#occultists — Public Fediverse posts

A reason I no longer use Discord is that every time I join a server, the gatekeeping, application, and vetting processes make me feel like I am joining a cult. Because I am waiting for my phone to charge, I decided to join an occult Discord server from my laptop while I wait. They seriously had a convoluted system of gatekeeping bots, only for you to have to fill out a 15-question application form where they wanted a paragraph for each question, which was basically an exam on occultism. It’s too much of a bother for me, and I don’t really use Discord. However, it is insane to me that to join Discord servers, especially the occult ones, you basically have to apply for membership to a cult. Absolutely insane!

The only people who would actually care to set up such a system or go through such a system are extremely online people. The cultures of Discord are setting up automated systems to select for the most toxic, extremely online people on Discord. Gatekeeping on Discord and other esoteric communities is a type of filter. They’re automated to create filters. Here’s the interesting thing about toxic, hateful, and dangerous communities: what makes them hateful is directly related to the people willing to go through those systems and pass through those filters because you only get the most committed.

There has been research done on this, and it is part of the reason why deplatforming does not work for the most hateful communities. The most committed to those communities will go through the filters and obstacles required to reconstitute themselves, where you have a selection for the worst of the worst. It’s counter-intuitive, but a system of automated solutions to gatekeep and vet to protect a community paradoxically selects for the most extreme and hateful people. You make communities worse by gatekeeping and not better because you create dynamic bifurcation where the most extreme, militant, and committed get selected for by passing through those filters.

It is basically a metaheuristic process similar to natural selection. In natural selection, environmental factors favor certain traits that increase an organism’s chances of survival and reproduction. Similarly, in the context of online communities and gatekeeping, the selective pressure comes from the criteria set by moderators or the community itself, favoring individuals who meet certain standards or criteria. In online communities with stringent gatekeeping measures, the process favors individuals with extreme viewpoints or behaviors, leading to the amplification of those extremes within the community. It’s the perfect way of engineering a memetic plague. Memetic is frequently thrown about as a buzzword in post-modern psychological model paradigms, equivalent to the words energy or frequency in energy model paradigms.

By memetic, I am referring to a cultural phenomenon that is taught, learned, and imitated. Since this selects for the most harmful individuals, it creates the most harmful cultures where virulent cultural elements can be observed by others they interact with outside those communities and imitated. Since memetic entities operate similarly to viruses, we can describe them as a type of cultural or cognitive germ. In that sense, Discord is a memetic sewer. I have psychopathy, so my mirror neurons are shot. Mirror neurons are involved in how we decode memetic entities, so while I am capable of superficial mimicry to be successful in society, I don’t internalize memetic pathogens. So, beyond annoyance, I am not infected.

Honestly, I think this is what led to the destruction of online occult communities. While the early Internet was less accessible and it served as a filter for the tech-savvy, other than that, it was relatively open and unsorted. For example, before Discord, I spent a lot of time on IRC. Early recommendation algorithms and machine learning models were essentially categorization processes. They analyzed user data, interactions, and content attributes to categorize or classify content into different groups or categories. These categories were then used to personalize users’ feeds, recommend content, and target advertisements. As these became introduced, it started creating these more and more selective filters that, via something similar to natural selection, amplified the worst of the worst, which started to infect and corrupt occult resources online. I think that occult communities were able to boom in the late 90s and early 2000s, until the start of the 2010s, because it was relatively open and there weren’t any selection pressures to engineer memetic plagues we are dealing with.

#anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #Discord #magick #memetic #memetics #occult #occultism #occultists #occulture #pagan #paganism #rants #Reddit #socialMedia #Twitter

A reason I no longer use Discord is that every time I join a server, the gatekeeping, application, and vetting processes make me feel like I am joining a cult. Because I am waiting for my phone to charge, I decided to join an occult Discord server from my laptop while I wait. They seriously had a convoluted system of gatekeeping bots, only for you to have to fill out a 15-question application form where they wanted a paragraph for each question, which was basically an exam on occultism. It’s too much of a bother for me, and I don’t really use Discord. However, it is insane to me that to join Discord servers, especially the occult ones, you basically have to apply for membership to a cult. Absolutely insane!

The only people who would actually care to set up such a system or go through such a system are extremely online people. The cultures of Discord are setting up automated systems to select for the most toxic, extremely online people on Discord. Gatekeeping on Discord and other esoteric communities is a type of filter. They’re automated to create filters. Here’s the interesting thing about toxic, hateful, and dangerous communities: what makes them hateful is directly related to the people willing to go through those systems and pass through those filters because you only get the most committed.

There has been research done on this, and it is part of the reason why deplatforming does not work for the most hateful communities. The most committed to those communities will go through the filters and obstacles required to reconstitute themselves, where you have a selection for the worst of the worst. It’s counter-intuitive, but a system of automated solutions to gatekeep and vet to protect a community paradoxically selects for the most extreme and hateful people. You make communities worse by gatekeeping and not better because you create dynamic bifurcation where the most extreme, militant, and committed get selected for by passing through those filters.

It is basically a metaheuristic process similar to natural selection. In natural selection, environmental factors favor certain traits that increase an organism’s chances of survival and reproduction. Similarly, in the context of online communities and gatekeeping, the selective pressure comes from the criteria set by moderators or the community itself, favoring individuals who meet certain standards or criteria. In online communities with stringent gatekeeping measures, the process favors individuals with extreme viewpoints or behaviors, leading to the amplification of those extremes within the community. It’s the perfect way of engineering a memetic plague. Memetic is frequently thrown about as a buzzword in post-modern psychological model paradigms, equivalent to the words energy or frequency in energy model paradigms.

By memetic, I am referring to a cultural phenomenon that is taught, learned, and imitated. Since this selects for the most harmful individuals, it creates the most harmful cultures where virulent cultural elements can be observed by others they interact with outside those communities and imitated. Since memetic entities operate similarly to viruses, we can describe them as a type of cultural or cognitive germ. In that sense, Discord is a memetic sewer. I have psychopathy, so my mirror neurons are shot. Mirror neurons are involved in how we decode memetic entities, so while I am capable of superficial mimicry to be successful in society, I don’t internalize memetic pathogens. So, beyond annoyance, I am not infected.

Honestly, I think this is what led to the destruction of online occult communities. While the early Internet was less accessible and it served as a filter for the tech-savvy, other than that, it was relatively open and unsorted. For example, before Discord, I spent a lot of time on IRC. Early recommendation algorithms and machine learning models were essentially categorization processes. They analyzed user data, interactions, and content attributes to categorize or classify content into different groups or categories. These categories were then used to personalize users’ feeds, recommend content, and target advertisements. As these became introduced, it started creating these more and more selective filters that, via something similar to natural selection, amplified the worst of the worst, which started to infect and corrupt occult resources online. I think that occult communities were able to boom in the late 90s and early 2000s, until the start of the 2010s, because it was relatively open and there weren’t any selection pressures to engineer memetic plagues we are dealing with.

#anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #Discord #magick #memetic #memetics #occult #occultism #occultists #occulture #pagan #paganism #rants #Reddit #socialMedia #Twitter

A reason I no longer use Discord is that every time I join a server, the gatekeeping, application, and vetting processes make me feel like I am joining a cult. Because I am waiting for my phone to charge, I decided to join an occult Discord server from my laptop while I wait. They seriously had a convoluted system of gatekeeping bots, only for you to have to fill out a 15-question application form where they wanted a paragraph for each question, which was basically an exam on occultism. It’s too much of a bother for me, and I don’t really use Discord. However, it is insane to me that to join Discord servers, especially the occult ones, you basically have to apply for membership to a cult. Absolutely insane!

The only people who would actually care to set up such a system or go through such a system are extremely online people. The cultures of Discord are setting up automated systems to select for the most toxic, extremely online people on Discord. Gatekeeping on Discord and other esoteric communities is a type of filter. They’re automated to create filters. Here’s the interesting thing about toxic, hateful, and dangerous communities: what makes them hateful is directly related to the people willing to go through those systems and pass through those filters because you only get the most committed.

There has been research done on this, and it is part of the reason why deplatforming does not work for the most hateful communities. The most committed to those communities will go through the filters and obstacles required to reconstitute themselves, where you have a selection for the worst of the worst. It’s counter-intuitive, but a system of automated solutions to gatekeep and vet to protect a community paradoxically selects for the most extreme and hateful people. You make communities worse by gatekeeping and not better because you create dynamic bifurcation where the most extreme, militant, and committed get selected for by passing through those filters.

It is basically a metaheuristic process similar to natural selection. In natural selection, environmental factors favor certain traits that increase an organism’s chances of survival and reproduction. Similarly, in the context of online communities and gatekeeping, the selective pressure comes from the criteria set by moderators or the community itself, favoring individuals who meet certain standards or criteria. In online communities with stringent gatekeeping measures, the process favors individuals with extreme viewpoints or behaviors, leading to the amplification of those extremes within the community. It’s the perfect way of engineering a memetic plague. Memetic is frequently thrown about as a buzzword in post-modern psychological model paradigms, equivalent to the words energy or frequency in energy model paradigms.

By memetic, I am referring to a cultural phenomenon that is taught, learned, and imitated. Since this selects for the most harmful individuals, it creates the most harmful cultures where virulent cultural elements can be observed by others they interact with outside those communities and imitated. Since memetic entities operate similarly to viruses, we can describe them as a type of cultural or cognitive germ. In that sense, Discord is a memetic sewer. I have psychopathy, so my mirror neurons are shot. Mirror neurons are involved in how we decode memetic entities, so while I am capable of superficial mimicry to be successful in society, I don’t internalize memetic pathogens. So, beyond annoyance, I am not infected.

Honestly, I think this is what led to the destruction of online occult communities. While the early Internet was less accessible and it served as a filter for the tech-savvy, other than that, it was relatively open and unsorted. For example, before Discord, I spent a lot of time on IRC. Early recommendation algorithms and machine learning models were essentially categorization processes. They analyzed user data, interactions, and content attributes to categorize or classify content into different groups or categories. These categories were then used to personalize users’ feeds, recommend content, and target advertisements. As these became introduced, it started creating these more and more selective filters that, via something similar to natural selection, amplified the worst of the worst, which started to infect and corrupt occult resources online. I think that occult communities were able to boom in the late 90s and early 2000s, until the start of the 2010s, because it was relatively open and there weren’t any selection pressures to engineer memetic plagues we are dealing with.

#anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #Discord #magick #memetic #memetics #occult #occultism #occultists #occulture #pagan #paganism #rants #Reddit #socialMedia #Twitter

Scrolling through occult accounts on BlueSky, I saw someone mention King Paimon. Now, that would not be a problem if I had not seen him in 50 million horror movies, 50 billion horror games, and just about every ceremonial magician on social media has evoked them. Though I am satanic, I am tired of people using different instances of the same prototypical entities. Magical entities are abstractions for patterns of different aspects. Demons are a cultural and mnemonic way of modeling these patterns. But they don’t have to be demons at all. Or angels. Or anything that corresponds to an occult theme, trope, or motif even. I just find it funny. Magic is predicated on will and making something different. How can you summon the will to wield magic to alter reality, yet lack the will to innovate in your practice?

It’s really time to retire most of the occult genre. The Book of Black Magic was published originally in 1898 and widely distributed in 1910. When I take a look at the evocations and sigils people use for King Paimon, I notice it has elements from The Book of Black Magic. Can we please use something else?

#Animism #animistic #BlueSky #ceremonialMagic #ceremonialMagick #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #demon #Demonolatry #egregore #egregores #Goetia #magick #occult #occultism #occultists #pagan #paganism #paranormal #Satanism #Satanist #witch #witchcraft

Scrolling through occult accounts on BlueSky, I saw someone mention King Paimon. Now, that would not be a problem if I had not seen him in 50 million horror movies, 50 billion horror games, and just about every ceremonial magician on social media has evoked them. Though I am satanic, I am tired of people using different instances of the same prototypical entities. Magical entities are abstractions for patterns of different aspects. Demons are a cultural and mnemonic way of modeling these patterns. But they don’t have to be demons at all. Or angels. Or anything that corresponds to an occult theme, trope, or motif even. I just find it funny. Magic is predicated on will and making something different. How can you summon the will to wield magic to alter reality, yet lack the will to innovate in your practice?

It’s really time to retire most of the occult genre. The Book of Black Magic was published originally in 1898 and widely distributed in 1910. When I take a look at the evocations and sigils people use for King Paimon, I notice it has elements from The Book of Black Magic. Can we please use something else?

#Animism #animistic #BlueSky #ceremonialMagic #ceremonialMagick #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #demon #Demonolatry #egregore #egregores #Goetia #magick #occult #occultism #occultists #pagan #paganism #paranormal #Satanism #Satanist #witch #witchcraft

This is going to be my last post on this group because the situation is just beyond idiotic. In my 26 years of practicing magic, I have never, ever, ever met a group as persistently and chronically dumb, idiotic, extremely online, and utterly insane as #DKMU. I literally can’t wrap my mind around how their members are able to function. At all.

#anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheory #cults #DKMU #egregore #egregores #linkingsigil #LS #magick #occult #occultism #occultists #occulture #pagan #paganism #paranormal #sigil #sigilMagick #sigils #Spirituality #witch #witchcraft

This is going to be my last post on this group because the situation is just beyond idiotic. In my 26 years of practicing magic, I have never, ever, ever met a group as persistently and chronically dumb, idiotic, extremely online, and utterly insane as #DKMU. I literally can’t wrap my mind around how their members are able to function. At all.

#anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheory #cults #DKMU #egregore #egregores #linkingsigil #LS #magick #occult #occultism #occultists #occulture #pagan #paganism #paranormal #sigil #sigilMagick #sigils #Spirituality #witch #witchcraft