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http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200801/1201648719.html

http://discoflux.com/node/100

Discordian Society to Canonize Mormon Leader

“The Discordian Society will adopt Gordon B. Hinckley as a Saint”

United States of America (Press Release)

January 29, 2008 — Columbus, Ohio1.29.2008

For Immediate Release:

The Great Googlie Mooglie Cabal, as Ordained Representatives of the Erisian Movement has announced plans for the immediate canonization of Gordon B. Hinckley and the inclusion of him in the pantheon of Discordian Saints as St. Magusundies

St. Magusundies, in life, met all the criteria necessary to prove that he was a special emissary from the heart of the Void and a Child of Eris. We need only point to his temple building, his proselytizing and the fact that before he became President of the LDS, he had dedicated 23 temples to verify his sacred position as a key element, tasked with maintaining the Wobble of the Sacred Chao and its Hodge-Podge balancing act.

St. Magusundies will be canonized on Sunday, March, 23, 2008 at 4:20 in the afternoon. Any and all members of either the Latter Day Saints, or the Discordian Movement are invited to the ceremony to be held at the Googlie Mooglie Cabal, in Columbus Ohio. A special day of celebration will be announced during the ceremony.

Ratatosk, Squirrel of Discord

Muncher of the ChaoAcorn

Chatterer of the Words of Eris

POEE of The Great Googlie Mooglie Cabal

This blog isn't exactly drawing me to post in it. I'm sure many of you share those feelings. It'll pick up in time. Meanwhile I'm more focused on http://www.spiritcompanion.com Much better!

More later.

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“Text and Ontology”, by Stephen Mace

This is an article by Stephen Mace that argues that the idea of “being” is an outdated concept, and instead, everything can be described by “doing.” This should hold particular interest to Latter-day Saints, because we believe in a social Trinity that is exactly described in terms of “doing.”

Here is an excerpt, but you should really read the entire article.

“But if it isn’t all Being, then what is it?

I will not say Becoming, since that implies an action too random or undirected to be consistent with our obviously well-designed circumstances. Instead I will offer Doing, presenting us with a universe of process, with all aspects of manifestation pursuing some goal, more or less distant, more or less intelligently. Doing gives us a universe that is dynamic on all levels, driven by an implied purpose, and hence an implicit intelligence, and this is surely consistent with the self-driven contrivance of physical nature.”

http://mormon-magus.info/?p=38

“The distinguishing characteristic of a person is the possession of will, the power to accept or reject, to move or to stand still, to obey or to disobey. From the very beginning the being now known as man possessed a will, and by the operation of his will has reached his present condition. Above all other things, man is a will. If that be so, the training and use of the will is man’s first concern.”

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“Love is the Law. Love Under Will.”

- Aleister Crowley

http://mormon-magus.info/?p=37

I’ve noticed that figures 9 through 10 aren’t included in the temple, but are included in what the world can find out.

Is this effectively a green light on modern occultism?

http://scriptures.lds.org/en/abr/fac_2

Fig. 8. Contains writings that cannot be revealed unto the world; but is to be had in the Holy Temple of God.

Fig. 9. Ought not to be revealed at the present time.

Fig. 10. Also.

Fig. 11. Also. If the world can find out these numbers, so let it be. Amen.

- Book of Abraham, Facsimile No. 2

Well, this should be interesting.

A little bit about myself:
I'm active in both the LDS (Mormon) and occult communities, and I seem to have gained somewhat of a reputation in the former for my activity in the latter. I would say it's mostly positive, but I don't think most of them know quite what to do with me. As for the rest, I've made some friends with similar interests in the esoteric, and I've recently started a message board for experimenting with and mixing Mormonism with practically everything else out there. (http://unfettered-mormon.org/)

I also have a blog that's been up for a while where I muse about Mormonism and various ideas in occultism (chaos magic mostly). I haven't been posting that often, but there's already a nice backlog of posts. I have it set to automatically cross post here for future entries, but you'll have to go there to check out the old posts. (http://mormon-magus.info/)

Anyway, that's about it for now.

Default Settings:
I've set all current users to the following settings:

Public comments: On
Comment notifications: On
File storage: 1 byte (effectively disabling the system except for administrators)
User icons: 20

These settings are being done manually until Matt can set it up as a blanket rule. Since we've only got ~130 registered users right now, it didn't take long.

If you wish to change your comment settings, click "Account Settings" at the top right in the gray bar. You will also find, at the bottom of that page, where to set your blog editor (wysiwyg by default; this can be turned off).

If you have questions or comments, leave a comment at this post.

Premier accounts

I'm considering what to grant Premier account holders who use their blogs regularly. I'm thinking, so far, that anyone with a full profile by the middle of the year 2008 who also regularly uses their blogs for six months following sign-up (posting at least once a week), will be granted 100 user icons permanently, along with any other paid account options we offer within a set period (to be determined), all free. The Premier account will only be offered to the first 500 users who meet the criteria. The terms of this offer may evolve, particularly the mid-2008 time limit if the site doesn't take off very fast.

- Sheta

I hope many of you will do more blogging here as things pick up. I've started crossposting here, pretty much everything I put in my LiveJournal, and intend to post more personal stuff here (which I'm filtering - you can find the filter controls on "Your friends" page in the "Access Controls" link) in preparation for the move. Deeply personal stuff will be on a "safe" filter, and other, less crucial material will be friends only or logged in users only.

Hope you'll join me.

Never Fear, I am working hard on getting my profile here up and running.  I'm just trying to word it so I don't come out sounding like an arrogant jerk or a loon. 

Patience is the watch word here.  Thank you all for your support.

I've been up since about noon yesterday (20.5 hours) working on the new issue. I've got seven more articles (and their "accessories") left to do, including final edits, code, graphics, etc. I've reached the end of my endurance for now, and will have to get some sleep. The birds (we have two very noisy Quaker parrots) waking up 10 feet away from me did quite a bit to influence my decision to just go to bed.

I'll be back later. Today is due to include sleep, finishing this magazine, and making the bulk of my daughter's Halloween costume.

First, sleep. But it's gonna be a great issue!

Next priority: Find out how to use the other nine icons I uploaded. :-|