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[Gervassen]

Always be late, and when people call you on it, tell them that wizards are never late or early, but arrive precisely when they mean to arrive.

[Xantalos]

The thing about being a wizard is that the magic you use is literally impossible to understand.
So having no idea what you're doing is a good thing.

[Aptus]

If someone hires you to do some mumbo jumbo, always arrive at their house and then complain about memorizing the wrong spell and that you need to rest to fix it, then promptly take a nap on their couch.

[Gervassen]

If someone hires you to do some mumbo jumbo, always arrive at their house and then complain about memorizing the wrong spell and that you need to rest to fix it, then promptly take a nap on their couch.

That was actually an IRL LOL.

[alway]

*If you don't believe these are magic, examine what they are. AI strives to give intelligence to the inanimate; robotics strives to animate the inanimate; chemistry literally spawned by looking at alchemy and creating theories based specifically on what worked; physics looks at the core structures making up the universe, revealing a deeper level of reality so arcane we can't fathom it outside of abstractions and metaphor along with equations so strange we don't even grasp the implications of them. We live in such a high-magic setting that it becomes mundane to us.

Magic is only magic for as long as we are unable to understand it, Clarke's Third Law and all that. As soon as we begin to comprehend the basic theories behind it, it stops being magic and becomes science. (Although I suppose, in the end, it's a matter of definition.)

Therein lies the trick. "We." The general population has a late 19th century conception of most of science. The only ones with a more advanced view than that are professionals in their respective fields; and usually that only applies to their respective fields. In other words, you're a wizard to everyone aside from the pros; who will probably also see you as a wizard if you do anything cross-discipline.
This guy? Wizard.

Being on the cutting edge, doing things that others think impossible, that is what makes a wizard.

[DarkWolfXV]

Or if you want to fast track and die, get the Necronomicon.

+1

True wizards read the necronomicon

+2

Spawn the evil forces and rule the world and shit.
Brb looking for the necronomicon on ebay.

[Sensei]

Or if you want to fast track and die, get the Necronomicon.

+1

True wizards read the necronomicon

+2

Spawn the evil forces and rule the world and shit.
Brb looking for the necronomicon on ebay.

Well, it's right here.

[Loud Whispers]

Or if you want to fast track and die, get the Necronomicon.

+1

True wizards read the necronomicon

+2

Spawn the evil forces and rule the world and shit.
Brb looking for the necronomicon on ebay.

Wait, what do you search for again? Glato, burrito, Nosferatu..?

[hops]

Or if you want to fast track and die, get the Necronomicon.

+1

True wizards read the necronomicon

+2

Spawn the evil forces and rule the world and shit.
Brb looking for the necronomicon on ebay.

Well, it's right here.

Seems like a prop or a fake looking from the price.
Not that it's unexpected since Lovecraft kind of pulled the idea out of his ass.

I would really love to get my hands on some kind of bible for a satanic cult, though.

[Myroc]

Therein lies the trick. "We." The general population has a late 19th century conception of most of science. The only ones with a more advanced view than that are professionals in their respective fields; and usually that only applies to their respective fields. In other words, you're a wizard to everyone aside from the pros; who will probably also see you as a wizard if you do anything cross-discipline.
This guy? Wizard.

Being on the cutting edge, doing things that others think impossible, that is what makes a wizard.

But you are forgetting something: The people who work with this kind of advanced technological sorcery have an almost pathological need to explain how it actually works, which means we are rarely left in the dark about these things (or at least not in the general theories, if not the actual specifics). So, in the end, I guess the only thing that prevents us from being dominated by omnipotent technowizards is the fact that their field of expertise is too cool not to explain to people.

[Il Palazzo]

Other than this, there's the actual business of being a wizard. You know, spells and such. I don't expect myself to ever be shouting EI NATH at things, nor does that make sense, but I'm fairly sure there's a world beyond this one that's sort of accessible~ Forces beyond what I could plausibly know and all that.

So, you're saying that you're planning to study physics while dressed up in robes and wearing a pointy hat?
Sounds like a good idea to me.

[LordSlowpoke]

Holy shit did this thread manage not to be ignored. Thank you for the support, it's probably going to be a long and uneventful ride. It's time for wizardly updates, I guess.

Employment continues to be in limbo with the manager getting continuously more upset at the higher-ups due to their fuckups which are slowly escalating into disaster-level with shit being lost left and right. I've been reading The Golden Bough as nenjin recommended and after being three chapters in I'm still at it, so I'm probably par for the course. Located a small shop on the outskirts of town specializing in handicraft supplies where I probably could get my felt, but at this hour it'd be closed before I got to it - going to raid it tomorrow. I also found some notes from days past which I'm kind of hesitant to try... We'll see what happens when it happens, I guess. I just felt that it's necessary to give you something to say that I'm going through with this.

I used to practice meditation for a while, and the clarity of mind is something highly desirable, though I never got very far with it. I'll start trying to enter such a state in about two hours, the book won't read itself.

[Virex]

I would really love to get my hands on some kind of bible for a satanic cult, though.

As requested

[Xantalos]

Just so everyone's clear, I'm sponsoring Slowpoke. No one else needs to do it, I'll be the magical patron.
It should be interesting, after all.

[XXSockXX]

I would really love to get my hands on some kind of bible for a satanic cult, though.

As requested

This site has a lot of classical occult writing in electronic form. Also a lot of Crowley's works (in the Thelema category) and some Grimoires.