I want some objections to sharpen my own thinking about occult stuff. Assuming "magic" is using personal directed will to affect reality external to your body, give me your best questions or objections for why it can't work. Example: Why don't very smart people believe in it?
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Replying to @liminal_warmth
My fear of magic is that it gives rise to runaway apophenia. Everything can be interpreted in a way that confirms that magic works, falsificatory evidence is explained away. Occultism is like doing brain surgery on yourself. You can damage your relationship to reality.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69 @liminal_warmth
This is the most obvious demon you may conjure up that you cannot put down, IMHO.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69
Yeah, this matches my line of thinking about sliding into insanity via self-delusion which is why you always hear about insanity being a risk of magical practice Mucking with your own sense of belief is dangerous
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Replying to @liminal_warmth
I am guessing that there are traditional lineages that have ways of addressing this, but are largely inaccessible to people from WEIRD cultures, or only accessible with immense personal sacrifice/distancing from the modern world.
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Replying to @xstntlprvrt69
Is WEIRD an acronym here? It's a major real-world risk of venturing into the territory I like to play around in
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Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Developed.
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