Many or most will dismiss offhand mythology, astrology, the idea of gods, demigods, etc.
I find it hard to believe that that stuff is meaningless.
Ya know, someone just linked me to the wiki for Eliphas Levi of Baphomet fame.
Here's an interesting quote...
Eliphas Levi cautioned: "The operations of [magic] science are not devoid of danger. Their result may be madness for those who are not established on the base of the supreme, absolute, and infallible reason. They may over-excite the nervous system, producing terrible and incurable diseases."[30] "Let those, therefore, who seek in magic the means to satisfy their passions, pause in that deadly path, where they will find nothing but death or madness. This is the significance of the vulgar tradition that the devil finished sooner or later by strangling the sorcerers."
I've browsed occult on reddit for years, and there is a modicum of "sorcerers" that make sure to invoke God first before doing anything....you know...the "supreme, absolute, and infallible reason".
If you read that guys wiki, he didn't really like ceremonial magic. It sure seems like it was more of an intellectual pursuit than anything. But he did do rituals still, for, ya know, "science".
Oh, and I didn't read the end of your earlier comment.
"Hellfire preaching"
I'm friend with a cool dude on Reddit that is an evangelical, and believes the Bible is 66 books only, and he kinda scoffed at my Bible (The New American Bible), which I got at my Catholic high school.
I like my Bible...it has the original words in the footnotes if there's scholarly argument about them, and has nifty cross-referencing and stuff like that.
Anyhow, point is that my Bible has such mild wording compared to the KJV. It is night and day in some regards.
I ALWAYS go to my Bible to check verses, because I haven't even seen the exact same translations online, even on Biblegateway and such that have all the different versions.
Sometimes...I even think that differing interpretations of a word or phrase between versions can both be true...almost like having multiple definitions or being double entendres.
Or like how Hebrew words lack vowels and there's similarty between words sharing the same consonants. Something along those lines...
Not whom you were talking to...
But my average temp is 97.6. My mom was Rh-, and I was the only kid out of seven with red hair (just on my facial hair though).
One day I felt kinda off coming home from school in 2nd grade (it was cold out, but I was really bundled up), and I took my temp and it was 93 degrees. My mom even checked it again because she didn't believe me. I told my mom that I'd be fine, but I did pretty much immediately take a nap and woke up ok.
I don't think I'm Rh-, but honestly I'm not 100% on that.
Whaddya mean? I don't want anything LOL.
I'm not scared of demons, but it's nice to know there's good out there too.
That's about it.
I also don't want to "spoil" anything for anyone.
In addition, I actually used the millstone quote before in reference to MGK...not me, the "entertainer".
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/10re6fr/the_red_cube_sculpture_by_isamu_noguchi_at_140/
LOL, that picture is labeled:
Arts/CRAFTS
The Red Cube Sculpture by Isamu Noguchi at 140 Broadway in New York City with a little snow on top.
I went to Ozzfest a few times. Even saw Rob Zombie with his flaming 666 stage and pole dancers.
Eh, he was pretty bland. But his movies are pretty gross...and of course they have people like Rainn Wilson...
Don't think they are good people...
There's a reference in Revelation in the Bible to those that "survive the time of great distress".
Forgot where, but either elsewhere in Revelation, or perhaps the prophetic books of the OT...scratch that...it's Matthew 24:22...that for the sake of those people, the days would be shortened.
That is also cross-referenced with Daniel 12.
Just sayin'...
Gotta look into Don Van Vilet...also my sister would have been the one to see the Marilyn Monroe autograph in the bathroom...I thought you were talking about my mom's school. But my sister never went to Laurel Canyon that I know...the video was shot on a double decker bus driving around LA (and he had goofy ass billboards posted all around that you can see in the background).
But the "I hate a careless man" video shoot...pretty strange.
Believe it or not, this is just scratching the surface of the weirdness in my life. LOL
A lot to analyze...Geez...I could tell ya some things...
Paulekis joined the Merchant Marine in 1942 (reading wikipedia now), and my dad was born in 1940 and his father was a Merchant Marine at that time.
My dad went into the army and was part of intelligence for the 82nd Airborne division...same ones that were prominent at the Charlottesville "incident" a few years back. My dad was stationed at Petaluma in California, which I later found was quite close to BOHEMIAN Grove. Crazy syncs.
My dad loved running, and said he used to get the worst vibes running near the Presidio.
Yeah, I had to log in to scored because I never go on there...
Just the old conspiracy site. I don't roam too much.
I am an anchorite LOL.