Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.magick.tyagi,alt.magick.chaos Subject: Re: Question concerning Chaos Magic References: <26UP9.57723$Ik.1905470@typhoon.sonic.net> <3E102139.5985E1B6@slip.net> From: trepsichore Reply-To: spam@luckymojo.com User-Agent: nn/6.6.0 Lines: 20 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 01:23:41 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.242.18 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1041557021 208.201.242.18 (Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:23:41 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 17:23:41 PST Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.tyagi:35604 alt.magick.chaos:41442 "Anthony" writes: >"Fr. A.o.C." wrote in message >> to mean "factual", but we're talking about a philosophical maxim, not a >> physics equation (although the line gets blurry eventually...) Another >> way is taking it to mean True (with a capital T) -- as in "ultimate" >> Truth, the One and Only True WayT, the Secret Divine Wisdom, the Meaning >> of Life the Universe and Everything. >Then wouldn't the Ultimate Truth be that there is no ultimate truth, thus >invalidating itself once more? the operating philosophical mode of Khaos Mayjik is that Ultimate Truth is irrelevant to the experience of the mage. it is related in an epistemological way to Nihilism, as I've tried to explain, but there is little attempt to derive a transcendental knowledge set from the data that the mayj obtains -- instead, it is considered subjective and particular to hir experience, relevant inasmuch as she can discern its meaning in context and from the standpoint of hir Set. beevu3r