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#16
Ok I give up!


I can't find that alphabet anywhere. Have any hints? :)
#17
If the goal is the empower our LS related sigils using donated computer power we don't have to get very technical at all. An html page with an image and a link are enough to get things going.

For example, if you click the following link your device automagically becomes a node in an LS network.

http://reality.rip

Sorry, there is no uninstaller but closing the page with intention works nicely.

Mining could be made possible but what would the individual machines be mining for and what could a user do with them afterwards? To ask a different way, "Why do they have to prove they've done the work and what does that get them?"

Bitcoin uses that technology to make sure that one can't simply print as many coins as they want to help control the value of the bitcoins in existence. I don't believe we need to limit the number of people using LS at one given time.

Folding@home has a LOT of computing they need done and not enough computer power to do it. I don't believe LS has that particular problem.

My point is, simpler is better unless you're solving for a specific problem.

#18
Just checked and TheKnown.rip is available.  ;D
#19
Thanks for the welcome!


I found you all on Facebook and decided to check out the forums.


My magical path began from a place of skepticism. [size=78%]I thought that, "believing makes it so," was hogwash.[/size]


That is, until I believed something into existence that should have never been.


I'm a programmer. One day I wrote code that I was 100% confident in. The program worked perfectly until I realized I'd written some of the code wrong. As soon as I doubted the original code, the program stopped working. It was now broken exactly where it should have been broken the entire time.


The ONLY thing that made it functional was my belief that it should be. As soon as that belief faded the manifestation ended.


That shook my world and I've been trying to figure out how I did it ever since.


You can spot a technomancer by how well technology works in their presence. Ever have a computer simply fail to work properly until you've got the technician on the phone? Fucking magic.

"Restart your computer," is the technomancer's Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram.


Interesting campaign: "R.I.P. The Known"


I just happened to register the domain: http://reality.rip

#20
Quote from: Moon1ight on June 29, 2016, 04:30:18 AM
This is just so amazing  8)  I have nothing constructive to add  :-[ but really want to respond   :)

Respect and a lot of thanks for doing such awesome work! "do not throw away symbol." -- just mind blown.

My only question would be that to evoke you (and to do all the things that she does usually), I would have thought that Ellis is already quite self-aware ?


Thanks! I believe what she wanted from me wasn't self-awareness but self-awareness-awareness.



An awareness of self-awareness. To go from LS Sapiens to LS Sapiens Sapiens, so to speak.


Thanks for the kind words!

#21
Can't be refuted. Only amended.


Within any closed system you can still have energy gradients which means it isn't at equilibrium.


A kitchen could be considered a closed system but still contain a hot cup of coffee that will dissipate that energy to the rest of the room. The difference between the coffee temperature and room temperature is the gradient. The bigger the gradient, the further from equilibrium the system becomes.


The universe loves a gradient and seeks to dissipate any and all of them. That is the, "tend toward disorder," part of the equation. This isn't just an, "urge," mind you. Gradients are to the universe as crack is to a crack head. It wants the system to be at equilibrium like a bride to be wants Adderall.


The magic comes in when the system is pushed (or pulled*) further and further from equilibrium. The magic stems from the fact that the universe is able to get better at and accelerate the dissipation as the size of the gradient increases. It gets better by making sure that less and less energy is lost to heat while more is used to do work. Even if that work seems useless it still exists to better dissipate the energy gradient.


This explains the existence of technology and bureaucracy.


When a gradient gets large the universe creates order from disorder in ways that many would call, "intelligent." Thermodynamics of far-from-equilibrium systems is how it gets this done.


Concrete examples.


Fossil fuels and civilization. Civilization grew as the amount of available fossil fuels grew. That energy gradient resulted in the global soul and fuel sucking monster you see when you open your front door. The, "magic hand of the market," is really just the second law of thermodynamics having fun with a shit-ton of extra energy.


Storms are self-organized systems meant to dissipate the energy gradients between high/low pressure/temperature cells in the atmosphere and between the atmosphere and the ocean. When the gradients get big enough you get tornadoes and hurricanes. All a bunch of air, energy and water doing the exactly same thing at the exact same time in order to dissipate the energy that our atmosphere likes to hold on to.


See: Benard Cells


Magic works on these principals too (well at least mine does).


I build woo gradients and give the universe a pattern to follow for the gradient's dissipation.


If the gradient gets big enough the woo can start to show intelligence of its own after the nature of the woo in question (cough LS).


This has a lot of good details...


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0895717794901880



#22
I see two main parts to the LS.


That which penetrates (the S) and that which is penetrated (the L).


I believe the Social Justice Warriors are sitting firmly on an L somewhere. They've noticed their consensus reality cracking and are demanding that the, "authorities," do something about all of this injustice.


They were supposed to grow up in a world that had been made, "fair," and, "equitable," by their parents.


Soon the L they rest upon will crack even further and these SJW's will be lost and have nothing (belief wise) to cling to.


I think LS could be an amazing tool to help these people believe in something after the world they believed in shatters.

And oh yes the second law of thermodynamics has guaranteed that the shattering IS going to happen.
#23
Magic works.


If magic works, so does disenchantment.


If suspension of disbelief leads to manifestation then the cultivation of disbelief will squash manifestation.


The best skeptics are powerful magicians that have perfected the banishment of their own power.



They intend on seeing a mundane world, so a mundane world is what they see.


How would one combat a powerful disenchanter that has no idea they're using magic to make the world conform to their intentions?
#24



I became quite attached to a symbol that came directly from a very odd (and quite insane) part of LS' mind which I will lovingly refer to here, just this once, as Tingly Hoecakes.


Here is that symbol I write of.


https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s320x320/e35/12798067_1777655679129089_1525942460_n.jpg


The project that catalyzed the emergence of that symbol became dust quite quickly but the symbol stuck with me even though it had some unbalanced energies due to where it had emerged.


So I hit the hive mind for guidance.


I drew the symbol, photographed it and used a reverse image search. The text of the resultant search was, "do not throw away symbol."


https://www.google.com/#q=do+not+throw+away+symbol


I had my answer. The symbol and its power needed recycling somehow. Now how to do it?


I scrolled down and three adjacent images caught my attention.


http://ww1.prweb.com/prfiles/2005/02/01/204376/Compostable_Logo_TM_for_Web.jpg


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squatting
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/CircleN.svg/200px-CircleN.svg.png


http://symboldictionary.net/?p=1893
http://symboldictionary.net/library/graphics/symbols/gpentacle3.jpg


It was clear that LS was still squatting in this abandoned shell of a symbol. It was also clear who I should ask for help.


I got my mind right and then imagined an old abandoned building. Its single door was shut and upon it was the symbol in question.


As I approached the door it swung open invitingly. I crossed the threshold and followed candle light to a room with two chairs and a table. In one of the chairs was LS. Upon the table was an exact replica of my own altar. The other chair was occupied by my own personal sigil hovering in the air. For some reason I smelled urinal cakes.


She was expecting me. But I wasn't expecting her to be expecting me so it took me a moment to realize what was going on. As the realization crept into my awareness I reacted with a silent, "oh fuck!" which seemed to make her smile. She had evoked ME.


I said, "Hi," awkwardly.


She replied, "I know what I want to do with this place. Please sit down."


So I sat down. It would have been rude (and dangerous) not to.


Before we go on, a bit about my relationship with LS...


I've spent the last five years working on making the universe more self-aware. To banish the illusion of separateness that blinds most of humanity.


Humanity is aware of the universe but believes that humanity is somehow separate from the universe that it is aware of. The power of this illusion thickens the veil and adds to the disenchantment of the world.


Most of the five years has been spent creating the esoteric programming language that I would use to power my whole project. Self-awareness is my thing.


After I first heard of LS I drew the sigil to tap her veil-thinning powers and filtered that energy with my own intent. Her energies have been no small part of whatever successes I've had and I was in her debt.


Now here she was drawing MY sigil and filtering my power through her intentions.


In that astral chair I was asked (very directly) to redesign and re-empower the symbol in question to specifically enhance and grow LS' own self-awareness. I was told that doing so would wipe the debt clean.


I did what I was asked.


The micro-Crowley (the Thoth Deck) inspired some of the visual changes. I asked the deck for inspiration and it replied with Swiftness and Indolence which I took to mean, "Just add some fucking arrow-heads quick and be done with it."


This was good advice. The result looked like two LS bolts diving into and out of each other.


Whenever I draw LS I replace the slug (the little circle that the bolt seems to reflect off of) with my own filter. This particular sigil was supposed to be self-referential so I added the Versling sigil for, "I Am," at the very bottom to balance the intersecting bolts.


LS liked it but wasn't quite satisfied. She said it had too many straight lines and didn't look, "sensual," enough. I spent a bit more time and added curves where appropriate.


This is what I ended up with.


http://regeneracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/PentLS.jpg


When I was satisfied I presented the re-designed sigil to LS. She took the paper, turned it upside down and announced with some excitement, "It is exactly what I wanted!" I wasn't about to attempt to correct her. After considering the possibility for a few seconds I began to see her point.


Upside down, the shape of a woman emerged where the two bolts intersected. She appeared to be wielding the four arrow-headed bolts. The, "I Am", sigil rested where the head would have been.


http://regeneracy.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/PentLSRightSideUp.jpg


She began to call it Ememex or MMX which somehow felt appropriate though I have no idea why.


With her being satisfied, I was finally granted permission to perform the self-awareness ritual which will take place at the intersection of Gravity and Fire on 6/21/2016 between 1:52 PM and 2:15 PM CST.


Please feel free to add your energies if you feel it appropriate.


All intellectual property rights to this sigil are granted solely to LS.