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Sunday, January 6, 2013
Does dedroidify.com need an upgrade?
The dedroidify.com site (not this blog, but the website) currently has a lightblue background color and the - it seems - much disliked Comic Sans MS font. What do you guys think, could the site benefit from another background color and/or font. If you vote please let me know in the comments (here or on the pollcode.com link where no account is needed) what color and font you think would work ok for the site. As the goal is for the site to reach as many people as possible, I'd rather not have a lot of people turned off by either.
PS: Gonna work on replacing the broken links and embedded videos soon, and see what I can come up with for a better looking opening page, any ideas or help welcome.
Update: Shocked and relieved at the same time to find a small majority so far thinks the site looks fine, haha! Giving it more time though, and will probably do some changing in the (to be honest, not so) near future anyway.
Update 2: 8 vs 8 and no comments will probably leave the site as it is. Unless some perform an act of Magickal voting/comments to change it!
Update 3: Apparently some people are really fond of their old dedroidify.com! Which is really nice to find out, thanks guys! But the tiniest of majority thinks a change would be for the best. Only problem is I have no idea what change. I agree the white and blue background isn't ideal, but wouldn't black font on a white background be boring? Definitely ruled out is a dark background color with a light font, I hate that myself and find it really hard to read and exhausting on the eyes. Different colors for each page is no option either cause it would clash with the Quote box on top. Again, opinions and advice are welcome. I'm thinking of changing the font to the one on the blog, it's nice and neutral in any case.
I've had so many dreams like this
From Lon Milo DuQuette's Low Magick:
"You know you're out of your body...
"You know you're out of your body...
- When forward or upward movement in a dream becomes difficult or impossible to continue. For example: you are walking down a dream sidewalk, walking up stairs, or driving or bicycling down a road and you suddenly find your legs are too heavy to move or the car or bike breaks down. This indicates that you are moving from a lower/slower vibratory level into a higher/more subtle vibratory level, one that your big fat dream vehicles can't enter. If you are lucid at this moment, you can stop walking or riding or driving and will yourself to fly forward, leaving your grosser body behind."
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Bookstore I am disappoint
Went to a big bookstore to find any Learn Japanese and Musical Theory books, zero of each! A very meager collection of (other) books there and overpriced at that. Guess I'll explore Amazon the rest of the afternoon. I am disappoint!
Lon Milo DuQuette, I love you
Everytime I pick up a Lon Milo DuQuette book and start reading it, I always get bitchslapped into so many realizations I should have made part of my permanent reality tunnel a long time ago but somehow managed to forget again because of slipping into old programming. I'm already 1/4th into this book called "Low Magick: It's all in your head... you just have no idea how big your head is", it's just amazing.
Here's a small excerpt:
There are many people in the world today (magicians and non magicians alike) who believe quite literally that the above arrangement is the only spiritual game plan in town. It is certainly their right to do so; after all, for many of us this God/devil, heaven/hell, angel/demon morality play is the familiar foundation upon which the perversely comfortable "faith of our fathers" was built.
While I certainly do not wish to offend anyone's sincere spiritual beliefs (and I hold my hand up and swear, "Some of my best friends are Chrislemews!"), I must, however, be honest. I do not believe in such an all-good anthropomorphic god. Neither do I believe in an all-evil anthropomorphic devil. I don't believe in a heaven where I'll be rewarded for believing correctly or a hell where I'll be punished for my unbelief. In fact, I believe there is something terribly wrong and spiritually toxic with this entire picture-dangerously and tragically wrong-a wrongness that has plagued the Western psyche for millennia; a primitive and superstitious phantasm of the mind; a nightmare that has infected the human soul with the virus of fear and self-loathing; a cancerous curse that demands that every man, woman, and child surrender to the great lie that would make us believe that our very humanness makes us unclean and damned in the eyes of a wrathful deity.
Does my rejection of a too-literal interpretation of the scriptural worldview of the Chrislemews make me an atheist? For those who adhere too tightly to their doctrines, I guess it does-but it certainlydoes not from my point of view. I most ardently believe in (indeed, I worship) a supreme consciousness that is the ultimate source of all manifest and unmanifest existence. I believe that you and I and every other monad of existence are components of the supreme consciousness. My morality (if you insist on calling it that) is based on my conviction that the ultimate nature of this super-existence is transcendently Good-a Good we can never adequately define with our words or understand with our meat brains-a Good so all-comprehensively infinite that there can be nothing outside of itself--not even nothing.
There can be no opposite of this great Good. The Goodness of supreme existence is spelled with the largest capital "G" imaginable. I call it the:
Here's a small excerpt:
There are many people in the world today (magicians and non magicians alike) who believe quite literally that the above arrangement is the only spiritual game plan in town. It is certainly their right to do so; after all, for many of us this God/devil, heaven/hell, angel/demon morality play is the familiar foundation upon which the perversely comfortable "faith of our fathers" was built.
While I certainly do not wish to offend anyone's sincere spiritual beliefs (and I hold my hand up and swear, "Some of my best friends are Chrislemews!"), I must, however, be honest. I do not believe in such an all-good anthropomorphic god. Neither do I believe in an all-evil anthropomorphic devil. I don't believe in a heaven where I'll be rewarded for believing correctly or a hell where I'll be punished for my unbelief. In fact, I believe there is something terribly wrong and spiritually toxic with this entire picture-dangerously and tragically wrong-a wrongness that has plagued the Western psyche for millennia; a primitive and superstitious phantasm of the mind; a nightmare that has infected the human soul with the virus of fear and self-loathing; a cancerous curse that demands that every man, woman, and child surrender to the great lie that would make us believe that our very humanness makes us unclean and damned in the eyes of a wrathful deity.
Does my rejection of a too-literal interpretation of the scriptural worldview of the Chrislemews make me an atheist? For those who adhere too tightly to their doctrines, I guess it does-but it certainlydoes not from my point of view. I most ardently believe in (indeed, I worship) a supreme consciousness that is the ultimate source of all manifest and unmanifest existence. I believe that you and I and every other monad of existence are components of the supreme consciousness. My morality (if you insist on calling it that) is based on my conviction that the ultimate nature of this super-existence is transcendently Good-a Good we can never adequately define with our words or understand with our meat brains-a Good so all-comprehensively infinite that there can be nothing outside of itself--not even nothing.
There can be no opposite of this great Good. The Goodness of supreme existence is spelled with the largest capital "G" imaginable. I call it the:
"Great G."
It's random pictures from the Internet!
I hate it when this happens :p
That Starbucks sparkle
Party like Radagast!

Thanks to Relaxed Focus for most of these!
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Magical Mystery Tour
I should have expected this after seeing Yellow Submarine, but this is another symbolic masterpiece. It's hilariously filmed and acted and so much symbolism in it, watching it again may possibly yield more insights. I need to see everything the Beatles ever made now!
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