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05 Aug 2021, 6:57 pm

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The default interpretation of all statements on this website is "literal" unless otherwise explicitly noted.
... except for posts like the previous one.

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And except when I'm being sarcastic.


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I'm not getting into this circle jerk but I couldn't resist the song.


Short answer: I believe in everything.


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06 Aug 2021, 8:11 am

RetroGamer87 wrote:
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The default interpretation of all statements on this website is "literal" unless otherwise explicitly noted.
... except for posts like the previous one.
And except when I'm being sarcastic.
No one can know you are being sarcastic at the moment they read your posts without you also giving an explicit indication of sarcastic intent; but if you do not want your posts taken seriously, then I can add you to my "Ignore" list.



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06 Aug 2021, 11:07 am

Fnord wrote:
No one can know you are being sarcastic at the moment they read your posts without you also giving an explicit indication of sarcastic intent.






'This' is Not True, it took me all of
2 Seconds to Determine 'the Video'
He Provided Was A Parody, Just by

The Tone of the Folks Providing the Parody...

Again, Not Everyone on the Autism Spectrum,

Doesn't Get Sarcasm, Not Everyone on the Autism Spectrum

Is A STEM Major And Or in A Related Work or Other Vocation of Life...

(In Fact, Studies Show Only 33 Percent of Higher Functioning Autistic Folks Are)

Some Autistic Folks Are Very Artistic And Not Scientific At All; Others Are

Fully Capable of

Doing Both Like

me And Interceding

If and When Two Sides

Don't Have the Ability to

Understand the Other; Yet of

Course, Some Folks Still Will Not Understand;

And That's Why Autism is Considered A Social Reciprocal

Communication Deficit in Life; All i'm Saying Here is Don't

Believe You Understand How ALL Other Folks See the World As You Do Not...
And That's Okay; Yet if You Try, Chances Are You Will Do Much Better than

Just Threatening Other Folks That You Won't Interact with them Like that is

Gonna

Be
Some

Kind of Punishment

As Believe me i can't
Imagine that Yet i'm

Sure Others Appreciate

Your Style of Communication too...



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06 Aug 2021, 5:14 pm

A couple of decades ago I was looking after the house of some friends while they were away. Lying in bed in an otherwise empty house, I listened to the zipper of my bag, located to the side of the bed, run its tracks back and forth several times. Of course I didn't look. If I'm in an empty house and that's happening, damn sure I don't want to see what's there.

Years before that, when I was still a Christian, on one occasion I was $30 short on my rent, due Monday. So the day before, at church, I prayed for it. After church a woman handed me an envelope saying she felt God wanted me to have it. $30.

On one occasion when share housing with Goths, the mother of one of our friends did the rounds looking for her daughter (our friend) whom she hadn't seen in a week, and asked if we had seen her. We had no idea where she was, but promised to notify her if we found out where the daughter was. After she left, we each took to our various divination tools. I was doing runes. The message I got was safe + on water. She turned up again a week later. Seems she forgot to inform her mother that she'd be spending a couple of weeks with her new boyfriend on his houseboat.

That's just a few things I remember. For what it's worth, there's other instances. My point though is this. I couldn't replicate it in a lab. I never 'made' any of it happen to begin with. It just happened. These things happen. They are real. I'm not interested in proving them. I don't care if you believe (belief being more an issue of 'will' than 'facts').

But I believe. No theories. Just experiences.


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06 Aug 2021, 5:17 pm

I just purchased a 20% share, so yes, I have a 1/5th interest in magick.


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06 Aug 2021, 11:23 pm

What is this, some sort of Gathering?


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07 Aug 2021, 9:15 am

Fnord wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
Fnord wrote:
Fnord wrote:
The default interpretation of all statements on this website is "literal" unless otherwise explicitly noted.
... except for posts like the previous one.
And except when I'm being sarcastic.
No one can know you are being sarcastic at the moment they read your posts without you also giving an explicit indication of sarcastic intent; but if you do not want your posts taken seriously, then I can add you to my "Ignore" list.

Speak for yourself. You can't know if I'm being sarcastic by reading my post. Don't act like just because you can't do something that means it can't be done.

I add an /s to my posts if and only if it can't be worked out from context. When I say something like "in my country everyone must be married by 30 or post a video with a comedic cartoon drawing of a wizard (no need to watch the video, just look at the picture) it can be worked out from context.

I'm not going to change my writing style just to appease you. You can add me to your list but you'll probably make one more post on the topic of sarcasm just to get the last the last word.

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09 Aug 2021, 7:27 pm

4 hrs of Josephine McCarthy on Glitchbottle. Take a listen this evening since I finally have a minute (three weeks in a row of working right through my weekends - hopefully coming to a close for a while).


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14 Aug 2021, 4:04 am

He stopped arguing about sarcasm. Reverse psychology. Works every time.


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14 Aug 2021, 10:25 am

RetroGamer87 wrote:
He stopped arguing about sarcasm. Reverse psychology. Works every time.

I think these threads are mostly about bullying (ie. people stupid enough to believe x are likely too stupid to be able to defend themselves, just like face-to-face status poaching offline, so free dunks), and being it's that sort of dynamic just about anything could be pulled in for the same ride - even people provisionally agreeing but didn't do it in the right way.


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14 Aug 2021, 10:40 am

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
He stopped arguing about sarcasm. Reverse psychology. Works every time.

I think these threads are mostly about bullying (ie. people stupid enough to believe x are likely too stupid to be able to defend themselves, just like face-to-face status poaching offline, so free dunks), and being it's that sort of dynamic just about anything could be pulled in for the same ride - even people provisionally agreeing but didn't do it in the right way.


Nobody listens to me anyway, lol.


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14 Aug 2021, 7:23 pm

RetroGamer87 wrote:
He stopped arguing about sarcasm. Reverse psychology. Works every time.
Not really ... I just got tired of arguing with people who are all talk and no action.

If you can do magick, then show me; otherwise, you are all just blowing hot air.



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14 Aug 2021, 11:24 pm

Fnord wrote:
RetroGamer87 wrote:
He stopped arguing about sarcasm. Reverse psychology. Works every time.
Not really ... I just got tired of arguing with people who are all talk and no action.

If you can do magick, then show me; otherwise, you are all just blowing hot air.




First Of All 'Note', This is the '93rd'
Response in This Thread And You'll

Have to Further Research 'Magick' to Understand
the Synchronicity Of this Coincidence on ToPiC...

Fnord, You Are Still Suggesting "MagicK"

Is Some Kind of Parlor Trick Where You Guess

What is in the Box; NOPE THAT IS NOT MAGICK;

THAT'S A PARLOR TRICK, PERHAPS TO MAKE MONEY;

YET MAGICK IS A TERM THAT DISTINGUISHES THE DIFFERENCE:

"Crowley saw Magick as the essential method for a person to reach true understanding of the self and to act according to one's true will, which he saw as the reconciliation "between freewill and destiny."[3] Crowley describes this process in his Magick, Book 4:

One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, who one is, what one is, why one is ...Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions. (Crowley, Magick, Book 4 p.134)"

Fnord, i Realize You Are A Very 'Left Brain' Thinking Material Reductionistic Kind of Dude From How You
Communicate And Describe Yourself on this Website; Of Course You May Limit Your Potentials Here, i Do Not See....

Yet, Fnord, i Also Realize Much Greater Human Potentials Through my own 'Great Works' Of Life';

That Literally 'In Empirical Measure' No One Can Do

Yet me in the Entire World;

And That Was Mr. Crowley's

Aim, to Explore Human Potentials;

With Just the Placebo Effect; the Healing

Power is Greater With A Blue Pill than A White
Pill as Studied; And A Capsule is More Effective than

A Blue Pill; And Still, An Injection is Even More Powerful than a Capsule;

Tomorrow Morning An Even More Powerful Tradition of Placebo Will Be Delivered

As the 'Eucharist at Church', Where About 30 Percent of the Congregation, Including
the Priest, Literally Believe that A Wafer of Bread is Changed into the Body of a Dude

in A Story identified As Jesus;

And If those People Use the Same Power
of Belief, Faith, And Hope Engaged in those

Healing Emotions in the Ritual; No Different
Than the Ritual of the White Pill, Blue Pill, Capsule,
And Injection, At Essence for What the Doctor Does;

Healing Will Be Similar And Perhaps even Greater than
What the Doctor is Able to Do With His 'Eucharist' That Way...

Yes, Indeed,

For Some Folks

'Jesus' Becomes a Powerful

MagicK Eucharist Sugar Pill Every Sunday
in Catholic And Other Churches Using that
Sugar Pill Placebo Ritual; And Conversely,

Folks Have Great Faith, Belief And Hope

Ironically in Fears And Hateful Ways of Seeing Others,

Yes, And Conspiracy Theories Where That Nocebo Effect

Will Literally All Naturally Kill Folks With REAL VOODOO TOO;

WHERE THE ALL NATURAL PART OF IT IS, You Don't Get Vaccinated

And You

Get to Literally

Die And Go to Heaven

After Death; Yet of Course

That Only Does You Good For the
Days You Are Here; And Perhaps

You Don't Experience So Much Anxiety about
Death; Yet on the Other Hand, You Literally Die
For You Don't Worry About Death and A Virus Kills Your Butt Dead...

Not 'You' Of Course; As in Some Cases It's Better Not to Be Able to Use
The Power of Belief at All, if it leads You Down A Voodoo Nocebo Path of Not Getting

Vaccinated

And Really

Dying Now;

Listen 'Horatio', You
Are A Very Rational Dude;

Yet That Only Comprises about

5 Percent of Total Human Mind And Overall Potential;

In Other Words, It seems, You Are Basically Floating on a Raft
Boat And Not able to Even Touch the Ocean Yet, From 'Listening to Your Text' at least...

And It's True, You May Be Smart in Some Ways; Yet Even a 17 Year-Old Very Smart South African

Woman Has the Ability to Understand me Enough the way i communicate; As the Proof Below Also

Irrefutably Shows to Dedicate An Entire Blog Post to the 'Beautiful Soul' She Sees i am Through the

Great Work in 8 Years

Of Free Verse Poetry;

All 9.6 MiLLioN Words

In One Huge Long Form

Poem; Yes, i Continue

To Master to Understand

More Potentials of Our Human Natures Now...

Other Great Works, Include Dance And Full Adult

Age Women Moving into A Frenzy of Sorts in Flowing Ecstasy...
Where Basically, i Become A Dancing Healing 'Shaman' of Giving Sharing Joy...

Plenty of Irrefutable

Evidence in Thousands

of Selfie Photos That Fully

Illustrate That too; Easy to Access And Prove....

Meanwhile, Keep Thinking About What's In 'That Box';

And i'll Return

to my

Experience

of Heaven on Earth

Now Where Great Works

of Soul Goes On for me at least...

"Colorful and bright

Love is always in sight

There is no limit to which extend

a simple act of kindness can spread

You are a beautiful soul,

leaving seeds of inspiration wherever you go

❤❤❤"

Hehe, All About me Baby;

The Places Where Folks have
The Kind of Intelligence Required to Even 'See' me...

It's Truly Fascinating, How Limited Some Kinds of
Intelligence Are; Basically, Constructed to Make
Money and Transform Us into the Tools We Create...

Hehe,

Like Words...

From A More 'Mystical Jesus' As Attributed by The "Gospel of Thomas":

70) Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you
bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is
within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

113) His disciples said to Him, "When will the Kingdom come?"
Jesus said, "It will not come by waiting for it. It will
not be a matter of saying 'Here it is' or 'There it is.' Rather,
the Kingdom of the Father is spread out upon the earth, and men
do not see it."

Interestingly, Much Of What Mr. Crowley Pondered in His
Philosophy Is Similar to What's Attributed To 'Story Books Jesus';

Even Mentoring Folks To Do 'Greater Works' Than The 'Jesus Dude' too...

Biggest Problem, Crowley's Diseases of Addiction; Substance, And
Sex Addictions too; Center of His Life Yes; Yet Most Sadly Then Not

Finding True
Wealth and

Will Within;

Outside of Additives
Of Substances That Led
to A Slow Burn And Ending Somewhat Earlier Demise...

Sort of Like 'A Heavier Brow', 'Jordan Peterson'... 'These Days'...
Perhaps, Jordan Peterson, Will At Least Survive His Ending Days 'Sober'...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magick_(Thelema)

https://karlien09.com/2021/07/06/a-beautiful-soul/



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15 Aug 2021, 6:09 pm

24:30 of 'How to':


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15 Aug 2021, 6:12 pm

John Gray, more critic than anything but an honest one, writing a critique of magic and magical thinking in New Statesman:

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/bo ... lism-magic


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