, oh I long for the days when one was left alone to be serene with the toves, borogoves, and momes … but now tis time it seems to swing the vorpal sword … snicker-snack, snicker-snack
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I was corrected the other day when I used the phrase “idiot proof”. The correct phraseology is “user friendly”. I sighed OMG
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When it comes to things mechanical, idiot proofing is better, user friendly doesn’t even enter the picture. I’m thinking along the lines of troubleshooting a gas furnace (back in my gas installer and repair technician day). Several safety switches were “built in” to make the appliance operate in a safe manner. If something failed in the fuel ignition process, a safety switch (eg. the air proving switch) would open breaking the electrical current. This was idiot proofing, not a user friendly situation at all…like comparing a maple leaf to a car tire. These dorks know nothing about comprehending basic language, that’s why they have to make up their own by usurping the meaning(s) of existing words and phrases. For us, it would be kind of like teaching cows to climb trees. Why would we even do such a thing would be the first question we’d ask after catching our breath from a long spasm of laughter. Meanwhile they’d be out buying climbing spurs with their grant money from some billionaire benefactor.
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I suppose in their mind assigning a new meaning or definition of words is an example of “being creative”.
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yesterday i started to right a lengthy, almost poetical exposé over ‘power-words’ and ‘technomancy’, then discarded it. went to a deep rabbithole. it was about the manipulation of light and sound, and all its known traditional and modern consequencies (told ya it was a rabbithole. i am not doc able to write complex realities into great books).
what i wanted to share is that my novice understanding of these things, culminated into the evergreen old saying that we should ‘weigh one’s word’. this tells us two things.
first, words have weight, and are literally entitled by themselves to do so. as such, every word has its own sovereignity, own power, own pattern, imprint. let us not forget that ancient power-words may not sound intelligible at first to ignorant minds. words that create certain frequencies etc. with that said we have to weigh both the meaning and the original world-forming (life-giving, form-meaning) capacity of the word as well. this leads us to the so called ‘science of rhythm’, which is part of the teachings on sound and light in every orthodox tradition.
second, we weigh not just the word, but the man as well. the words are able to operate in themselves after the output. but the real chainreaction comes with the living word, and with the personal power of the speaker upon others.
to summarize these two, let us ponder upon the difference between ‘he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth!’ (John 11:42) and a lively, fat swearing that one cries out in his own impotency. just to show the extreme possibilities of speaking a language. which was taught (thoth 
) by the way, never evolved out of the ‘ocean-shore-tree-field-concrete jungle’ somehow. we r surely seeing english evolving, ain’t we mate?
so raping, twisting the language has to poison the word in all of these aspects to work. but sticking to the gospel makes these our tests.
and the technomancy part? besides ancient magicks (science) fused with modern science? well, look around. they do a very good job, don’t u think?
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