I don’t believe in any for of mysticism. No voodoo, no mythology, no religions, no magick, not astrology, it’s all things people believe in because it’s more aesthetically pleasing than reality.

I’m not closed off from believing in something if it’s proven. So it doesn’t make me closed minded for calling all these absolutely fake. It actually makes people closed minded for not accepting that these things could be fake despite the lack of validity behind them.

Bonesaw Wizardstick said

That would make you a fan of epistemology, right?  It’s definitely an interesting philosophy.  It’s basically that you live in The Matrix and there is no way to definitively prove that you, I, or anything exists.  

Never heard of that, interesting thing I ought to look in to it.

What you’re talking about seems more like Phenomenology. Where everything is based on a perception. Where as everything you believe is real is real until you see evidence that proves it isn’t real so then you really don’t know if anything is real, you only perceive it to be real so that makes it real.

Where as epistemology seems to be a philosophy based on what justifies knowledge.  I don’t know, I’m sure it kind of branches out into phenomenological territory.

King Lucem Ferre said

Where as epistemology seems to be a philosophy based on what justifies knowledge.  I don’t know, I’m sure it kind of branches out into phenomenological territory.  

Right, which is a fancy way of saying “proof or it didn’t happen.”  That whole saying of “if a tree falls in a forest…” epistemology is “well how can you be sure?”

And yes, they are closely related.

Edit: only addressed half of what you said the first time.

My church has a strong pagan population which includes a Tongvan elder/shaman. I try to not say any of that kind of stuff isn’t real because I haven’t experienced what they have, but generally, as a rule I don’t trust claims of supernatural activity.

I believe it’s more a mental thing, not what Hollywood has made it out to be. That being said there are a lot of things I have seen that I cannot explain, but I like to think it all has a logical cause even if I can’t figure it out.

The tie dye still a thing? We bringing our own whities?

scruffy said

i intend to at least attempt one.  

dunno what everybody else is doin.    

Ill shoot a message to sazarah and see if shes bringing her kit. Ill play along.

Iris The Tranny juggalette said
Warning: the following is actually very underwhelming

When I was in New Orleans there was a lot of people who practiced voodoo, well, kinda, a lot of them were just trying to sell dolls and weird totem things, (which seemed to work pretty well) but some of them seemed very serious, and I had one strange encounter, this woman was pouring what looked like random chemicals, I legit watched this chick burn her own skin because something boiling shot up from it, she looked godamn insane, she was working for a store, so I figured she was just trying to sell whatever she was pretending to make, and not to my surprise she was giving out samples of what she was supposedly making, I took a drink and instantly started hallucinating, I was off my schizo meds at the time, but it happened fucking instantly, now you may just think that I took a sketchy ass drink in the middle of a crime ridden city, but the thing is is that the woman began verbally describing what I was seeing, and later I realized that she wasn’t selling any of that drink, and was routinely taking drinks of whatever the fuck she was making, her eyes going back and forth from being black and white, I don’t think you can do that with contacts, and she started pulling out dolls that resembled me and other people coming through, and saying shit like “ya wanna see what I can do with this” and then just started laughing, and put her finger on the left eye and suddenly I couldn’t see out of it. I panicked and left.

Tbh I was probably just hallucinating at least half of that. But yeah, that’s my experience with voodoo.  

Shoulda asked her to touch you directly on the pee hole. Coulda killed 2 balls with one stone

Thats where i excel man, adolescent humor.