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Show posts MenuQuote from: Q. G. Pennyworth on September 13, 2014, 10:38:09 PMNo such newsletter exists yet. I will consider making one.Quote from: nonheroick on September 13, 2014, 05:52:44 PM
I, myself, have spent a long time struggling with the balance between disassociating and creating my own reality. I have a mild form of schizophrenia, and from a young age disassociated very heavily, causing myself to do many actions that I myself did not feel in control of. Once I realized that I did have control over my actions, and that I had control over the thoughts that I had in my head, I went in the opposite direction and began feeling like reality controlled ME.
In the past few years, I came to realize that reality is somewhere in-between subjective and objective. Chaos is around us always, always throwing unexpected events in our way, but we have the power to control them through our thoughts and how we see the world. However, believing that we can completely take over reality and change it is where some pass over from wisdom to lunacy. This is usually characterized by (in my own experience) feeling that nothing is real, or solid; letting entire hours pass by staring at the wall or ceiling without any sort of gnosis/intention; an inflated ego which believes that i can pass through walls or make miraculous jumps off of buildings unharmed.
I guess the moral of the story is root yourself in reality first before you make any adventures creating your own reality. However, these roots should be growing and rapidly absorbing, not stagnant like stone stakes.
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Quote from: MasterBlaster on September 13, 2014, 08:30:21 PMPrecisely. And this can not be done aimlessly. Or else you may fall into the trap of believing you are more powerful than you really are. There's a reason that they say one "goes mad" with power.Quote from: The Johnny on September 13, 2014, 08:26:09 PM
The only ways to "change reality" is either thru a change in the interpretation of the meaning of it or thru taking action.
Both can be seen as basically the same, e.g., in practical occultism (magic(k)).
Quote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 06, 2014, 09:42:03 PM19-year-old philosophy major? He doesn't happen to be a Subgenius...? I know one of those.Quote from: Cainad (dec.) on September 06, 2014, 07:56:13 PMQuote from: The Right Reverend Nigel on September 06, 2014, 05:25:29 AM
Yyyyeeeahhhh. And right now there's some precious little twat in Partially Examined Life or whatever it's called, trying to proclaim that because in HIS personal experience and intuition "bitch" is no longer primarily leveed against women, it wasn't a gender-based slur.
I think I made this point before, but when "bitch" is used against a woman, it's usually a reaction to some perceived unfeminine quality (aggressiveness, assertiveness, generally not being sweet and accommodating). When a man is called a "bitch" it's to insult him for being a pushover or a whiner, i.e. "unmanly."
Yeah, it's kind of misogynistic either way that it's being used.
This kid in the group, he seems like a 19-year-old philosophy major.