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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:04:14 +0000
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On 29/12/2024 10:53, D wrote:
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> 
> On Sat, 28 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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>> On 28/12/2024 11:08, D wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 27/12/2024 23:12, D wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 27 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 23/12/2024 21:14, D wrote:
>>>>>>> I have a vague memory of reading somewhere that remains of 
>>>>>>> paganism were alive until the 1700s, but cannot find anything 
>>>>>>> through a quick google. My friendly neighbourhood AI insist on 
>>>>>>> official death in the 12:th century.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is a subject of heated debate as modern Wiccan/Pagans like to 
>>>>>> feel they have an unbroken tradition.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But of course people probably learned to keep their mouths shit 
>>>>>> and rub themselves with witches ointment in private...
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not believe in any unbroken tradition except among indians, 
>>>>> esquimaux or some siberian indians.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do believe that it is not impossible that remains existed up 
>>>>> until the 17th or perhaps even 18th century, although those remains 
>>>>> probably were _very_ different from the original.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I am not going to argue: merely to say that modern Wicca started 
>>>> with Gardner who claimed to have been initiated by IIRC a Scottish 
>>>> witch in the practices of the 'old religion' .
>>>>
>>>> And started the modern following...
>>>
>>> I'm not convinced that Gardnerian wicca represents an unbroken 
>>> tradition. But... who knows? ;) I've heard that this can give rise to 
>>> bitter fights among wiccans.
>>
>> Oh yes. And the Cermoinial Magickians. And and and...
>>
>> More in fighting in Wicca than the average private school girls 
>> toilets...
>> Or the average religious sect. The exclusive Plymouth brethren simply 
>> will not talk to the ordinary Plymouth brethren etc. etc.
> 
> How come you are so wise on the ways of the occult? Has it always been 
> an interest of yours?

Oh yes. After I discarded rational materialism I went looking at all the 
other 'models of reality'.

Religions , cults, conspiracy theories and the like.

Some grains in there that are interesting, but mostly dross.

Numerology is interesting. The *quality* of numbers, not their quantity.

In the classic Jewish system, it all starts with nothing (0), and then 
there is something (1)
Adding a second dimension gives the idea of distance (2) , and cubic 
space is (3), whereas time is (4).

All done with 'emanations'. Broadly speaking, emergent properties...

The Jewish Kabbalistic system is actually the sort of mental maps that 
became science.

It was all dredged up and reinvented in the 1930s by Crowley and 
associates.


-- 
“when things get difficult you just have to lie”

― Jean Claud Jüncker