Ritualistic Memetic Metadata (cross-posted from DPH)

Tom Waits - [Whistle Down the Wind (For Tom Jans)]--- I think that the ritualistic aspects are necessary, in many practices, but they can be done without. If you can teach people the meta-goal, the over-arching What of your actions, and the How of accessing that, in themselves, then you don't need the formula, and the ritual.

Think of it like this: If the medium of magic is memtic meta-data, then what weshould be focusing on, when practicing it, is the art of Practicing it, rather than the details of the practice. Yes, certain forms and rules can be used to show a starting point, and a structure. (The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - [A Thousand Fists]). But perhaps we should be conveying the purposes to the actions, themselves, and the ideals of intensionality, such that we are better equipped to take that which is presented to us, perceive it pragmatically, practically, and as completely as we are capable, so that we may put it toward our usage.

In that sense, the meme to be propagated is the doing of the thing; the obtaining of results and the mitigation of consequences, from our methods, by application of will and intent on the self and, thereby, the world.

{EDIT: 1.00am: Tom Waits - [Kommienezuspadt]---

wolven:[My GPA was] 3.25, this semester, for a 3.14 overall. Up .14 points from last semester

mendori: yay!

wolven: .......
wolven: i just realised that
wolven: my GPA is Pi}

Eight random words for eight random days

Danger Doom - [Benzie Box (w/ C-Lo)]--- Excitable

Insatiable

Intractable

Alien

Mistaken

Explicit

Machiavellian

Colour

I didn't want them all to be adjectives.

I hate you:

LUXT - [Perpetusex]--- "English" is not our national language. We are an off-shoot dialect of English, known as American, with its own sub-dialects and nuances, dependent upon settlement of people who sounded the same. And you know what? That's Awesome.

I'm reminded of the briefly mentioned War of Verbals, in Transmetropolitan, where the one informant told Spider that his country just wanted to keep their language primary, in their country. (Tori Amos - [Sweet Dreams]). There's nothing wrong with that, you know, but admit what your language is. Admit that language is a living thing and that it changes, will change, and that what we call English, today, bears resemblance to its origins, but is by no means the same. Can you read an untranslated copy of Beowulf? I mean, yeah, you probably can, because you're fricking awesome, but most people cannot.

311 - [Loco]--- There are many languages, in this world, and they are all amazing. We should be teaching them to each other, so that we may communicate with each other, in any medium, rather than trying to make it "easier," and making people that little bit lazier.

We kill our language centres earlier and earlier, these days. Children get no linguistic reinforcement. I was taught Spanish, and Latin, starting when I was 8, for Spanish, and at 10 and 11 for latin.. (Prince of Persia - Sands of Time - [The Last Fight]). What the Hell is wrong with that? Nothing, that's what.

More languages. Not less.

{EDIT: 11.19am: A Perfect Circle - [Rose]--- "It's time to move past what seems to me to be an endless picking apart of the archaeology of every past intelligence success or failure," Hayden told the Senate Intelligence Committee at his confirmation hearing Thursday. "The CIA needs to get out of the news-- as source or subject-- and focus on protecting the American people."

No no no no no no no no no no.

Have we always been at war with Eurasia? Don't ask that question.

Fuck. (Rasputina - [Herb Girls of Birkenau]). I hate sounding like a paranoiac, but it's so damned easy, these days...}