to quote SkydorkSamuraiTTL, i am a "freaking weirdo." i'll revel in my title. i'm going to st. louis, and i'm leaving you with reading material.
from Peter J. Carroll's Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick
Chapter 38
Heresy XIX
Nothing
Nothing Is True.
Everything Is Permitted.
Commentary 38
Attributed to Hassan I Sabbah. Note the multi-level oxymorons, paradoxes, and anontisms concealed within these statements.
The second statement celebrates the bottomless well of human ingenuity from which we have barely yet removed the lid. The flames of hell will doubtless lick out of it, scorching many, but only knowledge will awaken us from the nightmare of history.
We can find three obvious meanings to the first assertion:
1) Nothing is true. Judge ideas by their relative usefulness, not against some imaginary finality.
2) Nothing Is...true. Nothing exhibits being, but everything exhibits doing. Only the sluggishness of perception and thought creates the illusion of 'being'.
3) Nothing...Is True. Life, the universe, and everything takes an extravagant journey from nothing to nothing. Let us, therefore, applaud the nothing and relish its extravagance.
from Peter J. Carroll's Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick
Chapter 38
Heresy XIX
Nothing
Nothing Is True.
Everything Is Permitted.
Commentary 38
Attributed to Hassan I Sabbah. Note the multi-level oxymorons, paradoxes, and anontisms concealed within these statements.
The second statement celebrates the bottomless well of human ingenuity from which we have barely yet removed the lid. The flames of hell will doubtless lick out of it, scorching many, but only knowledge will awaken us from the nightmare of history.
We can find three obvious meanings to the first assertion:
1) Nothing is true. Judge ideas by their relative usefulness, not against some imaginary finality.
2) Nothing Is...true. Nothing exhibits being, but everything exhibits doing. Only the sluggishness of perception and thought creates the illusion of 'being'.
3) Nothing...Is True. Life, the universe, and everything takes an extravagant journey from nothing to nothing. Let us, therefore, applaud the nothing and relish its extravagance.
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nerdboy2345:
i fear...nothing. not that i dont fear anything, but i fear the nothing that i will eventually become, i only hope my consiousness will survive. but maybe i will just become a part of everything
peart:
Whoa!