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What are kids watching? - Analysis of the Anime "Toaru Majutsu no Index" - by Mark Valin
"Kinda crazy there’s a cartoon out there about an Academy of Gifted kids at war w/ secret societies. Accurate depictions of ceremonial magic & grimoires. Weather modeling satellites, Reality Distortion Fields. The Book of the Law, Aiwass, Aleister. "
"An English Church of Necessary Evil, Queen ‘Elizard’. A war in Russia, more floating fortresses, psychic vortices... probably nothing 🥴"
More on the Setting of Toaru Majutsu no here.
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Nekyia - a "rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future," i.e., necromancy.
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"The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen." - H.P. Lovecraft
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Infohazard - "a risk that arises from the dissemination of (true) information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm"
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Inverse-square law - a persistent rumor
"In science, an inverse-square law is any scientific law stating that a specified physical quantity is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source of that physical quantity. The fundamental cause for this can be understood as geometric dilution corresponding to point-source radiation into three-dimensional space."
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SCP-055 is an unknown object that causes anyone who examines it to forget its various characteristics, thus making it indescribable except in terms of what it is not.
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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.
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