The place for new members to ask basic questions about Barbelith

14:50 / 04.10.06

Yes, I still have Weaken the stronghold saved on my hard drive.

This is quite literally the best news I have had all week. Any chance of a PM?

14:52 / 04.10.06

The reason the Greenland posse was great, of course, was that they were the first time anyone on Barbelith ever appeared who had an idea that was so outlandish nobody else gave it credit, also harmful enough that it was good and right to mock them, and yet not so harmful that it wasn't also really, really hilarious 90% of the time.

Didn't they claim to have predicted the death of r&b artist Aaliyah? But they only announced their prediction... afterwards...

14:53 / 04.10.06

Bendt, by the way, is irregularly around to this day, under a different name. He's really quite nice.

Yes, I become aware of him from time to time (and, being shit with changing suit names, think to myself, "is that Bendt?" and am never quite sure). He's a different man these days.

Spatula Clarke

15:54 / 04.10.06

For a limited time only:

Page 1

Page 2

Goes up to page 8. Just keep adding 1 to the last digit in the URL. If anybody's got any qualms about their older selves being presented to the world again, let me know and I'll remove it.

17:42 / 04.10.06

The reason why I posted the message here is not coincidental and purposeless. Among you who are reading these, there exists an extraordinarely gifted individual, whose impact on this world will be tremendous, but doesn't fully know it yet.

And I would very much like to get in touch with that individual.

Gold. Solid 100 carrat internet gold. I wonder if contact was ever made?

17:54 / 04.10.06

Yeah. It was me. Can't you tell?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

18:17 / 04.10.06

*sniff* It's... it's everything I dreamed it would be, and more...

Spatula Clarke

19:35 / 04.10.06

I got emails too! Not that I'm desperate to be the special person, or anything. We met in a dream. There was a link between us. We had... something.

Then it turned out that RRM thought I was female. I think the intention was for hands to head pantwards.

19:38 / 04.10.06

RRM (Laila, I think) once described me in a dream. I'm apparently skinny with longish dark hair. Sort of Emo Ganesh.

StarWhisper

15:30 / 09.10.06

Why is it that when people post about themselves or with anecdotes they appologise even if what they have to say is relevant? Is it bad manners to post things like this except in conversation? I have found many of these sorts of posts interesting and useful.

15:37 / 09.10.06

I think it's two things: firstly, a lot of people feel the need to pre-emptively apologise when they share something personal, because you make yourself vulnerable in doing so. Secondly, however, we have had problems before with people posting unrelated anecdotes/autobiographies/"I myself however..." posts that had nothing to do with a given thread, really...

15:52 / 09.10.06

I'd say both the things Fly said, plus politeness: "yeah, I know we're talking about XXXXX here, but I'm gonna talk about ME for a minute" just seems like common courtesy to me. I try to do it in conversation, too.

But then, I am one polite motherfucker.

klint

17:29 / 06.11.06

re: technoccult.net and Eloi Tsabaoth

Actually, Eloi Tsabaoth came from the original technoccult.com (which is different from the current technoccult.com and technoccult.net sites). Although Brenden and I have been accused of trolling this site (perhaps with some justice), we have no connection to Eloi (even though coincidentally I now live in Portland, which was the city on the whois entry for technoccult.com when Eloi owned it).

More info: http://www.barbelith.com/topic/6856

Princess

18:50 / 06.11.06

I feel like I missed all the good stuff. Quickly, someone sign up a crank.

Princess

19:07 / 06.11.06

I'm still vaguely new. How do I make the triangle-brackets turn up in posts? As it is they just delete whole lines of text.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

19:20 / 06.11.06

I think the board interprets them as being bits of html- I'm not sure how you get them to actually appear. I generally just avoid using them, because every time I've tried it's gone tits-up.

19:22 / 06.11.06

That's because the angle brackets also start HTML code, so the site tries to interpret things that follow them as commands. I guess. I'm no expert either. But I think that < and > might work.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

19:24 / 06.11.06

Well, that turned out mocking and worse than useless, didn't it? Use these codes but REMOVE THE DASHES AFTER THE AMPERSANDS:

&-lt; &-gt; for (less than) and (greater than) symbols.

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19:24 / 06.11.06

It's all to do with escape codes. You need to type & l t ; and & g t ; (without the spaces). That way you get < and >.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

19:25 / 06.11.06

Crosspost craziness! This Monday on Barbelith! It's < than intelligent and > wacky!

Our Lady Has Left the Building

06:13 / 07.11.06

Aaaah memories, it's nice to see I was always an intolerent bastard.

Disco is My Class War

11:45 / 07.11.06

I love how RRM always thought all the people he thought he agreed with were women. Matsya, E. Randy... Okay, there were only two.

Hydra vs Leviathan

22:00 / 07.11.06

I somehow managed to post a "greater than" sign on this thread. As far as i know, i didn't do anything special to it...

big number > small number
small number < big number

do those work?

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22:16 / 07.11.06

Tricky, that. Because of the way HTML is parsed, a close bracket (the first example) will be ignored if there is no corresponding open bracket. Because you have not followed the close bracket in the second example with any recognised HTML commands, it successfully closed with the implied "close BR" command generated by a line break. So, it is possible to use them as they are, but it's very risky.

Quantum

10:58 / 08.11.06

Hoo! Re-reading the May Warning thread, the changes in Barbelith become glaring, like when you meet a friend you haven't seen for a few years and realise that actually you now have nothing in common.
I like the new Barbelith. Fitter, happier, more productive.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

13:46 / 08.11.06

I know what you mean. It's quite scary. What's even scarier is when I stumble across ex-Templers elsewhere on the web who kvetch about how much the forum has gone downhill since the Good Old Days and how they'd never go back now that it's no fun anymore. Yeah, it was so much more important to be able to talk about lizard pedophile milk conspiracies and construct numerological 'proofs' that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion was all true!1!! than to actually make progress or accomplish anything magically.

Quantum

14:54 / 08.11.06

I actually saved a chunk of Fetch numerology just to bring out and look at occasionally when I get irritated. I find it soothing, like drinking brandy from an enemy's skull. I sometimes read it out to the little ones* like a bedtime story, for example the wise words on the magic of barbecues;

COW = ISIS = BEEF
CROP = OSIRIS = PORK (C) = HAM

GRINDING BEEF (ISIS/COW) and calling it HAM (PORK/OSIRIS/CROP) creates a "sacred object" that is then BBQ'd, wherein B is ISIS pregnant with Horus. It is called "HAMBURGER", or a celebration or desire (magically) to destroy, akin to a French creation of the Crescent to "magically eat the Turks", and thus the ritual of eating "HAMBURGER" is a form of magic to "free the world of Isisian and Osirian influence". (thanks to the Fetch)

Aaaah. Like a breath of fresh air in the fetid Temple stench of sense.

*my brane cells

14:56 / 08.11.06

Okay, now that's officially ace. I may get that put on a plaque and bunged on my wall. Just as a warning of what can happen if one's habit of talking shit gets out of hand.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

15:46 / 08.11.06

If I ever start talking like that I hereby give you all permission to shoot me and bury me in quicklime.

Quantum

16:52 / 08.11.06

If you start saying things like this;

I grew up on Jethro Tull and have dissected most of them. Ian Anderson is a pretty accomplished Pagan and most of his "stuff" are puns aimed at the "existing order", aka, Christianity.

you'll never even see the battleaxe coming, we assure you.

17:25 / 08.11.06

He actually dissected most of Jethro Tull?

C'mon, that one-legged flute playing schtick was a little tiring after a while, and Rock Island was fairly rubbish, but I didn't think Ian actually deserved to be cut into pieces for it. Maybe a gentle ribbing once in a while. Christ, talk about over-reacting.

17:45 / 08.11.06

All these melee weapons are making me nostalgic for Leap. Almost. Do you keep in touch with him, Quantum? For some reason, the guy who plays Garth Marengi puts me in mind of ol' Leap...

Spaniel

19:31 / 08.11.06

Leap was possibly my favourite poster ever.

Seriously, I mean, the guy invented an entire political theory based on his love of melee weapons, sawn-off shotguns and VIGILANCE.

Quantum, did you ever read the fabled tract?