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Marcus Blepsius

Marcus Blepsius (Ethnian: Bzãrgã Plex) fl. 1570 – 1600, the most famous alchemist from the lands of what is now Ethnia, attempted to produce gold by the method of multiplicatio oculis. this method required a specially prepared chamber containing a … Continue reading

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Some Academic Gaians

i saw an interesting variation of “consequences” on twitter yesterday unfortunately again i got exposed to an academic fetishmining by posting an “anonymous” comment and getting her coperverts to identify and punish him. the interesting thing is that one of … Continue reading

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Qabbala – Major Adaptor

for anyone who, like me, has spent too much time memorising kabbaliastical correspondences and who wants to use the Major System of phonetic image-formation for remembering numbers. i provide the following adaptor: top /t d T D/ (k)nowing /n/ mother … Continue reading

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Rectification of Names: Sleep Paralysis

“sleep paralysis” is a very bad name because it implies nothing more than simple motor paralysis, but phenomenologically it’s more complicated than that: awareness of the body is significantly suppressed but not completely. you can tell that some things are … Continue reading

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Kim Stanley Robinson Was Not Exaggerating

i thought the Reds in the Mars Trilogy were an absurd extrapolation of anti-human sentimental nature worshippers until yesterday i saw a clique on Twitter talking about how Yikes Nobody Gets To Light a Campfire Anywhere It’s Current Year because … Continue reading

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James Anderton RIP

i found out a few days ago about a copper who was famous in the 80s, but whose reputation failed so thoroughly to be passed down to me that i only found about how he existed from the obituaries. even … Continue reading

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Eugenics Without Tears

this is some Genetic Hyrcanian Spring shit right here because generational ascendancy is possible but you have to believe in yourself as a tuple comprising an agglomeration of traits, one device for maximising the good traits and another device for … Continue reading

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Parallel between Jhana and Sleep Paralysis

the solution is like getting into jhana. you learn to quickly orient yourself into sleep paralysis space and recognise that because you are in a jhanoid state “quite secluded from sensuality” that there are some positive feedback loops you can … Continue reading

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“I Suffered So Why Should Anyone Else Have It Easy?”

it is extremely load bearing though. at its heart it is a family dynamics problem of fucking up your kids like you were fucked, and no worse. as a very, very general rule, an outsider coming into your family and … Continue reading

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To Someone With an Illustrious Idea of the Roman Senate

do people like to imagine this? maybe cicero stans do but when i think about representations of the SENATVS in film and TV, the gestalt I have picked up is of a bunch of fat old men in togas barking … Continue reading

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