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03:34 / 12.03.06

Rain Rain in Phoenix Rain today and rain tomorrow
Rain for benefit and none for sorrow

06:09 / 12.03.06

(We often have dry spell in parts of my country, and I tell you, if it rains heavily, the land won't be able to get the water, it will be too dry for that. Snow, on the other hand, is usually a good thing, if it takes its time to melt.)

Now, as for the coincidences, I'm sure Kylark didn't know about the weather forecast. It sure is strange as hell that as soon as ze started talking about it something happened (And ze is right, future, past, this is all the same). It is strange that my message announcing that rain had finally come was the 23rd one. But all of this could have been arranged by people with too much time on their hand, a bit of luck and organization. Now, take a look at the URL that zoe posted:

http://www.kpho.com/Global/story.asp?S=4617775&nav=23Ku

Notice something fishy, close to the end? That 23. And I'm not even talking about the K.

When coincidences of this kind starts to accumulate, I say, this is signed. Of course, you can always say that zoe is putting you on too, which won't be too surprising as ze started the thread.

Now, if you have a bit of faith*, look at the whole mess and try to get a meaning out of it, you get roughly: "Hey people! Stop trying to reinvent the wheel! I got hundreds of years of experience, thousands of satisfied confused customers, and I'm way better than you'll ever be at this game. If you're out for misch^D^D^D^D^D change on a large scale, just ask you know."

(When contacted by our services to confirm Her hand in the operation, the Goddess answered: 'Absolutely not!'. As she always denies implication in anything, this is not surprising, and we're left wondering, as usual).

*And we 3 must have it, since we are the only one to KNOW that we didn't plan anything

06:30 / 12.03.06

Lords of light! That freakin 23 never goes away does it? I started having synchro with that about 7 years ago before I read any R.A.W. or anything else about that number.

Yeh I guess I am not really all that surprised here after all. After declaring myself a magician a few years back my life has taken on a most uncanny synchronicitous quality. My theory is that this is how the universe/god/goddess/eris/etc communicates with us in a symbolic language much like our own but in a way that is so profound that it literally becomes the way one event after another in your life connects - synchonicity becomes your life.

Don't get me wrong though I do not take credit for any of it and I realize that I am still a "cosmic shmuck" which keeps me in a fairly enlightened state.

I can't help but think though...rain in phoenix today...the dismanteling of the military industrial complex tomorrow. I don't know about you all but I see some pretty dark things on the horizon. There is talk of revolution going around but I don't think another bloody rebellion to add to the history books is going to solve anything.

Now take a group of magi and cast a mass binding spell on the unseen forces who seem to be pushing the world into the shitter and maybe...just maybe we could turn this thing. I do not doubt one bit that the ruling elite are actively using some form of black magick against us. We have the same abilities they have they just don't want us to know that. How I would love to call their bluff.

Cheers to the magical underground! All of you are a fucking inspiration.

07:12 / 12.03.06

If we do this again can we set the rain date a few weeks in the future? Just to give us slow movers time to do something and minimise the effects of weather forcasts.

09:21 / 12.03.06

We were all slow movers, Wombat

Kylark picked a target, nobody had time to agree to it, and a few hours later, it was raining ans snowing without anyone doing anything (I think).

10:00 / 12.03.06

Is it too late to join in? I've been busy working most of the week and only just got back here.

I note that the rain in Phoenix may have cost the city between $35,000 and $100,000 due to the cancellation of an early St Patrick's Day parade.

They've had over an inch of rain and up to 31 inches of snow in some places. May I suggest a gradual curtailing of the rain before there are things like avalanches or flash floods?

The Arazona Republic

13:05 / 12.03.06

OK, maybe let's all start thinking about sunshine. Two days straight of rain would be a lot anywhere; how much more so in AZ.

Now take a group of magi and cast a mass binding spell on the unseen forces who seem to be pushing the world into the shitter and maybe...just maybe we could turn this thing.

I like this idea. Let's put some consideration into how we want to do this. If we bind something, it's still there, getting frustrated and gathering strength. Let's think about dispersing, dissolving, awakening, enlightening.

Or, if we're feeling really aggressive, eating. (Although I for one do not think I'm strong enough for that yet.)

13:13 / 12.03.06

BTW Zoemancer, thanks for starting this thread. Saving and protecting all that's alive and beautiful in this world is what I got into magic for.

In the "highest" realm, it's all one, but between there and here there are many arenas in which we can use our influence to shift the trajectory of humanity, of life on earth, toward the good.

I know this sounds grandiose, but we are living in catastrophic times.

13:44 / 12.03.06

If we bind something, it's still there, getting frustrated and gathering strength. Let's think about dispersing, dissolving, awakening, enlightening.

Yeah, sorry if I'm being the voice of doom and gloom here, (there's always one.) but if you're going up against powerful forces and binding them, remember that stopping a little bit of darkness in the short term, could eventually turn into a whole lot more than usual being unleashed whenever the binding is over. If you're up against the power, it's going to be very, very good at what it's doing. Imagine blocking up a small flow of energy until it builds and builds, and then a huge amount breaks through....

Still though, the rain working is crazy stuff, and I also believe that whoever suggested it hadn't seen the forecast, but I'm an optimist so I would say that.

Good luck with whatever you plan on doing next anyway, and maybe remember to try and gradually build up to larger workings if you're doing that, instead of taking on too much at once.

14:07 / 12.03.06

They've had over an inch of rain and up to 31 inches of snow in some places. May I suggest a gradual curtailing of the rain before there are things like avalanches or flash floods?

"We Erisians seldom pray, it is much too dangerous. Charles Fort has listed many
factual incidences of ignorant people confronted with, say, a drought, and then praying fervently -- and then getting the entire village wiped out in a torrential flood."

-Principia Discordia

14:13 / 12.03.06

Planet, welcome aboard.

Jack you are not the voice of doom man - you and Kylark have a good point about the whole binding thing. Consider this -- technically there is no such thing as darkness, it is not a quantifiable substance. Light is made of photon stuff and is measurable, it actually exists. Darkness is only and can ever be just an absence of light.

If you think about that for a minute it fits really well into the symbolic meaning of darkness as well. Evil(darkness) is based on fear it is the lack of love(light). Now we all know deep down that love does conquer all and that in the face of overwhelming love(light) darkness is simply not there anymore. You can also apply this to ignorance(darkness) ceases to exist in the face of knowledge(light).

So rather than binding I like the idea of maybe launching a fear seeking love missile with a cosmic peacehead that will seek out the most concentrated areas of fear and hate on the planet and deliver a massive payload of luvvy duvvy onto our misguided brethren who sit in high shadowy places. We might even lob a few sillyness bombs as well to inject some levity into those crusty old fear addicts.

Also I agree that we should send the rainstop working over to Phoenix now.

Yes these are catastrophic times which is why we need something like this. Rioting in the streets only invokes Newton's 2nd law. We have to change tactics and hit them from behind the physical veil.

Here is a peek at what we are up against.
Link 1

Link 2

Unconditional Love

16:32 / 12.03.06

I think you could perhaps give these war mongering people better orgasms, i get the impression theres arent too good. How about choosing a public figure and getting them to orgasm while giving a public speech, something that will be media covered a couple of weeks from now. Not to dangerous a situation and no one that may have heart problems.

20:33 / 12.03.06

Ha ha, GWB having a glorious O at a live press conference...nice!

21:37 / 12.03.06

*grin*
My preference is a simple and testable group working. Skipping from rainfall (where most people never had time to actually do anything) to GWB making a fool of himself is a big leap.

22:14 / 12.03.06

GWB making a fool of himself is a big leap. -- Ha ha now that is funny!

No but I know what you are saying Wombat. I think we all seem to be leaning towards using this stuff for positive social change at some point. Maybe we do need to do some more small tests first.

How about we do this. Let's launch the intention all day today and tomorrow for one of us to come up with the perfect target for our next launch and that we will all pretty much know it is the one we want when we see it. Whatever that target is we will work it later next week.

How does that sound?

08:19 / 13.03.06

Let's launch the intention all day today and tomorrow for one of us to come up with the perfect target for our next launch

Do you know about IMP?

Those who want to make GWB orgasm should take a look here and not tell their SO afterwards.

(I suddenly had a glorious vision of an escadron of Psychic Barbelith Maiden, all mentally trained to make orgasm the leader of the world so we can all be free)

(And I'm not even taking drugs these days)

Less searchable M0rd4nt

08:28 / 13.03.06

Ooohhkay. Can I just flag mild discomfort at this point? We're edging into sexual-assualt-by-magic territory here.

Also, I haven't read all of that PDF yet but it whiffs strongly of sensationalist crap. Those '80s-ish softcore porn pix gave me a laugh though.

09:15 / 13.03.06

Sometimes, you find stuff that works in the most unlikely places, under the most unlikely appearance.

For the sexual assault with magic, you're spot on. Sexual terrorism. What is better? C4 or psychic blow jobs? Can you tell I'm french?

And it wasn't even me who had the idea first, it was our Hairy Angel.

Seriously, this was an half tongue in cheek comment. The in cheek part is that I'm not sure at all this would work to the desired aim (set us all free). The out of cheek part is that there is a way to do it.

As for the morality of it all... I think some people do exactly what is described in the PDF without being conscious of it. And being aware of how it works probably makes you more or less immune to it. So actually, if this really works, I'm actually leveling the field by posting it.

(And you know, it's not everyday that you can link to this kind of thing without threadrotting, so the temptation was way too high :-) )

09:16 / 13.03.06

That PDF is awful - If you can't get laid and are really credulous, this is the technique for you!

09:17 / 13.03.06

It reminds me of that awful book that's been doing the rounds at the moment - the Lay Guide?

09:23 / 13.03.06

Mention again "Girls come to me! I attract GIrls!" - it could be a Barbelith mantra.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:27 / 13.03.06

Oh man. That PDF is really quite unbelievably bad. Aimed squarely at the credulous psuedoscientist who's incapable of forming healthy relationships with women (it's pretty clear that the author is only thinking in terms of men scoring with chicks). I especially love how these super seduction techniques all seem to involve obtaining the SuperChickScoreGizmo™, available for a modest outlay from the website.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:35 / 13.03.06

Sometimes, you find stuff that works in the most unlikely places, under the most unlikely appearance.

You're kidding. Right? You are kidding, right? Because I'd hate to think you were touting a bunch of untested and extremely dubious (to say the least) techniques as "stuff that works." Unless you... that you... no. You couldn't have actually tried...

Really, I don't know which would be worse.

09:41 / 13.03.06

Well, some doubt implied here:

actually, if this really< works I'm actually leveling the field by posting it.

So I'm assuming it remains untested.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:43 / 13.03.06

Unless Messy has been employing those techniques "unconsciously" of course.

trouser the trouserian

09:53 / 13.03.06

What is better? C4 or psychic blow jobs?

Are you volunteering to give GWB a "pyschic blow-job" Messy?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

09:56 / 13.03.06

No, that's a job for the squadron of Psychic Barbelith Maidens.

10:09 / 13.03.06

I'll volunteer for the GWB psychic blowjob.

Man, the things you have to do to save the world.

10:38 / 13.03.06

Seriously thought, this thing is a laugh, but it got me thinking nevertheless when I stumbled upon it.

What if you could project telepathically to others good impressions about yourself? Isn't that what people who have glamour or charisma do? That's for the 'unconsciously' part, and I'm just reiterating what the PDF says.

Frankly, I don't know. The occasion to link to it, was once again, too good to pass.

(I have a wife, and a kid, for the record.)

(And the GWB blowjob proposition still hold, if somebody could demonstrate convincingly to me that this is the thing that needs to be done).

(Sorry if I upset you, Mordant).

11:00 / 13.03.06

(And later on, I did found that this wasn't even a novel idea.

If you've got nothing better to do, read this. Very well written, from an author I love, a fun, good, read.)

Regrettable Juvenilia

11:09 / 13.03.06

What if you could project telepathically to others good impressions about yourself? Isn't that what people who have glamour or charisma do?

I think some of them might make use of the visual, audio, and other of the more conventional sensory pathways to create the impression of glamour or charisma, as well as employing their mad mind-warping skillzzzzzzzzz.

12:09 / 13.03.06

I think we've gotten pretty far away from the original destination of this thread, and this is certainly mostly my fault. Please, forgive me, and apologies to all.

I think I'll just shut up now until I've got something intelligent to say.

Unconditional Love

13:57 / 13.03.06

I got my idea from this>

"So rather than binding I like the idea of maybe launching a fear seeking love missile with a cosmic peacehead that will seek out the most concentrated areas of fear and hate on the planet and deliver a massive payload of luvvy duvvy onto our misguided brethren who sit in high shadowy places. We might even lob a few sillyness bombs as well to inject some levity into those crusty old fear addicts."

its innuendo surely.

19:14 / 13.03.06

OK..hosepipe bans in SE England in the next 3 weeks and it`s not even spring. Can we work for average rainfall during the next few weeks? I`m interested in what you guys actually do...so can we post what we do and then check the results? (as usual gut feelings, dreams , sudden drops into shamanspace etc... are all good results)

05:08 / 14.03.06

lol..just got back from being on the road and am laughing to myself about the whole GWB blowjob thing...Messy your alright man.

How about we do this-- Everyone submit a target for later this week. The target should conform to these rules (feel free to add any)

1. The target must be something within reason. Mass, simultaneous enlightenment of the world's population is a bit much. Making it rain somewhere seems to be skating right up to the edge at this point.
2. The target should be specific.
3. The result of the working should be quantifiable and obvious to us all such as rain appearing somewhere where it was not expected etc.
4. The target should be either beneficial or nuetral in as far as effects on environment and or humans is concerned.

Once we get everyone's submissions in we take a vote and move forward with the working.

My submission is to sigilize the movie V for Vendetta and cause it to become widely popular and successful and become a rallying point for mass political and social change favoring freedom and the rights of the individual. Something to counter this whole fear based police state meme that seems to be gaining so much ground. So we would know it was successful if when the movie opens it opens with a huge bang and becomes way more popular than anyone thought it would. This of course we would read about in various news outlets.

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