occultist_throw

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by occultist_throw 10y ago
> Do you have any evidence to suggest the phenomenon of consciousness is (or is not) isolated to the brain? (Existence of human spirits, natural spirits, that sort) You're not going to get material evidence. Anyone who can is proba
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by occultist_throw 10y ago
That's hard to say. I've trained myself to be sensitive to different types of energies (or whatever they really are). But my spells are to manipulate these energies in ways I wish teem to be. For example, I felt 'malice'
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by occultist_throw 10y ago
Chaos magic is weird, but does make sense. Chaos magic starts with the idea that magic is real, but all other systems are mired in religious trappings and pointless ritual. The goal here, is to discern the underlying actions and isolate the
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by occultist_throw 10y ago
If anybody would be interested in the esoteric side (and not just the physical doings), I'd be happy to oblige... well, as long as the rate-limiter is turned down. (as an aside.. it's strange to start seeing quite an upturn on mys
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by occultist_throw 10y ago
That wasn't my original intent, no. I already have a HN account with a few thousand karma. What I needed was to be able to comment without tying it to my main username.
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by occultist_throw 10y ago
> But also we sometimes correlate things that aren't necessarily correlated because we are just walking talking shitting correlation machines and it's what we do. Heh :) I don't quite attribute humans to a complicated form
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by occultist_throw 10y ago
I had considered that to be a plausible avenue - that it was all just in my head. Indeed, I could just be self-selecting phenomenon that I've done as proof that something else exists. The key out of this mind-trap is unbiased 3rd parti
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by occultist_throw 10y ago
How.. beautiful. Like I said earlier in the "half-dead chicken thread", the occult is a quiet and powerful force in computer science and related areas. With things like neural networks and learning functions, we're approachin
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by occultist_throw 10y ago
> From my viewpoint, the practitioners have all but secluded themselves for the time being, away from all public scrutiny. Very seldom do I hear of them mentioned, and of those very few are intelligent. They still are out there, but most
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by occultist_throw 10y ago
Ive always found in the quieter parts of Silicon Valley and areas, there does exist a merge between the technological and something else. I've seen this something else be called luck, magic, parapsychology.. Many names. But I've a