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Extreme Futurist Fest Banners

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Many of you may have heard of the Extreme Futurist Festival by now. Please use these banners I designed to link back to my new festival on your websites. The evolution is about to begin.

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Why I Left Transhuman Separatism

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[ Reposted from my blog at Humanity+ Magazine ]

Recently I was added to a group on Facebook called Cyberpunked: Journal of Science, Technology, and Society. I was given a shout-out by a fan of my music and drawn into a few interesting discussions. Since Transhuman Separatism had a cyberpunk flavor to it I posted a link the Transhuman Separatist manifesto but explicitly mentioned that I was no longer affiliated with the movement. People are wondering why I am no longer involved with the old movement that I co-founded. Why did I leave Transhuman Separatism? Have I reformed my beliefs? Have I been cured all right?

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Is Nietzsche a Religion?

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I have always had a strong distaste for mysticism. How is mysticism any different from mainstream religion anyway? You take one person with a delusion and you call him or her a schizophrenic. You take a small group of people with a delusion and you call them a cult. You take a large group of people with a delusion and you call them a religion. Where does philosophy fall into the picture and how far can one get sucked into a reality tunnel of their own design? Is it possible to enter a wonderland or matrix and trap yourself in your own religious/mystic thinking? Spending a large portion of my life in occult social groups my answer would be yes. After attending a pagan conference I decided to escape from my alterna-wonderland once and for all. There was too much mysticism at this conference and it freaked me out in a bad way. Going to this pagan event was like going to a church or temple mixed with Burning Man and I wanted to scream. The allergic reaction began only this time I couldn’t blame the reaction on being allergic to pagans. That would have been mysticism. This was not a sign. There was no such thing as a sign. I realized I could no longer blame any of my bad luck on mysticism. All of those times I struggled? They had nothing to do with me being some powerful demon goddess. I was simply struggling.

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