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Chaos Magic

I think what hes posting is legitimately his POV; its just that hes using the wrong communication methods with the wrong crowd.

[Limbo, if you're reading this, I suggest you adapt your language to fit your audience's mode of thinking ;) ]


What mode of thinking is that?
 
Then I suggest you make a sigil to that end, charge it, and set it off. Then wait. If you can keep yourself from getting in your own way, then maybe you will receive a boon that shows you how screwed up your understanding of consciousness is.

After I make the sigil am I going to have to eat a frog or something like that. Please tell be up front 'cause I ain't riding anymore goats in the dark.
 
Don't you get it? Anything I say to you or link you to as an example will only go in one ear and out the other. If you are to have a paradigm shift, you need to see the light for yourself. But, that means getting out of your own way.

If one can't grab a hold of their own paradigm and wrestle control of it long enough to charge a sigil, then one is a slave to it.

Dude, I worked the paradigm shift at the fantasy factory before you were born.
 
My original statement was that the subjective and the objective are two interdependent aspects of reality. Subjects are objectively real and objects are subjectively sensible.

I'm not sure what you mean by "subjectively sensible". Do you mean that we can sense them? By ourselves? If so then, say, electrons aren't subjectively sensible.

I think we can agree that brains and physical universes that are not observable do not exist.

No, I don't think we can agree on that, if you mean what I think you mean. If there are regions of the universe which are beyond our observation and the observation of any other life forms which may exist in the universe, then I would contend that that universe still exists, even though nobody would know of it.

No evidence that YOU have personally experienced. You're taking the claims of other people that there is no evidence on faith. I've communicated and interacted with conscious entities that did not have material brains -- at least none that were present during our interactions. I've all the evidence -I- need to convince me of the falsity of your "no evidence" hypothesis.

Then I'm back to where I started in this conversation - the untrustworthy nature of subjective experience and the proven track record of empiricism. Once more, science demonstrably works. Without question, it works. Spiritualism, or whatever you want to term what you're talking about, has never been demonstrated to work, and has never achieved anything palpable.

Then "spirits" without material bodies are not superstitions.

No, that logic doesn't follow, I'm afraid.

Yet I've gained objective veridical knowledge from such encounters. All I'm getting from you is hearsay that such things are not possible.

Actually, I'm citing any number of scientific studies into the working of the brain, not hearsay. What you've just presented me with is hearsay.

Still, if what you say is true and you can repeat this feat, then there's a million dollars waiting for you.

I mean the 'external' world that modern science currently studies is analogous to WoW and "souls"/"spirits" are analogous to the material bodies of the users. The bodies do not exist within the frame of the VR world so searching for them there or trying to explain them purely in terms of the physics of that world is a futile exercise.

On what are you basing this?

My point was just as how one can accumulate a body of scientific knowledge concerning the 'external' world thru our sensory organs one can also do the same for the 'interior' world via introspection -- i.e. studying consciousness from the 'inside'.

Yes. And, as I pointed out, and which you have thus far ignored, this hasn't been done. No such body of scientific knowledge exists, nor even a consensus about the spiritual. Why do you suppose this is, given that the spiritual has been around for thousands more years than science has?

Like I mentioned earlier, "supernatural" is just a relative term for anything that seems to operate outside the bounds of what one considers physically possible; like a slight of hand trick it violates an individual's sense of reality, only in a much more radical way. I, and many other people, have experienced things that, according to your conception of what is possible, should not be. To you those things are "supernatural" anecdotes. To me they are empirical proof that our scientific models of reality are woefully incomplete.

I think you're equivocating with the word "empirical", here.
 
I think what hes posting is legitimately his POV; its just that hes using the wrong communication methods with the wrong crowd.

[Limbo, if you're reading this, I suggest you adapt your language to fit your audience's mode of thinking ;) ]


What mode of thinking is that?

When they ask you for clarification use strait-forward language. They only interpret your attempts at evocation as you being a cryptic troll. You already have them in 'woo' stomping mode by using trigger words and phrases like "mystical", "paradigm shift", "magic", and "sigil". They aren't in the same poetic/mystical frame of mind as you are so you have to meet them where they are "on the ground", so to speak :-X
 
When they ask you for clarification use strait-forward language. They only interpret your attempts at evocation as you being a cryptic troll. You already have them in 'woo' stomping mode by using trigger words and phrases like "mystical", "paradigm shift", "magic", and "sigil". They aren't in the same poetic/mystical frame of mind as you are so you have to meet them where they are "on the ground", so to speak :-X


As a matter of principle I use the same language with people here as I would use anywhere. I use the same words whether I'm talking to a religious fundamentalist or a skeptic. I don't like that Sam Harris uses sanitized words just because someone can't swallow a word. I talk the way I talk to anyone I talk to, and if someone can't handle it for whatever reason, then they can always politely excuse themselves from talking to me...can't they? I would think so. They can just put me on ignore.
 
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When they ask you for clarification use strait-forward language. They only interpret your attempts at evocation as you being a cryptic troll. You already have them in 'woo' stomping mode by using trigger words and phrases like "mystical", "paradigm shift", "magic", and "sigil". They aren't in the same poetic/mystical frame of mind as you are so you have to meet them where they are "on the ground", so to speak :-X

Though Limbo ignored your request I think it was nicely put AkuManiMani. I will have to remember that for future use. I do get confused when I think we are talking about something factual and people start getting poetic in their language.
 
Though Limbo ignored your request I think it was nicely put AkuManiMani. I will have to remember that for future use. I do get confused when I think we are talking about something factual and people start getting poetic in their language.

Second this, and like to add that poetry is, pretty much by definition and design, imprecise and open to interpretation. Which doesn't do well in a discussion of fact and evidence.
 
Though Limbo ignored your request I think it was nicely put AkuManiMani. I will have to remember that for future use. I do get confused when I think we are talking about something factual and people start getting poetic in their language.


We are talking about something factual. We are talking about a system of magic that people actually practice. Part of that system are certain words, like 'paradigm shift' and 'sigil'. If you take them out and try to substitute something else to appease someone, then you aren't really talking about Chaos Magic anymore.

If someone just can't handle those words because of an intellectual allergy, then that someone should, in all politeness, excuse themselves from this thread.
 
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My original statement was that the subjective and the objective are two interdependent aspects of reality. Subjects are objectively real and objects are subjectively sensible.

I'm not sure what you mean by "subjectively sensible". Do you mean that we can sense them? By ourselves? If so then, say, electrons aren't subjectively sensible.

Our own biological equipment does not allow us the sensitivity to perceive individual electrons (or photons) unaided but they are still observable and subject to empirical study.

I think we can agree that brains and physical universes that are not observable do not exist.

No, I don't think we can agree on that, if you mean what I think you mean. If there are regions of the universe which are beyond our observation and the observation of any other life forms which may exist in the universe, then I would contend that that universe still exists, even though nobody would know of it.

Their reality rests upon them being observable in principle and in their interaction with the rest of reality that is being observed. We'll probably have to start another thread for this topic but I think one theory that kinda overlaps with what I'm trying to convey to you would be biocentrism.

No evidence that YOU have personally experienced. You're taking the claims of other people that there is no evidence on faith. I've communicated and interacted with conscious entities that did not have material brains -- at least none that were present during our interactions. I've all the evidence -I- need to convince me of the falsity of your "no evidence" hypothesis.

Then I'm back to where I started in this conversation - the untrustworthy nature of subjective experience and the proven track record of empiricism. Once more, science demonstrably works. Without question, it works. Spiritualism, or whatever you want to term what you're talking about, has never been demonstrated to work, and has never achieved anything palpable.

You're not getting what I'm saying. Empiricism is turning ones awareness toward external stimuli. Introspection is simply turning one's awareness 'inward'. The only difference between the two are the objects of observation. There IS no empiricism sans subjective experience. Period.

Then "spirits" without material bodies are not superstitions.

No, that logic doesn't follow, I'm afraid.

I've interacted with such entities just as I'm interacting with you now. The only difference is that my interactions with them have been much more direct than our correspondence on this web forum.


Yet I've gained objective veridical knowledge from such encounters. All I'm getting from you is hearsay that such things are not possible.

Actually, I'm citing any number of scientific studies into the working of the brain, not hearsay. What you've just presented me with is hearsay.

The studies you reference are not your own experiences. They are the conclusions other people have drawn about their experiences which they have reported and you put a degree of trust in. Your trust in their conclusions is not knowledge but a -belief- in propositions which you have not personally verified. Ergo, what you are claiming to me is hearsay, regardless of the veracity of the source.

Still, if what you say is true and you can repeat this feat, then there's a million dollars waiting for you.

How is being addressed by someone else a 'feat'? I didn't go thru some procedure to invoke the entities in question, they simply contacted me of their own accord; nor am I claiming any special powers, so how does the MDC factor into it?

I mean the 'external' world that modern science currently studies is analogous to WoW and "souls"/"spirits" are analogous to the material bodies of the users. The bodies do not exist within the frame of the VR world so searching for them there or trying to explain them purely in terms of the physics of that world is a futile exercise.

On what are you basing this?

A combination of my 'abnormal' experiences, my readings on current scientific understandings of the physical world (ranging from theoretical physics to biology), introspection, and my reflection upon those information sources to form my own conclusions.

My point was just as how one can accumulate a body of scientific knowledge concerning the 'external' world thru our sensory organs one can also do the same for the 'interior' world via introspection -- i.e. studying consciousness from the 'inside'.

Yes. And, as I pointed out, and which you have thus far ignored, this hasn't been done. No such body of scientific knowledge exists, nor even a consensus about the spiritual. Why do you suppose this is, given that the spiritual has been around for thousands more years than science has?

Dude, what do you think Buddhism is?

Like I mentioned earlier, "supernatural" is just a relative term for anything that seems to operate outside the bounds of what one considers physically possible; like a slight of hand trick it violates an individual's sense of reality, only in a much more radical way. I, and many other people, have experienced things that, according to your conception of what is possible, should not be. To you those things are "supernatural" anecdotes. To me they are empirical proof that our scientific models of reality are woefully incomplete.

I think you're equivocating with the word "empirical", here.

How have I misused used the term 'empirical'?
 
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We are talking about something factual. We are talking about a system of magic that people actually practice. Part of that system are certain words, like 'paradigm shift' and 'sigil'. If you take them out and try to substitute something else to appease someone, then you aren't really talking about Chaos Magic anymore.

If someone just can't handle those words because of an intellectual allergy, then that someone should, in all politeness, excuse themselves from this thread.

Bald assertion.

And stop telling people what threads they may or may not participate in.
 
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Bald assertion.

And stop telling people what threads they may or may not participate in.

What hes saying is that if you don't like his language and are unwilling to meet him where he is then you should politely excuse yourself from the discussion HE started instead of jeering and mocking. I think it is a reasonable request.
 
Yeah, but you aren't your average agnostic skeptic.

I believe that there are many people out there suffering in ways that you are not, and its due to the fact that a paradigm with no mysticism dominates modern culture. The result is rampant 'soul loss', to put it in shamanic terms.
Bugger the soul loss, what are we going to do about this tragic unicorn shortage?!
 
It was a spontaneous vision that happened some days after I achieved gnosis. I'm not good enough to have conscious control over it.

I'm sure there's a cure for that.
 
Limbo, the man who purposely makes as little sense as possible in order to draw out a thread that has at this point said nothing concrete. No need to thank me for the clarification.

Me, on the other hand am simply not doing what he wants ,which is for me to put a giant well thought out reply, to which he will reply with a cryptic grammatically anarchistic 2 line post. Then snicker because he made one of those uptight jref'ers waste time replying to him.

Once limbo starts putting actual content and effort into a post, i will reply in kind.

Neveh gonna' 'appen.
 
Yeah, but you aren't your average agnostic skeptic.

I believe that there are many people out there suffering in ways that you are not, and its due to the fact that a paradigm with no mysticism dominates modern culture. The result is rampant 'soul loss', to put it in shamanic terms.

I know there are people like you who are not hungry for spiritual food, and are tolerant of those who are. I have no problem with that. Its the people who are not hungry and are not tolerant of those who are that I have a problem with.

I agree, that's why I'm selling souls short.
 
What hes saying is that if you don't like his language and are unwilling to meet him where he is then you should politely excuse yourself from the discussion HE started instead of jeering and mocking. I think it is a reasonable request.
Don't care what you think.

ETA Sorry, that was a bit short. I understand what you're trying to say, but feel I may participate in this thread regardless, and don't need your permission.
 
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I think what hes posting is legitimately his POV; its just that hes using the wrong communication methods with the wrong crowd.

[Limbo, if you're reading this, I suggest you adapt your language to fit your audience's mode of thinking ;) ]

And so did i, but after repeated attempts to help and receiving his usual garbled mess of a post, i hit my head against a brick wall enough times to realize the wall wasn't moving anywhere.

There is a distinct difference between didn't pay attention in english class, and purposely content less and grammatically anarchistic for the purposes of wasting time. His posting style wouldn't fly anywhere, i can forgive spelling mistakes, or grammatical inconsistency. But this is well beyond that. Simply not making sense is not a style of posting that is looked highly upon anywhere. And not making sense in such a way to drag people along to wait for a point, is evidence of someone simply trying to yank some chains.
 

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