Well… Egregor is definitely the right track. It keeps paying dividends.

Well… Egregor is definitely the right track. It keeps paying dividends.

My BFF gave me the term Biblicism when I actually tried, you know, asking him as a trained Minister a bit about my beliefs.

Biblicism was definitely NOT the correct term itself but it lead me right to Egregor, Semiotic Ghosts, and Concept Drift which definitely ARE the right area if not the exact terms.

Having gotten the term, like 2 weeks ago. I am having for like the third or maybe even fourth time the reaction of, that’s the closest thing I’ve ever seen written out to what is my personal faith.

Sadly, the prior ones have definitely been Western Esoteric tradition, which… how do I put this… I find the Western Esoteric traditions neat, powerful, useful BUT I wouldn’t want them as any kind of basis for a faith. There’s such an element of ASSHOLE in them. I know to some degree it’s a metaphor. But, in all fairness, to some degree it is not and there is just this undercurrent of elitist dickishness.

But here it is out of Wicca.

And it’s closer. Getting close enough that I am going to start stalking her work.

Though then the question will be am I actually Wicca :/ which I don’t think I am. That might make me uncomfortable, too, for entirely different reasons. But who knows. At least Wicca are decent people for the most part in my experience.

It’s very weird to have been stymied around faith and religion for, I dunno, 30+ years, and then to suddenly make a rush of headway.

XD

I guess the lesson is to actually talk to a “priest” when you’re having spiritual ishes. XD.

As Yoda put it, “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” Or rather, “luminous beings are…

As Yoda put it, “Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.” Or rather, “luminous beings are we, and this crude matter.”

— Sable Aradia, The Special Nature Of Humanity: How Atheist Paganism And Polytheism Can Both Be True At Once

I did change “and” from italics to bold since italics isn’t available in quote formatting. Mostly though, I just quite like this quote.

That is pretty amazingly blatant. And so… stupid-cruel. Ugh.

philosopherking1887:

“…the Israelis were then detained for two hours and upon being released, the same officer told them, ‘They had to make sure that you are not going to do what you are doing in Gaza over here,’ referring to the military offensive Israel launched against Hamas following the October 7 atrocities.”

What the ever-living fuck? Did the border officers think they were like… a two-person army that was carrying travel-size tanks and explosives? Or that ordinary Israelis go around killing random Arabs/Palestinians in foreign countries? Talk about projective inversion – that’s something that Jews, and especially Israelis, actually do have to worry about when they travel abroad…

That is pretty amazingly blatant. And so… stupid-cruel. Ugh.

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