Sigil thread

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Yeah, but thanks for letting me know you fuck with that sigil bullshit.  I'll be sure to take that into account in future conversations.

Meh. It's not that big a deal. All that sigils do is put a message into your subconscious. It's like using a subliminal message on yourself.

no different than tarot cards or that "casting a circle"

HOLY CRAP TGRR! YOU JUST MADE THE MOST CORRECT STATEMENT ABOUT MAGIC I HAVE SEEN IN AGES! Crowley would weep with joy.

Invocation, evocation, divination etc etc etc are all making use of the same basic tool, your own brain.

Nice of you to crop my text like that.

Intellectual honesty:  Try it sometime.

Right, because that was totally a deep and intellectual comment... rather than a NO YUO sort of thing. Because obviously discussing concepts like Magic with TGRR is a intellectual exercise, rather than TGRR spouting off.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Yeah, but thanks for letting me know you fuck with that sigil bullshit.  I'll be sure to take that into account in future conversations.

Meh. It's not that big a deal. All that sigils do is put a message into your subconscious. It's like using a subliminal message on yourself.

no different than tarot cards or that "casting a circle"

HOLY CRAP TGRR! YOU JUST MADE THE MOST CORRECT STATEMENT ABOUT MAGIC I HAVE SEEN IN AGES! Crowley would weep with joy.

Invocation, evocation, divination etc etc etc are all making use of the same basic tool, your own brain.

Nice of you to crop my text like that.

Intellectual honesty:  Try it sometime.

Right, because that was totally a deep and intellectual comment... rather than a NO YUO sort of thing. Because obviously discussing concepts like Magic with TGRR is a intellectual exercise, rather than TGRR spouting off.

Translation:  "I just got busted out altering someone else's text to make them agree with me, and now I'm rationalizing it."

[Faust]

I was pretty clear on where you were coming from actually. Just backing up your point. The STFU wasn't directed at you but the rest of the thread in general. Just a setup to the "turning everyone into newts" gag, really. I totally agree with you - both the terms "placebo" and "all in your imagination" are hints at the most powerful psychological mechanisms we have at our disposal. And people will use them to dismiss. It really is funny as fuck and it's all the asspipes who think they can turn people into newts or control teh weather that made it all possible.

my mistake, I thought it was directed at me. sorry.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Yeah, but thanks for letting me know you fuck with that sigil bullshit.  I'll be sure to take that into account in future conversations.

Meh. It's not that big a deal. All that sigils do is put a message into your subconscious. It's like using a subliminal message on yourself.

no different than tarot cards or that "casting a circle"

HOLY CRAP TGRR! YOU JUST MADE THE MOST CORRECT STATEMENT ABOUT MAGIC I HAVE SEEN IN AGES! Crowley would weep with joy.

Invocation, evocation, divination etc etc etc are all making use of the same basic tool, your own brain.

Nice of you to crop my text like that.

Intellectual honesty:  Try it sometime.

Right, because that was totally a deep and intellectual comment... rather than a NO YUO sort of thing. Because obviously discussing concepts like Magic with TGRR is a intellectual exercise, rather than TGRR spouting off.

Translation:  "I just got busted out altering someone else's text to make them agree with me, and now I'm rationalizing it."

Durrrr....

Yes, and the ALL CAPS didn't give you a clue that I meant it humorously? Are you really that pathetically paranoid?

I thought you would laugh or come back with a response, no0t assume I was trying to manipulate your words to make everyone think you said something. But, whatever... I apparently hate you and secretly try to make you look dumb. I'm also part of the Rothschild group and secretly have started putting stuff in your water. Don't worry though, its all setting you up so you can be the carrier for the secret alien DNA that we're going to seed the earth with and turn everyone into lizard aliens.

You've discovered my secret TGRR!

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

You've discovered my secret TGRR!

THE Secret?   

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Even though I burn candles and read Tarot and do other annoying occulty things, I still find the sigil thing especially irritating. Also, I don't have a thread for my tarot-reading, candle-burning, rootwork wankery.

I'll totally wank with you over tarot cards sometime.

I think the Empress is hawt.

(Actually I read cards semi-professionally, have worked both over the phone and at fairs,  I just know better than to expect talking about it to go over very well on this board.)

Yeah.

Actually it kind of reminds me of how irritated I was earlier today to find that someone had started a fibromyalgia support thread over on the glass board. I fucking hate middle-aged ladies. Between that shit and the dieting threads there won't be any glass talk left at all pretty soon.

Wait til they start bitching about gout.

Oh, it's already gotten ugly. Some of the non-twit glass bitches used the forbidden word, "hypochondriac", and now the hypochondriacs are screaming about how society invalidates their disease.

Middle-aged ladies, dude. I swear to fucking god. They're EXACTLY like people who take sigils and tarot seriously.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I can't WAIT for the irritable bowel syndrome support thread.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I love how occult detractors always mention the placebo effect as if it dismisses the whole thing. Thing is any serious occultist will agree with you. We know it's the placebo effect - that's why it works! It's like looking at a car and saying "Ah but that's just the internal combustion engine doing that - the car isn't actually moving"

Now STFU or I'll turn the lot of you into fucking newts! 

Let me tell you in exquisite detail all about my meditation practice, my drug use, and how I masturbate. Also how often I get laid by how many people, and what a pimp I am. Then I will BAWWWW when people relentlessly make fun of my posts.

Or wait, maybe I'll save it for a place and time where it won't get relentlessly made fun of.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I can't WAIT for the irritable bowel syndrome support thread.

Why wait?  Make an alt.  

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Even though I burn candles and read Tarot and do other annoying occulty things, I still find the sigil thing especially irritating. Also, I don't have a thread for my tarot-reading, candle-burning, rootwork wankery.

I'll totally wank with you over tarot cards sometime.

I think the Empress is hawt.

(Actually I read cards semi-professionally, have worked both over the phone and at fairs,  I just know better than to expect talking about it to go over very well on this board.)

Yeah.

Actually it kind of reminds me of how irritated I was earlier today to find that someone had started a fibromyalgia support thread over on the glass board. I fucking hate middle-aged ladies. Between that shit and the dieting threads there won't be any glass talk left at all pretty soon.

Wait til they start bitching about gout.

Oh, it's already gotten ugly. Some of the non-twit glass bitches used the forbidden word, "hypochondriac", and now the hypochondriacs are screaming about how society invalidates their disease.

Middle-aged ladies, dude. I swear to fucking god. They're EXACTLY like people who take sigils and tarot seriously.

Tell them that's a good thing...If their disease hasn't been properly validated, it's by definition invalid, and should stop hurting.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Even though I burn candles and read Tarot and do other annoying occulty things, I still find the sigil thing especially irritating. Also, I don't have a thread for my tarot-reading, candle-burning, rootwork wankery.

I'll totally wank with you over tarot cards sometime.

I think the Empress is hawt.

(Actually I read cards semi-professionally, have worked both over the phone and at fairs,  I just know better than to expect talking about it to go over very well on this board.)

Yeah.

Actually it kind of reminds me of how irritated I was earlier today to find that someone had started a fibromyalgia support thread over on the glass board. I fucking hate middle-aged ladies. Between that shit and the dieting threads there won't be any glass talk left at all pretty soon.

Wait til they start bitching about gout.

Oh, it's already gotten ugly. Some of the non-twit glass bitches used the forbidden word, "hypochondriac", and now the hypochondriacs are screaming about how society invalidates their disease.

Middle-aged ladies, dude. I swear to fucking god. They're EXACTLY like people who take sigils and tarot seriously.

Tell them that's a good thing...If their disease hasn't been properly validated, it's by definition invalid, and should stop hurting.

I need an alt on the glass board.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

All right. I'm going to throw out  there one of the many things I love about Discordianism.

I was raised in a bastardized Native American tradition. I converted and was/have been a Wiccan of sorts for about 20 years. I still wear a pentagram, have an altar, etc etc. Nowadays I shy from the label "Wiccan" and prefer "Witch". Yes. Really. It's, if possible, even stupider than "Wiccan".

I read Tarot, do rituals, burn shit, dabble in vodou. I still have a deeply superstitious shamanistic side, sort of how people raised Catholic have a hard time shaking that whole sin concept. I see a fucking owl in daylight and my first thought isn't "Oh cute, an owl!" it's "Oh shit, is someone gonna die?"

I think Wicca, and Wiccans, are fucking stupid. All this shit is fucking stupid, and hilarious. I do it because it produces an altered mental state, much like drugs can, but it doesn't last as long as drugs and I'm a commitment-phobe.

That I think it's bullshit doesn't detract from my practice of magic at all. I don't mind that my belief that it's bullshit clashes with my belief that it's effective. What's a little metal discord?

Funny, that's what.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

All right. I'm going to throw out  there one of the many things I love about Discordianism.

I was raised in a bastardized Native American tradition. I converted and was/have been a Wiccan of sorts for about 20 years. I still wear a pentagram, have an altar, etc etc. Nowadays I shy from the label "Wiccan" and prefer "Witch". Yes. Really. It's, if possible, even stupider than "Wiccan".

I read Tarot, do rituals, burn shit, dabble in vodou. I still have a deeply superstitious shamanistic side, sort of how people raised Catholic have a hard time shaking that whole sin concept. I see a fucking owl in daylight and my first thought isn't "Oh cute, an owl!" it's "Oh shit, is someone gonna die?"

I think Wicca, and Wiccans, are fucking stupid. All this shit is fucking stupid, and hilarious. I do it because it produces an altered mental state, much like drugs can, but it doesn't last as long as drugs and I'm a commitment-phobe.

That I think it's bullshit doesn't detract from my practice of magic at all. I don't mind that my belief that it's bullshit clashes with my belief that it's effective. What's a little metal discord?

Funny, that's what.

So Nigel, wanna energize some sigils together?

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Let me tell you in exquisite detail all about my meditation practice, my drug use, and how I masturbate. Also how often I get laid by how many people, and what a pimp I am.

I wouldn't actually mind that.

Enki-2,
is about to be killed by curiousity

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Let me tell you in exquisite detail all about my meditation practice, my drug use, and how I masturbate. Also how often I get laid by how many people, and what a pimp I am.

I wouldn't actually mind that.

Enki-2,
is about to be killed by curiousity

You should, you know, get out more.