chaosgarden:

Chaos Magic: The Misunderstood Path

By Andrieh Vitimus

(who also happens to be in our group Chaote Theory and Perspective)

Recently at a pagan festival, I heard someone say, “I don’t do chaos magic, because I like being a friend to the trees and animals.” This was an elder of the…

noam-chomsky:

Interviewer: Wow. Well another unquestionable idea is that people are naturally competitive, and that therefore, capitalism is the only proper way to organize society. Do you agree?

NoamChomsky: Look around you. In a family for example, if the parents are hungry do they steal food from the…

noam-chomsky:

I have never heard of a state that admits it’s carrying out an aggressive act, they’re always engaged in “defense,” no matter what they’re doing—maybe “preemptive defense,” or something. 

…For example, one of the major scholarly books on the Cold War is called Strategies of Containment, by John Lewis Gaddis—it’s the foremost scholarly study by the top diplomatic historian, so it’s worth taking a look at. Well, in discussing this great theme, “strategies of containment,” Gaddis begins by by talking about the terminology. He says at the beginning: it’s true that the term ”containment” begs some questions, yes it presupposes some things, but nevertheless, despite the question on whether it’s factually accurate, it still is proper to adopt it as the framework for discussion. And the reason why it’s proper is because it was the

iseesigils:

Spare concentrated the theme of his doctrine in the following Affirmation .

Creed of Zos vel Thanatos.

I believe in the flesh ‘as now’ and forever … for I am the Light, the Truth, the Law, the Way, and none shall come unto anything except through his flesh. Did I not show you the eclectic path between ecstasies; that precarious funambulatory way … . But you had no courage, were tired, and feared. THEN AWAKE! De-hypnotize yourselves from the poor reality you be-live and be-lie. For the great Noon- tide is here, the great bell has struck … Let others await involuntary immolation, the forced redemption so certain for many apostates to Life. Now, in this day, I ask you to search your memories, for great unities are near. The Inceptor of all memory is your Soul. Life is desire, Death is reformation … I am the resurrection … I, who transcend ecstasy by ecstasy, meditating Need Not Be in Self-love …

This creed, informed by the dynamism of Spare’s will and his great ability as an artist, created a Cult on the astral plane that attracted to itself all the elements naturally orientated to it. He referred to it as Zos Kia Cultus, and its votaries claimed affinity on the following terms:

Our Sacred Book       : The Book of Pleasure.

Our Path              : The eclectic path between ecstasies; the precarious

                        funambulatory way.

Our Deity             : The All-Prevailing Woman.

                        (‘And I strayed with her, into the path direct’.)

Our Creed             : The Living Flesh. (Zos):

                        (‘Again I say : This is your great moment of

                        reality- the living flesh’).

Our Sacrament         : The Sacred Inbetweenness Concepts.

Our Word              : Does Not Matter-Need Not Be.

Our Eternal Abode     : The mystic state of Neither-Neither.

                        The Atomospheric ‘I’. (Kia).

Our Law               : To Trespass all Laws.

The Zos and the Kia are represented by the Hand and the Eye, the instruments of sentiency and vision. They form the foundation of the New Sexuality, which Spare evolved by combining them to form a magical art- the art of visualizing sensation, of ‘becoming one with all sensation’, and of transcending the dual polarities of existence by the annihilation of separate identity through the mechanics of the Death Posture. Long ago, a Persian poet described in a few words the object of Spare’s New Sexuality.

The kingdom of I and We forsake, and your home in annihilation make.

reagan-was-a-horrible-president:

leftish:

“I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election

The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971…before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.

Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land…all because of public pressure.

Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise. In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.

*Congressional Reform Act of 2011*

1. No Tenure / No Pension.
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.

2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security.
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12.

The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.

THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!!!!!

xaos:

As I worked through my ceremonial magick training, I was exhorted to develop my ‘knowledge and conversation with my Holy Guardian Angel’. Depending on what I was reading and who I spoke to, my personal HGA was either an external lifeform that would deign to work with me if I approached it…