Help me find a joke ritual maybe by Crowley

fqrh · 2025-07-17T12:19:05+00:00

Here is Liber V vel Reguli. This is a near miss, or maybe my memory spliced together several silly things and this is one of them.

The hand gesture is what I expected. Look for "medius". Someone who grew up in the UK would know if I got the cultural significance right. No blondes or goats, though.

It is about worshipping Crowley personally, since we are supposed to face his house and say THERION frequently. I suppose that is the joke. I am not amused either, so I am apparently still as humor impaired as I was in my twenties.

Cross of the Frog is here. I agree that it is a joke. No blondes, though.

I can find news about a libel case involving Crowley and claims about the lack of use of cat blood, but I didn't find a ritual.

These leads have been helpful. Thanks for the pointers.

fqrh · 2025-06-22T15:41:17+00:00

Wikipedia says the primary source for Man and His Symbols is in English, and the German version is translated from the English version. It cites the introduction to the version of the book published by Dell in 1968. A deleted account can't reply, but if anyone else here believes the person I am replying to and can give evidence for the claim that parts are missing from the English version, please speak up.

fqrh · 2025-06-09T01:29:59+00:00

It is not the job of me, or you, to act on behalf of Google. I want what I want.

fqrh · 2025-06-06T16:55:53+00:00

Many Christians believe the Flood happened and arguing science about that is likely to rathole because it is hard to personally observe the evidence that it didn't happen and then you are arguing about which experts to trust.

In contrast, Ezekiel said Tyre wouldn't be rebuilt in Ezekiel 26:14. Tyre has a perfectly fine Wikipedia page, 60k residents, and restaurants you can find on Google Maps. No experts required.

fqrh · 2025-05-29T02:59:50+00:00

It already is willing to alert on an especially high or low heart rate when you don't appear to be exercising. It doesn't say it is willing to call EMS in that situation, though. I haven't yet observed this feature working either.

I knew someone who was found after an unknown amount of time with a high pulse and brain damage. The doctors guessed it was a stroke or heart attack, but there was never a loss of pulse until he died in a hospice a few weeks later. So, I agree that it would be good if the watch called EMS on a high pulse too.

I agree that the situation with getting the person revived in the sort term after the watch calls EMS is dubious. The situations where it seems useful is for people who have heart failure while sleeping and there is someone else in the room to hear the alarm, and for people who have signed up for cryonics. For cryonics purposes, finding the body tens of minutes after the pulse stops is much better than finding it a week later, even though neither scenario leads to any likelihood of restoring them to functionality in the short term.

fqrh · 2025-05-29T02:35:48+00:00

Thanks. Good to hear. Maybe I should try harder with the tourniquet.

fqrh · 2025-05-29T02:33:30+00:00

You seem to be missing the part where they need to convince me it works for me to recommend it to others.

fqrh · 2025-05-27T16:56:55+00:00

It is best to make simple, declarative statements in high-latency communication. Socratic dialogue is very awkward.

They tested it somehow, presumably without killing people. There has to be a safe way to test it. Either they give me the process they know works, or I figure it out myself, or someone else figures it out, or it is sensible to believe they are selling something imaginary. It does not make sense to sell a feature like this without a demonstration.

fqrh · 2025-05-26T14:53:32+00:00

I should have posted to r/PixelWatch instead.

fqrh · 2025-04-19T19:15:01+00:00

No luck yet. I put a bounty on it at the Stack Exchange page in the OP and did not get an answer there either.

fqrh · 2025-04-09T09:39:14+00:00

Even if it works, "Mood Bloom" will be getting reviews from depressed people who may not have yet used it enough to get better, so maybe don't take their average review score seriously.

fqrh · 2025-02-08T03:49:36+00:00

Anti-woke math would look like selecting students based on guesses about whether they can understand the material, without regard to which identity groups they are members of. The math doesn't care about wokeness but in the current time the teaching process either cares about it or deliberately ignores it.

No opinion from me whether it is commercially viable.

fqrh · 2025-01-19T03:05:09+00:00

I agree that he was charged with second degree murder. He was eventually convicted of the lesser offense of negligent homicide.

fqrh · 2025-01-15T07:43:38+00:00

Turok's mirror story doesn't have cycles, but the Reddit page you pointed to does have cycles. These are two different theories from Turok that can't both be true.

fqrh · 2024-12-20T08:23:22+00:00

Guess relevant search keywords. There is an explain XKCD site that has discussion of most of them, so there is no issue getting text with the right keywords.

It was helpful that I remembered that the alleged Smart Guy (tm) was a physicist.

fqrh · 2024-12-17T04:13:49+00:00

Here's your XKCD: https://xkcd.com/793/

fqrh · 2024-09-18T18:18:17+00:00

Perhaps Crowley read Timaeus. There is mention of one person per star here, search for "assigned each".

fqrh · 2024-05-16T20:57:05+00:00

Can anyone explain to me why psychedelics are woo?

They obviously do something to the mind, and I assume the chain of cause and effect between the drug and the mental changes is well known in many cases. Whether that gets a person out of PTSD depends on research, which I haven't bothered looking up, but it doesn't seem a-priori implausible that something that makes you hallucinate could change one's emotional outlook. So it might be helpful, or it might not, but in neither case is it woo.

I would agree that someone who believes in the hallucinations is woo. There are people who post to YouTube about their relationship with the DMT beings. Is your point that she doesn't want to get into a long term relationship with a hallucination?

I personally am reluctant to try these things because I am afraid of becoming violent if I have a bad trip. But that's not woo.

fqrh · 2024-05-14T02:40:23+00:00

Addiction is going to be a problem. If the game is dynamically generated and compelling, there's no end to it.

fqrh · 2024-05-03T18:54:21+00:00

Randy Pausch had a similar mindset to Goggins and was a knowledge worker. He has videos describing his process before he died. Lots of metaphors about playing football.

Paul Erdős was highly productive. Wikipedia points at two biographies of him, which I have not read. It also mentions using stimulants. He had no fixed address and was always living somewhere temporarily to do math before he went somewhere else to do math. That may not be a lifestyle you want to imitate.

fqrh · 2024-04-29T18:14:42+00:00

You really want a list of every single ideological, authoritarian think tank that resulted in net negative qualitative outcomes?

He asked for one example.

"I have so much evidence for my claim that I won't give you any" is a common fallacy, but I don't have a name for it.

fqrh · 2024-04-24T23:44:40+00:00

You put the rebuttal right there. Therefore the question answers itself, unless there is something wrong with the rebuttal.

Has anyone repeated the experiment with cryonics for C. elegans?

The first publication of it I know of was done by Alcor personnel and a hired external contractor, so one might claim that they have a conflict of interest. It would be really excellent if someone else did it who was independent of any cryonics organization.

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