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   Shez to jrst@earthlink.net   
   Re: Practical magick.   
   28 Feb 05 22:53:51   
   
   XPost: alt.religion.wicca, alt.arts.poetry.comments, alt.magick   
   From: shez@oldcity.f2s.com   
      
   In article , j r sherman   
    writes   
   >In article <0l172151p6nddqdvncvtfe28ulmqccn807@4ax.com>, Karla says...   
   >>   
   >>On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 15:09:18 +0000, Shez  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>In article <42232E94.3060700@skypoint.com>, Dale Houstman   
   >>> writes   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>Shez wrote:   
   >>>>> In article <42229c5a$1_1@127.0.0.1>, Pertial >>>> real.net> writes   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>"Shez"  wrote in message news:iu3UWy   
   dujICFwFZ@oldcit   
   >y.f   
   >>>>2   
   >>>>>>s   
   >>>>>>.com...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>In article , Jane Asher's   
   >>>>>>>Vagina  writes   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 14:51:19 +0000, Shez wrote:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>For many people magick is a mystery   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>Not for me. I believe it to be pure bullshit.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>Your choice no one asked you to hang around on the magick group. After   
   >>>>>>>all I don't hang out on a poetry group.   
   >>>>>>>Have you considered taking your ideas elsewhere, where you might be   
   >>>>>>>welcome. Which you are not here.   
   >>>>>>>Your the bald one aren't you...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>One thing fer sure...   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>You're the one that is clueless about the contraction "You're".   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>P   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> .   
   >>>>> I have dyslexia... what's your problem... Or did you imagine that   
   >>>>> spelling things correctly made you intelligent...   
   >>>>   
   >>>>True: but spelling things incorrectly doesn't make you intelligent either.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>And you are a very selective dyslexic.   
   >>>   
   >>>I have a spellchecker for dyslexics that picks up most of the things I   
   >>>spell badly, but not all..   
   >>>Like most dyslexics I have a fascination with the written word, and a   
   >>>vocabulary that is huge. Dyslexics are generally brighter than the   
   >>>average and learn other skills to get them through the problems of   
   >>>reading and writing.   
   >>>Unless you are dyslexic you have no idea what the problems are, no more   
   >>>than you could imagine being deaf, or disabled in some other way.   
   >>>Dyslexia is something a lot of people suffer from in a mild form, mine   
   >>>is medium, their are those who can never make sense of the written word.   
   >>>Its not a problem that you can put right by study or practice. Its a   
   >>>change in the brains structure... You learn to cope and to manage but   
   >>>its not something you can change.   
   >>>Dyslexics rule KO   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> When you reduced to abusing people on their spelling your proving you   
   >>>>> don't have the imagination to come up with a decent insult, its the   
   >>>>> petty and desperate who need to point out spelling mistakes.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>And when you are reduced to thinking that the world isn't quite complete   
   >>>>without the addition of some spurious "magick" you're proving that you   
   >>>>don't have the imagination to see the world as being marvelous without   
   >>>>the addition of delusions.   
   >>>   
   >>>I do see the world as marvellous, perhaps more than most, Magick is not   
   >>>Walt Disney fireworks, its the use of natural skills, magick is like any   
   >>>other talent its an art and a craft and can be learned.   
   >>>Changing reality is something we all do in small ways, those who study   
   >>>and use magick simply improve on an inborn talent.   
   >>>It doesn't take ritual, words, it takes focus and concentration. I have   
   >>>no time for delusions. I was taught how to use my mind and how to change   
   >>>reality in a way I wanted it changed.. Like throwing a pebble in a lake,   
   >>>the splash of the pebble is tiny, but the ripples carry on to the edge   
   >>>of the lake.   
   >>>Anyone can use magick, if they know how to use magick,   
   >>>every time things go your way, and coincidences happen to favour you..   
   >>>That is magick.. If things go wrong and you seem to be in a downward   
   >>>spiral then that can be changed by magick.. Its a tiny amount of   
   >>>pressure in the right place..   
   >>>You really should not jump to conclusions about something you don't   
   >>>understand, it shows a lack of imagination. Something that I would think   
   >>>is necessary in a poet.   
   >>   
   >>I am curious.  Why do you and others spell magic as magick?   
   >>   
   >>Karla   
   >   
   >a good question. does that mean like Magical is now Magickal? or that Magician   
   >is now Magickian?   
   >   
   >does this also mean that tragic is now tragick? ya know.. tragickal, etc.?   
   >   
   >and like does Milosevic now become Milosevick?   
   >   
   >i knew a guy in college who's last name was Selovic. would he now be Selovick?   
   >   
   >and if this is the case, have the people of such nations like Russian and your   
   >other Slavic speaking places been notified of this change?   
   >   
   >it's a serious question.   
   >   
   >love and kisses,   
   >   
   >j r sherman   
   >   
   >   
   Seriously answered in a previous post.   
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