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Wenn die Tage zwar langsam wieder länger werden, die Nächte aber ihre kühle Melancholie behalten sollen, ist es Zeit für eine neue Ausgabe unserer „Formel Goth“. In dieser Ausgabe bewegen wir uns auf einem spannenden Pfad zwischen bewährten Größen und umtriebigen Soloprojekten. #Antipole #Darkways #DeusExLumina #UnderTheSkin
https://www.spontis.de/musik/reingehoert/formel-goth-marc-winternacht/
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Wenn die Tage zwar langsam wieder länger werden, die Nächte aber ihre kühle Melancholie behalten sollen, ist es Zeit für eine neue Ausgabe unserer „Formel Goth“. In dieser Ausgabe bewegen wir uns auf einem spannenden Pfad zwischen bewährten Größen und umtriebigen Soloprojekten. #Antipole #Darkways #DeusExLumina #UnderTheSkin
https://www.spontis.de/musik/reingehoert/formel-goth-marc-winternacht/
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Wenn die Tage zwar langsam wieder länger werden, die Nächte aber ihre kühle Melancholie behalten sollen, ist es Zeit für eine neue Ausgabe unserer „Formel Goth“. In dieser Ausgabe bewegen wir uns auf einem spannenden Pfad zwischen bewährten Größen und umtriebigen Soloprojekten. #Antipole #Darkways #DeusExLumina #UnderTheSkin
https://www.spontis.de/musik/reingehoert/formel-goth-marc-winternacht/
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By Thus Spoke
By quirk of circumstance, Antipole is the third French-language album I’ve reviewed in a row. Norilsk break the trend in one way, however, as they are Quebecois, not French. Antipole is also not a debut (as my other 2025 subjects have been); far from it, Norilsk being a fairly established name in the Canadian death/doom sphere. With an approach that broadly leans towards the grit and grime of the two genres—rather than the grandiosity or beautification of either—but a tendency to flirt with post, they have garnered appreciation as solid riff-deliverers who can still keep things a little interesting. As its name might suggest, Antipole is a study of opposites, with the promo sheet highlighting the dualities Norilsk explore both conceptually and literally through the music’s evolutions. Such polarities are, in fact, key.
If not granted much attention, Antipole is serviceable doom-y death; deviations from the template rare enough to be forgettable. But it was when my listens moved from passive to active that problems began to emerge. Under a camouflage of unremarkability—a problem in itself—the true colors make themselves plain if you really look. Most melodies become frustrating in their wasted potential; most riffs lack presence; the overuse of essentially spoken-word delivery of the growled vocals gets ever more grating. But the greatest issue, encompassing all others, is that the compositions feel flimsy whereas they ought to feel hefty—instrumental and vocal elements not harnessed to their full potential, and highs dropped in without justifying set-up. Duality is one thing, but disjointedness is another, and it is the former that characterizes Antipole. But it is not a dynamic kind of disjointed—such as one might find in overambitious technical extreme metal—but quite the opposite: an apathetic lack of follow-through that’s insidiously vague, but ultimately brings the above problems into even sharper relief.
Norlisk severely underuse key building blocks of both doom and death.1 Rather than harnessing song lengths to execute builds and releases, to hint, deliver, and reprise refrains, they often repeat empty phrases (“Antipole,” “La chute du géant”), and simply switch into unearned flourishes (“Locus Sanctus,” “La fonte”), or discard a melody for stripped-back flatness (“Nunataks,” “Un chant pour les morts”). Instead of complimenting weighty riffs with soaring themes, or doubling down in grimy dissonance, (most) melodies are thin, barely develop, and carry about as much emotion as a bank statement. The emphasis on spoken word and approximately spoken or whispered delivery for harsh vocals gives much of the music a disinterested, placid effect, while the instances of more aggressive barking come across as put-on if not passable—though they are soon supplanted by the dominating whisper-growl anyway. Individual pieces—a groove here (“D’ombre et de glace (l’asphysxie)”), a riff there (“Nunataks”), the rare appearance of coherent thematic development in a beautiful solo (“La chute du géant”)—are good. But while shrouding the disconnection and the tameness at first blush, soon they make more evident how exasperatingly under-developed the whole is. These highlights themselves lose their sheen like gold dust in a pile of ash–not worth getting excited about, when you have to trawl through the rest to catch them. Let not the embed fool you: it’s possibly the best track.
Everything contained within Antipole is serviceable, but those stand-out elements prove that Norilsk are capable of much more than serviceable. Where they flirt with post (“Un chant pour les morts”) or a more energetic melodeath (“Locus Sanctus”) the music gains a hint of intrigue, but it loses it just as quickly because Norilsk don’t do anything with it, and settle back into comfortable, unremarkable death-doom. Some inconsistencies in the mix possibly contribute to the album’s problems. Harsh vocals sometimes fall back behind the guitars and percussion, meaning that when they would otherwise sound very good, with their resonant growls, they instead end up a little choked and feel non-committal. However, the spoken-word vocals usually appear right at the front of the mix, though they do not possess the requisite gravity for this prominence, and it makes them and the music accompanying them feel somehow flat. When the music is neither crushing enough to warrant a dense production—though at times it pretends to be—nor dynamic enough to justify a spacious one—though, again, attempts are made—the mix never feels just right; to my ears anyway. Perhaps Antipole has just driven me insane.
With apparent appreciation for Norilsk in the underground scene, and some stand-out moments—particularly on the front end—the true face of Antipole turned out to be an immense disappointment. There are approximately ten minutes of good death-doom hidden amidst the full 48, and whether or not this suffices to give Antipole your time is up to you. Maybe Norilsk have fallen from grace; maybe the fans were simply wrong all along.2
Rating: Disappointing
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Hypnotic Dirge
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: February 6th, 2025#20 #2025 #Antipole #CanadianMetal #DeathMetal #DeathDoomMetal #DoomMetal #Feb25 #HypnoticDirge #Norilsk #QuebecoisMetal #Review #Reviews
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By Thus Spoke
By quirk of circumstance, Antipole is the third French-language album I’ve reviewed in a row. Norilsk break the trend in one way, however, as they are Quebecois, not French. Antipole is also not a debut (as my other 2025 subjects have been); far from it, Norilsk being a fairly established name in the Canadian death/doom sphere. With an approach that broadly leans towards the grit and grime of the two genres—rather than the grandiosity or beautification of either—but a tendency to flirt with post, they have garnered appreciation as solid riff-deliverers who can still keep things a little interesting. As its name might suggest, Antipole is a study of opposites, with the promo sheet highlighting the dualities Norilsk explore both conceptually and literally through the music’s evolutions. Such polarities are, in fact, key.
If not granted much attention, Antipole is serviceable doom-y death; deviations from the template rare enough to be forgettable. But it was when my listens moved from passive to active that problems began to emerge. Under a camouflage of unremarkability—a problem in itself—the true colors make themselves plain if you really look. Most melodies become frustrating in their wasted potential; most riffs lack presence; the overuse of essentially spoken-word delivery of the growled vocals gets ever more grating. But the greatest issue, encompassing all others, is that the compositions feel flimsy whereas they ought to feel hefty—instrumental and vocal elements not harnessed to their full potential, and highs dropped in without justifying set-up. Duality is one thing, but disjointedness is another, and it is the former that characterizes Antipole. But it is not a dynamic kind of disjointed—such as one might find in overambitious technical extreme metal—but quite the opposite: an apathetic lack of follow-through that’s insidiously vague, but ultimately brings the above problems into even sharper relief.
Norlisk severely underuse key building blocks of both doom and death.1 Rather than harnessing song lengths to execute builds and releases, to hint, deliver, and reprise refrains, they often repeat empty phrases (“Antipole,” “La chute du géant”), and simply switch into unearned flourishes (“Locus Sanctus,” “La fonte”), or discard a melody for stripped-back flatness (“Nunataks,” “Un chant pour les morts”). Instead of complimenting weighty riffs with soaring themes, or doubling down in grimy dissonance, (most) melodies are thin, barely develop, and carry about as much emotion as a bank statement. The emphasis on spoken word and approximately spoken or whispered delivery for harsh vocals gives much of the music a disinterested, placid effect, while the instances of more aggressive barking come across as put-on if not passable—though they are soon supplanted by the dominating whisper-growl anyway. Individual pieces—a groove here (“D’ombre et de glace (l’asphysxie)”), a riff there (“Nunataks”), the rare appearance of coherent thematic development in a beautiful solo (“La chute du géant”)—are good. But while shrouding the disconnection and the tameness at first blush, soon they make more evident how exasperatingly under-developed the whole is. These highlights themselves lose their sheen like gold dust in a pile of ash–not worth getting excited about, when you have to trawl through the rest to catch them. Let not the embed fool you: it’s possibly the best track.
Everything contained within Antipole is serviceable, but those stand-out elements prove that Norilsk are capable of much more than serviceable. Where they flirt with post (“Un chant pour les morts”) or a more energetic melodeath (“Locus Sanctus”) the music gains a hint of intrigue, but it loses it just as quickly because Norilsk don’t do anything with it, and settle back into comfortable, unremarkable death-doom. Some inconsistencies in the mix possibly contribute to the album’s problems. Harsh vocals sometimes fall back behind the guitars and percussion, meaning that when they would otherwise sound very good, with their resonant growls, they instead end up a little choked and feel non-committal. However, the spoken-word vocals usually appear right at the front of the mix, though they do not possess the requisite gravity for this prominence, and it makes them and the music accompanying them feel somehow flat. When the music is neither crushing enough to warrant a dense production—though at times it pretends to be—nor dynamic enough to justify a spacious one—though, again, attempts are made—the mix never feels just right; to my ears anyway. Perhaps Antipole has just driven me insane.
With apparent appreciation for Norilsk in the underground scene, and some stand-out moments—particularly on the front end—the true face of Antipole turned out to be an immense disappointment. There are approximately ten minutes of good death-doom hidden amidst the full 48, and whether or not this suffices to give Antipole your time is up to you. Maybe Norilsk have fallen from grace; maybe the fans were simply wrong all along.2
Rating: Disappointing
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Hypnotic Dirge
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: February 6th, 2025#20 #2025 #Antipole #CanadianMetal #DeathMetal #DeathDoomMetal #DoomMetal #Feb25 #HypnoticDirge #Norilsk #QuebecoisMetal #Review #Reviews
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By Thus Spoke
By quirk of circumstance, Antipole is the third French-language album I’ve reviewed in a row. Norilsk break the trend in one way, however, as they are Quebecois, not French. Antipole is also not a debut (as my other 2025 subjects have been); far from it, Norilsk being a fairly established name in the Canadian death/doom sphere. With an approach that broadly leans towards the grit and grime of the two genres—rather than the grandiosity or beautification of either—but a tendency to flirt with post, they have garnered appreciation as solid riff-deliverers who can still keep things a little interesting. As its name might suggest, Antipole is a study of opposites, with the promo sheet highlighting the dualities Norilsk explore both conceptually and literally through the music’s evolutions. Such polarities are, in fact, key.
If not granted much attention, Antipole is serviceable doom-y death; deviations from the template rare enough to be forgettable. But it was when my listens moved from passive to active that problems began to emerge. Under a camouflage of unremarkability—a problem in itself—the true colors make themselves plain if you really look. Most melodies become frustrating in their wasted potential; most riffs lack presence; the overuse of essentially spoken-word delivery of the growled vocals gets ever more grating. But the greatest issue, encompassing all others, is that the compositions feel flimsy whereas they ought to feel hefty—instrumental and vocal elements not harnessed to their full potential, and highs dropped in without justifying set-up. Duality is one thing, but disjointedness is another, and it is the former that characterizes Antipole. But it is not a dynamic kind of disjointed—such as one might find in overambitious technical extreme metal—but quite the opposite: an apathetic lack of follow-through that’s insidiously vague, but ultimately brings the above problems into even sharper relief.
Norlisk severely underuse key building blocks of both doom and death.1 Rather than harnessing song lengths to execute builds and releases, to hint, deliver, and reprise refrains, they often repeat empty phrases (“Antipole,” “La chute du géant”), and simply switch into unearned flourishes (“Locus Sanctus,” “La fonte”), or discard a melody for stripped-back flatness (“Nunataks,” “Un chant pour les morts”). Instead of complimenting weighty riffs with soaring themes, or doubling down in grimy dissonance, (most) melodies are thin, barely develop, and carry about as much emotion as a bank statement. The emphasis on spoken word and approximately spoken or whispered delivery for harsh vocals gives much of the music a disinterested, placid effect, while the instances of more aggressive barking come across as put-on if not passable—though they are soon supplanted by the dominating whisper-growl anyway. Individual pieces—a groove here (“D’ombre et de glace (l’asphysxie)”), a riff there (“Nunataks”), the rare appearance of coherent thematic development in a beautiful solo (“La chute du géant”)—are good. But while shrouding the disconnection and the tameness at first blush, soon they make more evident how exasperatingly under-developed the whole is. These highlights themselves lose their sheen like gold dust in a pile of ash–not worth getting excited about, when you have to trawl through the rest to catch them. Let not the embed fool you: it’s possibly the best track.
Everything contained within Antipole is serviceable, but those stand-out elements prove that Norilsk are capable of much more than serviceable. Where they flirt with post (“Un chant pour les morts”) or a more energetic melodeath (“Locus Sanctus”) the music gains a hint of intrigue, but it loses it just as quickly because Norilsk don’t do anything with it, and settle back into comfortable, unremarkable death-doom. Some inconsistencies in the mix possibly contribute to the album’s problems. Harsh vocals sometimes fall back behind the guitars and percussion, meaning that when they would otherwise sound very good, with their resonant growls, they instead end up a little choked and feel non-committal. However, the spoken-word vocals usually appear right at the front of the mix, though they do not possess the requisite gravity for this prominence, and it makes them and the music accompanying them feel somehow flat. When the music is neither crushing enough to warrant a dense production—though at times it pretends to be—nor dynamic enough to justify a spacious one—though, again, attempts are made—the mix never feels just right; to my ears anyway. Perhaps Antipole has just driven me insane.
With apparent appreciation for Norilsk in the underground scene, and some stand-out moments—particularly on the front end—the true face of Antipole turned out to be an immense disappointment. There are approximately ten minutes of good death-doom hidden amidst the full 48, and whether or not this suffices to give Antipole your time is up to you. Maybe Norilsk have fallen from grace; maybe the fans were simply wrong all along.2
Rating: Disappointing
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: Hypnotic Dirge
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook
Releases Worldwide: February 6th, 2025#20 #2025 #Antipole #CanadianMetal #DeathMetal #DeathDoomMetal #DoomMetal #Feb25 #HypnoticDirge #Norilsk #QuebecoisMetal #Review #Reviews
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Σύνταγμα / Αντιπολεμικό συλλαλητήριο και πορεία στην αμερικανική πρεσβεία [Φωτογραφίες]
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Lähde, rautasaostumaa ja rantapöhelikössä piileskelevä maariankämmekkä.
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Αντιπολεμική συναυλία για τον απόπλου του Global Sumud Flotilla- 26 Απριλίου https://info-war.gr/antipolemiki-synavlia-gia-ton-apoplou-tou-global-sumud-flotilla-26-apriliou/ #Newsletter #εκδηλωσεις #παλαιστίνη
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GothDiscoInferno #129
Das #GothDiscoInferno vom 24.07.2026 zum Nachhören:
Mixcloud
Spotify
WebseiteTrackliste:
[01] Hollow Shift – When Clouds Turn Black
#GothDiscoInferno
[02] End Of Green – Ashes & Gold
[03] Daniel Ash – Kharma Klash
[04] The House Of Usher – Walk the Shadow Side
[05] Antipole, Paris Alexander – Reflected in You
[06] The Cure – High
[07] Mayflower Madame – Paint It All in Blue
[08] ABU NEIN – Hand of Glory
[09] SIIE – Indigo
[10] Echo & the Bunnymen – Brussels Is Haunted
[11] JE T’AIME – Stories Not Told
[12] Christine Plays Viola – Sprout Of Disharmony
[13] Charly & The Slaves – God Be with You
[14] In Death It Ends – Evoke
[15] Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – This Today
[16] Mouth Ulcers – Satisfy
[17] Zwarte Poëzie – Liefde
[18] The Exploding Boy – Here Comes the Rain
[19] kehle – Angel Alight
[20] The Bellwether Syndicate – Wetworks
[21] Merlin Storm – Tanz im Nebel
[22] Girls Under Glass – Deep Inside You
[23] New Order – Procession
[24] William Bleak – Skin on Skin
[25] The Haunted Youth – i hear voices
[26] Pink Stiletto – Amour finale
[27] Invisible Limits – Devil Dance
[28] ACTORS – Cold Eyes
[29] Max&Intro – Ostavi Sve
[30] Baarhus – The Boy In The Sandbox
[31] Bleib Modern – Everywhere I Go
[32] The Foreign Resort – A Time Of Fools
[33] Xelam – Forever in My Heart
[34] Deine Lakaien – Where You Are
[35] Wolfgang Flür – Birmingham (feat. Claudia Brücken & Peter Hook)
[36] Lejonhjärta – Save Me – Darker
[37] Girlfriends and Boyfriends – Hope Was in the Way
[38] The Cassandra Complex – The Best Thing
[39] Veljanov – Fly Away
[40] Raskolnikov – Poddanie Bezwarunkowe
[41] Klez.e – Einer mehr im Zement
[42] Ladytron – In Blood
[43] Principe Valiente – Your Only Enemy -
GothDiscoInferno #129
Das #GothDiscoInferno vom 24.07.2026 zum Nachhören:
Mixcloud
Spotify
WebseiteTrackliste:
[01] Hollow Shift – When Clouds Turn Black
#GothDiscoInferno
[02] End Of Green – Ashes & Gold
[03] Daniel Ash – Kharma Klash
[04] The House Of Usher – Walk the Shadow Side
[05] Antipole, Paris Alexander – Reflected in You
[06] The Cure – High
[07] Mayflower Madame – Paint It All in Blue
[08] ABU NEIN – Hand of Glory
[09] SIIE – Indigo
[10] Echo & the Bunnymen – Brussels Is Haunted
[11] JE T’AIME – Stories Not Told
[12] Christine Plays Viola – Sprout Of Disharmony
[13] Charly & The Slaves – God Be with You
[14] In Death It Ends – Evoke
[15] Red Lorry Yellow Lorry – This Today
[16] Mouth Ulcers – Satisfy
[17] Zwarte Poëzie – Liefde
[18] The Exploding Boy – Here Comes the Rain
[19] kehle – Angel Alight
[20] The Bellwether Syndicate – Wetworks
[21] Merlin Storm – Tanz im Nebel
[22] Girls Under Glass – Deep Inside You
[23] New Order – Procession
[24] William Bleak – Skin on Skin
[25] The Haunted Youth – i hear voices
[26] Pink Stiletto – Amour finale
[27] Invisible Limits – Devil Dance
[28] ACTORS – Cold Eyes
[29] Max&Intro – Ostavi Sve
[30] Baarhus – The Boy In The Sandbox
[31] Bleib Modern – Everywhere I Go
[32] The Foreign Resort – A Time Of Fools
[33] Xelam – Forever in My Heart
[34] Deine Lakaien – Where You Are
[35] Wolfgang Flür – Birmingham (feat. Claudia Brücken & Peter Hook)
[36] Lejonhjärta – Save Me – Darker
[37] Girlfriends and Boyfriends – Hope Was in the Way
[38] The Cassandra Complex – The Best Thing
[39] Veljanov – Fly Away
[40] Raskolnikov – Poddanie Bezwarunkowe
[41] Klez.e – Einer mehr im Zement
[42] Ladytron – In Blood
[43] Principe Valiente – Your Only Enemy -
Wenn die Tage zwar langsam wieder länger werden, die Nächte aber ihre kühle Melancholie behalten sollen, ist es Zeit für eine neue Ausgabe unserer „Formel Goth“. In dieser Ausgabe bewegen wir uns auf einem spannenden Pfad zwischen bewährten Größen und umtriebigen Soloprojekten. #Antipole #Darkways #DeusExLumina #UnderTheSkin
https://www.spontis.de/musik/reingehoert/formel-goth-marc-winternacht/
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Bankskatt eller mössan i hand för finanskapitalet?
Frågan om en extra bankskatt diskuteras runt om i Europa efter bankernas mångmiljardvinster till följd av centralbankernas räntepolitik. På flera håll har sådan beskattning införts. I Spanien beskattas bankvinsterna med cirka fem procent under två år, även Ungern, Tjeckien och Litauen har beslutat om tillfällig e
https://blog.zaramis.se/2023/08/19/bankskatt-eller-mossan-i-hand-for-finanskapitalet/
#Ekonomi #Banker #Bankskatt #Inflation -
Bankskatt eller mössan i hand för finanskapitalet?
Frågan om en extra bankskatt diskuteras runt om i Europa efter bankernas mångmiljardvinster till följd av centralbankernas räntepolitik. På flera håll har sådan beskattning införts. I Spanien beskattas bankvinsterna med cirka fem procent under två år, även Ungern, Tjeckien och Litauen har beslutat om tillfällig e
https://blog.zaramis.se/2023/08/19/bankskatt-eller-mossan-i-hand-for-finanskapitalet/
#Ekonomi #Banker #Bankskatt #Inflation -
Bankskatt eller mössan i hand för finanskapitalet?
Frågan om en extra bankskatt diskuteras runt om i Europa efter bankernas mångmiljardvinster till följd av centralbankernas räntepolitik. På flera håll har sådan beskattning införts. I Spanien beskattas bankvinsterna med cirka fem procent under två år, även Ungern, Tjeckien och Litauen har beslutat om tillfällig e
https://blog.zaramis.se/2023/08/19/bankskatt-eller-mossan-i-hand-for-finanskapitalet/
#Ekonomi #Banker #Bankskatt #Inflation -
I don’t bother to argue and correct people about wrong occult or paranormal information because 9 times out of 10, they are not the type of people I want practicing magic. Out of boredom, I took a look at r/occult on Reddit. Not only is 99% of it wrong, but the people there are so messed up I dare not correct them. Going through their other posts and the subs they are subscribed to on Reddit is disturbing.
There was one person in particular who inspired this post. I’ve had encounters with this person in the past and know enough about them to know that they are likely schizophrenic and have an obsession with occultism and occultists. All the quotes in this post are from the same dumb Redditor. They said:
Really, the sigil generally means what the person tattoing it onto themself means it too. In this case it might just indicate their bond.
There really isn’t anything special about foreign/modern symbols. It’s prefectly fine to use english and drawings of dicks if you really want too. At thene of the day, when you practice magic, what’s important is how the symbol has meaning to you, the person who’s involved with the spell
On the subject of not being able to back it, it’s on the internet, if they stop giving a shit, they can ultimately just stop looking at the thread and forget that people here even exist.
That last part of the last quote highlights the problem with Internet cultures, however. Normalization of the lack of concern for the accuracy of information and the tacit belief that you are entitled to people because they are on the Internet (which is parasocial) is a large reason why I avoid many online communities. I actually know this person… The belief that you should not have to provide evidence for something if it is on the Internet is a horrific stance to me. For example, while typing this post, I actually made an effort to double-check everything I have said. The idea that no one gives a shit means that no one, including them, gives a shit about the truth. The tacit belief in conspiracies—secretive esoteric communities—coupled with the normalization of misinformation is what’s wrong with occult communities, especially the ones on Reddit.
Sigils are mnemonically identifiers and formal names. A seal is a name or signature. We can examine how asinine this is if we have a person with a tattoo that says William:
Person 1: “Why did you tattoo William on your arm?”
Person 2: “What do you mean? I absolutely adore Sarah, so I got Sarah tattooed on my arm.”
Person 1: “No, what is written in English is William.”Pragmatically, sigils are mnemonic; however, in formal ontology or language, they have a defined meaning where a seal is an expression of that definition.
Unlike the runes of the Elder Futhark, which are graphemes, Goetic seals are not graphemes. Goetic seals are logograms that represent entire concepts. Since they are logograms, Austin Spare’s substitution/sigilization technique is a good way to generate logograms that possess the aesthetic and symbolic qualities reminiscent of ceremonial sigils or esoteric, occultic ciphers that have the meaning you intend for them to have. Honestly, personally, I am over the ceremonial magic aesthetic, so Austin Spare’s method is not useful for me.
William is not spelled Sarah; therefore, tattooing William does not denote your bond to Sarah, nor does it imply you have a bond to Sarah. Many creepy incels go out and get women’s names and faces tattooed on their arms. It doesn’t make the bond real.
I have a personal gripe with people being super secreative with magick, on the basis I think as a society we’d learn more by working with and sharing things with eachother.
Yeah, because it goes against their interests. The question is whose society does it inform? Magic is deliberately causing something to change, so you’re tacitly creating or at least committing to the future you want. Therefore, magic is prescriptive and sufficiently normative. That means magic is predicated on interests. A way to think about it is that a magician is prescribing to reality how reality ought to behave in accordance with their will and interests. For more information on normativity, see:
Predicating magic on will makes it intrinsically something that follows interests—an agenda. Typically, you can group magicians as stoics, hedonists, or solipsists. But, there’s an underlying interest there that is implicit in the philosophy.
An organization or group is an entity. If it is not in an entity’s interest to give you. In magical paradigms, entity usually implies some discarnate intelligence. In everyday language, an entity normally refers to an established organization. Magic is predicated on interests, and if it is not in an entity’s interest to give you access, they won’t. And, since magic is tacit, you need a psychic way of transmitting it or a shared experience among a cohort. Initiations create a shared, lonely space among a cohort. They are symbolic ways of apprehending an experience where the knowledge of “how” comes from how it seems to think about that shared experience.
The type of magic I practice is completely tacit and can’t be communicated through conventional cultural frameworks like language or pedagogies. It has to be telepathically transmitted. Any psychic who tries to communicate their psychic experiences through language will tacitly understand why. The point is that it’s esoteric.
I find it funny. The Internet is intrinsically language-based down to the low-level machine language of the devices. Psychic and magical knowledge is tacit and ineffable, so access via the Internet to the semantics of magical cultures and text doesn’t grant understanding. Ironically, it just obfuscates.
They were giving incorrect information about Lilith relating to demonolatry here:
I personally see Lilith as a sort of dark motherly archetype based on my own personal work, and could be intepreted that you are essentially under her protection
Lilith is not a motherly figure. Lilith is associated with infanticide and sex without having human children, and cambions or changelings.
Actually, a few days ago, my husband and I were having a conversation about my mother and my trauma, and that started an entire conversation where I told my husband about how my mother emphasized that not all women love their children and that I should be grateful she did not drown me in the bathtub like some women did to their children. My mother was referencing Andrea Yates at the time… Yes, my mother believes not killing your children is something to be proud of.
That prompted me to look up and tell my husband the statistics of the amount of SIDS cases that were cases of infanticide where the mother murdered their child. In the 1970s, Waneta Hoyt derailed SIDS research because she was actually suffocating her children. Why do I know all of these cases offhand? Because my mother had a fascination with serial killers and mothers who murdered their children. My husband said that people like my mother who are walking around give him the creeps because she seems so nice. Yes, my parents are twisted. How do you think I came out this way? That’s the type of motherhood Lilith represents. It is just very interesting how people like this person spin up these mythologies to cope with being rejected.
This particular person is a trans woman who used to be Wiccan and is feeling drawn back to Wicca, Thelema, and also feels sympathy with Babalon, so this interpretation would make sense for them. Ironically, I think Christian influences — that I know this person hates — have caused them to overlap Lilith with qualities of Eve, too. On a more pejorative note, what’s the difference between mommy issues and daddy issues? It screams of seeking a maternal figure through parasocial relationships with fictional characters.
No, Lilith wouldn’t be the mother of Adam’s children. She would strangle them in their crib. There’s a common syncretism with Lilith and Hecate that’s popular among Neopagans. Both are associated with aspects of femininity, darkness, magic, and independence, making them complementary in certain Neopagan and eclectic spiritual practices. In fiction, Lilith is associated with vampires and cambions, which is a tacit nod to her symbolism regarding unnatural and preternatural reproduction in that vampires are sired, made, and not born. So, it is very interesting to see this peculiar version of Lilith, embodying a maternal role, when Lilith is an antipole notions of Abrhaminc notions femininity. It’s like they’re conflating the qualities of Eve with Lilith.
Lilith is associated with the Qliphoth Gamaliel. Gamaliel is often linked with the darker aspects of femininity, such as seduction, independence, and rebellion against traditional roles. Thus Lilith represents opposition to motherhood and a rejection of the conventional expectations placed on women to fulfill maternal roles and adhere to societal norms of femininity. The maternal aspects this person is attributing to Lilith are actually associated with the Sephirot Binah, exemplified by Eve. So, we can see the absurdity in this.
Am I a cambion? Yes. Am I the scion of Lilith? No. Am I a Satanist? Yes. However, considering that every person wants to be a Satanic psychopath and doesn’t want to put in the work, there is a lot of misinformation, such as this. The devil is the person whom you know, and the women in the Sunday hats in church on Sunday.
I get a weird type of pleasure seeing incompetent people chase their asses, so I don’t correct them. Giving magic to schizophrenic people is worse than giving them a gun. Don’t mistake me. It is not about moral clarity on my part. It is about power.
Is my post on Reddit? Nope, because I am a real magician. There’s nothing on Reddit but incels and the insane and drug addicts. No powerful magician would consistently post anything there.
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I don’t bother to argue and correct people about wrong occult or paranormal information because 9 times out of 10, they are not the type of people I want practicing magic. Out of boredom, I took a look at r/occult on Reddit. Not only is 99% of it wrong, but the people there are so messed up I dare not correct them. Going through their other posts and the subs they are subscribed to on Reddit is disturbing.
There was one person in particular who inspired this post. I’ve had encounters with this person in the past and know enough about them to know that they are likely schizophrenic and have an obsession with occultism and occultists. All the quotes in this post are from the same dumb Redditor. They said:
Really, the sigil generally means what the person tattoing it onto themself means it too. In this case it might just indicate their bond.
There really isn’t anything special about foreign/modern symbols. It’s prefectly fine to use english and drawings of dicks if you really want too. At thene of the day, when you practice magic, what’s important is how the symbol has meaning to you, the person who’s involved with the spell
On the subject of not being able to back it, it’s on the internet, if they stop giving a shit, they can ultimately just stop looking at the thread and forget that people here even exist.
That last part of the last quote highlights the problem with Internet cultures, however. Normalization of the lack of concern for the accuracy of information and the tacit belief that you are entitled to people because they are on the Internet (which is parasocial) is a large reason why I avoid many online communities. I actually know this person… The belief that you should not have to provide evidence for something if it is on the Internet is a horrific stance to me. For example, while typing this post, I actually made an effort to double-check everything I have said. The idea that no one gives a shit means that no one, including them, gives a shit about the truth. The tacit belief in conspiracies—secretive esoteric communities—coupled with the normalization of misinformation is what’s wrong with occult communities, especially the ones on Reddit.
Sigils are mnemonically identifiers and formal names. A seal is a name or signature. We can examine how asinine this is if we have a person with a tattoo that says William:
Person 1: “Why did you tattoo William on your arm?”
Person 2: “What do you mean? I absolutely adore Sarah, so I got Sarah tattooed on my arm.”
Person 1: “No, what is written in English is William.”Pragmatically, sigils are mnemonic; however, in formal ontology or language, they have a defined meaning where a seal is an expression of that definition.
Unlike the runes of the Elder Futhark, which are graphemes, Goetic seals are not graphemes. Goetic seals are logograms that represent entire concepts. Since they are logograms, Austin Spare’s substitution/sigilization technique is a good way to generate logograms that possess the aesthetic and symbolic qualities reminiscent of ceremonial sigils or esoteric, occultic ciphers that have the meaning you intend for them to have. Honestly, personally, I am over the ceremonial magic aesthetic, so Austin Spare’s method is not useful for me.
William is not spelled Sarah; therefore, tattooing William does not denote your bond to Sarah, nor does it imply you have a bond to Sarah. Many creepy incels go out and get women’s names and faces tattooed on their arms. It doesn’t make the bond real.
I have a personal gripe with people being super secreative with magick, on the basis I think as a society we’d learn more by working with and sharing things with eachother.
Yeah, because it goes against their interests. The question is whose society does it inform? Magic is deliberately causing something to change, so you’re tacitly creating or at least committing to the future you want. Therefore, magic is prescriptive and sufficiently normative. That means magic is predicated on interests. A way to think about it is that a magician is prescribing to reality how reality ought to behave in accordance with their will and interests. For more information on normativity, see:
Predicating magic on will makes it intrinsically something that follows interests—an agenda. Typically, you can group magicians as stoics, hedonists, or solipsists. But, there’s an underlying interest there that is implicit in the philosophy.
An organization or group is an entity. If it is not in an entity’s interest to give you. In magical paradigms, entity usually implies some discarnate intelligence. In everyday language, an entity normally refers to an established organization. Magic is predicated on interests, and if it is not in an entity’s interest to give you access, they won’t. And, since magic is tacit, you need a psychic way of transmitting it or a shared experience among a cohort. Initiations create a shared, lonely space among a cohort. They are symbolic ways of apprehending an experience where the knowledge of “how” comes from how it seems to think about that shared experience.
The type of magic I practice is completely tacit and can’t be communicated through conventional cultural frameworks like language or pedagogies. It has to be telepathically transmitted. Any psychic who tries to communicate their psychic experiences through language will tacitly understand why. The point is that it’s esoteric.
I find it funny. The Internet is intrinsically language-based down to the low-level machine language of the devices. Psychic and magical knowledge is tacit and ineffable, so access via the Internet to the semantics of magical cultures and text doesn’t grant understanding. Ironically, it just obfuscates.
They were giving incorrect information about Lilith relating to demonolatry here:
I personally see Lilith as a sort of dark motherly archetype based on my own personal work, and could be intepreted that you are essentially under her protection
Lilith is not a motherly figure. Lilith is associated with infanticide and sex without having human children, and cambions or changelings.
Actually, a few days ago, my husband and I were having a conversation about my mother and my trauma, and that started an entire conversation where I told my husband about how my mother emphasized that not all women love their children and that I should be grateful she did not drown me in the bathtub like some women did to their children. My mother was referencing Andrea Yates at the time… Yes, my mother believes not killing your children is something to be proud of.
That prompted me to look up and tell my husband the statistics of the amount of SIDS cases that were cases of infanticide where the mother murdered their child. In the 1970s, Waneta Hoyt derailed SIDS research because she was actually suffocating her children. Why do I know all of these cases offhand? Because my mother had a fascination with serial killers and mothers who murdered their children. My husband said that people like my mother who are walking around give him the creeps because she seems so nice. Yes, my parents are twisted. How do you think I came out this way? That’s the type of motherhood Lilith represents. It is just very interesting how people like this person spin up these mythologies to cope with being rejected.
This particular person is a trans woman who used to be Wiccan and is feeling drawn back to Wicca, Thelema, and also feels sympathy with Babalon, so this interpretation would make sense for them. Ironically, I think Christian influences — that I know this person hates — have caused them to overlap Lilith with qualities of Eve, too. On a more pejorative note, what’s the difference between mommy issues and daddy issues? It screams of seeking a maternal figure through parasocial relationships with fictional characters.
No, Lilith wouldn’t be the mother of Adam’s children. She would strangle them in their crib. There’s a common syncretism with Lilith and Hecate that’s popular among Neopagans. Both are associated with aspects of femininity, darkness, magic, and independence, making them complementary in certain Neopagan and eclectic spiritual practices. In fiction, Lilith is associated with vampires and cambions, which is a tacit nod to her symbolism regarding unnatural and preternatural reproduction in that vampires are sired, made, and not born. So, it is very interesting to see this peculiar version of Lilith, embodying a maternal role, when Lilith is an antipole notions of Abrhaminc notions femininity. It’s like they’re conflating the qualities of Eve with Lilith.
Lilith is associated with the Qliphoth Gamaliel. Gamaliel is often linked with the darker aspects of femininity, such as seduction, independence, and rebellion against traditional roles. Thus Lilith represents opposition to motherhood and a rejection of the conventional expectations placed on women to fulfill maternal roles and adhere to societal norms of femininity. The maternal aspects this person is attributing to Lilith are actually associated with the Sephirot Binah, exemplified by Eve. So, we can see the absurdity in this.
Am I a cambion? Yes. Am I the scion of Lilith? No. Am I a Satanist? Yes. However, considering that every person wants to be a Satanic psychopath and doesn’t want to put in the work, there is a lot of misinformation, such as this. The devil is the person whom you know, and the women in the Sunday hats in church on Sunday.
I get a weird type of pleasure seeing incompetent people chase their asses, so I don’t correct them. Giving magic to schizophrenic people is worse than giving them a gun. Don’t mistake me. It is not about moral clarity on my part. It is about power.
Is my post on Reddit? Nope, because I am a real magician. There’s nothing on Reddit but incels and the insane and drug addicts. No powerful magician would consistently post anything there.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Journalist Roshchyna’s body missing organs after Russian captivity; brain, eyes, & part of the trachea had been removed — [vlog/video] Expert on US’ declining disinformation defense; Who’s countering Russian propaganda now? — France calls UN Security Council meeting over Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine — Russian drone attack injures at least 38 civilians in Kharkiv’s high-rise apartment blocks, homes … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/04/wednesday-april-30-2025/
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Journalist Roshchyna’s body missing organs after Russian captivity; brain, eyes, & part of the trachea had been removed — [vlog/video] Expert on US’ declining disinformation defense; Who’s countering Russian propaganda now? — France calls UN Security Council meeting over Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine — Russian drone attack injures at least 38 civilians in Kharkiv’s high-rise apartment blocks, homes … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/04/wednesday-april-30-2025/
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Journalist Roshchyna’s body missing organs after Russian captivity; brain, eyes, & part of the trachea had been removed — [vlog/video] Expert on US’ declining disinformation defense; Who’s countering Russian propaganda now? — France calls UN Security Council meeting over Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine — Russian drone attack injures at least 38 civilians in Kharkiv’s high-rise apartment blocks, homes … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/04/wednesday-april-30-2025/
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Wednesday, April 30, 2025
Journalist Roshchyna’s body missing organs after Russian captivity; brain, eyes, & part of the trachea had been removed — [vlog/video] Expert on US’ declining disinformation defense; Who’s countering Russian propaganda now? — France calls UN Security Council meeting over Russian attacks on civilians in Ukraine — Russian drone attack injures at least 38 civilians in Kharkiv’s high-rise apartment blocks, homes … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/04/wednesday-april-30-2025/