An Import of my Tumblr Blog
(courier5): apokalyptein/eskhatos
the concept of a(n) (end)point in time after which everything is different.
the singularity.
any apocalypse.
the revolution.
y2k.
2012.
presents vast issues when kept literal and external.
the only productive way to work with the thing is to internalize it.
the end of the world is really…
I hold this axiom of chaos magick to be self evident – magick should be performed to get results. Practicing rituals just to call oneself a magus seems an enormous waste of time and energy. The results a magus seeks can, however, be somewhat nebulous.
In fact, magick seems to work better with a wide target. Conjuring to obtain $500.00 tomorrow at noon will most likely result in failure. Performing a ritual to ensure the commercial success of a book you have just written stands a much better chance of succeeding.
It has become apparent to me that this may be where we separate the good magi from the mediocre. One needs to have a good sense of what magikal operations are worth doing.
I don’t have anything against sigil magick. I’ve used it myself, but I seem to have greater success using ritual magick. For whatever reason, my unconscious mind taps into the long and drawn out processes of the ritual. I also believe that ritual magi are better at raising gnosis due to the constant practices that ritual magick advocates.
Here’s where I am hitting a wall. I see the wisdom in taking the common rituals used by the Golden Dawn and Thelema, The Rituals of the Pentagram, The Hexagram, The Star Ruby, etc., and adapting them to my symbol system. I respect that magi in the past have had success with these practices. At the same time, I balk at performing any magick that does not seek some kind of result.
In all of my research, I have yet to find WHY ceremonial magi perform the Ritual of the Hexagram. WHY do Thelemites perform the Star Ruby? The Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram seems self evident as a basic exercise in raising gnosis and manipulating magikal energies, but they can’t all serve that same purpose? Can they?
I was wondering if one of my excellent tumbler followers could tell me, why do you perform these rituals? What are their purpose?
Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups… So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?
What sort of Christians allow their president to assassinate innocent citizens- or, even worse, cheer him on?
Why is it that America’s ‘domesticated clergy’ fail to even bat an eye as Obama assassinates people, breaking their Religion’s laws?
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
[Tumblr] rocks! Why? Because unlike Facebook, I have a clean slate. Instead of being associated with my name and my real life being, I am a newly founded pseudonym if I so choose. No one knows that page is mine except for the selective friends I may choose or ask to follow me. But Tumblr isn’t about seeing what my friends are up to. In fact, I know the creators of less than a handful of the dozens of blogs I follow. Because of this, it turns into a tool for discovery, following members of the community who share my interests versus my friends who can get boring seeing as, at least during the school year, I know what’s going on in their lives every day. But these bloggers, who live lives I don’t see first hand, are neat to read about; they voice opinions that I care about and are hard to find organized anywhere else in such a way, and they share new things that few of my friends know about (which is why I mostly reblog: passing along the things that I love).
An anonymous teenager on Quora explains why a parent’s “15-year old daughter wastes hours upon hours everyday mindlessly scrolling rapidly through her ‘endless’ tumblr stream.” Quora: How do teenagers waste hours upon hours consuming Tumblr?
FJP: Only thing we might add: it’s not just teenagers that spend hours endlessly scrolling.
(via futurejournalismproject)
I’m in my 30s, and I’m still on Facebook. I’ve never had a FB account under my real name though.
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
Facebook is about people. Tumblr is about ideas.
