age”. RIP Aaron.
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drugs
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Yeah Martyrs was a pretty sick flick. Haven't seen the American version, bet it sucks.
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# ? Mar 9, 2024 07:38 |
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Mage the Ascension is literally real. That realization blew my mind
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polycritical posted:Mage the Ascension is literally real. That realization blew my mind brucato—the most iconic, enduring, and arguably influential of the mage developers—tried to shape the game into a teaching tool for his worldview: a sort of neopagan/new age expedient means. thats (one of the reasons) why he reversed so many of the changes revised edition made, when he headed up the 20th anniversary edition, to bring it more closely into alignment w his own vision of not just the game but of reality which makes it even funnier that jess heinig was leagues better in terms of shaping the game to express the core realities it leveraged: no one cares if you are breaking reality or using tools built into it, as long as you are open to making the attempt; collaboration, persistence, and effort are key to big effects; the greatest threat is the perceived impossibility of a better world; cultural realities matter
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i think they heinig was also the dev when they published lost paths, which came out like four months before 9/11 and mentioned how certain mage group(s? at minimum the taftâni) got along w the afghan taliban
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and after a decade of saying that no one needs a book on nyc because everyone is already familiar we it via its cultural presence, white wolf published new york by nite w a street date of like a week before 9/11. justin achilli, the vampire dev, got real wound up about people talking about how particular current events could fit into the world of darkness and posted some all caps thread title like THIS IS NOT A GAME to tell people to stop speculating about how the lasombra downed flight 93 or w/e. didnt help that they were right in the middle of their middle east themed “year of the scarab” 9/11 presented unique challenges to white wolf
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other things heinig got powerfully correct: old overtly powerful people wont save you and its 💯% fine if they all end up exiled into the cosmic flush hole; fuckin off into imagination land is fine for a lark or a purpose but it doesnt make you superior to anyone else; sometimes weird poo poo just happens and you can just accept that; the front-and-center placement of resonance—the influence of yr own nature and person and manner—instead of supernatural paradox effects; gnosis/enlightenment/access to the fundamentals of reality isnt an instant win over everyone else its a path to understanding
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my bony fealty posted:good morning my witches
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# ? Mar 9, 2024 23:41 |
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yeah well at this point the la sombra may as well have This is Not a game
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I almost threw up laughing, thank you
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# ? Mar 9, 2024 23:51 |
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If mage is real does that mean that vampire is also? I need time to think
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 00:27 |
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polycritical posted:If mage is real does that mean that vampire is also? I need time to think
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# ? Mar 10, 2024 00:37 |
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vampire is fake. but werewolf is real
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my ol memory was playing tricks on us all, because ny by nite came out in november and had an intro hastily added that was like “yeah we had this mostly ready when the while towers thing happened. it wont be mentioned in the rest of this book. god bless america????” this book is the one that came out a week before 9/11: Holy War (Hunter: The Reckoning) posted:What Monsters Lurk check out the chapter titles!!!
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