"Sobek (also called Sebek, Sochet, Sobk, and Sobki), in Greek, Suchos (Σοῦχος) and in Latin Suchus ("crocodile"), was an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and fluid nature." -Wiki
Yeah, him. I remember the Sebek name. Slippery fellow. I don't know how these reptilian dudes get deified.
I don't know how these reptilian dudes get deified.
Sobek-Re would blow your mind.
Thou shalt not should on thyself, or others.
Good. Follow your own advice.
Crock
Like a toxic professional hostility on a slowcooker chili circuit where it's forbidden to mention the competition.
I would like to point out that i have now incontrovertibly demonstrated the ability to evoke demonic entities to visible appearance, speaking of "toxic... hostility".
I mention, indirectly, a certain creature on June 18 ( https://www.lashtal.com/forums/postid/109085/), at which time he had not posted for more than a month.
The very next day, he begins posting again, and once again spewing his very own trademarked mixture of egotism, jealousy, spite, bile, and passive-aggressive whining.
Q.E.D.
i have now incontrovertibly demonstrated the ability to evoke demonic entities to visible appearance ...
Fine. That's phase 1.
Now, for phase 2, on the sunniest day of the annum (anno? anu?), please demonstrate control of said evoked demonic presence, visibly seen on my screen, spouting condescension.
You know th drill. I give you license to depart, causing no harm to humans, dogs, or the environs.
Then, after that, when you are sobre rhymes with webre), please clean up the mess.
Oh, sh...ucks!
I knew i should have kept reading past the "Evoking to visible appearance" part- but it seemed so easy, and all the other kids were doing it. I blame peer pressure, and society. I should have "Just Said 'No'" to evoking demons, just like they told us in school.
Working on that part now, had 777 out to look up the right incense for demon-banishing; realized the wife's half-burnt macumba sage-bundle will work.
Reminded of the old joke about the Catholic priest holding back the vampire with a crucifix, and Latin chants. Vampire says [sadly bemused tone] "Oy vey, have you got the wrong vampire!" [note for the culturally-challenged: he is a Jewish vampire].
I blame peer pressure, and society.
Okay. Accepted. Do one banishing ritual, and forget the whole thing. This too shall pass later today ... or tomorrow. Isn't Jesus supposed to come in before The End, or his his Last Judgment the End of The End? I can't keep it straight what comes Last.
Do one banishing ritual
That would require his doing actual practice.
creature
You're like that guy who was always jealous of Mozart.
I would like to point out that i have now incontrovertibly demonstrated the ability to evoke demonic entities to visible appearance, speaking of "toxic... hostility".
If any credit in that sense could be taken it would be Jamie for his post mentioning The Book of Perfection. The book title was underlined in the first post upon my recent return to subtly communicate to Jamie that this name drop was noted.
The underlying idea of calling a magician forth is reminiscent of a Carlos Castaneda story told by a shaman who talks about the risks.
As to the link for your post:
I mention, indirectly, a certain creature on June 18 ( https://www.lashtal.com/forums/postid/109085/),
A discussion I had about Resh regarding the position of the stars at midnight a few days prior to your post prompted a search that turned up an image in an astronomical article that might keep you occupied.
You can yell at the stars. Threaten to fight them. All that.
at which time he had not posted for more than a month.
Busy doing the Work. Now it's a Feast before the next phase of the Work.
If the Statistics Counter for the site is an indication there are a lot of people that are away.
When I was last posting here 6 weeks ago the site's Daily Visits were around 7000+ with a few low days of high 4000; the site's monthly visits were around 180,000. Now it's 111,000. A 70,000/35% view drop in 6 weeks. Not even reaching an average of 4000 hits a day in the last 30 days.
The very next day, he begins posting again, and once again spewing his very own trademarked mixture of egotism, jealousy, spite, bile, and passive-aggressive whining.
Q.E.D.
For someone that doesn't like whining you sure do complain a lot. Maybe what you're perceiving is your own noise.
We are fortunate indeed that a High Initiate, a real magician, who does "actual practice[s]", a man that some have compared to Mozart, is willing to condescend to mingle among us during "a Feast before the next phase of [his] Work."
You can yell at the stars. Threaten to fight them. All that.
Or i could just just go a bit south, where the local phenomenon you invest meaning in vanishes, due to being an artifact of a certain point of view local to you that you imagine to be universal. Or important, or something?
Or i could even go to the other side of the Equator, where there is no North Star, or Big Dipper, or indeed any constellation included in the things you've read, or been told, about.
Or i could just remember the night sky in those places.
If the Statistics Counter for the site is an indication there are a lot of people that are away.
It was active during the lockdown. As lockdown lifting approached it went really quiet. Some days there were only 2 or 3 of us with hardly any posts. For some reason, it has picked up recently, in the past few days ... probably the impending End of Time. You know, subconscious promptings to get online and confess before The End of the World, or at least the latest version of the Mayan calendar that was wrong in 2012, but not for me, because '12 allowed me to catch up with myself, and I've been strange ever since.
In cases of recalcitrant spirits, the magician may write the demon's name (or sigil, or whatever works for the magician) on a piece of parchment, or paper, or wood, and place that talisman in a black box full of stinking substances ... until the spirit relent, or repent, and come under control. This method should not be used against human microcosms unless one wants to get dirty karmic soot on their shiny clear mind.
I have often wondered how many of the thousands of daily hits are unique visitors (and not one person hitting several pages). Also, how many are actual readers of the news & the forums. Or how many are scholars, looking in the archives?
We can count the regular posters on our fingers and toes.
On the dark side, how many are 'bots? And how many are crusing bots or peeps looking to get in to sell us Viagra(R) and Russian Brides? How many are lurkers from the black arts, seeking secret knowledge of how to enlarge their phallus, or worse, keeping tabs on the hearts and minds of heretical Thelema?
Where, oh where is the digital Black Box with Stinking substances that shall protect our software from The Black Lodge? Don't tell me it is The Horus Toy(TM), for I cannot bring myself to believe it is so.
We are fortunate indeed that a High Initiate
"...acting the great chief..."
Like from Rob Roy.
Speaking of cattle. Do you remember this thread?
https://www.lashtal.com/forums/submissions/seed-of-ethic-a-new-codification/
a man that some have compared to Mozart
Flattering. Who did that? You were compared to that other guy. What's his name?
It was active
Started keeping track of the yearly counter for the next few weeks to see how it compares with the same period last year. Would be cool to get more site stats.
This method should not be used against human microcosms unless one wants to get dirty karmic soot on their shiny clear mind.
A couple magicians tried this on me. They succeeded in getting me into the triangle. Keeping me there was another matter. It was revealing as to the experience of the spirit and the vulnerabilities of those who evoke spirits.
Umm, yeah. Are you supposed to be the boss-guy in the movie clip, and is that supposed to be cool?
Like you are tall and blond with a freshly dry-cleaned Feileadh Mòr [invented by late 19th century English Romantics, and London cloth merchants, and never actually historically worn by my Highland ancestors], and stabbed me? Ouch!
As to that thread, yeah, oddly, i had entirely forgotten that episode of you mystically vibing with a drive-by loony, in a thread that got locked, and where my participation, in total, consisted of the words "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?" ["WTF?"].
It is possible that this might be perhaps because this thread, with 9 posts before Paul very sensibly locked it, was in November 2012. Have you been nursing some grudge since then? For almost eight years?
Have you considered getting psychiatric care? I mean like seriously?
the movie clip?
Posting the clip wasn't really about me. The use of denigration written for that one character sounded similar to yours. Rob Roy also has some connection to Crowley.
was in November 2012. Have you been nursing some grudge since then?
November 2008. And there is no grudge related to it from my side although it wouldn't be entirely misleading to call that Grue a grudge.
I was looking for that thread while writing the post about Comet Holmes earlier in this thread. To use as an example of an echo of the experience with the comet a year earlier. The name of the thread eluded at the time making the search difficult. Upon remembering that someone posted 'whiskey tango foxtrot' followed by a quick site specific google search there it was. It was funny to find that was your post and that that may have been the first time I noted one of your posts on the forum.
That thread also provides me a way to thank you and give you a bit of sport. You act like you have a beef and want some. That Grue is a side of BEEF. My taunt to Informutation in regards to it was teasing. That rodeo was a lot fun and challenging. Enlightening. You want to end a grudge? It'll answer your question "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"
November 2012
Oh, Lordy be. Just a month before The Last (Previous) End of the World and the Mayan Calendar, falsely so decoded. If a comet shows up, get ready to launch the lifeboats.
When I was last posting here 6 weeks ago the site's Daily Visits were around 7000+ with a few low days of high 4000; the site's monthly visits were around 180,000. Now it's 111,000. A 70,000/35% view drop in 6 weeks. Not even reaching an average of 4000 hits a day in the last 30 days.
Most likely explanation, I'd have thought, relates to upgrades to the WordPress Statistics software.
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Most likely explanation, I'd have thought, relates to upgrades to the WordPress Statistics software.
That sounds reasonable. And with lockdown possibly boosting views and posts followed by the sudden decline in posts with the easing of lockdowns, as Shiva pointed out, it's putting the stats into perspective. Little of this, little of that. Thanks for the update about the software.
On a site feature related issue(can be brought over to the tweaks thread), a feature that was nice to have which I immediately noticed was gone on my return was the online user list. Other than that very minor inconvenience the site's changes that I've noticed so far are all looking orderly and working for me.
One ritual, but how many times?
The "one" refers to the number of times. If I recommend, say, 7 times, the whole game may fall apart. This would be similar to The End of the World, but different,
The "one" refers to the number of times. If I recommend, say, 7 times, the whole game may fall apart. This would be similar to The End of the World, but different,
Looking at the thread presence in regards to the performance it seems to have happened.
Speaking of presence... 5000+ visits yesterday. 🎉
A 25% increase. Gotta pump those numbers up.
feature that was nice to have which I immediately noticed was gone on my return was the online user list
I thought that was a fun feature too. Welcome back. By the way, you're getting awfully close to post number 666, make it count. 🙂
This channel seems to be the best, currently-showing but quiet and politically-inactive, thread for this sort of new definition of reality ...
'Black neutron star' discovery changes astronomy
Scientists have discovered an astronomical object that has never been observed before.
It is more massive than collapsed stars, known as "neutron stars", but has less mass than black holes.
Such "black neutron stars" were not thought possible and will mean ideas for how neutron stars and black holes form will need to be rethought.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53151106
Perhaps the scientists have discovered the macrocosmic equivalent of A Black Brother?
Rethinking stellar formations is useless. They are trying to map a specifically-defined non-rational event with their minds ... which may break down in the process. I recommend all scientists to go to Zen school, or at least read The Book of Lies daily (to keep balanced).
Perhaps the scientists have discovered the macrocosmic equivalent of A Black Brother?
It's always black brothers with you. So much accusation. Like the unscrupulous trying to sic the inquisition.
5000+ hits again. 🍾
Trend? What's changed in the last couple days?
It's always black brothers with you.
Gotcha again. My sense of sarcastic humor is sometimes too subtle for comprehension. I did not set a purposeful gotcha trap. They set themselves for the unwary. My part is simply to make ridiculous statements so close to the edge of believability that it's sometimes hard to tell what I really mean.
My sense of sarcastic humor is sometimes too subtle for comprehension. I did not set a purposeful gotcha trap. They set themselves for the unwary. My part is simply to make ridiculous statements so close to the edge of believability that it's sometimes hard to tell what I really mean.
Very clever. Few engage in that humour such with predictable skill and regularity. It's right that you should pat yourself on the back.
was in November 2012. Have you been nursing some grudge since then?
November 2008. And there is no grudge related to it from my side although it wouldn't be entirely misleading to call that Grue a grudge.
*snip*
You act like you have a beef and want some. That Grue is a side of BEEF. You want to end a grudge[the Grue]? It'll answer your question "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"
Few engage in that humour such with predictable skill and regularity. It's right that you should pat yourself on the back.
If it's so predictable and regular, then why do you usually (not always) assume the negative, pretending to be caught in the lie, so that you can take me to task?
I am untaskable. My attorney-out-law informs me, and everyone else, that I am legally insane. so you might as well give it up. I am willing to support your journey outbound, or is it inbound, into the next stage. In fact, I will light the rocket. I will keep defending humanity against The Black Lodge, until you get in position to take charge of the war. Then I can go cut out my paper dollies.
*snip*
You act like you have a beef and want some.
I have been remissive and unclear. It now become apparent that Ignant3x6 displays the characteristics of the 4th ray. I don't know if it's inner or outer, or both (single)(probably outer for sure). The 4th ray is argumentative and combative. The key was there when he recently confessed, "I like to argue."
Now that we've settled that, I find the rest of the stuff, like Grues and BEEFS to be far to esoteric for my pay grade, which is zero.
"I like to argue."
Straight talk...that there might be contributing to depressed viewership. People walking on eggshells or just not wanting to bother posting to have to deal with that shit. Loaded questions, sniping, insults on usernames or avatars. Can he take it though? Gave him a little dose tonight. Will he just scream and cry and shit up threads with his issues until he gets his way? When was the last time he took a month or more break from the forum?
It now become apparent that Ignant3x6 displays the characteristics of the 4th ray. I don't know if it's inner or outer, or both (single)(probably outer for sure). The 4th ray is argumentative and combative.
outer, and given his familiarity with the routine and misplaced rage he must have been stuck there awhile.
That Grue could help him advance.
Can he take it though?
I warned him that you were dangerous and to take care. There is something about these 4th ray types: They do not know fear (of losing, of embarrassment, of getting hit) in the usual sense. Chris also confesses to "just wading in to a fight" without thinking or concern. I warn you, they are both dangerous ... so take care.
I am not dangerous. My attorney-out-law told me that ("benign" he said). I am merely insane. So you don't need to take care with me.
But you do have to read The Book of Lies.
When was the last time he took a month or more break from the forum?
Objection. Irrelevant
I took a break about 3 years ago. For about 12 days. I was in the hospital. They did things I can't remember to me with sharp tools. Then they gave me drugs (Chesed variety) for days. I was unable to get to a keyboard to type stupid things to the less-endowed, and I was unable to discuss samadhi with the cruisers. Then the Masons came in the guise of nurses, and they pronounced the lost word, so I got to come back to have the last word.
Good night.
They do not know fear (of losing, of embarrassment, of getting hit) in the usual sense.
Like those weighted clown balloons kids punch.
That is exactly what I was thinking. That ignant is like this one guy I knew as a kid. Always getting his ass beat. Never admitting he did. Then starts a fight with a person that just beat them to get beat up again. And then say that he didn't get beat. Not even 'the other guy was lucky' ..like straight up denial. That's what they remind of
Irrelevant
Disagree. Online addiction could be involved.
However, you don't display the same behaviors so your online presence is irrelevant in this senseB.
Thanks for the real advice.
Sleep well.
I have actually had my ass kicked quite thoroughly several times: bikers, and guidos with bats were the most notable incidents. And i've been made to bleed quite often. My hands, elbows, knees, and shins are covered with scar tissue. It is true that no one has ever been able to injure me enough that i wouldn't keep telling them to fuck off through the blood.
But see, that is stuff that happens in the real world. Here we use words, and our intellects; i know this is unfair to folks like you who aren't very smart, and who do a lot of bullshitting, but i did not make this world.
bullshitting
was in November 2012. Have you been nursing some grudge since then?
November 2008. And there is no grudge related to it from my side although it wouldn't be entirely misleading to call that Grue a grudge.
*snip*
You act like you have a beef and want some. That Grue is a side of BEEF. You want to end a grudge[the Grue]? It'll answer your question "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"
Come clearly where the flavour is
Seen here in black and white
You've got two seconds baby boy
In burning light white light
What's the difference?
Yes, it is well known that there is no form of wit more devastating than a jpeg of some astrological stuff with Taurus, that fails to load, and an insipid synth-pop-with-female-vocals cover of a pretty-lame-in-the-first-place Bauhaus song.
You have cut me to the quick, sirrah.
The higher up the Tree Of Life the monkey say he climb, the more he show his ass. I mean, not that there's anything wrong with a grown man having the musical taste of a 14-year-old "Goth" girl who shops at Hot Topic.
Stop buzzing around and answer the question pignant
was in November 2012. Have you been nursing some grudge since then?
November 2008. And there is no grudge related to it from my side although it wouldn't be entirely misleading to call that Grue a grudge.
*snip*
You act like you have a beef and want some. That Grue is a side of BEEF. You want to end a grudge[the Grue]? It'll answer your question "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?"
I will return to my earlier "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?" You do understand that, to accuse a person of avoiding some question you have asked, you have to have actually asked a question, right?
And i do apologize for my egregious error in, while quite drunk in anticipation of the apparently-postponed End Of The World that had been scheduled for last weekend, seeing those posts from '08, 12 years ago, and in typing my post, getting bollixed, and saying '12, 8 years ago.
Perhaps you, too, will be old and drunk some day- oh wait, was that insensitive, what with the whole "fire-water" thing, and your "registered as such tribal status"?
Anyway, your posts are currently too silly to warrant, or make possible, any real reply.
You want to end a grudge[the Grue]?
I don't have any grudge against you, Comrade Maple Leaf Sunrise Eighth Notes.
You consistently post really dumb stuff, have very lame musical and cultural taste, have never denied not eating meat or cheese, and are constantly antagonistic to me in this very loopy way. You are also a chronic liar, and bullshit artist.
Stop doing these things, and post something intelligent or useful, and i will stop mocking you. Maybe.
Just answer yes or no. Save yourself the indignity of timing out. @ignant666.
You have until midnight your time.
Since i bear you no grudge, it is not possible to answer your yes/no question, and i can tell you i will thus suffer what you call "the indignity of timing out" at your deadline of midnight EST.
On the rare occasions when you have posted something that wasn't just petulant "I am so a High Initiate!" posing, or videos of lame synth-pop with female vocals/lame techno (a possibly redundant locution), or your inane views about US politics, i have been quick to acknowledge this- see, eg, the COVID-19 thread, where you once or twice posted something that was not as buffoonish as your normal postings.
But most of your postings here are vapid, trollish, and just rather pointless. You are clearly desperate for attention, and there can be no doubt that smearing oneself with feces, and running around clucking like a wet hen, will gain one attention of a sort.
Like those weighted clown balloons kids punch.
We use said clown for practicing punches in the martial arts class. Said class is now limboized due to virus concerns and a general fear of death. Said clown is resting now.
Online addiction could be involved.
"Could" is a tentative word. "Gimmee proof please," said the judge.
You have until midnight your time.
Gunfight at the LAShTAL Corral come High Kephra.
This is about an egregore that Informutation announced as a Grue. Did that go over your head? The word was used quite a bit. You do have a tendency to play stupid when confronted and think you're being clever.
Anyhow, here it is highlighted specifically from our conversation:
it wouldn't be entirely misleading to call that Grue a grudge
You want to end a grudge[the Grue]?
I passed the ordeal as part of my magical attainment.
My challenge to you in asking if for you to prove you can overcome the ordeal.
You want to end a grudge[the Grue]?
You got dibs.
A-ha! What a foxy maneuver.
Dibs: the right to share (or choose) something.
The bestowal of dibs is magically binding, you know. So let me think hard on it.
I am a fan of both Jack Vance and Zork, as well as those Sierra adventure games (which is where I think I first heard about it) so I have had my distant encounters with the thoughtform of the grue. Well, the grue as it was originally conceived, anyway.
Unless we're talking about an Ur-grue?
I am possessed of that romantic spirit, and tantalized by the idea of fighting monsters, I must admit. But that's cholera. Too much bile.
And I've been relaxing here, in the hypostyle for so long, it wouldn't really shock me to have the thing turn up. It would serve only to disturb my gentle repose, if anything.
But who hasn't been in the temple, here on LAShTAL?
Let me think a while longer.
Shoutout to the Deus Ex Machina in the site software bolding my posts for me.
The first one with Chaucer was hilarious. Humour heuristic is well set.
Being a grown-up (what you Millennials call a practitioner of "adulting"), i don't know what a "Grue" is. The only time i have ever encountered this word is in this, and perhaps the 2008, thread; googling reveals it has something to do with some video game.
But since you said "You want to end a grudge[the Grue]?", i assumed "Grue" and "grudge" mean the same thing- you, after all, used one to define the other.
I am delighted to hear that, in your no doubt refulgent imagination, you have "passed the [Grue] ordeal as part of [your] magical attainment." It has been said that "The gross must pass through Grues."
Congratulations, oh High Initiate And Adept.
@djedi
Even without the advantage of having seen the sigil that was in the OP in 2008 you show courage.
Also careful consideration. Hearten for you've also shown to have the particular set of unique skills to meet this legendary challenge.
It wouldn't have been offered to you otherwise.
Success is thy proof
Your timer starts now I guess, but you have to wait until after 9pm PDT to announce. If you need more time after that would 24 hours be enough? There's a bit of a lineup forming, but could give you an extra day.
Chris also confesses to "just wading in to a fight" without thinking or concern. I warn you, they are both dangerous ... so take care.
I generally swore off active fighting at some point in the last few years. Must be my 'iniation-side-effects' lol
I will still kick your ass, or be beaten. But I will generally enjoy the adrenaline either way. Junkie.
These days I just like to practise for defence, or watch other people do the 'work'
Its much more skillful to negotiate and make your enemy laugh and into your ally, than to throw hands. At least I think so.
NOX sure is a mouthy one but he seems unable to negotiate.