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  • I'm loosely pagan on a spiritual level and I vibe a lot with druidism and many of the things that witches do, but as much as I enjoy the culture, I never fail to cringe over the collective hubris of self-proclaimed witches. It's always the edgiest 30-45 year old women who wear House of 1000 Corpses t-shirts and extreme amounts of eye shadow, who post "Proud removed" memes on social media and exude an undeserved air of confidence because they believe so deeply their spells are real.

    While I admit that Wicca is quite beautiful and largely misunderstood, the things most witches/hexers are practicing only date back a few decades. They're not speaking the ancient magicks or communing with old gods. I can't speak much on the divine feminine because I'm not informed enough on that subject, but for the other half of their belief system they have taken the rather ambiguous depiction of Cernunnos and turned him into a sexy, big-dicked goat man, and have fabricated their own lore to explain the workings of something that is in reality unfathomably old and lost to man, with no surviving origin story and little to no oral tradition.

    We can certainly make some educated guesses, but the bulk of that information died with the druids.

  • It's just like any other system of belief. You can sit around praying for something, or you can cast more effective hexes, such as "hit this guy with my car," or "actually give him poison."

    Lets hope all these internet witches don't learn the power of direct action real magic.

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    \ Two sips of water counter the next spell cast your way, no wonder he's having such an easy time avoiding them

  • I'm curious to what you all think of this:

    No, we're not referring to your beloved Atari Pong paddles -- we're talking about your brain. The EPOC uses a headset that actually picks up on your brain waves. These brain waves can tell the system what you want to do in your virtual reality. In other words, you think "lift," and a virtual rock actually levitates on the screen.

    How the Emotiv EPOC Works

    Magic or nah?

    • Not magic, of course. It's science.

      The elctrical activity in your brain is measurable by electrodes placed on your skull. What we then get is called an electro-encephalogram, short: EEG. Although they rather measure a summation of activity rather than individual neurons. Still, this allows to draw some conclusions and has been widely used in neuromedicine.
      For instance, it can help to diagnose epilepsy, or investigate sleep quality. In contexts of the Emotiv, to put it simply, it rather measures levels of concentration than actual thoughts.

      But, with sufficient training you can enable such a system to perform a bit more complex tasks, like opening or closing a mechanical hand, driving a wheelchair in a simple mamner, etc.. Although, from my experience, the applications are very limited and unstable.

      • What if, hear me out, there are a few people that can sense that activity when others can't? Kind of like how some people see sounds and hear color. Since all of you all can't really sense that shit, you are relentless against people who can. It's interesting to me. I wonder how that first scientist figured this shit out. Do you know?

    • Well, at the moment I don't understand how it works, and any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic, but if I follow the link titled "How the Emotiv EPOC Works" then it will remove the mystery, thus making it distinguishable from magic.

      • So what you're saying is half the world is magic because we don't know anything about half the world. We have theories, but they can't or haven't been proven yet. Naming it and harnessing it doesn't mean we really get how it works. Reading people's thoughts is supposed to be impossible according to most of this thread. Turns out, they've been doing it for close to 2 decades.

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