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What is "occult"?
Posted on: February 24, 2007 - 9:52pm
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What is "occult"?
Well, according to this website, it includes everything from demon possesion to Halloween to Dungeons and Dragons. I thought the site was a joke at first, but... I hope that when the world comes to an end I can breathe a sigh of relief, because there will be so much to look forward to.
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Fucking A! Christianity is occult as far as my jiggy ass is concerned!
For the sake of everyone, please don't ever mention your "jiggly ass" again.*shudder*
Occult = anything that the Christian uttering the term deems "un-Christian."
Apparently, Harry Potter and "The Gay Agenda" are "occult," or in some way akin to "ESP," so I don't really know where any definite lines are drawn. If fiction and real-time reaction to oppression are confused, who knows how far fuzzy-logic can be stretched?
Don't forget hypnosis and trances are occult, too. But not Christians speaking in tongues or "feeling the holy spirit", nope. It's only occult when it doesn't have to do with Jesus.
The use of the word "occult" can mean many things.
1. of or pertaining to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
2. beyond the range of ordinary knowledge or understanding; mysterious.
3. secret; disclosed or communicated only to the initiated.
4. hidden from view.
(in early science)
5a. not apparent on mere inspection but discoverable by experimentation.
5b. of a nature not understood, as physical qualities.
5c. dealing with such qualities; experimental: occult science.
6. Medicine/Medical. present in amounts too small to be visible: a chemical test to detect occult blood in the stool.
–noun
7. the supernatural or supernatural agencies and affairs considered as a whole (usually prec. by the).
8. occult studies or sciences (usually prec. by the).
–verb (used with object)
9. to block or shut off (an object) from view; hide.
10. Astronomy. to hide (a celestial body) by occultation.
–verb (used without object)
11. to become hidden or shut off from view.
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I second this motion, that just about covers it all. I am an avid reader on occultism, in just about any form. I don't know why I find it all so interesting.
"The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously." [Albert Einstein, letter to Hoffman and Dukas, 1946]
Me too.
Perhaps because there is something to be said for the probable validity of 'some" of the concepts, that sciene will probably understand and label someday. Others are unreasonable of course, but some are possible or even probable. Now, the hard scientifoc community needs only recognize that there needs be different methods for measuring these things than the ones they've set up for material science, just as the social sciences have theirs and are reasonable.
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"God is the power of first cause, nature is the law, and matter is the subject acted upon"-Thomas Paine