[UA] UA unintenionally sexist? (LONG!)

[Twist0059 at aol.com]

In a message dated 9/1/00 10:01:10 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
peter_hentges at adc.com writes:

>          Also, remember you don't need to care at all
>  > about the ways you do magick, only that you obey it's rules.  Behave this
>  > way, avoid that, and you create a magnetic resonance to affect others.
>  
>  Bullshit. Your magic must be your obsession skill. You must care about
>  it a whole lot. More than you do anything else. Simply getting drunk, or
>  cutting yourself up or hoarding money isn't going to give you any power 
> whatsoever.

Yes, your magick has to be your obsession skill.  Your magick.  And you are 
obsessed with doing magick through your school and the laws around which your 
magick works; that's why you're cutting yourself up to get charges.  It *can* 
be what you actually like to do, but needn't be.   The obsession here is how 
your actions generate magick through paradox.  Check out Dirk Allen's 
obsession sometime, or Daphnee Lee's.  You don't need to care, quite frankly, 
about having sex, getting drunk, or slicing up your arms.  She doesn't care 
about sex, he doesn't care about liquor.  They care about the symbolism 
behind it.  You *need to care* about how those actions create a paradox that 
allows magick to function.

Consider:  Is the skill Dispomancy the same as the skill Care A Whole Lot 
About Getting Drunk?  Nope.  Some people are addicted to gambling, it rules 
their lives.  Are they entropomancers?  Are all sex-obsessed people 
pornomancers?

Thus, your original post:

>UA posits that by devoting your life and soul to porn, violence or booze
>you can gain immense power. Indeed, if you do so in a manner so extreme
>that they become deep and worthy to you, you may achieve the godhead. If
>you and enough of those that think like you do this, you get to remake
>the universe to include those ideas....

Is wrong.  You're not devoting your life to booze or violence, you're 
devoting it to magick.   It may be magick through the mystic paradox of booze 
or violence, but that's not quite the same.   "I really love getting drunk, I 
love this brand of Coors, I will get drunk every day until I die....so, when 
do I get to levitate stuff?"  Uh huh.





-Twist

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