All you nibbas babbling on about demons and all such nonsense are a buncha scaredycats. The answer's been the same since the dawn of civilization: get your local tradition-approved practitioner to help you out, and you'll be fine. Shaman, exorcist, psychiatrist, whatever suits you and your culture best. You have a problem -> you are incompatible with your culture -> get someone designated by the culture for making you fit in again to come and sort you out.The whole demons/devils/evil thing is just a tool to keep people interested enough in religion and spirituality to come to the actual Truth, which is that YOU are the biggest, baddest motherfucker on the block, and there's truly nothing that can get in your way. Invoke this, banish that, make a deal with whoeverthefuck - it's all a necessary distraction invented to keep people in line and cool with whatever's going on within the culture until they're Free in a way which transcends the culture.
>>42765049You have Dunning Kruger confirmation bias
>>42765054Thanks for psychologising me! I'll make sure to attend the latest conference on buzzwords and modern lingo so I can understand your post better, O erudite one
>>42765049this just isn't a very friendly way to engage in discourse
>>42765122I get frustrated, I'm sorry. I guess the overall tone of the board is getting to me. Still, I think this is one way of getting the ideas through some people's thick skulls.
To fit into modern western culture is a pretty shit deal man.You wage and have no woman, existing 40 hours+ a week to provide value to a shareholders.Who wants that
>>42765167>"Can anyone explain getting up at 5am to quaff "dunkin," work 2 part timejewbs, 4 hrs in traffic, fat wife? Whyisn't possession better?"Um I don't know man, maybe try hanging out with beings who like your presence. I think of demons as being like thorny plants. The thorns are a sign that they don't want to be touched. I see other beings that like to share consciousness, like angels, ETs, the Fae, and so on, as like roses: a certain degree of danger, since they are thorned, but also they want to be smelled and so you get the pleasant whiff of their consciousness as they slide past you. Finally, there's beings that absolutely do want to interact with you, like the God/s you believe in. They/He/She wants to be One with you!
>>42765049My culture is self-destructive in the extreme. In the forest I found the opposite: a mutual flourishing from the activities of a diverse many.Tracing the origins of this cancer led me to self-interest as the ultimate which is the foundation of modern civilization both in philosophy and practice. Modern civilization is nothing but a blind, meaningless competition to find out who is the most effectively greedy.
>>42765225Yeah nonhumans seem pretty dope compared to the common denominator of human in 3d that I've met
>>42765252In the Fallout show they called it the "great game of capitalism" which is a superb description: it's just a game, a game that selects for progressively more tyrannical despots to be in positions of power. A self-optimizing system of domination: self-perfecting slavery.
>>42765252This is a partial truth. Equally, there is a tremendous savagery in nature, and a flourishing of consciousness, kindness, empathy and mutual growth among humans. You have to be able to hold contrasting notions at once for them to resolve themselves into a bigger picture. Like what nature, including its productions such as humanity with our buildings and computers and so on, has been doing all along. It's all One evolutionary process flowing through all creation, and that means that on the present moment You are at the forefront of it - at the very growing edge of all manifestation! So loving and loving divinely, with divine purpose, is the name of the game. Bring that awe, wonder and astonishment that you experience in nature to the everyday life you see around you, and you'll be surprised what you find.Consider me as one companion you've met along your way. I've got nothing but love for you, and I hope that shows through my words. I am another you, after all, as the ancients say! Never forget the compassion and goodness that you have been shown, even as you work your hardest to find solutions to the wicked problems that plague our material condition.At the end of the spiritual path, it has been said, there is a return to the world: a real embrace of all that you had relinquished in order to enter your advanced state. So go on! Give up what you need to give up in order to grow. We'll be waiting for you with open arms when you choose to make the divine return.
>>42765505When I was a teenager I fell in love with the cosmos and amateur astronomy. I built a 10" Dobsonian telescope, observed religiously, and poured through books and magazines. The endless beauty and fascination captivated me.In the last few years I have bicycled and hiked thousands of miles in the temperate rainforests of Washington state, driven by the same desire to appreciate and bask in natural beauty.If the masses knew the magnificence, beauty, and wonder of the universe, Earth, and their locality the entire global order would collapse. The system requires the mass devaluation of nature to justify its mass destruction.The universe is a creative process that has continually produced novel complexity with no end in sight. At first the universe was too hot n dense for even atoms to exist; possibilities were constrained to the simplest type, and without things sticking together in a temporally extended coherence possibilities couldn't build upon themselves.When the universe expanded and cooled enough for atoms to form all the possibilities that stars and galaxies contained became possible. Th first stars forged the heavier elements which made possible for the formation of rocky planets such as Earth. This in turn allowed for the emergence of life, which allowed for the emergence of human consciousness, which allowed for the universe to investigate its deepest mysteries through human inquiry.The universe is a creative process that is also a community of co-creators comprised of all types of entities - a tapestry where each thread is woven from and weaves with all others. There is an almost animistic sense of everything having value (without making claims of souls or consciousness) - everything contributes to the universe, everything has a history stretching back to the beginning of time.
>>42765787Aho, Mitakuye Oyasin … All my relations, I honour you in this circle of life with me today. I am grateful for this opportunity to acknowledge you in this prayer….To the Stars, for the ultimate gift of life, I thank you.To the mineral nation that has built and maintained my bones and all foundations of life experience, I thank you.To the plant nation that sustains my organs and body and gives me healing herbs for sickness, I thank you.To the animal nation that feeds me from your own flesh and offers your loyal companionship in this walk of life, I thank you.To the human nation that shares mypaths a soul upon the sacred wheel of Earthly life, I thank you.To the Spirit nation that guides me invisibly through the ups and downs of life and for carrying the torch of light through the Ages, I thank you.To the Four Winds of Change and Growth, I thank you.You are all my relations, my relatives, without whom I would not live. We are in the circle of life together, co-existing, co-dependent, co-creating our destiny. One, not more important than the other. One nation evolving from the other, and yet each dependent upon the one above and the one below. All of us a part of the Great Mystery.Thank you for this Life.
Art is another of my great passions. And I have pursued it with similar enthusiasm and depth. I loved it since a child, and when I got a computer in 1998 I immediately began to experiment with photoshop and 3D art.I flourished in the creative culture of the 2000's internet which vastly inspired me. This was a culture of making stuff for the purpose of making stuff, for the joy of creative exploration and the sharing of it. Nothing mattered on the internet and it was beautiful. The only criterion was how much you were enjoying yourself. Hyper-monetization and hyper-politicization ruined everything.Here's y YTMND sites from 2006:https://ytmnd.com/users/anono/sitesIn 2007 I joined Second Life and built a 3D art business that make $11,500 at its peak:https://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/11/next-big-thing-in-virtual-worlds-that.htmlI made a series of memepunk videos starting in 2015 weeks before Trump took office and the literal meme war that followed: https://vimeo.com/124736839I studied memetics in college (The Selfish Gene by Dawkins, Media Virus by Rushkoff, Virus of the Mind by Richard Brody, The Meme Machine by Susan Blackmore.)
I watched my first speculative nightmare emerge and consume the world with impossible clarity.An accelerating madness driven by mindless greed. Self-perpetuating zero-sum logic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzlyUZoVPGU
>>42766775worst speculative^
>>42765049Ghost Puncher agrees
