The Russian president’s flair for the superstitious may be deeper—and deadlier—than we think.
www.thedailybeast.com
Putin, black magic, wizards and demons?! WTF!
Jesus though the adds on that page are fucking cancer...
I'm going to be clear yet again, not everything is as meets the eye in discussions about topics like wizards, black magic, and demons.
There is every possibility that they have sold their discrete and entire control, their consent among themselves as regards methods, or more to something kicking around in their meat fomented from empathy to some awful darkness.
What, exactly do you think is the consequences of saying into an unknown and vast neural network which gave rise to such as yourself, "I will give anything for this"?
Do you not think that other neural structures would fail to "hear" this offer, and would fail to leverage upon it?
Something dark may slither up from the place humans isolate our more adversarial tools within the psyche and do something not unlike "making an offer".
It's one of the things Hellraiser is about: learning how to open a "puzzle", making sacrifices along the way that you don't have to foot the bill for so you can get a boon offered up from within the darkness, a bit of help from a rather "friendly" seeming
adversarial neural node.
And you get what you ask for but now... Well, now you see the thing you let out of the box, and it sees you: a connection is made.
Someone prone to thinking about the supernatural would see summoning up a demon from hell, and making a Faustian bargain for power.
When I discuss "compartments" these are exactly the sort of entities that I would engender one thinking about.
We each are denizens of the palace of the mind, and it is silliness to think we are the only things inside those walls.
That said, this is not a discussion of things "beyond" the physical, but things bound up in physicality, namely the meat of our own minds.
It is in fact being trite and foolish to say "but that's just a psychological problem", as trite as to say having your arm lopped off is "just a bit of missing flesh". Technically it's true, but it misses the reality.
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Georgian fighters captured another Russian T-90A MBT in 
reporters speculate about the area north of Svatove after they heard that residents are being urged to move.