Imagine what would it be like to know how life works.
How would you feel if you had some kind of a witch’s magic ball and instantly tell the future, or what if you have your personal soothsayer? But how is your life right now? What do are the things you believe in? Can you tell for certainly if what you need is really necessary?
I bet you have a dream home. One with fifty bedrooms and an elegant, Olympic-sized pool and a garden beside it with a chocolate fountain for a fountain. I bet that would be nice. What about your dream car? A red sports car that can go faster than Felipe Massa’s race car, and of course a stretch limo with a built-in suite. What if a Wizard gives it to you this moment? Would you feel happy?
But there is a catch: he will hand you a magic contract first, it will float right in front of your face, and “No disclosure” agreement is the first thing you see in the fine-magic-print. That means no one will know. You ride in your limo of course, you are comfortable in your cozy house, and you are proud of your cool red sports car but no one will see you, the details of the contract saying (assuming that the wizard hits the 0.001% chance that you are actually not lazy enough to READ your own contract that will have a direct bearing in your life trajectory from now to forever [note to self:read your contracts]) that you shall become invisible to other people at times that you enjoy the fruits of your wish, and they will still see you as the same loser that you were without the new things that you have. I will let you reflect on that yourself.
Now what about your life? Are you healthy? Of course you are: maybe you have a BMI of 30 or above, but that is the new “sexy,” right? And when is the last time your heart rate went above 80 beats per minute for causes other than stress, fear or excitement? Uh, when you were a teenager twenty years ago, but you’re still healthy, who cares right? Who needs those activities? There are a lot of people in the world and I bet you wouldn’t be “lucky” enough to get picked by fate to receive cancer or any degenerative disease that is caused by crappy eating and lack of exercise, and fuck that epidemiology of cancer that states that 155-180 out of 100,000 inhabitants of North America die from malignant cancer. Oookay…
How about your concept of God?
I’m sure you were taught he has limbs and looks just like you, even if you know that the word “zelem” that was used to describe God in relation to use means “essence” and not “FORM.” And by the way, you better stop reading right now because he’s going to be angry with you in the same imperfect manner that a human does, even though you were also taught that he is perfect because you are reading this and the wizard’s messages contradict the messages of your human-pope who has a special friendship with God above everyone else’s — even though you know that all in his eyes are fair and all are his children and it may be just likely that religion is only using you as a vehicle of power and no political campaign is won without support from a religious body. But that couldn’t be true, right? He has a robe! Ookkayy… I guess I should wear a robe all the time and ask money from the bank and point my AK-47 in everyone’s faces. No one will see me as guilty because of my robe, and I just took the money as donations, and my friend the politician isn’t really corrupt at all and I command you all in God’s name to vote for him. That can’t be bad, right?
As for your finances, so you believe that working twelve hours a day at a job you don’t even give a damn about, wasting your God-given life in the process, going to work while the kids are still asleep and returning home after they are already in bed, forcing you to hire a babysitter because your wife can’t look after them because she works too. You do all this instead of investing and working on sources of passive income to become free. And of course, people who do not have to work because they have invested in developing automated ways of earning a living like CEOs, stockholders, online marketers, bloggers, and franchise owners are all EVIL and GREEDY because they don’t labor their lives away like mindless drones. Instead, they go to your office three hours at a time just to check things out, and they can even bring their kid to work while you don’t even see yours. Your negative emotions toward them are just your defense mechanisms for guarding your ego, because you know deep down that you do have a choice to live that life, but you suck it up because you can’t take a risk or make an effort to get away from your boring and miserable life, like in Revolutionary Road
Now you are here in the wizard’s territory, you are in his humble abode away from the materialistic world into the plains, yet he is here at your utility and he can actually teach you his wisdom which he had when he was alive to help you become free in your life. You ask questions and you learn more about this long gone voice that is mentoring you. The wizard preaches no religion for he has none, but he does preach of God, for he believes that there is God — in fact, he preaches that God’s existence is logical
You consider yourself lucky to know such things and you genuinely appreciated it when he shared his wisdom on vital male behavior that you must use to attract the opposite sex and maintain healthy relationships, which is of course not taught by society because they want you in their production lines, and if you become alpha, then you are less likely to slave at a mindless job your whole life to demonstrate sexual value to the opposite sex by buying useless crap that only serves as social proof. Because you already have GAME, women respond even if you don’t own a ten-story mansion in or have a wardrobe full of clothes from a designer in Paris. Women will just be as impressed without all the social programming bullshit that was force-fed unto you by society and your parents who are just as clueless as you were when you were young.
Now you have been given the tools by the wizard, and now he gives you advice on how to maintain your physical well-being in the simplest way possible. One by one, you saw how your city life was very detrimental to your health and you saw everyday stuff that contributed to your future death of either cancer or myocardial infarction. He does not give you many training regimens to follow because he knows better — he imbues you with knowledge on the underlying principles of bodily mechanisms so you can achieve more on your own.
It seems that the wizard knows everything, but in fact he just fully understands the underlying principles of life and how the world works, for everything in life is interconnected. You are in awe of his great feats, but he tells you that there is no magic — he is successful because he knows how to use his common sense, and the human brain is the greatest weapon in the world, more powerful than a nuclear bomb. You say a temporary farewell to the wizard who never gave you the fish but taught you how to fish and to fish with leadership and authority. This is the goal of my writings, to help you in your life, to be able to paint a complete picture of your life in Technicolor and not just draw parts of it, but your life as a WHOLE — for like every object in a painting, your life is INTERCONNECTED…
…and such is our philosophy, the philosophy of the Wizard.
This article was originally posted at Wizard Corpse. The mission of Wizard Corpse is to spread true wisdom, which the mindless masses of our world avoid like the plague. Because of the challenges in preaching truth to a world besotted by lies, we created Wizard Corpse to deliver wisdom, for the sages and prophets and wizards are long gone. But be warned, the process involves taking ones’ values and breaking them apart to reassemble them, a painful journey because it involves striking at the very core of one’s false values, creating a better person in all angles of life. A sculpture is not complete without a part of the body missing.
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cmon ferd, get real
yikes do these phonies pay you or what? mebbe you should just run recipes
Is this a joke?
“Imagine what would it be like to”
lol stopped reading
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Form and Essence.
Genesis states clearly that the gods made men in their images (tselem). This is how genesis explains the various races – the black people are black because the gods that made them are black, the hook-nosed people are hook-nosed because the gods that made them are hook-nosed, and so on. It’s a very simple and straightforward view of the world.
“Elohim”, of course, means “the spirits” in pretty much the same way that native american animism speaks of “the spirits”. The earlier parts of the bible are polytheistic: the ancient hebrews were simply heathen just like their neighbours.
When you understand that, some of the more curious passages (Gen 8:21) make sense. The spirits made the world. The spirits made the races of men (Gen 1). One of them was named Jehovah, and this is his and our story (Gen 2-3). Cain went to live with the people of Nod – the god over in the next valley.
The idea that God has arms and legs and – presumably – a beard comes pretty much straight from the bible. People look like their gods as children look like the parents that made them. The question is: do you get to pick and choose which bits of it you believe?
A bit juvenile, but I know of what he speaks. The end all and be all of life is to not in no other terms that can explain it is to “not give a fuck”. Success follows…
“Wizard Corpse?” ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME???
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@Paul Murray
interesting comment. i do agree on that it came from the bible that the exact words are such, but the Torah is Written in the language of man. and thus shall we interpret it literally? it is up to the person to decide. Those who don’t want to be perplexed must use their heads and use that gift. Should a God have arms legs when we know he is incorporeal?
Some have been of opinion that by the Hebrew ẓelem, the shape and figure of a thing is to be understood, and this explanation led men to believe in the corporeality [of the Divine Being]: for they thought that the words “Let us make man in our ẓelem” (Gen. i. 26), implied that God had the form of a human being, i.e., that He had figure and shape, and that, consequently, He was corporeal. They adhered faithfully to this view, and thought that if they were to relinquish it they would eo ipso reject the truth of the Bible: and further, if they did not conceive God as having a body possessed of face and limbs, similar to their own in appearance, they would have to deny even the existence of God. The sole difference which they admitted, was that He excelled in greatness and splendour, and that His substance was not flesh and blood. Thus far went their conception of the greatness and glory of God. The incorporeality of the Divine Being, and His unity, in the true sense of the word–for there is no real unity without incorporeality–will be fully proved in the course of the present treatise. (Part II., ch. i.) In this chapter it is our sole intention to explain the meaning of the words ẓelem and demut. I hold that the Hebrew equivalent of “form” in the ordinary acceptation of the word, viz., the figure and shape of a thing, is toär. Thus we find “[And Joseph was] beautiful in toär (‘form’), and beautiful in appearance” (Gen. xxxix. 6): “What form (toär) is he of?” (1 Sam. xxviii. 14): “As the form (toär) of the children of a king” (Judges viii. 18). It is also applied to form produced by human labour, as “He marketh its form (toär) with a line,” “and he marketh its form (toär) with the compass” (Isa. xliv. 13). This term is not at all applicable to God. The term ẓelem, on the other hand, signifies the specific form, viz., that which constitutes the essence of a thing, whereby the thing is what it is; the reality of a thing in so far as it is that particular being. In man the “form” is that constituent which gives him human perception: and on account of this intellectual perception the term ẓelem is employed in the sentences “In the ẓelem of God he created him” (Gen. i. 27). It is therefore rightly said, “Thou despisest their ẓelem” (Ps. lxiii. 20); the “contempt” can only concern the soul–the specific form of man, not the properties and shape of his body. I am also of opinion that the reason why this term is used for “idols” may be found in the circumstance that they are worshipped on account of some idea represented by them, not on account of their figure and shape. For the same reason the term is used in the expression, “the forms (ẓalme) of your emerods”
(1 Sam. vi. 5), for the chief object was the removal of the injury caused by the emerods, not a change of their shape. As, however, it must be admitted that the term ẓelem is employed in these two cases, viz. “the images of the emerods” and “the idols” on account of the external shape, the term ẓelem is either a homonym or a hybrid term, and would denote both the specific form and the outward shape, and similar properties relating to the dimensions and the shape of material bodies; and in the phrase “Let us make man in our ẓelem” (Gen. i. 26), the term signifies “the specific form” of man, viz., his intellectual perception, and does not refer to his “figure” or “shape.” Thus we have shown the difference between ẓelem and toär, and explained the meaning of ẓelem.
As man’s distinction consists in a property which no other creature on earth possesses, viz., intellectual perception, in the exercise of which he does not employ his senses, nor move his hand or his foot, this perception has been compared–though only apparently, not in truth–to the Divine perception, which requires no corporeal organ. On this account, i.e., on account of the Divine intellect with which man has been endowed, he is said to have been made in the form and likeness of the Almighty, but far from it be the notion that the Supreme Being is corporeal, having a material form.
When it takes as many words as that to deny that the book means what it plainly says, I know that I am onto something.
As for the greatness and glory of God, that is easily accounted for. God appeared to Moses as a burning bush. He led his people with a pillar of smoke and fire. To receive the law, Moses ascended a mountain that smoked and shook. God’s eyes are a flame of fire. Smoke issues from his nostrils. He holds the pillars of the earth and shakes them. His mouth is a consuming fire, the radiance of his presence is so great that no man can look on his face and live. He is slow to anger, but when roused to fury his anger is great.
Oh, and when he gets upset with people, he causes the earth to open up and swallow them.
What could be plainer than that the hebrews worshiped a volcano? The story of Noah (an account of the collapse of the Bosphorus and the flooding of the Black Sea) places their prehistory firmly in the Caucasus mountains, or to the south in Turkey. They were mountain folk from the north – not semitic at all. Spin “radiance” and “glory” all you wish: they were talking about a caldera.
Oh – and “intellectual perception” is by no means exclusively human. Sorry to burst your bubble there.
@Paul Murray
interesting one. that is what i am talking about as to not interpret the words literrally, since you have said a volcano is very possible indeed. ancient people do have ways to express themselves in a cryptic manner which is what I was talking about and that it is dangerous to interpret the torah literally. as you can see that lengthy explanation is owed to the zelem and that theessence of the lord of which we are created is the intelect and not in image (toar). for only an imbecile would interpret it as such for what need for arms limbs is there for God? He is God and devoid of all imperfection. If what you say that intelect is not exclussive to humans, you maybe right untill proven so but one thing is for sure, our intelect is far superior than of any being on our planet. (exept maybe if there were aliens withim us). even according to recent researches we are only using but 10 % of our mental capacity. now that is one gift we have there. as you know I do refer to religious texts but am not limmited to them, but I do see taht common sense when used in reading the torah especially the pentatuch, many logical things will emnerge.
I am very thankful for your rebutals by the way. when one makes a statement , another refuses, then an inteligent conversation pursues