prophecy is a related narrative-building function. (note: "prophecy" meaning telling the future is a hilarious example of linguistic drift; what a prophet does is harangue people about how bad they are and how the gods are gonna get them. always true sooner or later!)
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when shit inevitably goes pear-shaped, the prophet has already primed the narrative pump with the idea that it's because of the populace's sins, which insulates the priesthood and not incidentally provides the prophet with an enormous horse-syringe shot of moral authority
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it's always sex though
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it could be other stuff, like eating, or shitting, or breathing, and sometimes it is. but it's ALWAYS sex.
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sex is such a boring scapegoat. drugs is a much more interesting scapegoat. have you read Dale Pendell Pharmakon trilogy?
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i have not! sounds fun
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https://www.amazon.com/Pharmako-Poeia-Revised-Updated-Herbcraft/dp/1556438052 … that's volume 1, the other 2 are Pharmako/Dynamis and Pharmako/Gnosis (that's the fun one imo). it's spectacular.
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lol, the extent to which this guy is using the same linguistic resources i've turned to in building out my MUD's metaphysics is startling
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I had the same response. When I read this book my reaction was "am I the dissociative alter of Dale Pendell now?"
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like: i needed terms for the manipulated subject, alterative methodology, and energy channeling components of what i'll call a "spell" for the sake of brevity, and what i decided on were, respectively, haptos, techne, and dynamis
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