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Spreading happiness on restroom stall walls

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03:27 / 18.04.03

Recently I was in a stall at the supermarket I work at (I never use urinals) and I wondered why people always scrawl homophobic jokes, sexist sayings, nazi/racist slogans on restroom stall walls. I felt bad for the stalls, bad enough people shit, piss, and jerk off in them 24/7, but they also deface them with such crude diatribes.

Yesterday at my campus I was in a stall at the library and I decided to make that restroom stall's day. I took a pen and wrote this:

"Is there
anything
in the
world
more
comforting
then the
content purr
of a
happy cat?"

[then I drew a sketch of a cat face purring, followed by:]

"This message has been brought to you by the "Society of Happy Restroom Stall Walls" (SHRSW)"

[and under this:]

"MISSION STATEMENT: Rather then writing swear words, racist/nazi slogans or homophobic jokes, the SHRSW is dedicated to writing positive, happy messages on restroom stall walls. So spread the love, and pet a happy cat, you'll feel better!"

I signed the name Sypha Nadon, then Frank Kaaza, then Franz Kafka.

I have a feeling Genesis P-Orridge would be proud. I know it sounds silly but I felt like I had made the restroom stall's day for real. maybe it has a deva smiling right now.

That's me, I sticking up for something most people don't even think about.

I'm not sure what the point of this was, it just seemed like a positive thing to do, god knows what people will think when they read it...

13:06 / 18.04.03

... turn that stall in to the Paradox Box.

On the wall to your left write - "The statement opposite is True" and on the wall to your right - "The statement opposite is False".

A variation on "toilet tennis", I know... but it brings me a smile

13:12 / 18.04.03

How is this Magick? Seems more like Conversation stuff to me.

BUT -- if you created a sigil for personal happiness and fulfillment and put on it on bathroom walls -- a-ha!! THAT would be something! Think of all the charging that gets done in bathrooms because of energy...discharges.

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13:30 / 18.04.03

Well, that's phase two of the whole operation HunterWolf.

Why did I put this in magic? Beats me, it seems that this section of the board is where all my strange topics end up.

14:43 / 18.04.03

[light, teasing voice, with just a hint of bitterness]

Maybe that's why Magick gets refered to as the "ghetto forum"??

[/just a hint of bitterness]

16:00 / 18.04.03

Ghetto or not, Sypha, you've created a genuin sigil of some kind with what you've already written, you had an intent, a method, and an expectation. I would write something comepletely generic like Hail Eris!, what can I say, I'm a slave to the beauteous one.

Nietzsch E. Coyote

22:01 / 18.04.03

Making friends with the deva of a bathroom stall is definatley magick.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

22:14 / 18.04.03

what about the Loa of a george foreman grill?

Nietzsch E. Coyote

23:13 / 18.04.03

Hmm... I haven't sacraficed any meat on that altar lately... MEAT.

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23:22 / 19.04.03

I feel I should add that, having been going to my college for 5 years now, I have a very close relationship with many of the buildings/animals there.

11:16 / 20.04.03

I like it.

A while ago, while in Northern Ireland, I saw someone had scratched the name INLA into the wood of a door in a stall. (The INLA are a terrorist group, by the by.)

I changed it to FINLAND.

Made me smile.

16:49 / 20.04.03

Stick your sigil at seated eye height. Dead ahead.
Another one on the floor, between feet.

hmmm... I guess it's up to the sigil designer to decide what that long-awaited-ecstatic-release will charge, just before the charger walks out and completely forgets all about it.

Subversive and devious. Nice and smooth!

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:31 / 21.04.03

Behold! The Chamber of ExcraMeditation!

Now, can any of you clever little kids with a copy of J. Wiseman to hand tell me why that other thing you do in the lavvy might aid sigil charging? Or are you sick puppies gonna make me Google for enemas in the middle of an internet caff?

16:58 / 21.04.03

the Copyright Angels will be calling for residuals... unless you're a closet SubG

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What other thing MC?

The ecstatic release I was going on about was that "ooh fuck, can i get my belt undone before this rips?" variety. The kind of anticipation that precedes and relief that follows is pretty intense.

The Faeces that launched a thousand sigils. Trojan!

17:09 / 21.04.03

Though really, the usual sort of ecstatic release commonly associated with sigel magick applies here as well.

18:34 / 21.04.03

... better stick one at head height on the back wall too. Just in case they got company.

20:14 / 21.04.03

WOw. How lovely.
I think we should plant dasies in every toilet in Britain. (well not IN the toilet...) but i fear they may wilt.

22:53 / 21.04.03

... better stick one at head height on the back wall too. Just in case they got company.

And by that logic, one on the top of the cistern for those who are using the loo as a temporary table, and one in the bowl for those who have gone far too far, for far too long and need to start all over again...