You found my old blog. Thanks for visiting! For my new writing, visit mikesententia.com.
Once again, your comments are often better than my original posts. Here are some great ones from the past week and a half that you should be sure to read. Again, my focus is on comments that could almost be their own posts.
If you like a comment, be sure to click the person’s name and check out their blog.
From oldest to newest:
I asked if anyone was aware of research on what makes placebo more or less effective, and sure enough, you were. I’m linking to the first comment (from Ona), but really, just read the whole thread. Ananael gives a couple really useful links to Wikipedia, and Andrew makes a great point about the difficulty of testing the placebo effect.
Ananael, Ona and I have a great discussion about ethereal software and why traditionalist mages might be dubious about the concept. (It’s long, you can skip to my answers here.) It inspired the first part of my book (where I explain various rituals and other practices using direct magick terms), along with my series on Enochian this week (which also had a great discussion). Note: I’ll have a that promised post on the LBRP coming out soon.
In discussing using magick to win the lottery, I wrestled with why I don’t like “probability shift” as a model for manifesting, and Kol posted a great thread on manifesting for stock picks from a skilled mage on a now-defunct forums.
Again, thanks to everyone who commented.
Other posts in this series:
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Weekly Comments Round-Up (May 6)
You found my old blog. Thanks for visiting! For my new writing, visit mikesententia.com.
Once again, your comments are often better than my original posts. Here are some great ones from the past week and a half that you should be sure to read. Again, my focus is on comments that could almost be their own posts.
If you like a comment, be sure to click the person’s name and check out their blog.
From oldest to newest:
I asked if anyone was aware of research on what makes placebo more or less effective, and sure enough, you were. I’m linking to the first comment (from Ona), but really, just read the whole thread. Ananael gives a couple really useful links to Wikipedia, and Andrew makes a great point about the difficulty of testing the placebo effect.
Ananael, Ona and I have a great discussion about ethereal software and why traditionalist mages might be dubious about the concept. (It’s long, you can skip to my answers here.) It inspired the first part of my book (where I explain various rituals and other practices using direct magick terms), along with my series on Enochian this week (which also had a great discussion). Note: I’ll have a that promised post on the LBRP coming out soon.
In discussing using magick to win the lottery, I wrestled with why I don’t like “probability shift” as a model for manifesting, and Kol posted a great thread on manifesting for stock picks from a skilled mage on a now-defunct forums.
Again, thanks to everyone who commented.
Other posts in this series:- Weekly Comments Round-Up (June 2) (June 2, 2012)
- Weekly Comments Round-Up (May 6) (May 6, 2012)
- Weekly Comments Round-Up (July 13) (July 13, 2012)
- Weekly Comments Round-Up (June 16) (June 16, 2012)
- Weekly Comments Round-Up (May 20) (May 20, 2012)
- Weekly Comments Round-Up (April 23) (April 23, 2012)
- Weekly Comments Round-Up (June 30) (June 30, 2012)
If you liked this post, consider visiting my current blog at mikesententia.com.Tags: Comments Round-Ups
This entry was posted on Sunday, May 6th, 2012 at 2:19 PM and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.