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Have you ever watched Full Metal Alchemist?

Of course. It's my favorite.

Amazing anime is one of the best anime. Well, Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, I think, is in the top three best animas of all time. But that's what I kind of reminded me of,

because you have like homunculus,

homunculi would be the proper term, and you have like chimeras.

And they did a lot of chimera stuff and full metal alchemists.

Now, when you think of like, because we know that a lot of religious text and a lot of ancient texts are filled

with allegories and metaphors and things that don't actually mean what they what you think

that they actually mean they're not face value have Have you seen anything with, you know,

researching the homunculus that may point toward that it's not a literal thing that they're

doing, but more of a metaphorical thing. You know, absolutely. And that's the thing when it

comes to a lot of these ancient occult texts where to the initiated, they mean one thing. And to the uninitiated, they mean something completely different. My problem with the whole alchemical thing, which it was a secret society. It was a secret group that was trying to withhold this information from from the masses is the the imagery that

they use and the problem with let's say that i read it and i'm seeing all this grotesque stuff and it gets

really wild bro like it gets wild like trying to find the biggest dog fallace you could find and beat a cow carcass with it

like that's a very vivid image now could that be used as a mnemonic device to remember something else

like like an actual ingredient absolutely the the idea of the homunculus as a mnemonic device as a sort of mind

palace i love that idea because the weirder,

when you do the mind palace technique, right, the art of memory, the weirder, the imagery,

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