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Tias posted:So the parliament of world religions was just held in Toronto, and I'm happy to say Heathens Against Hate (of which my blót guild is a signatory) came and held a baller lecture on inclusive heathenry! That's Diane Paxton! I met her at Sirius Rising in 2015 and she seemed pretty rad. I was at the Parliament as a performer in the Egyptian ritual play and it was a hella good time.
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HEY GUNS posted:hegel grimoire trip report number 3: the lesser key of solomon. I know a guy who's doing a re-work of Ars Notoria with the actual artwork, which is pretty amazing. All the goetes I know are pretty hardcore and here I am just having done two experiments with Drawing Spirits Into Crystals. Sachiel is a total bro, yo.
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), and what nobody says is that it teaches you how to summon infernal spirits (usually evil), spirits of the air (good or evil), and angels of the planets, hours, and zodiac (good)...who will teach you the kinds of things you learn in college. Astronomy, liberal arts, rhetoric, ethics, medicine, law.
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Mad Hamish posted:two experiments with Drawing Spirits Into Crystals.
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HEY GUNS posted:so what's it for, for you? so you can stare at them? Generally speaking, with conjurations you're either asking them to give you information or do favours of some sort for you.
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HEY GUNS posted:hegel grimoire trip report number 3: the lesser key of solomon. I mean it beats taking out student loans.
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Freudian posted:I mean it beats taking out student loans. abaddon university, one-on-one instruction from qualified professionals in the privacy of your own summoning circle
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HEY GUNS posted:hegel grimoire trip report number 3: the lesser key of solomon. When I was a senior in high school we had to do a research project and being a weirdo into weird things I chose the Lesser Key of Solomon and my teacher totally ran with it and helped me learn how to research that kind of literature. She was the best, I purposely sat directly in front of her desk in class because she had a habit of talking poo poo and naming names when she was grading.
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HEY GUNS posted:from reddit today: A very succinct answer to the earlier issue of "why do so many self-identified 'religious people' care so deeply about LGBT issues that don't affect them in any way."
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Mad Hamish posted:I know a guy who's doing a re-work of Ars Notoria with the actual artwork, which is pretty amazing. I’m interested in hearing more about what you mean by hardcore. From my perspective, which is extremely limited, drawing spirits seems pretty hardcore. If you’re not supposed to tell, no worries. My favorite part of this thread is hearing from so many different spiritualities. Feels like travel.
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I’m Catholic by blood and my god has my upbringing reinforced my beliefs. The amount of poo poo I’ve got from these loving Protestants denigrating my faith is something I will never reconcile.
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It’s gotten to the point where I genuinely hate Protestants
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sponges posted:It’s gotten to the point where I genuinely hate Protestants As a Protestant, I'd like to be the first to welcome you to the thread. 
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sponges posted:It’s gotten to the point where I genuinely hate Protestants those drat prots  one of my best friends in undergrad would unironically rant about the prots and I would gently point out that this is a Lutheran college lol Pellisworth fucked around with this message at 05:36 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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sponges posted:It’s gotten to the point where I genuinely hate Protestants Got tired of looking in the mirror, eh? https://i.imgur.com/mBGOjWG.mp4
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Mad Hamish posted:That's Diane Paxton! I met her at Sirius Rising in 2015 and she seemed pretty rad. She's hella cool! I can't say I've met her, but she's definitely a radical heathen  The picture is of her leading a sumbel/symbel to the ancestors at the parliament the 2nd of November.
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sponges posted:I’m Catholic by blood and my god has my upbringing reinforced my beliefs. The amount welcome to silly hats thread
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GreyjoyBastard posted:qualified professionals 
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I'd chat with the person who drew that.
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PT6A posted:A very succinct answer to the earlier issue of "why do so many self-identified 'religious people' care so deeply about LGBT issues that don't affect them in any way." HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 10:07 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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Caufman posted:I'd chat with the person who drew that. The STEMLords Of Hell
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https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news...-20181122179737 Did Tias write this? Mr Enderby fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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I would if I had thought of it! I frolic too little, now that I think about it
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too cold to frolic atm
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/weedy southernsay I only close my window when there's snow on my feet.
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fuuuuuck i get under the blankets in sept and i don't come out till april
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HEY GUNS posted:fuuuuuck I used to love the cold but it seems like with each passing year my tolerance to cold gets smaller and smaller. Snow silence is still Best Silence, though.
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I on the other hand have opened the sliding glass doors to the porch to let that 65 degree air in, relishing the two or three weeks of the year when it's this cold where I am. https://i.imgur.com/JNUBUaH.mp4
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I love cold weather, and wish England got colder in winter. It snowed quite heavily in London last year, and late at night I wrapped myself in my big overcoat, put a bottle of rum in my pocket, and jumped the chained gates of a nearby park. I found a bench sheltered by a ceder, and sat staring through fast-falling snow surrounded by a vibrating silence. After what felt like maybe ten minutes, I glanced at my watch, and saw that about an hour and a half had slipped by. That was one of the times in my life when I really experienced a taste of the numinous. Obviously the rum might have been a factor.
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You could pray to a saint, but the really famous ones probably have a huge backlog. Getting on one of those lists is like getting seats at the latest famous restaurant. So instead, you could pray to some dude. (one of the Orthodox versions of this is that if st Phanourios grants your prayer you have to bake a cake and pray for his mom) HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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ThePopeOfFun posted:I’m interested in hearing more about what you mean by hardcore. From my perspective, which is extremely limited, drawing spirits seems pretty hardcore. If you’re not supposed to tell, no worries. Oh, they just go whole hog into it. Brazen vessel, belt of lionskin, all the lamens and stuff, Strong Opinions on Mathers VS. Peterson VS. Skinner, the whole thing. It's very cool and impressive and honestly I think it's just way too much work. This isn't something I can't talk about because it's secret, I don't think I should talk as though I'm an expert because it's just not something I do. Goetia is hard work and I'm lazy. Wicca is way more my speed. There's much less ritual fasting and abstinence, most of the time.
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sponges posted:I’m Catholic by blood and my god has my upbringing reinforced my beliefs. The amount I'm surprised, from the same sort of background, I ended up being extremely leery of Catholics. The worst I ever got out of a mainline Protestant was aggressively friendly handshakes and a surfeit of hot dish. Liquid Communism fucked around with this message at 23:59 on Nov 22, 2018 |
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As always, I think it really depends where you are. I’ve heard pastors not so subtly imply Catholicism will put you in hell, because you know, works. Most people I know now are interested in Ecumenicism.
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Most of the churches around here still unironically pass out chick tracts
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It’s hard for me to knock tracts too much because one converted my father in the 70’s. He was hitchhiking, likely high, and frightened the woman who picked him up in her limo. She kicked him out, gave him a tract, and he was somehow converted.
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Religion thread, I come seeking an answer to something that's been on my mind off and on over the years but I really want to ask somebody this who actually has a working knowledge of theology, philosophy, all that good stuff I try to study but y dumb brain and attention span keeps me from learning properly. Is suffering more powerful than happiness? I have a hypothetical in mind to try and get my meaning across. There are ten starving people and I can give food to nine of them. For whatever reason, I just have nothing left for the tenth person. Now, I've done good according to my ideas of good. The world is a better place for those nine people no longer suffering. But I can't feel any accomplishment because of that tenth person. One out of ten and yet their plight is so much more powerful than the contentment of the other nine. Even if you could wave a wand and make most every human being on Earth happy, could we enjoy the happiness knowing that others are still in misery? Just been in a bit of a nihilistic "what is it all for" streak lately. I don't think I want to be but alternatives are hard.
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I have not studied those good things. But I look at it like - I can make the world better, but I can't make it all the way better. That would take everyone. I'm not that important.
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HopperUK posted:I have not studied those good things. But I look at it like - I can make the world better, but I can't make it all the way better. That would take everyone. I'm not that important. Same. The fact that I can't solve all the world's problems doesn't stop me from solving the ones I can. It's a collective effort - we all do what we can and try to fill the gaps left by others. We try to emulate God while being painfully aware that we're not God and can't do it all.
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Liquid Communism posted:hot dish. speaking of, as a mod can you unprobate Luthah Mahtin? he's probed for an insane # of hours which has to be some kind of mistake
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HEY GUNS posted:everyone in this thread is from the upper midwest Speak for yourself, I'm from the Deep South (my mom's side of the family is from Illinois, though), Florida born and raised. My dad's side of the family first came to Florida when it was a Spanish territory - they were Danish Catholics who felt pressured to flee Denmark for their faith, according to the family legend. https://i.imgur.com/Ssp9Ffl.mp4
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