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How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils

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Re: How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils

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Recommended contemporary occultists(demonic/dark magic practitioners) and their works: EA Koetting (founder of BALG, 9 demonic gatekeepers) Konstantinos (Nocturnal Witchcraft) Somnus Dreadwood (Maergzjiran Cabal founder) Kurtis Joseph (Black Magick of Ahriman) Mark Alan Smith (Primal Craft books) S. Connolly (The Complete Book of Demonolatry) Asenath Mason (deals with Qliphotic magic) NAA 218 (unknown author, created…

Please please please for God's sake stay away from this stuff. It will steal your mind and your soul. This isn't something one can innocently dabble with. Turn to God instead, He will hear you.

// Catholic ex-occultist

Re: How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils

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Research demonology: have computers casting summons over fractal fragments looking for any whose phone numbers we don't already know. cf the works of Charlie Stross Perhaps that pokemon game had more in it than we thought...

Please explain? Are you talking about dwave?

Charlie Stross is an author (and occasional poster here) who has a series collectively known as “The Laundry Files” in which magic can be performed by computers as well as by humans, by having the computers perform specific calculations.

Re: How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils

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Research demonology: have computers casting summons over fractal fragments looking for any whose phone numbers we don't already know. cf the works of Charlie Stross Perhaps that pokemon game had more in it than we thought...

I already have quite a few daemons in my PC. I communicate with them using launchd.

Re: How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils

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Research demonology: have computers casting summons over fractal fragments looking for any whose phone numbers we don't already know. cf the works of Charlie Stross Perhaps that pokemon game had more in it than we thought...

You might like Scott Alexander's Unsong, freely available online. On the grounds of Yudkowsky's HPMOR, you could be excused for expecting fiction by rationalists to be generally terrible, and it is; Unsong is the exception, and proves if nothing else that Alexander missed his calling.

Re: How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils

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Notes for those planning to sell your soul online: eBay specifically prohibits such transactions. [1] Compared to some online bans, the reasoning is pleasingly coherent. eBay does not allow the auctioning of human souls for the following reasons: If the soul does not exist, eBay could not allow the auctioning of the soul because there would be nothing to sell. However, if the soul does exist then, in accordance with…

To this day, constructive mathematicians at eBay are trying to close the remaining loophole in the ban's reasoning

Re: How to summon and sell your soul to Satan and other devils

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Research demonology: have computers casting summons over fractal fragments looking for any whose phone numbers we don't already know. cf the works of Charlie Stross Perhaps that pokemon game had more in it than we thought...

Please explain? Are you talking about dwave?

if you mean these folks [1], then no; I think that falls under divination. I was thinking more about the graphical sigils; but there's surely other attractive signatures that could be found computationally, right?

More practical: synthesize sounds and play them in a garden, with some cameras and vision software to count insects attracted, perhaps classify by type. Add some seeking function and you might make a mechanical pied piper for pests.

Surely thats only an analogy. Cicadas are not actually demons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems

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