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the_real_simon_iff
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Last seen: May 31, 2023
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RE: RIP Kenneth Anger

@toadstoolwe If I remember correctly, people have done it but to no avail. It is not to be found in their online searchable archives.

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RE: RIP Kenneth Anger

I once had the honour to meet him very briefly after a fascinating talk he gave in Vienna a decade or so ago. I asked him about the whereabouts of his...

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RE: The Sacred Seven

Ouch! It usually hurts when people here go "political" and it doubly or thrice hurts with Shiva. Seven people doing the same thing for decades now: tr...

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RE: A Bryon Gysin Dream Machine Simulator on Youtube?

The artwork probably wouldn't make it today...

3 weeks ago
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RE: A Bryon Gysin Dream Machine Simulator on Youtube?

@katrice "At Stockholm" did many wonders for me. Also "AL OR AL".

3 weeks ago
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RE: Chat GPT and the Book of the Law, Part Deux

The AI Liber L quotes were so hilariously wrong, that I thought it might have been a parody from you. No offense. I used the term dangerous not in the...

3 weeks ago
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RE: Chat GPT and the Book of the Law, Part Deux

It's either drunk or has gone completely crazy in just a few months. Which is of course quite dangerous. In real life noone would let you go away with...

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RE: Thank you, LAShTAL!

I misunderstood you then and I am not surprised. I wanted to convey that after all this years there is a special kind of "let's call it out-of-me-in-p...

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RE: Thank you, LAShTAL!

I can. But I am not sure I always like it - or understand it. Of course my "path", though heavily interrupted at several points, goes way longer than ...

3 weeks ago
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RE: [Gematria] On ciphers, probabilities, and the search for "meaningful matches"

Well, of course the Logo started out as showing the two Lutz Lemke Ls (and a darker one). But of course I was aware of the many reflections this thing...

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RE: [Gematria] On ciphers, probabilities, and the search for "meaningful matches"

See here:/p> ... the cube ... Totally off-topic, but I was perplexed at first seeing my logo:

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

@toadstoolwe Good for you. Congratulations. Let's say the present tense form "I AM a mean drunk" probably was misleading and then get back to the thre...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

Maybe @ignant666 meant this post here from the "Great Pyramid reveals more secrets" thread, you can get to it by clicking the little arrow on the uppe...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

The correct name is also helpful, even with old-school google.

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

The AI training obviously did not include ALL websites, because a little more info could have been expected from that tool. I am using it quite a bit ...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

@katrice ETA: I seem to have found it. Now let's hope that I can get a response! That would be fantastic ... and surprising.

3 weeks ago
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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

As a side info combining two threads, let it be known that AI (ChatGPT) has never heard of Amado Crowley or the "Book of Desolation".

3 weeks ago
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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

@toadstoolwe I didn't want to insinuate anything about your motives, I was just talking of my impressions I gathered when this stuff was discussed man...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

It also seems that only Nazi-friendly people who happen to be "interested" in the occult (or in megalomania) see anything worthwhile in stuff like tha...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

Yes, it's weird with older threads. The first two pages of this one were okay, than for two pages everthing was cursive, then for two pages everything...

4 weeks ago
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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

You should take better care. @sittingnow has resurrected it since he is working on an Amado video and is looking for more info. Seems like a perfectly...

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RE: The man behind Amado Crowley

What an interesting and entertaining thread this was. Most of it came at a time when I was out of the game a little and I only ollowed it in its begin...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Just ask it to interprete the chapters individually, or ask for an interpretation of Chapter 1, then 2, then 3. You can also challenge its answers or ...

1 month ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Exactly, or the "inner flame"? AI seems to love it. AI is not understanding anything, it just repeats what it finds most in the web. And that IS sligh...

1 month ago
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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

@hadgigegenraum You might be interested in this:I don't know if her "Visions" are included, but still.

1 month ago
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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

Fun fact: among AC's possessions in Paris (as catalogued by Leah Hirsig) was a "Tibetan Banner".

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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

Ah, I see my "Alostraels Visions" begin January 1924, though it says October 1923 on the cover. Have to search a little, these are all old-school xero...

2 months ago
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RE: Save the Abbey of Thelema

@hadgigegenraum I cannot remember any proposed change by Alostrael in her "Visions". What I remember is that she wanted to stop CCXX being used and ci...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

You do not seem to get it. Nobody's cage was ever rattled by Liber Bogus' premise: that there is something wrong with the Cairo story. We here at Lash...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

@toadstoolwe Ten or more posts gone to waste. You could have just copy-pasted the correct weblink or maybe just confess you posted it wrongly, maybe e...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

It's been a while since I read the PDF, so I don't know if all the conclusions give definite proof. There are many "which hotel was it?" solutions aro...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Actually, there is a very interesting website and he probably is referring to this part of the website (which is a little "old-school" in design and n...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

I clearly remember the time when RTC (an earlier member incarnation of him) announced that he found proof that the paper Liber L was written on was no...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

You obviously did not get what was meant here. When I asked you if you really think that people are attracted to Crowley/Thelema because of the Cairo ...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

I am here for the Aleister Crowley Society, not to explain or to represent Thelema. And surely I am everything else but a glowing triumph as a person,...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

That's a really good answer. Especially the "not caring about the details" part. Sex it is. And very often the megalomaniac "the slaves shall serve" t...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Well, that doesn't help any discussion. I wish this would not become a Social Media disaster, but it feels like it. Maybe you think about what you exc...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Yeah, read that first. It's better. Though it won't help with Bogus... and I frankly have no idea why you mention it. But what do I know of conspiracy...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

@toadstoolwe By reception I meant the "Liber L reception story as told by AC". This has nothing to do with any insights AC received or not. In fact, R...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Okay, I confess, I have no idea how angry ... sorry ... disgusted old men tick. There goes Richard, one of them, making a lengthy post (mostly consist...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Of course you can reach your own conclusions, I thought you might be interested in facts. Not facts about Liber L, but facts about why RTC is not so h...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

I promise, I make a break after answering this fanboy. Toadstoolwe, RTC did not "raise our ire" because of his detective story, since there are no O...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

One last answer, sorry again. If you really want to "defend your thesis" again, Richard, why not open a new thread? Since not many people seem to be c...

2 months ago
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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

Sorry for the multiple post but Richard asked me via PM on Facebook to answer here on Lashtal. I DID NOT contribute greatly to a defence of the F/K ma...

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RE: ChatGPT's summary of Liber al vel Legis

I would dare to say: only you benefit. Because it sells. If you really think any inconsistencies in any of Crowley's notebooks would change how Thelem...

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