weirdway

But sometimes you may (optionally) want to deliberately limit your ability to decide if you notice you tend to decide haphazardly and carelessly at times (sometimes it only takes one bad decision to ruin something important), you may want to put a conceptual magickal "wall" between decisions and emanation so that only especially empowered decisions are allowed to affect something more than the body and the personal conscious mind. That's where the value of ritual may show itself, but for this one doesn't need ornate and elaborate rituals, but one just needs a special marker of some sort.

So I agree with you, but personally I have some degree of protection that would protect me from randomly deciding something that I think is "cool" on the spur of the moment and 1 hour later regret. In other words, I have deliberately somewhat constrained my ability to decide some things. I can still decide anything but if it's really important I have more hoops to jump through, and that's intentional.

And this has been liberating to me, because it means I can think freely, including having incredibly stupid thoughts, and I can think about what it would be like to decide some dumb things, and I never have to worry that my stupid thoughts will leak out and manifest at large.

It's like having a manifestational scratch pad that's not intended as a work of art. On a scratch pad I can try stuff out only to throw it away. If I like how something looks on my scratch pad, I may bring it out more into the "external" sphere.

Maybe if I could trust myself to never even need something like a scratch pad in the first place, I would simplify my internal mental setup even further, but until then I will keep my "wall."

Why not just add an undo intent or reverse time magik? That would seem more interesting at times. Replay a certain quick minute scenario may be interesting.

Surely that would be possible in our unlimited potential.

Originally commented by u/therewasguy on 2019-07-18 17:24:48 (eu4253r)