Darkness and Witchcraft

So, there's the thing where I'm not so sure if a thing is a thing or not. I mean, it is silly of my to assume that I need to clarify that when I speak of Darkness I don't necessarily mean "badness" or "evil". To me at least, darkness as such isn't something concrete. Same goes with bad or evil - though on the other side things are somewhat different. Light to me is usually very concrete. I mostly only use it in the one context. Darkness extends from that and can therefore be anything. Chaos, Evil, "Non Light", ... colored light even, depending on context.

As for Witchcraft, I don't really believe in it. Or so: It depends on what you mean by Witchcraft. And that's perhaps a nice view onto the topic. Because: What is Witchcraft? What is it's function as to why it's bad? What are causes and effects? I mean, if we wanted to be serious about being anti-Witchcraft, we should have volumes of books on the matter.

As it stands, people struggle to even define it. Or they equate it to things that are ... let's be a bit mean and say: "Obvious to the Ignorant". I mean, OK. Proving or disproving 'curses' should be difficult. Like, with Randomness there's Luck. And with Luck there's Fortune and Misfortune. It's difficult to go and say what it is. Finding some kind of "Maxwell's Demon" ... uhm ... anyway ...
Magic - well. Long story short: Decades of Natural Sciences have produced many a great thing while Witchcraft has not. And maybe that's the answer right there!

Sure. If it doesn't exist, you gain nothing really from having me teach it to you. Because there's really nothing to be taught. And so the true Witchcraft ought to be the friends we made along the way. But that's not really Witchcraft anymore.
Or is it?

So, if we're then trying to start from scratch - find some Religious Ground Zero - with the focus of making it work - and call it Witchcraft, is it then Witchcraft? Well, if it looks that way?


I could go on a tangent about Science here. And how belief if it isn't right is basically wrong - and stuff. But ... what about "the in-between"? That which we would classify as 'supernatural'? I mean, there clearly is 'something'. But ... somehow I had to think of this:


To understand for instance how Computer Graphics work - or Computer Games - while equating those to Witchcraft as much as we can - we have to discuss an array of things:

Electricity
Conductivity
Transistor Logic / Logic Gates
Transistor Technology
AC/DC converters
Electrical Components
Cirquit Boards
General Computer Architecture: Instruction Set
General Computer Architecture: Subsystem Organization
General Computer Architecture: RAM
Video Signals
How Screens Work
"Hello World"
...etc...
Projection Matrices
Transformation Matrices
Normals
The Computer Clock
Input Devices
Main Loop // Animation Frames // Time/Input
Virtual Structures
...etc...
Texture Mapping
V-Sync
Frame Buffering
Advanced Processing
Multithreading
...stuff


We start with Physics and end with the Abstract Arts.
And you are free to ignore or cast doubt on any one of those things.


And yea. I believe it is important that we know the world we interact with.

Uhm ... anyway ...


I however feel like we need a little bit more darkness. The Light is OK - but it's starting to annoy me. As in, right now - it has begun. So, seeing these qualifiers in the right perspective is always a problem I assume ... but well.
So yea. If you want to be perfectly reasonable (TM) (this is sarcasm! Warning: This is a Joke!) at avoiding Witchcraft, you also can't use a Fork. A knife ... borderline. Technically there's science to the sharpness of the blade, but given that sharpness isn't that big of an issue most of the time, it's kind of OK. But sharpening a blade is definitely Witchcraft! Shaping any kind of thing out of a thing even. And oh no ... Jesus was a Carpenter! "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!"

So does the Light get a tint - before me right now, or within rather - an ugly yellowish tint with a kind of bile to it. Whatever. Eventually it's too much for me.


It's not that I can't act within "those circles". I mean, I may have to emphasize that I'm dealing with abstracts here. So, the image unfolds by association. Light is many things. So, the Light within is one. So, speaking of God then leads on to the Gospel and Unification and all that. From there we get to Creation and the Morality of things. Maybe I should "takes note" as I'm writing this.
"The issue" is told in the story of the Mirror Column. The story being that a Pillar, or Column, that's also a mirror is carried from place to place, as people that see themselves inside of it want it to be gone. Eventually it ends up at a beach and a person finds it, looks at it and is surprised or amazed or something. The Column is a symbol for the things that divide us in our individuality and in a cultural sense: diversity. Or so: to see one's self in the cultural framework of another. If you had to choose between the "goods" of a world that is stranger to you, what would you pick? Ever heard of Gakh?
Now, while talking of common habits and palette, that's one thing. Klingons eat Gakh, humans eat Caviar. I'm a fan of pasted liver!

And so Darkness works. And I probably can't describe it any better for a couple of reasons: It may mean different things to each and everyone - and I haven't truly experienced it either. I mean, the company that would constitute this form of darkness, a.k.a. "within the Light" etc..

Thinking of the Mirror Column ... . When I first wrote of it, I was practically on the other side. It may have been back when I was still doing sex-work. But it came up, to me, mostly in defense of my wild - as I'd say "masochism-adjacent" - fantasies. But now it's almost like I'm on the other side. And sure, when it comes to the things I'm writing about - what I'm concerned with and focused on - yea. I guess I've done it. I've crawled my way out of that pit - as it were, but not quite. As I would emphasize throughout the process: My ability to "do without" comes down to accepting their value to me nonetheless. And that acceptance isn't just "yea, OK, sure" - but it comes from within. That's the whole point about Clarity. To undo your own mistakes, as you would call them that. Basically. I guess. That's one way of putting it.
So - I don't say that I'm a whore because I'm currently doing sex-work, but because ... that person I am, deep down, "in a perfect world" ... would be exactly that.

And apart from saying it, or putting it into some other form, it's a reflection from within. So, acceptance is relative. When you know, you know. What's there is there. And when things come together, well, they are become one. From embracing those things I let them impact my growth. So I become more of what I accept of myself - and thus my perspective shifts accordingly. Thus I can then see deeper into the mists of my subconscious and continue the process until I find equilibrium. Not one I have to 'want' into existence, but one I intrinsically fall into when relaxed. ?!? Hmm ... so ...
Is there a ... .
I guess ... psychology is complicated and we all can weather little bumps and such. But ... here's the thing to consider: My habitat can be described as the sphere or spheres in which I'm able to relax and in a maybe expanded sense "do my thing". But relaxation is the important part for here anyway.
Conversely, environments that don't allow me to relax are stress factors.

When speaking - to form a hypothesis - of the own self as of a rigid system, one's own habitat does inevitably project chaos into whatever order there may be. So, we can conclude that there first is a degree of tolerances that we have. The tolerance, I would argue, further cannot extend from a 'neutral', given that 'neutrality' itself can be a thing that people are intolerant towards.
The tolerance must extend from an individual factor - something, let's call it "the personal ideal".

And yes, to be straight up: The personal ideal cannot only be worked with, it is actively being worked on as one of the primary concerns of what this whole bunk is about.


If we however say that there is a free will and you say that there's not - for instance, I'm not sure actually how that will resolve, but I suggest - you essentially obfuscate your own responsibilities over your own personal ideal. You disqualify the value of the Gospel of all the things that are addressed to the freedom of our minds specifically. Or you're just annoyingly pedantic and intolerant.

But, accusations aside: Yes - a part of it clearly spells out: "I'm sorry! This is a dead end!".


So, what stands there - opposed to our own free will?
The structures that make up what we are - that enslave us to their bidding?
Well, what is it? Personality? What place do duties and the like have? What's the meaning of friendship in this?

And this is also where we come to speak of Gender Roles. If Society leaves an imprint or demand on the individual - it would somehow manifest here. The individual may then line up with them and thus thrive within those structures, or it may not. Thus perhaps the term "Queer" stood out as one that would stay.

A classical example between the Conservative and the Progressive would or might be, that the Conservative is concerned about economics while the Progressive is concerned about "nonsense".
Any economic ideas that we would put forth are equally dismissed as such because it perhaps follows some "nonsense ideal" that isn't "truly serious" or such.
But the first failure is in not acknowledging that this degree of diversity cannot be circumnavigated in any way. Once the man fails to see his role as the provider in the sense of providing a livable life to the family, what good is he in his masculine, conservative projections?
Sure, posturing is easy. See, those "Commies" come in and ransack the government, hand out all the benefits to their cronies and expect the populace to carry the burden. Meanwhile special police is deployed to get rid of any detractors - and to thereby establish a new norm within the society they infest.
Can I get a "yay Democracy!"?
Meanwhile, sure. We can play the Fascists. I mean, the groundwork has been done. We pick the wars and the genocidal attitude of various leaders as an incentive to do a little genocide on our own. I personally don't want to live in the wake of a world where a culling has taken place and those that did it get off calling it a good thing. Well, it's only good if we do it - of course!
If a culling has to take place, we want to make sure that it's the right ones.

So, we stick together - we should also have sufficiently gay energy - but I don't think I can get a stick all that deep up my ass. So, will do. We can call it "modern". So yes. Clear In Group Mentality with a clear Out Group distinction. So, the message would be something like ... "Evil Lurks in the Shadows" or something. We cannot trust our neighbors and all that, it's time to band together and build safe bastions!

Actually: Hippie Hitler, Hippie Swastika and such - that's the perfect desecration of Nazi Insignia!

Yes! We must build Autobahns for the people! Infrastructure for the Future! Socialism for the People!


"Those that reject Christ are Spawn of the Devil!" - ... XD ...


I even have Nutallergy now!

Well. It is a joke until it isn't! Sure enough!
As it says, we need to be prepared. And I suggest it's best if we can do so together.

Uhm. Because, uhm - in as far as it is not mine to say what is to come, or in as far as I say that it is not mine to say what is to come, that what I see is simply suggestive of that. I don't preach the second coming because it is not given to me to speak of it. And since I cannot tell you, I can't tell you near or far. So, explicitly I'm not only ... uh, I should upgrade to explicitly telling you not to wait for it.
I suppose. I mean, it sure hits the nail on the head as to one of the things I find annoying. The pointers at hand don't point to waiting. None of them do. Not anywhere. So yea - who knows? But even less so 'now'. While in the past people were rightfully waiting for "the time to come" - a certain unpreparedness for what it's all about might ... be what's going on - or perhaps more to the point: In part cause to the times as they were to come.

But so - to see beyond marks a clear goal: What can 'we' make of 'ourselves'. What can 'we' be - for the day when it comes? Maybe we can become so, that it will invite Him, to come back again. In that sense, the longer it takes the better we do. Up to a point perhaps. Might there be a woeful day? And could it pass?
Well - whatever prophecy we look at ... [swaggers around in shining, black golden armor] ... if you ask me: I look at a distant future, far far away ... 40k years maybe ... 400k ... whatever. At the end it all splinters apart and what remains is a floating rock as of white marble, embossed with tall boulders and bulky edges - and floating on it the abstract distant idea of the public eye.

But uhm ... well. Whatever. It's getting late and I want to play some SF6 and work on my Avatar.