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Joined March 2020
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Frater’s thread of unvetted takes that popped into my head. All working ideas, not an official take or whatever. Most of these were probably read in a book and just recalled without attribution. Not claiming novelty at all…just trying to think out loud more.
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Pray for peace but plan just in case ya don’t feel like leaving the property for a while.
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Assassination in the US and NASA announces life on mars. Somebody who’s better at astrology please tell me wtf is going on.
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The spirits of war, hate, numbness feel far too close to the surface these days. Stay safe friends. Find some love out there. It never leaves us even when the world tries to mask it.
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You know you’re married to a witch when a clear sky full of stars makes her horny
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A high animist thought: Assuming they are conscious, I think solid objects can focus their mass a bit to parts of their structure to let them fall oddly. Think ‘slipped out of your hand’, or when things land in some unexpected way.
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Someone better with charts than me can probably say why today was such a huge day for AI announcements. Multiple separate companies all announcing big news.
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This reminds me of spirit encounter logic. “Why did the spirit initially appear to me that way?”. This is a possible reason why.
This trivia from MUPPETS MOST WANTED is burned into my brain
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Gotta say @AustinRCoppock and @gordon_white couldn’t have called the beginning of the year better. Red herrings galore!
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Whoa! Diana Walsh Pasulka got on Rogan?? @HighersideChats
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Gotta respect that he went for it. Can’t trust any voice ya hear though.
I know what you're thinking but at least one gold rush in CA was started based on dream visions (The Oak of the Golden Dream)
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Biggest difference working for the megacorp vs a startup is that at a startup everyone internally is the harshest critic of the product. They enumerate and hate every flaw. Big tech is about default cheerleading your product no matter how bad and shrugging of flaws.
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Daamn. This @AlfaVedic logo is clean
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When times are at their worst in the wider world, the mountain brings me peace. I love this misty mountain I am blessed to live on.
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A true initiation is one where afterwards there is no going back. You can change again but you will never be able to be the same person you were before the initiation.
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Fatherhood and marriage have been two for me, I think any occult practices we call initiation must pass the same test or they are not an initiation. I find most do not pass this test. Encountering a real spirit however…sure did!
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Got a book coming out soon on 19th-century psychiatry & the supernatural. Surfing Twitter/the news these days & seeing USA & UK right wing conspiracy stuff I think, yep, they would be in an asylum by 19th-century criteria of insanity. How things change...
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What’s everyone’s take on why exorcisms work in multiple religions? All the ones I know of make appeals to authority as part of the practice but what’s a framework for how there can be so many authorities?
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AKA Frater’s stumbling blocks with an trying to hold an animist world view.
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Reincarnation is the most important concept to adopt for life satisfaction. Thinking you have only one life can easily doom spiral someone into seeing the world as unfair and awful.
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Unapologetic believer in a soul school model for why we are here. But I think all of life is learning soooo that’s a pretty vague answer on my part.
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