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Reality is just what the filters in your brain create out of the chaos that surrounds us. Reprogram those filters, and you create a different reality. If you know how to reprogram your brain, that's magick.

Well, it DOES work, but never the way you want it to. If you're good, it works the way you need it.

BTW, Bella, nice new avatar. Haven't been to PD for far too long.

Thanks, Caramac. Where ya been?

And you're right about the magic (hopefully) working the way you need it to, as opposed to how you wanted it to work.
I like that statement so much that I just stole it.  

Oh, I don't believe in intellectual property, anyway. I don't even really believe in physical property.

Well, I'm mostly at my gf's place, and she hasn't got DSL or cable...

Well, it DOES work, but never the way you want it to. If you're good, it works the way you need it.

BTW, Bella, nice new avatar. Haven't been to PD for far too long.

I thought the planet was called "Rupert" or so.

Dear Bella,

I have this new boy slave. Unfortunately, he isn't circumcised, and I got myself a DIY circumcision kit. Now the bloody slave is always trying to get away from me when I want to circumcise him. What can I do?

isn't Hakim Bey one of Robert Anton Wilson's many pseudonyms?

Nobody really knows who Hakim Bey is. It doesn't really matter. I like some of his T.A.Z. ideas.

Oh, by the way, there's a Metallica-styled truetype font called "Pastor of Muppets"... I find that name rather funny.

Some headline in German, from the BILD-Zeitung:

Eichel bleibt hart

I can explain it later on, if EvT doesn't do it.

Guy: "So, what do you like to do for fun?"
Chick: "Well, I'm into cosplay."
Guy: "You're into what?"

Fade to black.

WTF?


I dressed up at Hello Kitty, does that count as Cosplay?

I like being ODD, and nobody is going to take that away from me!

Aleister Crowley started the A.?.A.?., I think... not the O.T.O., that one was started by some German occultists.

Well, let me tell you a story about The Truth. Imagine there's a large black room, completely pitch black like a tar pit, no light at all, and there's all sorts of people stumbling about in there. Now some people claim there must be a black cat in that room somewhere, and they call that cat The Truth. The room is filled with all kinds of small furry animals, and some of them seem to be cats, but it is too dark to see whether one of them is black - maybe they're all black, maybe there is not a single black cat at all, or maybe some are black and some aren't.
Despite of these facts, most people still believe that there is exactly one black cat - The Truth - and that it can be found, somehow. Now some people manage to get hold of one of those small furry creatures, and they claim that they have found the truth and gather followers around them. Some of those creatures aren't even cats, and only lunatics believe they are The Truth, but some creatures are cats, and they have lots of followers who all believe that their cat is the only black one, starting wars against the followers of other cats...

Reality does exist, but there are several levels of reality, like the layers of an onion, and only the most fundamental layer, the physical realm, can't be completely remodelled by the will. All the layers above that physical level can be changed, and the further up they are, the easier it gets, and those changes will eventually affect the physical level as well.
For example, look at the layer of pure ideas. Let's say you want to spread a certain way of thinking, so you invent some kind of ritual that makes it more likely for you to think that way, and you teach other people to perform that ritual, who in turn teach it to others. After a while, even people who never took part in that ritual will inevitably be affected by that special way of thinking, and some of the ideas that spring from it will pop up in hundreds of minds at once. People will also start to act in a different way, dispersing the original investment of energy from the level of pure ideas to the level of social reality, and after a while, this will also reach the physical level, so that in the end, the whole of reality has been changed. That, basically, is what occult orders do - create rituals to establish a bubble of alternative reality, first only on the mental level, then also on the social, and in the end on the physical.

Well, back to slavery: We are only slaves to Fear. I you are a slave to Fear, you will never 'Do what Thou wilt', because you are afraid of the consequences. Once you are able to face any consequences without obeying Fear (you may listen to what Fear is trying to tell you, but don't let him possess you), you are absolutely free. If you really want to do it, do it. If it might kill you in the end, try not to get killed, but if it happens, you die a free human being.

What does Fahrvergn¬?gen mean?

Does "the joy of driving" ring a bell?

I love star fruit!
And I also love apples, especially Granny Smith and Golden Delicious...