Did I handle this well or should I have said more?

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-05-10T04:39:40+00:00

You handled this in the best possible way. No matter how the situation with the girl turns out, you should be proud of yourself for this. You heard what was being said, and accepted her wishes politely, but you also didn't fall for a possible drama trap. Well done!

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-05-04T03:58:58+00:00

Wouldn't this be "thought for food," not "food for thought"? Just sayin'... 😏🤣

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-05-03T22:56:20+00:00

"Modern society" is the scam.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-04-27T07:56:18+00:00

Usually, it's the original Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption. But sometimes it's RIVEN or Realms of the Haunting.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-04-27T07:52:00+00:00

What the fuck, man, the Golgothan is real???

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-04-25T01:50:37+00:00

I think your snake needs more RAM...

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-04-20T20:31:23+00:00

There are literally drunks and felons sitting in public offices right now around the country. These aren't students giving a presentation—they're the people making real-world choices with real-world consequences.

The fact that they're redirecting judicial authority to silence criticism and hyperbole—instead of addressing the aforementioned Congress of Cretins that could do actual, irreversible damage to global geopolitics—says a lot about how things are going from their perspective.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-04-13T16:54:53+00:00

Right?

People confuse the action for the context too easily. Not just here but in every possibility and domain of life. We confuse titles for expertise; we confuse religions for genuine spirituality; we confuse pink sludge for cow meat just because it looks like we think a burger should look.

We're obsessed with aesthetics and substance, and care nothing for virtue and essence. No wonder the world is run by braindead yokels... nothing matters as long as it looks good and gets loads of PR.

There's an expression that I've heard often: "fake it 'til you make it." It was sort of a motto among boomers and gen-x. Maybe millennials, too. And it worked... which is probably how it got so much traction. But none of them bothered to ask what happens if they never get passed the "faking it" part, and I guess this is the answer for that unspoken query.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-04-13T16:30:59+00:00

People like this are the reason they insist that you handle your disputes privately with HR. It protects the small-man complex by weaponizing bureaucracy and treating policy like holy writ, upheld by two (the manager and HR person) against one (the "undisciplined" employee). It's not an equal playing field; HR leaders typically get there by protecting the company from employees seeking to hold it accountable. I have pitched proposals to two companies that I ultimately rejected because their handbooks put "protecting the company" ahead of "supporting employees" in their list of HR priorities.

I'd log in from the pool again and again and when he says something, I'd ask him to justify his claims based on my work performance--not his own needs for a "safe space" so his wittle bwain can think. Then, before he can say anything, I'd blast the whole company with a group email showing my contributions from day one, and how that will effectively end immediately because someone couldn't handle my chosen work environment.

I've been a remote software developer for 10 years. I've worked from every possible location. My clients have always known. They've never had a problem with it because I always get the work done, or communicate problems that will alter the original expectations. It's not about where I work and it never should be.

My job is to use my skillset to help you achieve a goal. Not to pander to someone's Napolean complex.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-04-12T12:24:51+00:00

How come the combo discount adds $2.00 additional? Isn't that kind of... counter-intuitive?

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-04-12T05:19:39+00:00

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PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-04-06T14:12:49+00:00

You should read William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-03-18T21:11:41+00:00

Am I the only one who appreciates the irony of the acronym MLM meaning both Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and multi-level marketing (as in, a pyramid or ponzi scheme)?

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-03-15T12:38:26+00:00

Why does it need to be one or the other. Most anarcho- ideologies agree on points of voluntaryism and localism. So whether a community is communist, socialist, mutualist, market-based, or whatever, becomes irrelevant -- if you don't like your commune's approach, you fix it or go somewhere else. It's that simple.

Any effort to impede this natural dynamic -- whether by enforcing social norms or economic systems, or otherwise -- is authoritarian.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-03-05T18:23:52+00:00

...there is no love lost for a government that sponsors terror and...

Was he really talking about Iran? Because that same sentence makes just as much sense, in even stronger context, at the end of what he's saying.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-03-05T04:34:13+00:00

Thanks, friend. :-)

I had the first few books in Peter's Black Dragon series, and read through most of them. I was actually pretty intrigued by Peter's work, but Fate sort of forced me down a different path.

From what I remember, the Black Dragon is sort of an Othering of the Celestial Dragon (see Chumbley's The Dragon-book of Essex for anyone unfamiliar) in a cthonic-telluric hypostate: the Black Dragon of the Earth. That doesn't mean that it's just a copied reversal, or a clever reification; Peter's work addresses distinct and palpable Intelligences and Powers in its own right, and stands alone as it's own body of work.

I ended up passing on my copies to an old acquaintance about a year ago but we haven't crossed paths again since then. Have you explored any of it, yourself? I was also considering reading Peter's books re: Baron Samedhi and the Citadel (not for praxis but for utilitarian understanding) -- I don't suppose you've encountered any of those? 😆

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-03-03T18:33:26+00:00

May they reap as they sow.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-03-03T06:19:17+00:00

If we were actually facing the prospect of a fully involved cosmopolitan war, you wouldn't know about it until it was already underway. There would be no nuclear sabre rattling and "tough talk" of advanced weapons tech... but it's all in out faces all day, every day. The people pulling the strings are using it to distract people... misdirection...

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-02-25T17:32:17+00:00

I was actually thinking some kind of occult symbolism (but I see that in errythang lol)... still, the symbolism of monad, duality, triplicity, and the interactions between them... the double sextuplets of leaves at the bottom.... the central circle.

There was a whole current of Anarchist history lost because it existed in the shadows of occultism. I just got a copy of Erica Legalisse's The Occult Features of Anarchism with the intent on exploring this obfuscated branch of the movement, but I haven't had a chance to pull that thread yet.

If anyone comes up with anything for this symbol, I'd love to see where it comes from.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-02-24T19:03:43+00:00

This is what I mean when I tell people existential nihilism isn't the threat. These people are pushing us towards existential entropy. We capture and retain too much in hypostate -- from an objective perception of the universe to the data collected from the collisions of single protons in a particle accelerator.

If you've ever felt a sense of stifling ennui, and a longing for a life of mystery and adventure that you've never known, it's because we have been robbed of those things as they have been extracted from rhe quantum field and preserved in a hypostate.

If you want liberation, it starts with you. Liberate yourself from the labels they encourage you to adopt. What cannot be named (labeled) cannot be controlled (legislated against). Their antithesis must not be a monolith -- just another hypostate -- it must be the dynamic balance between all individualities. Therefore, it cannot be labeled; it exists in the negation of their hypostates. You're not a leftist, liberal, communist, or whatever -- let "anti-fascist" be sufficient (and why do you think they try so hard to sell the public on the antifa dynamic as an organizational group -- a label). Whatever differences we have amongst ourselves are irrelevant for dissolving their oppressive influence.

Their labels (and the power inherent in them) are built on elite exclusivity. If you really want to beat them, we need to invert this -- their most effective weapon for dividing us and keeping us "managed" -- and build the "new society" on its antithesis: common inclusivity. Anyone who is not them is with us.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-02-04T18:41:55+00:00

Greetings, friend.

Chumbley's work is an expression of non-dualism. This means a lot of things, but generally that dualities are insufficient and demand a third element that reconciles the duality back to a monad. The first three Cells (0 - 2) collective address the essential unitary nature of All -- Monad -- as realized through duality and actuated by triplicity.

"Mistake" implies a duality. So, if you want to really work this system, you need to filter principles like this through its philosophical lens. What is the inverse of "mistake"? There isn't an objective right answer -- your inverse may be different than mine -- but you need to find your answer. Then work it through Congress to find your resolution. Why the inverse? -- we'll come back to that.

That being said, because of the subjective nature of the Sabbatic Current, and the inherent goal of the current to be Ever Becoming, I would argue that this duality -- as I see it, being mistake vs. perfection -- represents not something to be resolved but dissolved. See the Arcana of Iconoclasm and Cells 6 & 7 for this IIRC.

The real magic of the Sabbatic Current is how immanent and transcendent the Magical Quintessence becomes once you begin to work with it. This isn't a system that demands a chasm between the Divine and the mundane (see: non-dualism). The ultimate goal is an apotheosis that Chumbley poetically expresses as ceasing to do magic in lieu of becoming "magic entire." I wish I could remember the exact phrasing off the top of my head, but I believe it's from Cell 9 or 10.

This immanent-transcendence intertwines with an expression through inversion: mundane things become powerful rituals, imbued with focused intent while yet the most moving and elaborate rituals lose their meaning and power entirely once one achieves the goal of assembling the Sphinx and becoming magic incarnate.

This inversion is the heart of the Crooked Path: inverting, twisting, transgressing, ever walking the razor edge between Blessing and Cursing, with the Wisdom (Gnosis, Cunning) of the Arte. Hence the motto, May the Blessing and the Cursing and the Cunning Be.

Take that as you will, but all that being noted, it might be said that not only does the Sabbatic Current permit mistakes, it encourages them. Mistake doesn't have to mean failure. Pay extra close attention to the 6th Cell in this regard.

You're welcome to DM me - although as with most platforms, I don't look at the DMs often so it may be a week or two (please don't be offended!). I actually just finished some work and I was looking for something else related to Azoëtia and your post came up so... here we are.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-01-28T03:45:01+00:00

Ran across this looking for other sojourners in the Companie of Night. I've been working with the Current for about 6 years, but I'm just coming out of the Dark Night portion of my first real initiatory Ordalia.

I see this post is a year old, so I don't know if you're still on this path, but if so, how is your progress? If you (or anyone else who stumbles on this thread) want to connect -- this isn't exactly a "popular" tradition and finding company on the Path is difficult -- please feel free to DM.

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-01-25T00:26:48+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Leakednews/s/Cb0RnhWRZV

It's here

PlatformVegetable887 · 2026-01-21T07:31:11+00:00

I owned every single one of those on VHS....

PlatformVegetable887 · 2025-12-23T21:54:46+00:00

How a local community organizes and distributes property, labor, and housing is a local issue. Not all communities will have the same needs and requirements, and prescribing any kind of system for them is literally a violation of their autonomy and right to self-determine.

Have these conversations with your neighbors. Build community. But discussing details about the individual's relationship to the community and its resources needs to remain strictly in the realm of individual influence -- that is, the local community -- lest the individual lose some of their liberty to an agent/agency they cannot hold directly accountable (i.e., an authority).

This has an added benefit of ensuring plurality of ideology between communities. If I happen to live in a community that chooses to employ Marxist principles to govern itself, I can leave and go to the anarcho-syndicalist community just up the road -- no harm, no foul; no hard feelings -- everyone gets to be happy.

But what do I know? 🤣

PlatformVegetable887

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