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3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online

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Re: 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online

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Post by mcguire »

api wrote: post #77
IntronExon wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would certainly explain why nobody has found Satoshi! He was just a tool of Cthulhu and his cultists to increase the rate of dissipation. At some critical juncture the total entropy of the system will be sufficient to allow invasion of our reality by tentacular horrors. Maybe...

Maybe SHA-256 itself encodes a complex ritual for summoning the old ones. Bitcoin ASICs are effectively performing this ritual billions upon billions of times per second, gradually drawing the Old Ones closer and closer...

Towers of Hanoi, anyone?

Re: 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online

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Post by xaedes »

vivekd wrote: post #42

> “pre-1900 texts on alchemy, astrology, magic, and theosophy, I don't understand, what's really the use of any of this stuff except for their insight into history and as precursors to science. There's no way any of this stuff has any meaningful application today. I also don't understand how anyone can find this stuff interesting, they're often boring, hard to read, and filled with obviously erroneous information

Suppose you have a occult theory of the world that tries to explain certain observations with its own words and structuring of the universe.

It may be outdated and its system doesn't fit every observation we made since.

But still, if there is some inherent structure we can exploit this system to get another view and new ideas that we then can try to formulate in a modern way. That supposed occult theory can lead to new hypotheses that we can test / try to falsify.

Maybe this isn't fruitful, but it certainly could be.

Re: 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

anigbrowl wrote: post #34
couchdive wrote: post #11

Aleister Crowley is dancing a jig

Incidentally he's been dead long enough that his works fell into the public domain this last new year. So you don't have to pay Gerald Suster or whatever Thelemite fork that last had the copyrights any more.

He never really wanted his books to be under copyright in any case, so I'm OK with that. I think it was the OTO who last had the copyright, sadly (as those people seem pretty wack).

Re: 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online

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Post by yesbabyyes »

jerf wrote: post #27
mcguire wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You may think you're kidding, but modern technology stacks have gotten so complicated and entangled that mystical troubleshooting is the routine solution. Not working? Reboot it. For all I know, the phase of Saturn (as calculated by some library down in the framework) does affect Kubernetes.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/P/phase-of-the-moon.html

Also: A Story About 'Magic'

http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html

Re: 3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online

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Post by PaulWillis »

andrepd wrote: post #43
krapp wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>His sex magick informs a lot of the modern incel, red-pill, and proud boy ideas that you must refrain from "spilling your seed"—that your reproductive emissions contain some of your essential energy. The result being that you have to abstain or otherwise be reduced to a plodding pile of unenlightened goo (to give the idea some imagery). As someone who appreciates occult and pagan symbolism for the aesthetic and narr…

Tolkien agrees with you: "No one ever calls on me to "broadcast" or do a postscript. Yet I suppose I know better than most what is the truth about this "Nordic" nonsense. Anyway, I have in this war a burning private grudge... against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler ... Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ev…

Wasn't Tolkien a Christian? Close friend of C.S. Lewis.
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