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weird (adj.)

c. 1400,

• "having power to control fate", from wierd (n.), from Old English wyrd "fate, chance, fortune; destiny; the Fates," literally "that which comes,"

• from Proto-Germanic wurthiz (cognates: Old Saxon wurd, Old High German wurt "fate," Old Norse urðr "fate, one of the three Norns"),

• from PIE wert- "to turn, to wind," (cognates: German werden, Old English weorðan "to become"),

• from root wer- (3) "to turn, bend" (see versus).

• For sense development from "turning" to "becoming," compare phrase turn into "become."

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There are two polar complementary dimensions of experience: tolerance and expressiveness. When one's tolerance has been perfected there is no urgency to modify any experience to be something else, no matter what that experience may feel like. When one's expressiveness has been perfected, one regains the knowledge and the courage necessary to exercise intent along its full range of ultimate possibility, thus being able to manifest any experience that could be experienced even in principle. This second perfection we know as magick.

If you cultivate tolerance without expressiveness you'll be like a patient victim, able to endure but passive and lacking creativity. And if you cultivate expressiveness without tolerance, you'll be like a perpetually frightened maestro for whom magick is not a leisurely pleasure but a dire necessity at every turn in life.

May you all be twice perfect.

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[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stepping out of the system is tolerance. Stepping back in at your desired position is creativity. I question if someone can even perform creativity without first being tolerant of their subject. Otherwise it's a needy urge to react to the system's demands, which isn't creativity.

I agree that tolerance and expressiveness often work best together.

Money isn't desirable anymore! Shit is desirable! Literally collecting mounds of feces on your living room floor is the metric of ultimate worth!

I wouldn't go that far. Shit can be a measure of worth, just ask the dung beetles. But to say it literally is, that's a bit too much I think. Saying "can" or "can be" is often better than saying "is" imo.

If you have what you want already, then you can just sit there in your 3D world until your decidedly unavoidable Death once again brings ignorance, or you can have some fun with the infinite binaries of reality that you've discovered.

I was never born and will never die. It's only the dream body that was born, together with its dream context of a dreamed universe. I am not my experience. I am a capacity to know, to will and to experience. :)

Originally commented by u/mindseal on 2016-05-16 06:20:05 (d36o6nn)

[–] syncretik 1 points 1 year ago

Cool cool

Originally commented by u/[deleted] on 2016-05-16 06:22:15 (d36o9ls)