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 No.49409[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Anyone here have weird, niche interests? I’m curious about this kind of thing. I like hearing about people dedicating their lives to one specific strange thing. Post about them here.
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 No.70497

>>50746
https://www.etymonline.com/
You can use this for a broader answer

 No.70531

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>>49409
I like to read about
>Psychonautics
(or altered state of mind or how to play with your brain and sensations)
In general i read just about Hypnosis and magic/magick or ritualism, placebos, mind tricks, mindhacking, mind illusions etc.
I dont read much about drugs bacause i dont consume or have money for these (i dont want to turn addict) maybe in my 40 years i will try some drugs or heavy methods but for now i want to be healthy.
Its a fun insteresting hobby but is not a very good talk topic for normies.
Sometimes i talk with this with hippies new agers and some aspie science dudes, not the typical normie but they respect and have interest in these things around mind and body control and sensations.

 No.70580

>>70531
I have read a lot about drugs and I find that it has some practical application. Like I will never take any opioids or benzos if a doctor tries to prescribe it to me being aware of the death spiral.

 No.70581

jerking off and beer.

thats it

 No.70641


i collect female kpop idol videos. i don't post them here because no females allowed


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 No.70620[Reply]

I made this thread seperatly from the drawing thread because first, I want it to be visible from everyone, secondly, I wanted to separate painting to drawing. In this thread, post paintings you've made or are doing at teh moment or drafts. Talk about paintings and the related (color used, canvas used, etc…)
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 No.70626

>>70625
The Roman Empire was the center of the world back then, and there was nothing like the art including paintings produced there in the entire world. Despite this nearly all has been lost to history and the surviving works are mostly wall paintings.
A similar situation exists for the written works, most books and letters have been lost forever.
There was no civilisation on the same level in the entire world with Ancient China coming in second place.

 No.70628

>>70627
A.I anything should be contained to an A.I thread.

 No.70633

>>70628
you're right, Ill delete my post

 No.70634

>>70633
Another internet victory for me! Hahaha!

 No.70635

>>70634
conquer the internetz!!



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 No.68295[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Book discussion. Tell us what you're reading.
Previous threads:
>>64932
>>60032
>>54504
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 No.70452

i didn't even check this board, what a fool i have been. so much wizzardry about reading for me to enjoy!

i made a thread about (ebook) reading and what a wonderful thing the modern e-ink display is. please come visit https://wizchan.org/lounge/res/323200.html

it is very pleasant to the eye and can be used in full sunshine. where i live they spray aluminium in the sky to block the sun as to make the people sick more so whenever there is a short moment of sun, i hurry and quickly grab the ereader and try to sit in it.

 No.70464

Do audiobooks count?

 No.70470

>>70464
>Do audiobooks count?

until i found my lord and savior the kobo ebook reader, i could only listen to audiobooks.

i tried to listen to an old book that someone bothered to make an audiobook version of with an ai narrator voice and it felt so awful and unsettling to listen to a robot that i thought "actually reading myself can't be worse then that"

… and it wasnt.

i still like audiobook read by the author but reading is nice to, especially in mild sunshine.

 No.70585

>>70464
audiobooks don't really seem convenient to me
I remember listening to some book-cds as a very small kid though
the format doesn't seem appropiate for books
listening is for radio or podcasts, not books where you have to sometimes pause and think
unless you only read very simple fiction books

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 No.69816[Reply]

I think there was a thread here not long ago of a mage building humanoid robots. It was themed like the bible, with something about the female robot being eve and the male adam. The structural parts were fiberglass, I think? Robomage please come back and show your progress. I think about it every day.

 No.69817

>>69816
He has made several threads on /diy/. I don't recall him making a thread here but if he did I hope he doesn't return.

 No.69822

>>69817
what'd he ever do to you? I think what he is creating is grand

 No.69831

>>69822
Look at his /diy/ threads. I think his obsession with his robots is interesting and admire his relentlessness but it is quite clear that he has no idea what he's doing. His arrogance when experienced people point out his ignorance is off-putting. That being said, I do not resent him and wish him all the best but looking at his track record it seems unlikely he'll get even remotely close to success.

 No.70618

Do you think we will ever have a breakthrough moment of mass adoption of robotics like we did with smartphones, computers, AI, cars?
Like the beginning of a new era where all kind of robots are embedded in every facet of society? I don't think a lot of people could imagine today back in the 50s or 60s.
Then again the tech might just stay at it's current level for decades.
Maybe the cost is just too high, mass adoption of smartphones only became possible when very cheap low-power computing became the norm.
I don't see robotics hardware dramatically dropping in price anytime soon. Maybe we'll see some attempts in the future to lower the price by mass production and standardisation, but then there have to be cheap makers and sufficient demand of robots too.
Anyway everyday tech did not have any dramatic breakthroughs since the mass adoption of smartphones.

 No.70619

>>70618
*mass production and standardisation of robot parts, components and software I meant



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 No.54625[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Previous thread: >>25265
>The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.
https://plato.stanford.edu/index.html
>List of unsolved problems in philosophy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_philosophy
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 No.70541

>>70227
Nick Land

He is saying that post-human intelligence is here to take over and humans are going to slowly bleed out.

 No.70567

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I managed to read this, Letters from a Stoic by Seneca. He lived in the times of the New Testament.
I enjoyed reading this, there are useful tiny tidbits here and there which still hold up today. It's also fun if you are interested in the Romans.
This is also good if you have read that meme book by Marcus Aurelius (which I also did) and you still want to continue.

 No.70614

>>70612
>ChubbyPepe baby googoogaga tradcath inspirational softcover book list
>I'm a crusader, guys!

 No.70616

>>70612
it's religion, not philosophy

 No.70617

>>70616
In philosophy of religion, it is called classical theism.


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 No.62503[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Any type of writing is allowed, from lyrics, to poetry, to essays, and anything in between.

Last Thread:
https://www.wizchan.org/hob/featured/res/46012.html

Some discussion starters for the thread:

>What are you writing right now?


>What's your favorite thing to write about?


>Is there anything important about writing that you wish you knew earlier?


>What literary devices do you implement in your writing?


>Is there anything that you're planning to improve on in your writing?
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 No.70595

>>69715
not him but I liked Crime and Punishment, really shows the hell of 19th century prison

 No.70596

>>70595
I've never been able to go at the end of the story, always dropping at the last third or so. Is the guy being death sentenced at the end?

 No.70597

>>69706
edgy/10

 No.70606

>>70596
shit I misremembered, I read a different book by Dostoevsky called The House of the Dead, the entire book is about life in a prison. I'm sorry my mind is a mess right now.

 No.70607

>>69706
you want to be cioran but for that one must spend so much more time alone and have insomnia and be old to truly become a pessimists


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 No.52132[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Bicycles ~ good for getting around short distances easily.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDbNe3mS0aw
Or when the power goes out..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bW79QxVbCgY
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 No.70600

>>70598
Are you afraid to get caught or is it only because it goes against moral ?

 No.70601

In giving, you receive. When it comes to stealing, you are hurting yourself more than the other person.

 No.70602

>>70601
So if you steal from your enemy, he wins? What if he's using the bike as a tool for evil? What if you have an opportunity to be the distributor of karmic justice to punish him for his misdeeds? What if in stealing his bike, the happiness in the world increases?

 No.70603

>>70600
I simply despise such behavior

 No.70605

>>70599
It isn't my job to exact justice on bad people and I have no interest in such activities, in a functional society bad people would be locked up anyway.
As I already said I despise stealing, especially if it's something in the price range of a bike or lower


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 No.67595[Reply]

I invite all anonons interested in the occult to gather in this thread and learn the basics of magic. And if on the site there are more experienced people in this topic, please share their wisdom and help with neophytes and everyone
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 No.70542

I have read few text on magic but it requires many leaps of faith just like religion, just like anything really. I yawned and closed the book. Maybe it is as true as anything else but man, I don't care.

I am exhausted by things and knowledge.

 No.70543

If you're gonna seek something obscure why don't you try something which actually delivers like neoplatonism. I'm sorry but this just looks to me like some scam for normies

 No.70544

Qliphoth traveller here, i fornicate with the demon queens and they teach me debaouchery and magick in dreams. Basically i'm still stuck at lust. I went beyond but found out it's fucking horrible (nofap,semen retention). It's like the soul stands bare before the almighty. This spehere is brutal, took me about six months of this shit to give up. So went back to Lilith,Naamah,Babalon, Ishtar and all the other aspects of Venus. Beautiful, warm pleasure But i gotta go through this sphere to cross the abyss and become that black diamond. Free from the loop, free from the wheel doing whatever the fuck i want. Warning though, once you start this journey there's no getting off, you either burn or ascend. Horrible things will happen to your soul,mind and body. The alternative is coming back to this shithole. The other way, is that dark soul piercing evil that child molestors do like that guy from The True Detective or Epstein. You entrap souls in that awful awful loop and you get more free everytime you do it. The dark side of indian mages know this, they eat the dead, rape their sisters/mothers and know they ascend. The path to God is horrible.

 No.70582

>>70544
what kind of magick do they teach you?
or do i have to learn it myself from them?

 No.70604

I've always had an interest in magic, but I'm kind of over at this point. Over the better part of nearly 15 years I've dabbled in and explored every tradition imaginable, sought out every book I could, even went looking for practitioners (guru's and masters) in real life and I never found anything that satisfied me.
All the Golden Dawn derived stuff is trash, the Solomonic grimoire tradition is nonsense as well, all the New Age witchcraft stuff is hokey too. Even the niche stuff barely anybody's heard about is nonsense. Nobody can actually do magic, or convincingly demonstrate any abilities. All occultists are fat bald guys that seem to die prematurely. If magic is out there it's certainly hidden from everyone, and all the material available on it is a bunch of nonsense.



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 No.56336[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Post your desktop
I want to see what wizards desktops look like and what they use as a daily driver.

I use Debian GNU/Linux with a full suckless setup
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 No.70569

I wish I was tech literate. having A linux OS sounds cool

 No.70570

>>70569
Linux for desktop use is still trash, you have to choose between two janky display servers, one that's like 40 years old and the other is jank

None of the android display solutions have been ported to desktop linux, that gpl license is worthless

 No.70575

>>70570
why people are using linux distros if it is jank shit? I will never know; just because the software is written differently to work with an hardware

 No.70576

>>70575
Because windows is "Fascist" and "invades your privacy" and doesn't "respect your freedoms". Those using Linux as a protest against windows are the embodiment of "cutting off your nose to spite your face".

 No.70578

>>70576
I want a linux now


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 No.65927[Reply]

Here we discuss and speak of dreams that we had or the kind of dream that we would want.
We don't discuss of lucid dreaming.
I wanted to make this kind of thread as i do control them in how they will work but once inside i let the dream go and work his own doing.
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 No.70465

This is going to sound like a shitpost but I have this recurring dream that some ethic foreigners are trying to steal my car. It always ends with me killing them in some way. Half the time the car in question isn't even the car I drive IRL but I know it's mine and they want to take it.

 No.70572

I get these dreams about video games or romhacks which do not exist complete with entire mechanics and stories. The games always give this child like excitement and go paired with this feeling of when I played games as a child.
I only play games occasionaly these days and when I do they do not really excite me anymore or are anything like my dreams

 No.70573

>>70465
Average armed Ameriburger who wishes someone would break into their house

 No.70574

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I play a lot of multiplayer military shooters that aim for realism in the way weapons are handled, and I also do shooting sports IRL. This gives me a lot of dreams in which I'm just an armed soldier tasked with doing mundane military tasks or going and killing communists. Being an actual warrior in these dreams is cool but sometimes the dreams lean more to the videogame side and I end up dying because I'm lagging out or the controls are being unresponsive. Like you know how men have dreams about punching people but the dream doesn't always let the punch really land? I keep needing to shoot communists but the gun isn't working. Last night was a case of me needing to set up a radio on the field but it kept being red and translucent to indicate that it couldn't be placed there, and I died trying to find a place where the game would let me set it up. Then the dream went realism mode and I was shooting at bad guys (Slavs) who were holed up in a building, but then I found out there were also nice cats and dogs in the building too and I may have harmed them so I woke myself up by killing myself.

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>>65927
I once had a dream i fucked you mama



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