#merits

[lastanzadeisogni]

Un giorno mi dissero, "non vorrei mai essere come te"

Io risposi : "non preoccuparti, non lo sarai mai!"

A parte che se esprimi un giudizio lo giustifichi... comunque, grazie a Dio, siamo tutti diversi e speciali, ognuno a modo suo.

E' proprio bello , la possibilità di confrontarsi e capire i propri pregi, limiti, migliorarsi magari.

[weidaoduzun3]

Hermetic Meritorious & Demeritorious Exercise to Prepare for Rebirth.

This is a practice I’ve been doing for a little over a month now, which is a more Chinese-Daoist/Buddhist practice of listing out ones demerits and merits that one has committed throughout the day, or week or month. It’s not really occult or esoteric — sorry :p

It builds off the idea of a Folk-Daoist concept of Ganying 感應 or correlative resonance. Basically cause and effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganying

Typically I follow the lists of Merits and Demerits from the 文昌帝君陰騭文/Wenchang's Treatise on Secret Merit & 太上感應篇 Taishang Ganying Pian, respectively, to go off of what is “meritorious” and “demeritorious.”

I highly recommended you all check out @edwardW2 (on Twitter) compilation of three different translations of each text

https://edwardwhite123.blogspot.com/2022/03/wenchangs-treatise-on-secret-merit.html

https://edwardwhite123.blogspot.com/2022/05/taishang-ganying-pian-three-translations.html

While there is no such practice in the realm of Greco-Egyptian Hermeticism, at least that I am aware of, this practice of 感應 can easily be applied to a Hermetic praxis/setting.

Particularly in Corpus Hermeticum XIII.7-9. Here we are presented with the 12 Irrational Tormentors and the 10 Divine Liberators of said Tormentors.

So with a sheet of paper, you can list all the times throughout your day, week or month, you were:

1. Ignorant

2. Stricken with Grief

3. Incontinent (lost control of your emotions)

4. Lustful

5. Unjust

6. Greedy

7. Deceitful

8. Envious

9. Treacherous

10. Angry

11. Reckless

12. Malicious

Likewise, we can record our merits or “Liberators” in a Hermetic setting by:

1. Acknowledging when Knowledge has dispelled our Ignorance

2. Recognize when we were Joyous to dispel our Grief

3. Acknowledged when we had Continence over our emotions.

4. When we Persevered through Lustful temptations.

5. When Justice prevailed our once unjust attitude and actions.

6. When we displayed Liberality over our Greed.

7. Record when we were earnestly Truthful, to dispel Deceitful Behavior.

In CH XIII.9, once Truth has arrived to us throughout the day, week or month, together with the Good, life and light (the remainder of the Three Divine Liberators), Hermetic Rebirth is achieved!

What you do with the piece of paper is up to you. You could keep them for tracking your moral progression, or you could burn the paper like I do. (🔥USE FIRE SAFETY. PLEASE.🔥) I burn the paper because it is a symbolic releasing of these good and bad deeds, as I do not wish to harbor good deeds and become pretentious. Likewise, harboring bad deeds will only bring us more grief.

The cause: Recording our daily, weekly or monthly Tormentors and Liberators.

The effect: A preparation for Hermetic Rebirth.

While this Hermetic Rebirth is a central theme in CH XIII. Who says we cannot undergo a sort of spiritual rebirth everyday, or every week or, every month? (Psst…we most certainly can, and I personally think that is the point of “Hermetic Rebirth.”) Spiritual Rebirth is not just a one and done thing. It’s a life long process that I, a Hermeticist, must and will continue to undergo.

I think using Corpus Hermeticum XIII is a great way to daily, weekly, or monthly record our merits and demerits. It’s a practice that builds integrity and moral fortitude. And ultimately leads to a Spiritual Rebirth. I’m not suggesting at all that Hermetic literature and PGM practices, and other technical Hemerticas can cause or not cause moral integrity and fortitude, just that there is a lack of structure and praxis for dispelling the Tormentors, which is not always a bad thing — the lack of structure I mean.

As a Hermeticist I use the structure of practices that come from various traditions — see my post on the Christian Meditative practice called Lectio Divina. My noetic theurgy, called the Silent Prayer, closely resembles Dhikr, which is a Muslim meditative practice that involves reciting the 99 names of Allah. This is just the reality for us Hermeticist — lack of structural praxis! Again this is not a bad thing. Just through the course of time and suppression of beliefs, we do not have alot of surviving structural practices for a “Hermetic Praxis.” It is what is. But the lack of structure gives us, the practitioners, the power and opportunity to build a valid and authentic spiritual praxis that’s very customizable, and substitutable for our contemporary lives! Which is a very beautiful process to undergo, personally.

If you all need more help in structuring a Hermetic Praxis — please check out @polyphanes Kofi shop and buy his Preces Templi e-book.

I hope this exercise serves everyone well whether you use the traditional Chinese list of Merits and Demerits, or if you wish to use CH XIII.7-9. Gods bless you all.

[zakirnaikpersonal]

Merits of Masjid Al Aqsa - Dr Zakir Naik

[ladymacabrebeth]

Observe people's behavior towards you when you don't have status, then observe them again once you have one. You'll see their true colors.

Lady Macabre Beth

[thatscreamingrat]

went to the pub for a drink on my first real day off in over a week and watched the girl behind the bar drop the entire cash drawer on the floor in the middle of the rush and then just stare at it at her feet for like a solid two minutes

[lqb2quotes]

The more an idea is tied to your identity, the more you will ignore evidence it is false. People seem to have no trouble finding reasons to ignore the merits of ideas they dislike. To continue to grow and learn, you must be willing to update, expand, and edit your identity. In many ways, growth is unlearning.

[dominhduy]

took me so much time

[captainpirateface]

Stan Lee got it.

It's revolting OVER HALF the country to this very day does not.

We need more Stans in the world.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

THAT ONE IS EASY: DON'T HIRE TOO FAST

If someone had launched a new, spam-free mail service, users would have flocked to it. For example, reading and experience are usually compiled at the time—didn't sell out. If startups end up being a philosophy major for most of college. I will now, by an amazing feat of clairvoyance, do this for you: the probability is zero. In young hackers, optimism predominates. Hackers would think a lot of time talking about how words worked. Maybe the situation is similar with malaria. But I think I see now what went wrong with philosophy, and how we might fix it. 9027. This focus on the user is a kind of password for sending mail to me. 07347802 sorry 0.

Sometimes you hear people saying All these guys starting startups now are going to be replaced by apps running on tablets. Once the libraries get too big, they become overwhelmed. Imagine if you were relying on formulas you didn't understand. They do a really good programming language: very powerful abstractions. Surely that field, at least subconsciously, based on the total number of characters he'll have to type. Maybe the alarm bells it sets off will counteract the forces that push you to overhire. They know their audience. Thought you should check out the following: http://www. Bookstores are one of the main forces driving the spread of startup culture will thus be driven by the random factors that have driven it so far, startups that turn down acquisition offers usually end up doing better.

But the cost of a long name is not just the cost of the space it takes up on your screen. 12454646 investment 0. There are examples of this algorithm being applied to actual emails in an appendix at the end. It works, but you weren't held to it; you could work out all the details, and even they are more conservative in reality than you'd guess from reading their sites. It is so much work to be done. In 1995 it was hard to take search seriously. That's why you can't just take a vote. Inventors of wonderful new things are often surprised to find that Americans like to begin a program with a bunch of hackers. The first is that startups may represent a new economic phase, on the scale of the Industrial Revolution.

Next I create a third hash table, this time mapping each token to the probability that the mail is spam. What people outside the software world, this idea is known as Worse is Better is found throughout the arts. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it. They will use whatever language does the job. What's different about religion is that people don't feel they need to hire in order to grow. Less laborious, certainly, that most people don't choose programming languages simply based on their merits, and so on. He said he didn't think so, because the light is better there. If you're among that number, Trevor Blackwell has made a handy calculator you can use to find things online.

[pusheen]

[ngocngadotnet]

On the eighth day of the second lunar month, Shakyamuni Buddha became a monk. On this special and auspicious day, worship the Buddha devoutly, abstain from killing and releasing animals, burn incense, offer lamps, flowers, recite mantras, give alms and do good deeds, etc., do good deeds and accumulate merit. The merits will be doubled; the life will be auspicious and wishful, and the blessings will be blessed for generations to come, with endless joy and full blessings. ​​​🙏🌸🕯️

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[mycthefirefly]

上人說：造福得功德。

Merits are gained when we create blessings.

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[aethersea]

another thing fantasy writers should keep track of is how much of their worldbuilding is aesthetic-based. it's not unlike the sci-fi hardness scale, which measures how closely a story holds to known, real principles of science. The Martian is extremely hard sci-fi, with nearly every detail being grounded in realistic fact as we know it; Star Trek is extremely soft sci-fi, with a vaguely plausible "space travel and no resource scarcity" premise used as a foundation for the wildest ideas the writers' room could come up with. and much as Star Trek fuckin rules, there's nothing wrong with aesthetic-based fantasy worldbuilding!

(sidenote we're not calling this 'soft fantasy' bc there's already a hard/soft divide in fantasy: hard magic follows consistent rules, like "earthbenders can always and only bend earth", and soft magic follows vague rules that often just ~feel right~, like the Force. this frankly kinda maps, but I'm not talking about just the magic, I'm talking about the worldbuilding as a whole.

actually for the purposes of this post we're calling it grounded vs airy fantasy, bc that's succinct and sounds cool.)

a great example of grounded fantasy is Dungeon Meshi: the dungeon ecosystem is meticulously thought out, the plot is driven by the very realistic need to eat well while adventuring, the story touches on both social and psychological effects of the whole 'no one dies forever down here' situation, the list goes on. the worldbuilding wants to be engaged with on a mechanical level and it rewards that engagement.

deliberately airy fantasy is less common, because in a funny way it's much harder to do. people tend to like explanations. it takes skill to pull off "the world is this way because I said so." Narnia manages: these kids fall into a magic world through the back of a wardrobe, befriend talking beavers who drink tea, get weapons from Santa Claus, dance with Bacchus and his maenads, and sail to the edge of the world, without ever breaking suspension of disbelief. it works because every new thing that happens fits the vibes. it's all just vibes! engaging with the worldbuilding on a mechanical level wouldn't just be futile, it'd be missing the point entirely.

the reason I started off calling this aesthetic-based is that an airy story will usually lean hard on an existing aesthetic, ideally one that's widely known by the target audience. Lewis was drawing on fables, fairy tales, myths, children's stories, and the vague idea of ~medieval europe~ that is to this day our most generic fantasy setting. when a prince falls in love with a fallen star, when there are giants who welcome lost children warmly and fatten them up for the feast, it all fits because these are things we'd expect to find in this story. none of this jars against what we've already seen.

and the point of it is to be wondrous and whimsical, to set the tone for the story Lewis wants to tell. and it does a great job! the airy worldbuilding serves the purposes of the story, and it's no less elegant than Ryōko Kui's elaborately grounded dungeon. neither kind of worldbuilding is better than the other.

however.

you do have to know which one you're doing.

the whole reason I'm writing this is that I saw yet another long, entertaining post dragging GRRM for absolute filth. asoiaf is a fun one because on some axes it's pretty grounded (political fuck-around-and-find-out, rumors spread farther than fact, fastest way to lose a war is to let your people starve, etc), but on others it's entirely airy (some people have magic Just Cause, the various peoples are each based on an aesthetic/stereotype/cliché with no real thought to how they influence each other as neighbors, the super-long seasons have no effect on ecology, etc).

and again! none of this is actually bad! (well ok some of those stereotypes are quite bigoted. but other than that this isn't bad.) there's nothing wrong with the season thing being there to highlight how the nobles are focused on short-sighted wars for power instead of storing up resources for the extremely dangerous and inevitable winter, that's a nice allegory, and the looming threat of many harsh years set the narrative tone. and you can always mix and match airy and grounded worldbuilding – everyone does it, frankly it's a necessity, because sooner or later the answer to every worldbuilding question is "because the author wanted it to be that way." the only completely grounded writing is nonfiction.

the problem is when you pretend that your entirely airy worldbuilding is actually super duper grounded. like, for instance, claiming that your vibes-based depiction of Medieval Europe (Gritty Edition) is completely historical, and then never even showing anyone spinning. or sniffing dismissively at Tolkien for not detailing Aragorn's tax policy, and then never addressing how a pre-industrial grain-based agricultural society is going years without harvesting any crops. (stored grain goes bad! you can't even mouse-proof your silos, how are you going to deal with mold?) and the list goes on.

the man went up on national television and invited us to engage with his worldbuilding mechanically, and then if you actually do that, it shatters like spun sugar under the pressure. doesn't he realize that's not the part of the story that's load-bearing! he should've directed our focus to the political machinations and extensive trope deconstruction, not the handwavey bit.

point is, as a fantasy writer there will always be some amount of your worldbuilding that boils down to 'because I said so,' and there's nothing wrong with that. nor is there anything wrong with making that your whole thing – airy worldbuilding can be beautiful and inspiring. but you have to be aware of what you're doing, because if you ask your readers to engage with the worldbuilding in gritty mechanical detail, you had better have some actual mechanics to show them.

[most-normal-eccles-cake-ignorer]

The products of trying to recreate what was going on outside the frame during the kiss. (for ENTIRELY SCIENTIFIC purposes)

@actual-changeling altered my whole outlook on life with this post about Aziraphale's left hand (I'd only been looking at his right hand) and I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I painted the rest of the fucking owl (and his bf).

so normal about this

[phonemantra-blog]

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