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Abraxas - a Gnostic Supreme Deity or Demiurge who rules the 365th (highest and final) aeon, or sphere, ascending to the unknowable God. Basilides claimed Abraxas to be both Egyptian god & demon.
Related more recently: 'Solve Et Coagula' like the Baphomet represents the Process of the Alchemical Great Work, the Synthesis of All Opposing Forces - To Analysis & Synthesis, the True Path to All Knowledge.
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The abandonment of magic made possible the upsurge of technology?
“It was the abandonment of magic which made possible the upsurge of technology, not the other way round. Indeed, as Max Weber stressed, magic was potentially ‘one of the most serious obstructions to the rationalisation of economic life’. The technological primacy of Western civilization, it can be argued, owes a sizeable debt to the fact that in Europe recourse to magic was to prove less ineradicable than in other parts of the world”. - Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic
Max Weber in the Realm of Enchantment - By J.J.Storm
"Weber is not the actual source of the notion of science as anti-magic. He also did not argue for the movement of thought from magic to religion to science often mistakenly attributed to him. Finally, “the disenchantment of the world” does not mean the complete extirpation of belief in magic or spirits."
Art: Kings’ Fairy Tale, 1909, by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Kawaii Lucifer
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The bullshitters guide to enlightenment
The bullshitter will spend a lot of time talking about doing something using many fancy words and exotic rituals. He will sell you the illusion of a much "better" reality that seems impossibly hard to attain, except if you follow the ways of the bullshitter. He will promise prosperity, clarity and enlightenment - and yet only deliver confusion and bullshit, to keep the ponzi scheme going.
#Mindful #Narrative #Religion #Economics #Comedy #Culture #Ideas
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Working radically less as social norm really should return as a mainstream political issue.
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Digital Presenteeism - Bullshitjobs for remote work. Functional Stupidity
New data from Qatalag and GitLab puts a number on it: Knowledge workers waste an extra 67 minutes online each day doing menial tasks for the express purpose of proving to their managers and colleagues that they’re available and working.
It’s taking a strain. The survey polled 2,000 knowledge workers and found that more than half of them (54%) reported feeling pressure to show their online status by replying to emails and Slack messages, adding comments to Google Docs, or updating project management tools.
The report calls this “digital presenteeism.” It’s the remote version of traditional presenteeism, when workers stay at their desk for no reason other than to prove to their bosses they’re working.
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Long after our civilization has vanished, future life-forms will ask what our strange symbols mean
