Michael, JMG says he will not be arguing about the moral dimension of malicious magic here. I hope he won't mind if others ask about it, though. For me, that's the most troubling thing about this whole thing.
You have stated that the Trump binding spell is, according to you, "the largest magical working in history". Part of what you did from the very beginning, which surely helped the spell to go viral, was assure people who were worried about negative magical blowback that it's all completely safe. In the case that, in fact, you are wrong (or worse, lying) about it, then you have essentially personally made an effort to lead every participant in the largest magical working in history into experiencing binding blowback that they won't expect.
The original comment where I went into depth about what I perceive as intentionally slippery language in you've written is here: https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/15011.html?thread=460707#cmt460707
Because your stance on blowback is still unclear to me, I'd like to ask you these questions directly:
Do you believe blowback to be something that really exists in magic? a. If so, why do you think it doesn't apply in the case of bindings? b. If not, then do you believe in karma (the principle that both your intentions and your deeds in your present life will eventually circle back to affect you in your future life)? i. If you do believe in karma, why do you think that karma doesn't apply to magical workings (for that's all that blowback is)? ii. If you don't believe in karma either, then why did you reassure people that bindings won't negatively affect their karma?
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Date: 2018-04-21 03:34 pm (UTC)You have stated that the Trump binding spell is, according to you, "the largest magical working in history". Part of what you did from the very beginning, which surely helped the spell to go viral, was assure people who were worried about negative magical blowback that it's all completely safe. In the case that, in fact, you are wrong (or worse, lying) about it, then you have essentially personally made an effort to lead every participant in the largest magical working in history into experiencing binding blowback that they won't expect.
The original comment where I went into depth about what I perceive as intentionally slippery language in you've written is here: https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/15011.html?thread=460707#cmt460707
Because your stance on blowback is still unclear to me, I'd like to ask you these questions directly:
Do you believe blowback to be something that really exists in magic?
a. If so, why do you think it doesn't apply in the case of bindings?
b. If not, then do you believe in karma (the principle that both your intentions and your deeds in your present life will eventually circle back to affect you in your future life)?
i. If you do believe in karma, why do you think that karma doesn't apply to magical workings (for that's all that blowback is)?
ii. If you don't believe in karma either, then why did you reassure people that bindings won't negatively affect their karma?
--Tunesmith