He couldn't fight..at all. There's a report in his Confessions that his arrogant ass was beaten black and blue by some yokels in his university days....

That sword- defense move, is it taught as a move in any school of martial arts?

The underlying theme is; imagine someone clueless about self-defense and they never did much fighting at all so they are looking for a school of marti...

If a bigger guy grabs a karate-guy's collars and starts getting aggressive what should an effectual karate guy going to do? Also, in another scenari...

@shiva Do you think there are other martial arts that are more effective than karate for real world self- defense situations?

I meant if the opponent has a weapon but you don't i.e. not in a dojo but in the real world.

What about shotokan?

I hear that Karate that we know today is useless for actual real world self-defense. For example, you can't block a machete with your forearm. None ...

One during a Waxing crescent Moon and the other during a Waxing half moon.

This crops up now and again i.e. "Bowie and the occult/Crowley". He never actually discussed it directly or openly the way e.g. Jaz Coleman does. S...

Yes , Satan, see Blake's famous quote about mills. Blake, someone that AC admired a lot. Keeping it Crowley-related for ya there.

The battleground is the world, especially in modern times. It was bad in Dickens's time then it improved a bit but Satan has had the upper hand sinc...

It was BS. Ignorance is darkness, y'know like the soul of Milton Friedman and Murdoch, Nigel Farrage etc etc.

Yeah that was more like it and according to Shiva, magic prosperity rituals are not evolutionary. Why then, did the Most High make the Sephirah, Chese...

Some good points there from AC.

I recall that Crowley did prosperity rituals, something like visualizing gold coins falling around him during 'sex magic'? If I'm not mistaken. I t...

Let's keep it OT, a Thelemic magician wants to invoke the energies of a God in a prosperity ritual which may involve affecting the sales of a product ...

This is semantics, no I don't get it, please explain.

@the_real_simon_iff I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that your misrepresentations of what I said are part of you reading it inc...

Get out more....they certainly do exist. You don't think that Utopianism is in-built in Leftist thinking? It's substitute xtian Eschatology (not a eu...

....and my other posts in this thread which gave an extensive account of the Marxist/'Leftist' view? Like something from a Radical Left newspaper.

Well it is isn't it? Ignant says something is silly but didn't expand/explain himself and therefore leaves us reduced to using guesswork or ESP to de...

One number out but 792 crops up in 'sacred geometry'/gematria and in Stonehenge. The earth's diameter is 7,920 miles. 7,920 thousand feet equals ...

That's intriguing.

Basically you've heard the argument for Marxism in Thelema, in the spirit of bigotry-challenging 'Crowleyan' balancing every idea against it's opposit...

Yes, I first heard about it in Colin Wilson's book The Occult,he did a chapter on Crowley. It was a high street best seller. Later on my school fri...

Every sentence of the book is for all. Most don't know about the book. I suspect that those who become billionaires (out of the human community's p...

Why? What purpose would that serve in terms of you shredding my argument/point?

I went on to explain how politics relates to the Liber L maxim but apart from that, maybe you're a sensitive soul who abhors disagreements but interpr...

You call that constructive? Then I am the one asking for more of "AC tobacco brand" or "AC laundry list" threads, as it tells us more about AC than an...

'Satan' in Christian terminology.

You live in Brooklyn? Check out Manhatten, it's private schools and who they send to Yale and Harvard and who come back to work in New York. Check out...

Apologies for double post but I've found the guidelines and there's no rules about discussing political science or the like,as follows;

Do you have the link about forum rules banning political talk?

I simply made a 'constructive point' and then Shiva and Michael came in (probably because they were 'bored') and they tried to shut me down without m...

So you understand the thread either?

You bluntly intefered in this thread tonight. You're either an idiot or you're doing a great impersonation of one. I asked a question in the OP (se...

You and Shiva. Keep up. Besides, one individual's mind can be as a mob, see Christ exorcising the mad man. Matthew 8:28-34,Mark 5:1-20,Luke 8:26-...

This is a fine example of necromancy of a dead thread about The Black Lodge in order to insert the usual political comments that have nothing to do wi...

Some threads are more important than e.g. which brand of cigar Crowley smoked so they deserve "reviving". If you're not contributing then kindly......

See Bill Clinton's NAFTA conspiracy and Obama's TARP bail out and neglect of those that the banks made homeless. The Democrat party is the other bus...

Basically Crowley was enamoured by Nietzsche and was fond of quoting him here and there when he was in a funny mood. If you consider the following Ma...

Apologies double post but significant Nazis who were anti capitalist (whether that makes them one time Marxists is another thing I guess) Gottfrie...

Then (UK ahead of everyone else) canal building and The evil Enclosures Act i.e. landowners telling peasants that they can now F off and die for all t...

@the_real_simon_iff Where's your holiday at?

You have a good holiday mein freund.

How about checking out 16 minutes of this Political Science graduate's analysis; quite detailed with good refences, gives a convincing argument; T...

Your definition of capitalism then remains your secret....for some reason.

Do you know what capitalism is? What do you think it is?

Like, what? Ok think about the earliest societies, there would've been bountiful resources of nature, farming, hunting animals...and some minority ...