Sigil thread

[Cain]

THE AMAZING POWER OF ACCIDENTAL INTENT

HELP I ACCIDENTALLY THE ENTIRE SIGIL

IS THIS BAD?

THE AMAZING POWER OF INTENTIONAL DELIBERATION

The Amazing Power of Intentional Accidents: How to Screw With Insurance Companies and People You Hate

[the last yatto]

[Herbertina Merrique V]

The first and only time I ever tried any of the sigil stuff, I ended up vomiting. Violently. For the entire night.
Aaaaand for science, I will try it again!  

Okay, so there were lots of other cases of stomach flu in my school that week, but please let me believe I have discovered a Magickqal Super Secret Occult Make-myself-vomit-my-guts-out Spell.


IMA SIGILMANCER LOL! PH3AR MAH POWAHHHH!!
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[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

This is why you subliminally superimpose sigils on pictures of eyes and such, not pictures of goatse.

[Cain]

If this thread were combined with the most recent thread on magic, it would quite likely create a black hole of stupidity, which would not only consume the entire site, but probably sites well out of our orbit, like TCC and xkcd.

There is probably a downside, though.

[Bu🤠ns]

If this thread were combined with the most recent thread on magic, it would quite likely create a black hole of stupidity, which would not only consume the entire site, but probably sites well out of our orbit, like TCC and xkcd.

There is probably a downside, though.

Well i can't think of anything.

[Herbertina Merrique V]

  Sigils? Magic? Stupid? Noooo way, man. You're just not, like, enlightened enough, you know.

Now, here's a sigil I just made. Guess what it stands for?

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

You want Lysergic to vomit Maui when the age of Aquarius starts?

[Cainad (dec.)]

You want Lysergic to vomit Maui when the age of Aquarius starts?

That's Cain. He beat up Lys and stole one of his scarves, iirc.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Oh, okay. In that case -- you want Cain to vomit out an essay comparing the political positions of Edo-period Kyoto with the 12th century french hermeticists?

[Iron Sulfide]

Sigils alone don't effect physical reality, though it may be that they can help with some programming (I am going to be less judgmental / I am going to be more assertive).

aren't those really just affirmations and mental scripts?

I thought that the logo was to get the consumer familiar with the product so that when they see the image they'll associate it in terms of the emotion the commercial was trying to convey.  That's the subconscious message planted in a logo not the logo itself.  This way they choose the familiar product over the less familiar product. The logo is the vehicle not the message.

This. The only use i can think of for sigils is more of a logo-work thing. It, to me, seems more effective appealing to a mental state or an emotion repeatedly and establishing an anchor which links to that state or emotion, rather than appealing to a purposeful goal or process that's more complex, less translatable to the subconscious that doesn't get any repetition. But for this, you need only the capacity for self-hypnosis, or meditation, a particular mental state or emotion, and a mnemonic device (a word, a sound, a symbol, a gesture, a scent, etc) to recall the state. hardly magical. (though the mechanism is so strange to people that you can use it for all sorts of mentalism effects...)

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

But for this, you need only the capacity for self-hypnosis, or meditation, a particular mental state or emotion, and a mnemonic device (a word, a sound, a symbol, a gesture, a scent, etc) to recall the state. hardly magical. (though the mechanism is so strange to people that you can use it for all sorts of mentalism effects...)

You just described the whole basis of magic in more scientific terms, and called it "not magic".[/captainobvious]