Saturday Night Open Mic
Jan. 20th, 2007 08:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7Panacea - [Hellbringer]--- They tell you that writing and defending your thesis wil lbe one of the hardest things you ever do. They don't tell you that the process of getting there is one of the most maddening.
They don't tell you that the work you do will take months to even get started, because no one will think that what you're doing is doable.
No one in philosphy or religious studies wants to hear that you're writing on Magic as a thing in itself, not as a better way to understand ritual, or as everything that is wrong with "The Folk's" thinking, everything against which we're trying to stand. No one likes it when you defend it.
I've come to a conclusion: People don't want to talk about magic, if they don't have to. They'll acknowledge that weird shit happens, and they'll nod and wink and then they'll call it an "outlier" or a "fluke," like becaue it only happens every so often, it's a fucking inconsequential thing. It doesn't matter, right? Wrong. It all matters.
It's all important data, and we should time, measure and recognise the place it holds in the human whatever the fuck.
Jack Off Jill - [Horrible]--- But I rant and rave and do go on. I'm in the midsts of what is possibly the most annoying process of my life, thus far, and it holds a bit of my head-space, because of it.
I want to make the world a place where the weird shit, the magic, the awe and wonder is what we experience every day. Or at least don't dismiss, when we see it, and this is one of the few ways I know to do this, and get more people to see it to do it, too.
Gogol Bordello - [Immigrant Punk]--- Hello.
They don't tell you that the work you do will take months to even get started, because no one will think that what you're doing is doable.
No one in philosphy or religious studies wants to hear that you're writing on Magic as a thing in itself, not as a better way to understand ritual, or as everything that is wrong with "The Folk's" thinking, everything against which we're trying to stand. No one likes it when you defend it.
I've come to a conclusion: People don't want to talk about magic, if they don't have to. They'll acknowledge that weird shit happens, and they'll nod and wink and then they'll call it an "outlier" or a "fluke," like becaue it only happens every so often, it's a fucking inconsequential thing. It doesn't matter, right? Wrong. It all matters.
It's all important data, and we should time, measure and recognise the place it holds in the human whatever the fuck.
Jack Off Jill - [Horrible]--- But I rant and rave and do go on. I'm in the midsts of what is possibly the most annoying process of my life, thus far, and it holds a bit of my head-space, because of it.
I want to make the world a place where the weird shit, the magic, the awe and wonder is what we experience every day. Or at least don't dismiss, when we see it, and this is one of the few ways I know to do this, and get more people to see it to do it, too.
Gogol Bordello - [Immigrant Punk]--- Hello.
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Date: 2007-01-21 01:32 pm (UTC)That attitude that people display towards magic shits me. However, your pain is my gain; a big part of how my Night City world even manages to work the way it does is because, yes, people don't want to talk about magic. I've been told that this isn't realistic, but from all of the strange, sideways, esoteric stuff I've read in my life it seems that attitude is quite prelevant, and you running into it so obviously and so hard seals it.
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Date: 2007-01-22 04:20 am (UTC)If I can be a part of that change, all the better.
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Date: 2007-01-21 05:52 pm (UTC)Black Magic Arts' by Richard Cavendish.- hot thing here
IS it anything worth?
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Date: 2007-01-22 04:27 am (UTC)