"Bassos" writes:
>> "Bassos" writes:
>>
>>>> Take a seat with Archie and Corey, Bassos the Clown. You've earned it.
>>>
>>> Ah, i should know who you are or something ?
>>
>> Hi, I'm HG. I post to alt.magick. If you want to know more, just ask me
>> or
>> do some research.
>
> Ah, thanks for the offer, i will take you up on it.
>
> So questions :
Oh, goody! A lot of numerated questions in form of a quiz. Perfect for
scoring. When you want to get to know a stranger better, there's nothing
better than a graded test. "You got 75/100, so I guess you're OK..."
> 1 : What about the content of my posts suggests to you that i should be put
> in the tidy little box of corey and archie ?
I'll cut and paste from your latest post to this newsgroup:
Bassos: Please enlighten me, if 'they' did not refer to the chinese, who did
it refer to ?
Tom: Context.
Bassos: It was in response to a sentence with a nice structure and all, and
in response to that sentence, simple grammar indicated it referred to
the chinese.
Tom: Only when taken completely out of context.
Bassos: Ah, thanks for agreeing with me.
That's Archie quality stupidity and denial right there. And that's just your
latest post.
> 2 : What do you think i wrote ?
> (not a citation, in your own words)
You've written a lot of stuff. Please specify.
> 3 : What view on cosmology do you find interesting ?
I have a soft spot for the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics.
It was a loooong article, so I started out reading just random snippets from
it. All the random snippets I read were worthless newage bullshit, so I
stopped reading.
> 5 : would you mind presenting a variation on an existing ritual (like lbrp
> or so) that you use, instead of the standard ?
I'm currently not doing any hermetic rituals. You can come back to me later,
I'm planning to start doing the Qabalistic Cross, since Erwin recommended it.
(Most of my variations consist of correcting the atrocious spelling and
pronounciation of Hebrew words in hermetic rituals. My wife knows Hebrew and
she habitually laughs at them.)
> 6 : Why do you study magick ?
To make sense of my life.
> 7 : What do you think magick is ? (alternativly; how does it work)
My friend once told me how the universe is a big, gigantic thing, but the
human brain is small. So we need a compression algorithm to reduce the
enormous universe into a tiny little model that fits inside our heads.
My current working hypothesis about magick is that it's messing around with
and tuning that compression algorithm.
> 8 : If you would be so kind to mention a working that you felt was 'quite
> interesting'.
I'm planning mentioning one pretty soon, once I've reread my diaries, but
that'll take a while, so I'll not mention it in this post. Look for my reply
to an older post made by Erwin.
> 9 : If magick turns out to be nothing more than a selfhypnosis kind of
> thing, would that be enough for you ?
I find that question irrelevant. If I'm setting out to find what is really
going on, I find it pointless and counterproductive to have any
preconceptions about what I will find.
> 10 : do you find the concept that 'everything that happens is a single
> movement' a beautiful concept ?
Err... I don't find it beautiful, but neither do I find it not beautiful.
So how did I do? Did I match your preconceptions? What's my score?
HG
