the concept of sin is a technology for using the populace as a scapegoat for the priests' failure to secure the gods' favor, which would otherwise blow back on the priests at least one irrepressible behavior, preferably many, must be made sinful to ensure availability at need
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
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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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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this weird thing starts to happen you don't speak Greek but do read poetry with lots of Greek cultural allusions also, there may or may not be a telepathic mycoform that connects the 3 of us (and many others)
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i've always done a lot of background chewing on word structure and deriving etymologies (folk and otherwise), which is probably an enormous risk factor for occultism
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it's basically like getting a live culture vaccination but then it just infects you instead of innoculates you
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expired: enjoying memes tired: creating memes inspired: being memes
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