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7 votes
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Elon Musk, stoned, with Joe Rogan
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A robot shoots me when I get shot in Fortnite
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Dragons made of citrus: Every year, the town of Menton, France, turns lemons and oranges into giant sculptures depicting windmills, dragons, and more
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The Pulaski Yankees will celebrate Agriculture Night by auctioning off a real, live cow
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How do you pronounce "NES"? Nintendo throws a wrench in the debate
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Yes, Hellmann’s has frozen over. Mayonnaise ice cream is here.
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Sacha Baron Cohen puts Dick Cheney-signed waterboard kit on eBay
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What happens if someone catches the Loch Ness Monster?
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To offset the serious meta posts lately, here's some fluffy kittens
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Man goes to prison for attempting to hijack web domain at gunpoint
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Grimoires: Building the collection I wanted as a teenager
As a pre-teen and teenager I was the bookish kid who was always reading, and, like many a kid, love of Mythology lead into a love of fantasy, and the idea of the direct application of "Knowledge...
As a pre-teen and teenager I was the bookish kid who was always reading, and, like many a kid, love of Mythology lead into a love of fantasy, and the idea of the direct application of "Knowledge is power" that magic offers in those tales was intoxicating. As I got older I branched out into history, which became a passion and my reading has been mostly in that realm.
Then I got Grimoires: A History of Magic Books by Owen Davies as a gift. As various magical or texts on magic, Davies outlines the difference, came up I tried to find them. Naturally, many are public domain, and can be found for free on Project Gutenberg but they can also be found fairly cheap for sale in print. So, I order a couple, and had a blast flipping through them, so I got a few more. Now I have a nice Occult bookshelf, and I smile because teenage me would be so proud.
However, I've also picked up a number of other History books on the history of the belief in magic, and the crossover between the men who advanced science and learning, and those who dabbled and wrote about magic is quite staggering, but I guess not surprising. Both are born from the desire to control and change the environment we live in, and so, in a lot of ways the history of magic is part of the history of science.
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Apparently snow lepoards bite their tails more than you'd think
@payoletter: snow leopards biting their tails: a thread
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Drone Sweaters - Clothes for cold drones
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A GoFundMe for the xenophobic lawyer whose meltdown went viral sends a Mariachi band and taco truck to his office
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Ronaldinho reportedly will marry his two fiancees in August ceremony
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New York parents sue 30-year-old son who refuses to move out
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How a Star Wars crab became a Federal agency’s Twitter avatar
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They didn't flip: Ukraine claims dolphin army captured by Russia went on hunger strike
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How to become TripAdvisor’s #1 fake restaurant
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Arizona woman accused of sending 65,000 text messages after first date with man she met online
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Man allegedly used change of address form to move UPS headquarters to his apartment
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France seizes France.com from man who’s had it since ‘94, so he sues
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