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At least Nettie was upfront about not having any kind of a magical practice in the sense of trying to affect anything; in the thread above he not only admits to but celebrates an entirely solipsistic practice motivated by and geared towards nothing exept sending up everyone else's silly superstitious old workings, and elsewhere he not only admitted to but celebrated the use of NLP techniques for nothing more than creating distress in others.

This of course is 98% bollocks. The unhealthy kind. Generalizations like these serve to cloud your ability to see clearly. You've made up your mind as to my intents and purposes, so why should I discuss them with you when I can help you trip over your inaccurate judgments?

What gets me more than the Netaungrots of this world, shit-filled though they be, are those who have pretentions to an actual magic practice but who do not, in fact, actually do very much more than Nettie-types yet who nonetheless see fit to spout off on the subject.

Your magic is bigger and more actual than my magic.

And sometimes--increasingly--I want chuck my gun off the roof and let the zombies take over.

Perhaps at this point we should put the functionality of your magical practice under scrutiny?

All I want is some indication that whatever it is you do, you're actually doing it and not just talking about it. Sorcery, herbalism, sigil art, thaumaturgy, theurgy, martial arts, dreamwork, astral travel, whatver; polytheistic, pantheistic, suitheistic, atheistic, whatever. If you have developed a magical practice that consists largely of complex skateboard tricks in honour of the Phantom Limbo Dancer, provided you developed that practice through your own personal experience, that's cool. What. The. Fuck. Ever. Just be prepared to show your working.

Why should I show you if in your eyes I'm just a solipsistic NLP monster out for the sweet blood of innocents?

[Magic is] a way of making this largely revolting world suck just a tiny bit less, if only for yourself, if not for others. Why would you turn your nose up at that? Why would you piss that away?

Most "magic" I've observed is an excuse to stagnate within a paradigm and hallucinate making the world a better place, while in actuality, not only the world, but your capacity to help society continues rotting. Most.

I don't really follow the temple or believe much of anything, but I checked out the Nettie shit and that person seems abrasive as fuck-all, combative for the sake of it, and just trying to get a rise. But really, maybe it's just because I want to throttle people that write "LMAO" as a rebuttal.

Maybe you need to LYAO a bit more.

Do what thou will shall be the whole of the lail. Lulz are the lail, lulz under lol.

The last straw was sending copies of deleted guff to a troll and getting called a censor and a cowardly hypocrite in return. Next time I'm just going to propose deletion immediately and let someone else be the dove-like voice of mercy. I'm now Quantum the hawk.

Why don't you delete all the following equivalent bullshit by Mordant?

Oh! Nettie is this kitten, is he? I'd forgotten all about him, but then we get so many smug, self-absorbed, half-bright Fnordy McFnordpantses swinging through here to "save us from ourselves" with made-up words and lousy sentence structure it's hard to keep them all straight. Nettie distinguishes himself by being the fnordpants who's learned (a minimal amound of) NLP motivated purely by the desire to manipulate people and create distress where he cannot successfully manipulate. Gotcha. I'll make a note for next time.

I never wanted this thread. I wanted to say my piece and allow it to continue developing of it's own free will. Please stop making me the centerpiece of this thing before I lose control of my bowels.

Taking a quick shufti at my Nettie/English dictionary, I get: I wanted to get up on my hind legs and spout off without being challenged. I am now being called on my shit and it gives me a funny feeling in my tummy. You're mean. Why can't you be more like my Lj friends list?

Pickle, nobody made you the centerpiece of anything except you. If you choose to make rude, critical, poorly-written posts (hint: typos and grammatical errors are not poetry, and making up words does not make you into the living RAW) you are likely to find that some of your boardmates take an aggressive interest in what you write. This is a messageboard. People read what you write and are allowed to tell you if they don't like it. Wear a hat.

Now, since Barbelith is unlikely to become mcfnordypantsfora.com in the short to medium term, you have two choices here. You can either accept that most people here don't want to read this crap and find a way to engage meaningfully, or you can accept that most people here don't want to read this crap and fuck off somewhere else. It's your call, although I seriously doubt your ability to cope with the former and would strongly recommend the latter.

Somehow when moderators fling entire post's worth of shit, it smells good? Ah, you don't like me either, so you can just censor my rebuttals while Mordant blathers on and on about how I'm just another livejournal jackoff. Which is not only totally unsubstantiated but also one of the most trite of possible insults.

I repeat. Cowardly and hypocritical.

Let me parse something you seemed to have missed:

Laughing at how you simultaneously made me the star of the thread AND hated me for it has very nearly cost me control of my mighty sphincter. You even had the temerity to suggest that I somehow stole your locus of control. I could hardly breathe I was laughing so hard.

Lail FTW.

All this could have been avoided if you just didn't take yourself so seriously and stayed focused on ideas and practices.

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