concept: a deck of tarot cards that includes nothing but like fifty seven copies of the fool in various foolish situations, and it comes with a booklet that says “there’s nothing metaphorical about this card, you’re a fool and both you and the universe know this”
“Over the next four centuries after Jesus’ death, Christian propagandists further besmirched Simon Magus’s reputation. It was said he used semen and menstrual blood in his incantations. The second-century sect known as the Simonian Gnostics, which was believed to have been founded by Simon Magus, was denounced as being addicted to magic. By the fourth and Fifth centuries he was no longer just a magician and Gnostic but was being denounced as the father of all heresies. A host of apocryphal accounts of Simon Magus circulated in medieval Europe, such as his demonic ability to fly, his conjuring up of vicious dogs to attack the apostle Simon Peter, and his ability to render himself invisible. Medieval Irish legends tell of the druid Mog Ruith who, along with his daughter, traveled to the Middle East to learn magic from Simon Magus. His apprenticeship lasted between six and thirty-three years, and one of the great feats he learned was that of flying using a magic wheel, which he used to attack the apostles. In one legend it was Mog Ruith, carrying on the diabolic work of his master, who beheaded John the Baptist. The portrayal of Simon Magus served the purpose of creating the antithesis of Jesus. Both were seen as miracle workers in their own lifetimes. Some Jewish and pagan critics dismissed Jesus as a magician, a necromancer even, just as Christians later dismissed Simon Magus. The pagan author Celsus argued that Jesus had visited Egypt to learn magic. Jesus’ feats were not as showy as the apocryphal ones of Simon Magus, or Moses for that matter, but he nevertheless performed the mechanics of practical magic if not the ritualistic aspects of it. He cured merely by uttering words such as ‘arise’ and ‘be clean’, and applied saliva to cure the deaf and blind. He cast out demons. His initial fame rested on these activities. Yet Jesus’ motives are portrayed as pure and his miracles effected through faith, whereas Simon Magus, as the archetypal magician, was arrogant, sinful, vain, motivated by base desires, and his magic all artifice and demonic. There is evidence, nevertheless, that care was taken about how and which of Jesus’ miracles were included in the New Testament, particularly in Matthew, so as not to present them as magical in comparison with the healing magic practiced at the time. The authors of the New Testament also performed a more subtle balancing act in comparing Jesus with King Solomon. In light of the appearance of Christ, the reputation of Solomon as the wisest man ever and forever needed qualifying. So Jesus is also referred to as the ‘son of David’, and the emphasis on Jesus the healer and caste out of demons demonstrated that he was not a second-rate Solomon.”
— Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, Owen Davies (via coyote-696)
I’m starting the ‘genuine setheverman appreciation club’ because yea I know hes a meme but I think hes genuinely funny and a legitimately cool dude, reblog to join the club
“This was not light against dark or good against evil; it had nothing to do with duty or philosophy, religion or morals. It was Anakin against Obi-Wan. Personally. Just the two of them, and the damage they had done to each other.”
“I’ll remember” is the ADHD demon talking. You won’t remember. Write it down.
bold of you to assume i’ll remember where i wrote it, or even that i wrote it
Visual exhaustion is another symptom of ADHD, which means that if we see something enough times (or we see enough instances of something), it fades into background noise and we fail to notice it.
This is why a lot of ADHD people can stand living surrounded by mess/clutter, because it’s just visual background noise to us. We don’t even notice it anymore.
So if we write something down and see the note stuck up somewhere a lot – or if we write a LOT of somethings down and have a lot of notes hanging around – then we’re even less likely to think of/remember the thing because it’s just part of the scenery now.
ADHD is the Catch-22 of brains.
A very good thing to know about ADHD. Don’t fall into the trap.
A lot of folks in the comments are talking about writing on themselves or setting phone/calendar reminders. Your mileage may vary on those. You may also want to consider ways to set a habit of referring back to a planner or similar every day/hour.
