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Would you have posted this in a article about digitized christian bibles?
No, because one built a civilization and the other is actual nonsense
The Bible may be the deadliest book ever written. It certainly built a thriving civilization, but it came at a cost.
Along those lines, though, this: https://www.veradekok.nl/en/2015/08/introducing-the-dememori...
will let you download full page images. and I think this: https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify/issues/209
Should work, also. I don't know Dutch law, but I would think books this old would have to be public domain.
I could never figure out the attraction of all this occult nonsense. If it works go empirically prove it, if not just cut our the wishy-washy BS involving the waving around of swords, casting spells or spelling magic with a 'k'.
Anybody find a license for their online catalogue? Searching for license found one "resultaten" that was a link that 404's, and no hits for "licentie." Along those lines, though, this: https://www.veradekok.nl/en/2015/08/introducing-the-dememori... will let you download full page images. and I think this: https://github.com/lovasoa/dezoomify/issues/209 Should work, also. I don't know Dutch law, but I would think book…
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I hope it was trained on Army of Darkness and can never actually say the words.
In case you don't know this, the words in Army of Darkness are actually from "the day the earth still". It's one of my favorite things when tiny ideas (memes, in the original meaning) keep propagating. The Necronomicon itself being one of the most successful ones. https://youtu.be/v2vHJU_rFps?si=XKsY0IJFywxgM7ht
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Not perceptibly. In any case nothing in European esotericism has value save as a desperately confounded depiction of the sociosexual politics of its moment, and/or if you want to fail at becoming Rasputin. The Egyptians had the right of this one, so simply and straightforwardly that it really does take a proto-CIA, Ollie North ass fuckup like John Dee to confuse it again. But those who can fall for that kind of charl…
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I could never figure out the attraction of all this occult nonsense. If it works go empirically prove it, if not just cut our the wishy-washy BS involving the waving around of swords, casting spells or spelling magic with a 'k'.
Go prove the string theory. (Or the general relativity that toon decades to have an answer)
Occult is nonsense, if it does the kind of manipulation of reality it's supposed to do, then go prove it.
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Sounds fascinating. Did you do that full time? What did you get out of it?
Not full-time. I mostly switched around school, weekends, and library trips. I hadn’t really stopped to ask what I “got” from it until your question—so thanks for this! At the time it wasn’t about extracting any value; it was the adventure of exploration and the hope of recovering something “lost.” I didn’t find anything hidden. In hindsight, the real payoff was realizing there isn’t a secret doctrine behind it all:…
I wonder if the occult authors would today be releasing their texts on drivethrurpg.com!
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All life also defecates, intelligent or otherwise. Curious how no one hastens to canonize that for its ubiquity.
There's a fair bit of defecation in the Bible. Saul shitting in a cave, I forgot where, or Paul calling all material things 'skubala', i.e. waste, as in junk, poop, refuse, basically what we'd call shit today: https://www.greekbible.com/philippians/3/8 Edit: This also seems like a decent opportunity to bring up the scatological Luther. https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/summer-2012-americ...
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All life also defecates, intelligent or otherwise. Curious how no one hastens to canonize that for its ubiquity.
/offtopic I don't know why but your comment made me remember a novel[1] I read thirty-some years ago about a temple found deep in the sand of the Sahara desert. Sometime later, an archeologist gave himself permission to defecate in a corner of the temple, only for his wastes to be absorbed by the temple in a few hours, which told him the temple was actually a living biological structure. 1: https://www.daliaf.com/oeu…
As one who has had occasion to tidy up after wasps who were little accustomed, though palpably interested, quite so closely to share human habitation, you make me wish I read French. Do you happen by chance to know if the work has had a worthy English translation?