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Im really great at marketing things to people, you know. "You ever seen that movie where Buffalo Bill/Bob has the girl down the well, and shes like, Mr. Im gonna kill your dog" the experience is exactly like that. You know? Get me on the marketing team.

O ya'. Linux will do that to yah. Its like the movie hostile (2005), when they say, "where is this art show..." The Girl is like "No, Have a drink first" And he says, "No. I don't want a drink. I wanna see some art." And then he goes there, and some random Chinese guy coming out of the show says, "You could spend all your money, in there..." You could spend All your free time in linux. And, May or may not be worth it tho ha.

Ya thats a good point.

O wow, African languages. I feel like I couldnt even get started on African languages, cause if i did it would be like black hawk down, like a stranger landing or entering into a stranger land ~type've thing. Im assuming theres lots of languages, the congo and tribals underneath, to the west/somalia, to south africa, to the east morocco and such, to the north, libya/algeria... I think theres weird islands too, like in that Gulf of Aden / Arabian Sea area maybe it was~where you had an island with places named by some explorer from the Netherlands or something. Something weird like that that seemed out-of-place. Im just putting the pieces together now, cause your name is Japanese sounding. I see it. I guess its hard to tell by names what someone is, or learned growing up, cause everything is like, part of our fantasy character~or atleast, playing into one of the characters that we want to illustrate. There's this one Japanese-script extension called kara katakana that i like. It jus extends the glyphs/sounds (i think for the purpose of communicating with Koreans, or vice versa... something like that) And its deceptively hard to find information about. Where i first seen it~that is, a subtle depiction of it, was in Dreamcastle™s thumbnails, and then i found it on omniglot https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/karahiragana.php Ive not investigated japanese beyond that, as i was jus looking at writing systems.

Thats amazing you bring up Unix, I've been trying to get people to see it as The Unix Philosophy, in terms of what Linux's direction really sat upon, and what those paradigms are still really sitting on. And after @Joseph Maynor made that connection of the backend-to Linux, that is potentially a way to frame it. I mean, alot of the puzzle pieces are there, right, like I just so happen to have spent time looking at the terminal/shell, fonts, language, etc., neglected portions that no ones really gotten into as i have, but thats fine cause, these terms that yous may have mentioned bein funny, they are actually funny to me cause they are like, the direction im really trying to paint vividly on the walls~in order for it to be seen. Thinking of it as a Philosophy is really quite important as well, though its a Philosophy thats very frontal lobe... i mean, its not that hard tbh im makin it sound like tha, plus you hav me to lend your ear to in that regard (We have ChatGPT now, so alot of those conversations can be sortve, brainstormed w/ Ai first, to get started, or to get a sense of the questions you should be asking, or areas that yous are curious of... And i dont mean to elect yous specifically, i just mean "Anyone who is interested... or that wants to spend some weeks gettin in the weeds w/ some fairly crazy stuff")

Thats a nice way to put it. As i think i think of it like that, or atleast, the desktop experiences need some work, given they are fighting against the older paradigns, nd really just gotta go fully in one direction or the other, leaving the base Unix backend-ish to dwell on its own, and the more modern to go in what usually is questionable directions, but maybe they can work on it nd make it into something interesting, or just very solid and familiar... I mean, i have alot of ideas~granted its in the backend space, figuratively speaking. Iuno, i guess its a long story. ive not found anyone that i can lend an ear to, to really delve deep into it jus yet. Hey, dont get me started here, or ya know, or ill turn this into a very very long conversation thatll blow up the servers. or itll set a new record~for longist consecutive posts/characters sent in a session.

Im lookin for a real substantial scene from utube, but in the meanwhile

Please tell me someoneon planet Earth knows what this show is from David lynch, like im tryina figure this out, but this show had some weird reboot in 2017 (given its from 91'), and yeo that sht is the best...

We may get into things that require pulling from passages of Hermetic tradition (theres various related compilations of), as well as Greek Literature, Hymn and Mythology, The Odyssey and Theogony, etc., but I wanted to start from some point, some initialization on our staggering history of magick on Earth. I just thought Jesus was the best point, but i guess medieval period couldve been a place to start, going backwards towards ancient history. *p.s. notice everything i write reads like music, cause thats actually important to this. As, in Ancient Greek tradition, "speech" is intertwined w/ actions, as well as patterns of behavior w/ symbolic meanings (thats how i read it phrased in "The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece" anyway -of which i'm still reading).

Ha. You into Artix? I know people who are real into Gentoo but, ALas i will never have the time to investigate~anything more than what i wouldve looked at before, Arch & Debian-based, due to time restraints, and the amount of stuff i got going on now. I have done LFS, but that too im not sure i have time to maintain, given the direction ive already started. But LFS is def very interesting too, and i may return to that world someday. Theres just so much i got to do first.

Arch (Artix)

So just to give some context first, and then ill resolve everything at the end, so dont worry (yous just have to bare w/ me, as theres a few things i have to explain) The most important text here is probably the Testament of Solomon, a Greek pseudepigraphical work that presents itself as Solomon narrating how he commanded demons to build the Temple; It describes specific demons by name, their functions, the celestial forces that bind them, and the verbal/ritual means of compelling them. This is not fringe material, as it sits in a direct line from the broader Solomonic tradition, which in Second Temple Judaism assoc. Solomon w/ wisdom over spirits based on a passage in the book of Kings ~that later interpreters expanded enormously! Closely related are the texts found at Qumran, particularly the Songs of the Maskil and 11QApocryphal Psalms (11Q11), which contain explicit verbal formulas directed against demons. These are the earliest datable examples we have of something functioning like conjuration within a Jewish-proto-Christian framework, from roughly the 1st century BCE. The practitioner speaks directly at hostile spirits, invoking divine names and attributes to repel or bind them. Jesus performs exorcisms constantly in gospels. Alas, the gospel writers are somewhat particular in distinguishing/scrubbing or writing around it, such that later, it'd not be recognized as what contemporaries might call conjuration (note, that I summarize this word at the very end). The distinction is in ἐξουσία (exousia — authority, inherent power) and τέχνη (technique, craft). When Jesus commands an unclean spirit in Mark 1, the crowd's reaction is specifically astonishment that he speaks with authority and not as the scribes: names, formulas, and ritual is scrubbed. ἐξουσία is the one the gospel and epistle writers are conveying~for Jesus and by delegation for his followers, and τέχνη is the one that has to be written around, suppressed, or reframed, otherwise you get some fairly surprising stuff happening. Then you have the curious ep., Acts 19 (the sons of Sceva) seven itinerant Jewish exorcists who try to use Jesus's name as a conjuration formula against a demon, essentially treating "the name of Jesus" as a powerful voces magicae. The demon responds by saying it knows Jesus and Paul but not them, and physically attacks them. Jesus, the Necromancer, scrubbed from history. The Greek Magical Papyri (PGM) from Egypt?, 2nd-5th centuries CE, are indispensable, as they contain explicit syncretic material, including invocations of Iao, Adonai, Sabaoth, and by the later papyri, Jesus, alongside Egyptian and Greek divine names. These show you the actual working-level religious technology of the period, as opposed to the theological positions of the canonical writers. The presence of Judaeo-Christian divine names in the PGM tells us that these names were understood in the broader Hellenistic-Egyptian religious marketplace as particularly powerful voces magicae, regardless of what the nascent church thought about By the 2nd-3rd century CE the church fathers are actively theorizing, Origen in particular, Contra Celsum, discusses the power of names at considerable length — arguing that divine names carry intrinsic power tied to their sound and form, not merely their meaning~a striking concession to the logic of conjuration, even as Origen is trying to distinguish Christian practice from it (Tertullian and later John Chrysostom are playing a part in treating anything magical-in-nature as bad and deceptive... shameful) "Shame" is a sudden feature in the first century that previously hadnt been treated like OMG, whys everyone naked. Why are there zombies and demons in the literature, get it out! Like, if Jesus's name genuinely compels demons — which the exorcism tradition absolutely insists it does — then what exactly is the difference between that and conjuration? The answer that the tradition reaches for is the exousia distinction, the name works as a formula~activating impersonal cosmic machinery, as well as for personal, delegated divine authority. ---------------------------------- P.s. What is "conjuration" In Early Christianity? Conjuration is described as a process or act that involves invoking or summoning spiritual entities. This practice is explored in terms of its effects on both the soul and demons, as well as their responses to such acts. The examination of conjuration highlights its significance in understanding spiritual interactions within the framework of early Christian beliefs (and its not to dismiss incantations, inscriptions, invocation, evocation, necromancy, ritualistic ceremony, sacred offerings, divination, psychic/telepathic powers, etc.,"to conjure<something>" pertaining to all of these too) ⸸ conjuration is the reverse ~upside down~ cross, abjuration ☥ is the ankh, the upright up-cross, leading of either a spirit, or your soul, either abjuring to~or conjuring from (realm of the dead)

Oh wow, nice. Hey, bring it back. Make a BSD thread jk (i do really like BSD variants, certain ones have things that like, dang that wsht woulda been the best if it was paired w/ linux... maybe that requires a discussion/collab, LFS thread...)

Cuneiform of Assyrian/Akkadian like that of Asherbanipal is horrific. I was just looking at this this morning, and my godis it not intelligble at all, as its more like How to document words that might mean something later, like its got so many incoherent phrases that couldve implied any number of things. And then someone shows Cuneiform to the hebrews or maybe the canaanites and they start using real letters pressed into cuneiform tablets, like going back to the literal stone age of communication, sending the people backwards like some flight of the phoenix into god knows what (Clay tablets are like the twitter of real materials, wood, runestone columns and petra, and skin, and paper...) Imean, we could prolly name all the writing systems and languages in one message, unless it includes like, very intricate african/south american and islander languages, who have questionable writing systems, if they even have writing systems. Like lets see here: Arabic, Aramaic (Syrian-Aramaic, etc), Indian lineage, Asian lineage, Turkish and the various ones in and around Persia and Turkiye... Like Going through mountains and Caspian Sea Latin & Greek (we just went one column over...) Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian.... Baltic Sea Lithuanian, Latvian and Old Prussian Albanian... Armenian, cause yous prolly get em confused like i do... Romance/Castellano languages (Prior Italic/Etruscan and variants), Irish ppl languages, i.e. Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Breton.. Germanic English, Frisian, Dutch, Flemish, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese, Luxembourgish, Old Norse (Gothic and various ones) Finnish Sign Languages I need an English-Estonian dictionary... Oh you cant forget Tolkien's Gnomish and Quenya (based languages, for everything else in the lotr legend) *Note, I was looking through the Unicode Character Table, and there is some crazy crazy writing systems for some of the recorded & well known aboriginal and tribal peoples

Yas pulled out an old memory, i cant even remember this thread, or wat we was on. Was i in here tlkin bout linux too?