I think that'd be interesting |
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Who here would be interested in a "School of the Occult"? Complete with tests, Certificates of Completion, full courses, etc.? |
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I think that'd be interesting |
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From my rotting body,
flowers shall grow
and I am in them
and that is eternity.
-Edvard Munch
This thread should probably go to Inner Sanctum, even if you did mention Astral Traveling. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
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Lucid dreaming is a very simple subject compared to the occult and look at the size of this website. I think it would be too impractical. |
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So whats the point? Are you starting a school ? There will sure be lots of people interested in this kind of knowlede. |
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Why does everyone want to found a university on this website god dammit. You can't write up tests and teach people about something you're not an expert at, for fuck's sake. And if you are an expert- hey, that's just great. Start some threads on the subject or some tutorials or whatever. Why do you need to have some kind of bullshit organization based here to get that information out to interested parties? This is a free to use forum, just post what you have to say. |
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An academy would enable more proactive learning. Rather than hunting through tutorials, they could be guided to the tutorials that suit them best and have someone to answer specific questions related to those tutorials. I don't see it as any different from DV academy except you'd be getting help from someone who can AP or do sigils rather than specifically someone who can help you lucid dream. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
The DV Academy suffers from the same problems. |
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Some people have the specific experience necessary to answer specific questions or direct people to the answer so people interested in learning such things don't have to go hunting. And your idea of live or die based on the merit of the question is false. Threads die because the question is answered and requires no more further input. Questions also die because no one around at the time can answer them and they get buried. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Well, if you wish, I have a bit of occult knowledge I can add. But yes, tests, and certs. are not a good idea, one the certs. would be based on nothing as we have no institute or federal program to back up our word. And, honestly, besides quizzing, they would either know and understand or they wouldn't. As so far as the side-tracked discussion above, Omnis has a good point as threads die out while this may create something more lasting, assuming enough people are even interested. |
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Even if I could sticky them, what am I supposed to do? Sticky 200 tutorials and whenever someone has a specific question related to their own obstacles when it comes to practicing one of the studies laid out in the thread, they're just supposed to browse through every tutorial until they find their answer? |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I don't think if every single person who frequented this forum collaborated could you come up with two hundred tutorials about anything without becoming redundant. Either way, how do you think some academy system will work, then? All you need is a standard way of accepting tutorials to sticky and leave OPEN... How would this not suffice. |
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Every time you run into a problem coding, you whine on IRC about it. I don't know precisely how an Occult Academy would work, that's what this thread is for. I was simply addressing your hypocrisy. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I think this would be a great opportunity for its own web site...with perhaps a few cross references between sites to specifically point people in the right direction for the help they need. |
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Why can't people discuss what they're doing in occult studies, as well? |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
1. ShockWave and I et c. are not in a study, we just all happen to be programmers who are in IRC a lot |
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y we no get along |
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From my rotting body,
flowers shall grow
and I am in them
and that is eternity.
-Edvard Munch
The biggest problem I see here, is that EGO is the first and largest stumbling block in most occult paths. Some of you may noticed that a power you have had good luck with, like wind control, may fail you when you try to show it off. The problem being, that you are trying to show off. If someone has a school of the occult, perhaps it will be of use to people looking for some quick info, or pointers. That is good; helping others is noble. However two problems arise. The teacher gets prideful and takes pleasure in people thinking they are special. The student thrives on getting an outward symbol that proves to others that they have learned something. |
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