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ready to sage the appropriate ports, cut open an old router and remove its still-functional cpu, etc
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Big fan of praising Ishtar, personally
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is ishtar chill
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i argue that Chill would be a misleading metric to attempt to implement here would tend to confound the findings, and finders
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Ishtar is possibly the opposite of chill
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That is one of the things to like about her though. Real motivated type, big doer. Just what you want in a God.
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ex post facho posted:ready to sage the appropriate ports, cut open an old router and remove its still-functional cpu, etc you should find a way to inscribe the sounds of a dialup modem handshake onto an ofuda, which you can use to seal a device against demons and malign spirits
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I misread that as 'everything is made of kings'
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:it means your balls op Sherbert Hoover posted:It is very complicated and differs between Hellenistic and late antique philosophy, but ancient Mediterranean philosophy was pretty obsessed with the idea that everything is made of things, both physically and metaphysically, like we are made of not only bone atoms and meat atoms, but also beauty, intelligence, man, poster, etc. Many philosophers believed that on some level there is beauty etc. by itself and these forms and all creation are emanations of the monad, a kind of singularity or godhead that exhibits perfect unity, of which everything else and all ideas are lesser and lesser copies and divisions. When Christianity took over, theologians dropped most of the numerology and physics aspects of it but kept the idea of God's omnipresence.
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i like the idea of a talisman against demonic machine spirits, thank you. i will find an appropriate deity to offer to for continued good fortune in working with devicés and technolögiẹ
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ex post facho posted:i like the idea of a talisman against demonic machine spirits, thank you. i will find an appropriate deity to offer to for continued good fortune in working with devicés and technolögiẹ warhammer 40k has you covered on both fronts
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I was trying to avoid that tbqh, surely it drew that inspiration from somewhere
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ex post facho posted:I was trying to avoid that tbqh, surely it drew that inspiration from somewhere
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ex post facho posted:i like the idea of a talisman against demonic machine spirits, thank you. i will find an appropriate deity to offer to for continued good fortune in working with devicés and technolögiẹ Thoth might truck with arcane devices. He's got that tablet after all e: actually yeah come to think of it someone being a God of science, math, magic, writing, wisdom etc would absolutely mean they were a God of technology, from the contemporaneous perspective. I think Thoth's your guy here, ex post. LITERALLY A BIRD has issued a correction as of 01:31 on Mar 26, 2024 |
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a monad is a 3-term complex A → B → C of objects in some abelian category whose middle term B is projective, whose first map A → B is injective, and whose second map B → C is surjective.
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BONGHITZ posted:a monad is a 3-term complex This.
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BONGHITZ posted:a monad is a 3-term complex
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BONGHITZ posted:a monad is a 3-term complex a monad is a monoid in a category of endofunctors
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ex post facho posted:i will find an appropriate deity to offer to for continued good fortune in working with devicés and technolögiẹ
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ex post facho posted:i like the idea of a talisman against demonic machine spirits, thank you. i will find an appropriate deity to offer to for continued good fortune in working with devicés and technolögiẹ everyday necessities that have an origin story separate from cosmogenesis?? that are vital for communication??? sounds like you need a trickster-transformer-culture hero type. add to that, long ago (the 20th century) there was a bit of conventional wisdom that crafter/smith/forge gods were usually disfigured/deformed/just generally physically not-whole. varying degrees of usefulness to that observation, mostly: hey guys most of those are indo-euro gods, ofc they will resemble one another, thanks for pointing that out i guess; yeah a lot of metallurgy does expose a person to fumes that can cause neuropathy, makes sense that trait would be associated. so you need a physically afflicted trickster or world-transformer, maybe a culture hero
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oh poo poo, you need gilgamesh. he crosses boundaries in his attested role (in prayer/invocation) as a ferryman, so is perfect for your communication devices, ferrying those lil packets to and fro. he is also a maker of great works, as the builder of the walls of uruk. but of a technology connection!!! and his particular affliction is the emotional wound of discovering the limitations of mortality, both confronting his own and losing his dearest companion. seems v appropriate for wrestling w the ravages of entropy on even nanometer-scale silicon etchings. hey those are like clay tablets. sorta
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fuckin gilgamesh
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Mo' nads, mo' problems
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Gilgamesh is very cool and all, and I enjoy connecting the present to the past in this manner. But considering we're talking about a lot of new technologies, maybe making new patron deities is in order? I conceptualize the internet for example as being a web maintained by a giant spider spirit union (I pay my spiritual dues to these neo-wobblies every day~)
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I think Thoth will be the deity to whom I offer, though I find Gilgamesh and his tale extremely interesting. Maybe I can dual-fealty
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Orbs posted:Gilgamesh is very cool and all, and I enjoy connecting the present to the past in this manner. But considering we're talking about a lot of new technologies, maybe making new patron deities is in order? I conceptualize the internet for example as being a web maintained by a giant spider spirit union (I pay my spiritual dues to these neo-wobblies every day~) There is Anansi, the spider god, an Akan deity, associated with trickery, knowledge, and wisdom. Not necessarily technology, but knowledge is there~ and the internet is all about deceit and trickery
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ex post facho posted:There is Anansi, the spider god, an Akan deity, associated with trickery, knowledge, and wisdom. Not necessarily technology, but knowledge is there~ and the internet is all about deceit and trickery and communication, travel, commerce, and long-range infrastructure (e.g. roads) are all extremely traditional trickster associations. appropriate internet things imo
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ex post facho posted:There is Anansi, the spider god, an Akan deity, associated with trickery, knowledge, and wisdom. Not necessarily technology, but knowledge is there~ and the internet is all about deceit and trickery ex post facho posted:I think Thoth will be the deity to whom I offer, though I find Gilgamesh and his tale extremely interesting. Maybe I can dual-fealty Yes, I did play a ton of Exalted and other WW games when I was younger, how could you tell? lol. I know they could be quite problematic for numerous reasons, but I liked that they made an attempt to portray an unusual yet compelling cosmology.
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white wolf made games???
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ex post facho posted:I think Thoth will be the deity to whom I offer, though I find Gilgamesh and his tale extremely interesting. Maybe I can dual-fealty Orbs posted:That's totally cool too, I don't believe it's necessary to use new gods or anything, that's just how I've been leaning lately. I do still follow many of the older ones too (advantages of being pantheistic in outlook). I believe "dual-fealty" is not only possible, but it's what polytheistic deities kind of want or need. people feelin polycurious ITT Dr. Edward Butler, "Polycentric Polytheism" posted:Many practices and styles of devotion within polytheism are treated by modern scholars as implying a “tendency” towards monotheism. Worshipers in ancient (as well as modern) polytheisms sometimes identify one God with another, fuse two Gods together into a third, or experience one God as the focus of all things; all the while still recognizing many Gods. Scholars have coined terms like “henotheism” to refer to this seeming dichotomy while modern polytheists often term these practices as “soft” (as opposed to “hard”) polytheism. In “soft” polytheism, so the explanation goes, the Gods are all understood to be aspects of one God, or as emanations from a single Source with no fixed identities. Only in “hard” polytheism, it is argued, are the Gods seen as unique individuals. quote:How does this matter to polytheists? We see this inclusiveness of each God in the practice of many polytheists. A polytheist does not call upon a God merely for concerns relating to a narrow function. Aphrodite's most intense devotees do not call on her merely as "Goddess of love," for example, but as Goddess of everything, at least potentially. At the cult centers of ancient deities, we often find the Gods and Goddesses worshiped in this expansive manner. quote:Devotional Polytheism brings us closer to the Gods. Just as a jewel in Indra's net reflects the other jewels near it more clearly than those further from away, so too we "see" in the Gods to whom we are devoted more readily the other Gods who are "nearer" to Them. There are two ways in which Gods are "near" one another: first, through being part of the same divine "family" or being in the same myths together, which we usually refer to as being in the same pantheon. https://henadology.files.wordpress.com/2016/11/wp32-butler-pp3538-version-2.pdf I actually like one of this guy's other polytheism essays much more but it is eighteen pages of text whereas the above link is four pages with fun formatting and graphics. Here's the long one too though. POLYTHEISM: THE INEVITABLE CHOICE FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE.
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quote:How does this matter to polytheists? We see this inclusiveness of each God in the practice of many polytheists. A polytheist does not call upon a God merely for concerns relating to a narrow function. Aphrodite's most intense devotees do not call on her merely as "Goddess of love," for example, but as Goddess of everything, at least potentially. This is the part I was most reminded of during the technology Deity conversation. The Drawing Down the Moon book had a whole chapter on the mechanics of prayer and different approaches taken by supplicants. The most reliable sorts of prayer, it was perceived, were often ones addressed to a God with whom the supplicant had a meaningful personal relationship even if the subject matter of the prayer wasn't within that God's realm of particular expertise. A Deity of something could certainly have blessed some specific interactions a person experienced in a given moment. But polytheistically speaking, a Deity with a fondness for you, personally, is often perceived to be actively involved in your life and thereby able to be a source of all kinds of good fortune. Praise Deity.
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ex post facho posted:i like the idea of a talisman against demonic machine spirits, thank you. i will find an appropriate deity to offer to for continued good fortune in working with devicés and technolögiẹ Xipe Totec has a lot to offer: God of metalsmiths (there's all kinds of metal in computers) God of the East (where microchips are made) God of disease (what are viruses and malware if not diseases of the circuit) Bonus: corn is widely available
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bij posted:Bonus: corn is widely available you should close every post w this
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Squizzle posted:you should close every post w this
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:roll for godhood:
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