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Awesome, thanks. I have listened to those, I think, but I'm pretty sure I was at work at the time, so I was in and out on it.

I'll have to go back and give it a re-listen.

Thanks again.

My wife practices witchcraft, and I have begun to lightly look into it and attempted a few things.

My experiences, and what others would say is this....

Magic is not a 5th level wizard casting a fireball spell. Magic is subtle. Magic is coincidence that you willed.

You're not gonna hit the jackpot on the lottery, but you might find that you have the money for what you needed during the ritual through, shall we say, happenstance?

Intent is paramount. Will is secondary.

If you want a good primer on "real" magic, I suggest looking into Chaos Magic. Liber Null is a book to start with, and is generally recommended. That being said, it assumes a little bit of the reader, and a general understanding of the concepts is advised before reading.

Of course, it could all be bullshit and, like I said, coincidence. However, as research into quantum physics advances, I'm less and less doubtful of "random" things causing long term effect. That being said, I'm human. I inherently have biases no matter how hard I try not to.

Also: I bounced around their podcast based on subject, can you list any specific episodes they discussed this?

I've been a fly on the world in the corporate world for many industries.

No one watches their mouth around the IT guy.

On so many levels, in so many jobs, it doesn't matter what happened - it matters what can be proven.

I lived around sea level for most of my life.

Then, I went to Bozeman, MT for a night before going down to Gardiner, MT to work in Yellowstone.

I was a metal head, heavy drinker, hop in the mosh pit, feel no pain until two days later type at the time.

3 fucking beers tanked me. 3 raspberry heffeveizens at the Montana Aleworks had me stumbling back to my hotel bed hoping I heard my alarm so I could keep this YS job.

I literally drank with metal rock stars before this point in time. Alexi Leiho fucking poured straight liquor into my mouth off the edge of the tour bus (Children of Bodom front man, Lead guitar, died of complications of alcoholism in his 30s). Not endorsing the behavior (in fact, no, alcohol long term fucking sucks) but it happened. Dime and Vinny of Pantera? More than a few times. I wasn't an alcoholic, but I could drink. Youth and stupidity, eh?

So 3 beers? Damn.

I also smoked at the time. Climbed Bunsen peak in Yellowstone with some coworkers. I lit a cigarette, and got about halfway through it before I had to put it out and stop to breathe.

Like, this was your first bong hit and it was a filled 6 foot bong that you took in coughing. You might puke from coughing so hard.

What I'm saying is, altitude is no joke. You can handle your shit? Not coming from sea level of basically nothing, to roughly 1300 feet.

Though, if you're "training" for some sort of drinking contest or something, yeah, drink at a high altitude. I came back from YS, from being a "good drinker" to drinking hardened alcoholics under the table and feeling only the slightest bit tipsy. Altitude training, bitches.

Note: I can not speak for how altitude training would affect tolerance when it comes to health complications. I have no math, studies, or anecdotal evidence to suggest that alcohol poisoning (or death thereof) would be positively changed by high altitude training.

I mean, I can think of a few ways to turn a person off...

Turning back on, well... I heard about one guy. Took about three days. That being said, the author(s) aren't very reliable.

In some cases, yes.

I've run into probably half a dozen applications that request a reboot before installation, even if you just rebooted and the launcher was the first thing you ran.

Usually older and very niche software. Business shit from the AS400 era, medical applications (including modern), not generally your standard stuff most people are installing.