Imposter Alert...

[m1thr0s]

It has come to my attention that we have a screwball running about pretending to be me, and possibly a few others whom he especially admires from this or other occult sites.

This sort of thing is not all that unusual and should not be made any more of than it is but the bottom line is this:

if you get an email from m1thr0s with any other from address than m1thr0s@abrahadabra.com (m1thr0s@abrahadabra.com...it) it isn't from me.

I absolutely never use M1thr0s, Mithros, or any other name variations...I am very particular that way.

I don't use freemail accounts and I have only ever used this one email account for any correspondences under the auspices of m1thr0s...

cheap thrills...whoopee...doesn't get much boringer than that...:o_O:

m1thr0s

[fr.novumorganum]

No, I am Spartacus!

NNo, I am Spartacus!

No, I am Spartacus!
:laugh:

[Sibylle]

Yeah, I got an e-mail from the "other" you, but since it was signed M1thr0s and said nothing of substance, I knew it wasn't from you.

[Kuroyagi]

Man that suxx. We here who know you would recognize the difference in an instant but others maybe be misled. But the copy is never as good as the original so no need to worry overly about that...maybe you guys can post links to the imposter so that we can check him out- maybe ridicule him or something...

K.

[deviadah]

Somebody lacks a life...

[m1thr0s]

maybe you guys can post links to the imposter so that we can check him out- maybe ridicule him or something...thanks K...while that would be sort of fun, it's been my experience that these types feed off of any attention they can get. It's a psy-vamp thing basically...best to withhold all manner of plasma.

If it gets serious I'll post something and we can use his worthless ass as target practice or something. I've got all kinds of talismans that could fuck his ass up pretty seriously, just for starters... I wouldn't be surprised to learn we have more than one person around here who could prepare him a nice little packet of one kind or another.

this one's been around a bit at other sites though...you can read up a little about his previous antics here (http://realityuncovered.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=413)...

I will say though...if I were Marduk Kurios in the flesh etc...I'd carve this dumbshit a new asshole in a heartbeat.

Talk about making your boss look bad...:laugh:

m1thr0s

[Copuldaemon]

I have to add to this. Don't want to but...

I am not mentioning any names but I know y'all are smart enough to know who's who at where's where so...
A certain somebody has been reaching high status at an another place and out of one thread I was approached pm style by another person asking my thoughts as to the high status person. Why? Because it didn't seem like this person was who they were to the curious one. I simply told this person to ask the VIP themselves to get an answer because I for one don't want to talk about anybody behind their backs and no, this was not the idea of the questioner but that's how such a discussion would take place.

Now I for one don't care about what a person do or don't do as long as it doesn't effect my stuff-blah, blah and I was taken back by the reasons of being approached which were that I was seemingly someone who was in a position to know the VIP mage to a point to cipher out any falsities. I'm a ham in such matters.

Another thing is, I feel that I've learned as much as I need to learn from such places and I'm glad I was given the opportunity to be apart of the collective but now I go merely out of a reason of boredom to see what's new, hoping to find one post that is of interest to spark my brain in a new direction but to know me is to know I have high hopes in everything which may be detrimental to myself for they conflict with reality.

As for someone claiming to be someone else, boy, people do have alot of time on their hands to do something like that. But if you ask me, when in doubt to hackers, shut downs, "imposters" I always look at the staff.

My thing is if there is a unified front in magic on-line communities, why have not been a servitor to stop such things. This to me is the challenge to see if such things are real or just a hive to go to when one or many wants to escape from reality.

[Kuroyagi]

My thing is if there is a unified front in magic on-line communities, why have not been a servitor to stop such things.
I just wanted to say (and I hope Im not too indiscreet here)- that as far as I know m1thr0s doesnt need talismans anyway for that sort of business- his shielding is just so strong that the rebound effect- would "get" anyone who honestly fucks around overly much. Every one who is very dedicated has it to some extent.

[m1thr0s]

perhaps. this whole superman thing is pretty silly but yeah...shit happens. while I don't rely on it I also don't deny (or restrain) it...

AF staff has nothing to do with this situation Copuldaemon. These things come and go with any occult community. There's always a few people out there who haven't got the strength of character to stand on their own two feet but imagine they can increase their stature by glomming onto others...

m1thr0s

[Copuldaemon]

no no my dear e-friend, I am not pointing blame to you as in the problem but when I'm referring to the other place, my mind was still referring to it-that's my fault however.
And I'm glad that you atleast understand what I was saying as far as the other stuff goes but again, I wasn't including you.

[m1thr0s]

My thing is if there is a unified front in magic on-line communities, why have not been a servitor to stop such things. This to me is the challenge to see if such things are real or just a hive to go to when one or many wants to escape from reality.I understand what you are saying here and have actually thought a bit about this. I have seen occult communities come under attack and pretty much lose their marbles with a lot of empty threats of magickal vengeance and the like. I think that - for an occultist - I probably have a higher reality orientation than some...possibly most...so I don't engage in that kind of hysterics personally. For a Satanist at least, the proper way to treat any threat is from the ground-up really, if that makes any sense to anybody. It's not that magick doesn't work so much as it is that there are many many kinds of magick and if your system is being hacked...you really need to attend to what exactly is occurring and thus be better armed against such attacks in the future. If you blow one asshole off with a spell or a charm, there's a thousand other assholes standing right behind him who will exploit that vulnerability just as greedily as the first one did. So it is often only an investment in stupidity to resort to high-magick as a means of defending against a low-magick assault. Your most practical magickal directive is really to identify and plug the hole exactly where it lies, tit-for-tat so-to-speak. Having attended to this, there is no reason to stop there if you feel the situation warrants more. The point is not to skip the lower steps in preference to the higher...

In general, the higher the magick, the higher the standards it adheres to so if a certain action is logically inappropriate...if it is actually harming the magician more than it is helping him...the best thing that may happen is that nothing happens at all which forces you - once again - to stop and take inventory of your baseline assumptions. It is flatly wrong-headed to use a seal of Solomon to swat a common housefly and to persist in this sets you on a downward spiral you may not recover from in time.

But this gets us into a pretty interesting discussion (in my view) that should probably not be wasted in this little announcement so much...but I do know what you are saying and I think it's an important thing to reflect upon...

m1thr0s

[Copuldaemon]

Yes, that's true but when I'd written that, of course I was going on the assumption that the suspects would be narrowed down or it wouldn't be necessary because the attack would be mirrored back to the hacker(s)-you know?

[m1thr0s]

well that can happen...there's no denying that. I guess what I am saying is that things are rarely as simple as they look. Magickal defense as I understand and employ it is tightly linked to personal authenticity and is also linked to defending - not only oneself - but the work one might happen to be engaged in. Defending something like a website, which may actually have only a very limited value anyway in the greater scheme of things, is a lot more like defending an accessory, or a luxury, than it is defending a core foundation of any kind. Yet it can still be affordable...powerful things get accomplished here for instance and there's not really a whole lot of other things like it going on out there...some...but not a lot.

It's also not going to be quite the same for everybody I think. People are locked into very different things and in some cases people will claim (at least) to be able to strike more indiscriminately than I would actually be able to do. But then that's their lot to sort out and I wouldn't trade positions for the world. Being able to maintain a very high level of receptivity is always uppermost in my own practice so that the real issue is always more a matter of how a given actions will settle out over an entire ongoing operation...one that requires a very high level of vigilance and receptive integrity at all times. Distractions come in all shapes and sizes and certainly slamming some gnat for being a jerk in general holds out the potential for being just that and no more than that...

So it all depends on many things but in general I have found (as K alludes) that I can pretty much just do what I do normally and if something needs to be dispatched it may be dispatched without my even noticing that anything went down. On the other hand I am free to target anything I wish to, although in my case I always need to find some way to make sure to integrate that kind of action evenly into everything else going on. This isn't really difficult at all, yet involves a degree of ennobling a given target to an extent that may in some cases turn out to be unwarranted. Where I turn the universe turns...that is the way of things...that is the kind of work I have taken on. The universe doesn't always need to have its face rubbed in every petty little slug I might happen to encounter. It might even challenge the idea in some cases to which I will always have to double-check my own conclusions.

So symbiosis is always at issue to some extent...like in a marriage I suppose...

m1thr0s

[fr.novumorganum]

in some ways it sounds as if the magickal defense you are outlining is much like 'assuming the mantle of authority' when working with spirits/demons and the like combined with having one's workings synchronized with the flow of the universe.

if I'm reading that right, this defense seems very natural and almost automatic in some senses, and that seems very efficient and fair, to me.

[m1thr0s]

I have spoken before of striking from your *highest house*. This is particularly important when the matter may involve a serious personal threat. More often than not people get wrapped up in personal vendettas and with these this method may have nothing at all to contribute...but then...why the hell would anybody be groveling in such shit to begin with?

I think what usually happens is that people choose those methods best suited to their combined magickal investments. If you have a lot to protect...if your work is aimed at liberating yourself and perhaps untold millions not unlike yourself, then there really is no such thing as an *isolated incident*...

but it's not really as grandiose an ethic as it may seem...a lot of this boils down to simple practical considerations...

m1thr0s