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I suggest taking the battery out of a watch and using that as your timepiece. If the time of day really matters, set your watch to whatever you please and just leave it there. Foolproof. If you're worried about the moon, find a fancy watch with a moon-phase setting as well. Errata: Why do all the ch...

I'm with the Satanist on this one. This article is rubbish and Randi is a twat.

I always greet people by washing their feet whilst whistling The Lord's Prayer.

If some emaciated, pale, green headed teenager tried to kick me in the face for something I had said, I'd probably just laugh.

It's still quite slow here as well, but I was weened on a 2400 baud modem, so I can be patient.

Hermetic polarity-gazing is all fine and well sometimes, but there are other times that it simply doesn't make any sense. Love and hatred can quite easy be the poles of a spectrum, but when one is talking of the existential property of things it all falls apart. There is no happy contemplative mediu...

I don't understand why people feel so compelled to do awful shit just because they're able to. I think it's part of the moral relativism hangover, and it needs to be flushed away like so much excrement.

I used to be Big Black Boots exclusively, but then I moved to Las Vegas. Big Black Boots don't cut it in the Mojave.

As for your subject disappearance, that happened to one of my posts this morning!

Whew. I thought I was starting to lose it.

(and I don't have much left to lose!)

It shouldn't surprise me that this exists, yet it did.

And yeah. My shoes are off.

Birks, actually. I'm a bit of a hippie.

I'd just like to add one thing, which is simply that Chaos magic is a very good vehicle to learn about lots of new and different things. When I was using it in the way that you describe "I can do this so I will" (very apt description, I might add), I did so because of I was internally shif...

You have an extraordinarily base understanding of the Bible if you see it as some sort of easy to understand rulebook. Perhaps you should take five seconds to Google things that you're ignorant of before spreading childish dogmas in public forums. Allow me: http://www.google.com/search?q=Bible+esote...

The only thing strange about Exorcist 3 was how awful it was!

EDIT: Not at all sure what happened to the title. Hmm. http://books.google.com/books?id=QOdgAAAAIAAJ&ots=YyINDs8CfH&dq=Demonology%20and%20devil-lore&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q=&f=false Started reading this a few days ago and it's brilliant. There's something about Victorian scientific/et...

Your dogmatic adherence to the "nothing is true" saying is every bit as hilarious as my own crummy flavor of chaos. What you're suggesting, in essence, is that this "nothing is true" thing is true. Do you not see that? Can you not see the inherent logical problem therein? Are you...

I think we should get some cut of the advertising revenue. ;) I do think that you're absolutely right about exploration being a darned good road, but don't you think that after a while most people find a niche that works and settle down a bit? Maybe it's because of the rather strange last decade tha...

Ah! Common ground has been struck! Balance is awesome.

That's about the fifth time I've seen you talking about Outside The Comfort Zone being a necessary component of spirituality. I don't see any necessary reason why this should be the case. Perhaps you could explain it. EDIT: This post sounds kinda rude and snide, and I didn't mean it to sound that wa...

If the mage chooses to see Jesus Christ as a protective figure, I see no particularly good reason to discount the invocation of his name as an effective guard against energies that that individual would not like to do business with.

I spent about a decade of my life living overseas, pretty much constantly on the move. At some point, living outside of one's comfort zone can become a comfort zone in and of itself. When I finally got married and bought a house, it was a radically new experience for me. I see no particularly compel...

Well that's all I'm saying, then. Just as Christians can share some underlying belief (God, Jesus, etc.) and still manage to be critical of their own tradition, so too does it seem possible that shamans could hold onto their underlying belief (the Earth Mother is awesome), without giving it a second...

That's officially the last time I ever type anything sarcastic into this forum, ever.

I wouldn't disagree, necessarily. But when you say something along the lines of "only the individual can create his or her own reality", this is, so far as I'm concerned, "truth". Perhaps it's worth taking a moment to define what truth is. I would say that it's something along th...

I was simply using the word orthodox to mean following certain established traditions and/or beliefs as regards an individual's understanding of ultimate reality. I don't believe for a moment that shamanic paths don't have some sort of generalized orthodoxy behind them. I would find it very hard to ...

I don't deny that people often put meanings onto words that don't have anything to do with what the word means, but I do think it's funny that a orthodox Catholic parishoner is necessarily religious while an orthodox Shaman would be necessarily spiritual, with the subtext being that Catholics are sh...

The whole "walking in circles" things sounds like a very nice inside for a greeting card or motivational coffee mug, but it's completely illogical. If you're given three choices - forward, left or right, choosing forward and either left or right is the only way to eliminate the possibility...