The Cursed Shirt
In one hour from the writing of this post an ebay auction is going to end. This ebay auction. The auction for the cursed shirt.
Here's my dilemma: I really want to buy this shirt. Not because I think I would look sexy in it, or because I'm attracted to the design. No, I want to buy it because it would be worth fifteen bucks to find out if it really is cursed. If this shirt is actually cursed it would be priceless. Of course, if this shirt is actually cursed it would also probably do something horrible to me like set all my underpants on fire. Then I would have absolutely no underpants. And that would suck.
And if it isn't cursed then I just blew fifteen bucks on an ugly shirt.
OH THE MENTAL ANGUISH!
By the way, Tim, you remember waaayy too many details from elementary/middle school. I've tried to block most of those memories out for now. They're waiting to be dredged up when I'm a middle-aged man, in a therapy session.
UPDATE: I did not win the Cursed Shirt.
I was outbid by 50 cents. The bidding ended at $10.50
For you poor souls who are not allowed to visit ebay at work, here's a copy of the item description:
In my arrogance I thought it would be funny to make a t-shirt with the tarot symbol of the Blasted Tower on, however the joke is now on me because after wearing the shirt for one day I am now blind in one eye.For those of you who are unfamiliar with tarot symbolism, the Tower signifies sudden, catastrophic change. I'm not well versed in such things but I thought it would be a laugh to have a t-shirt made of the supposedly worst card in the tarot deck. It's not that I was tempting fate as such, I thought I could do with a change whatever the cost - whether the shirt provided a focus for the channeling of a psychological archetype or whether their was something more 'real' behind its power I thought it would be an interesting and fun experiment.A close friend of mine is a tarot reader and she thought I was mad - like waving a red flag at a bull were the exact words. Well I should have listened to her :(Yesterday the shirt arrived, I put it on and got on my bike because I had some errands to run in town. I thought, right, if something terrible's going to happen it's bound to be on my trip out - perhaps getting hit by a car or something. When the trip went without a hitch I was delighted and thought that I had the power of the shirt under control - it was going to destroy what I wanted - my false perceptions, false ego, false beliefs etc and I could just sit back and watch as the barriers between myself and the spirit world collapsed around me. Well what an arrogant fool.Once I had got back and forgotten I was wearing the shirt (this forgetting will be a familiar trigger to those with occult experience) my left eye started to water. It got worse and worse, turned red and I started getting the feeling of being stabbed repeatedly in the eye with a needle - it was excruciating. This lasted for several hours, from about 5pm to 10pm when I suddenly realised the shirt was to blame, I took it off and lay down, the pain receded but I have woken up today and can't see out of my left eye. I've always had perfect health but later I have an emergency appointment at the hospital :( In the meantime I think it's imperative I get rid of this cursed shirt. Somewhere along the way it has been imbued with power that is way beyond my ability to control.I don't want to tempt fate anymore, I'm afraid of burning it or just throwing it out so I'm selling it on - hopefully to an exorcist of some kind or someone with more occult knowledge than I have. This nightmare has brought to the fore of my mind two maxims which I wish I'd heeded 1. be careful what you wish for 2. Don't mess with things you don't understand.Please don't bid on this item as a 'joke' or to give to an enemy, it needs to be dealt with properly by someone who knows what they're doing before it causes any more damage.
For more info on The Tower;http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2282/tarot/16.htm ****
UPDATE-- Ok this is getting ridiculous - my eye is ok now thank God but over the last few days my main computer's hard drive has crashed, the video card has failed, I've had my bike stolen, my favourite top has been ruined and my new mp3 player fell out of my bag and got smashed and broken. These are physical problems and perhaps there is some hidden spiritual message in them but frankly I've had enough. I've put the shirt in a waterproof box and put it in the garden, and I just can't wait till I get rid of it.
FYI, the geocities link doesn't appear to work and I personally think this guy is full of crap. But there was that tingle of suspicion...what if...what if...
One other thing of note; his interpretation of the tarot card The Tower is somewhat limited. All tarot cards have good and bad possibilites. The Tower can mean change, illumination, a sudden understanding, a catastrophic event...ect. The Tower harkens back to the tower of Babel--smote by God for its arrogance.
Here's my dilemma: I really want to buy this shirt. Not because I think I would look sexy in it, or because I'm attracted to the design. No, I want to buy it because it would be worth fifteen bucks to find out if it really is cursed. If this shirt is actually cursed it would be priceless. Of course, if this shirt is actually cursed it would also probably do something horrible to me like set all my underpants on fire. Then I would have absolutely no underpants. And that would suck.
And if it isn't cursed then I just blew fifteen bucks on an ugly shirt.
OH THE MENTAL ANGUISH!
By the way, Tim, you remember waaayy too many details from elementary/middle school. I've tried to block most of those memories out for now. They're waiting to be dredged up when I'm a middle-aged man, in a therapy session.
UPDATE: I did not win the Cursed Shirt.
I was outbid by 50 cents. The bidding ended at $10.50
For you poor souls who are not allowed to visit ebay at work, here's a copy of the item description:
In my arrogance I thought it would be funny to make a t-shirt with the tarot symbol of the Blasted Tower on, however the joke is now on me because after wearing the shirt for one day I am now blind in one eye.For those of you who are unfamiliar with tarot symbolism, the Tower signifies sudden, catastrophic change. I'm not well versed in such things but I thought it would be a laugh to have a t-shirt made of the supposedly worst card in the tarot deck. It's not that I was tempting fate as such, I thought I could do with a change whatever the cost - whether the shirt provided a focus for the channeling of a psychological archetype or whether their was something more 'real' behind its power I thought it would be an interesting and fun experiment.A close friend of mine is a tarot reader and she thought I was mad - like waving a red flag at a bull were the exact words. Well I should have listened to her :(Yesterday the shirt arrived, I put it on and got on my bike because I had some errands to run in town. I thought, right, if something terrible's going to happen it's bound to be on my trip out - perhaps getting hit by a car or something. When the trip went without a hitch I was delighted and thought that I had the power of the shirt under control - it was going to destroy what I wanted - my false perceptions, false ego, false beliefs etc and I could just sit back and watch as the barriers between myself and the spirit world collapsed around me. Well what an arrogant fool.Once I had got back and forgotten I was wearing the shirt (this forgetting will be a familiar trigger to those with occult experience) my left eye started to water. It got worse and worse, turned red and I started getting the feeling of being stabbed repeatedly in the eye with a needle - it was excruciating. This lasted for several hours, from about 5pm to 10pm when I suddenly realised the shirt was to blame, I took it off and lay down, the pain receded but I have woken up today and can't see out of my left eye. I've always had perfect health but later I have an emergency appointment at the hospital :( In the meantime I think it's imperative I get rid of this cursed shirt. Somewhere along the way it has been imbued with power that is way beyond my ability to control.I don't want to tempt fate anymore, I'm afraid of burning it or just throwing it out so I'm selling it on - hopefully to an exorcist of some kind or someone with more occult knowledge than I have. This nightmare has brought to the fore of my mind two maxims which I wish I'd heeded 1. be careful what you wish for 2. Don't mess with things you don't understand.Please don't bid on this item as a 'joke' or to give to an enemy, it needs to be dealt with properly by someone who knows what they're doing before it causes any more damage.
For more info on The Tower;http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/2282/tarot/16.htm ****
UPDATE-- Ok this is getting ridiculous - my eye is ok now thank God but over the last few days my main computer's hard drive has crashed, the video card has failed, I've had my bike stolen, my favourite top has been ruined and my new mp3 player fell out of my bag and got smashed and broken. These are physical problems and perhaps there is some hidden spiritual message in them but frankly I've had enough. I've put the shirt in a waterproof box and put it in the garden, and I just can't wait till I get rid of it.
FYI, the geocities link doesn't appear to work and I personally think this guy is full of crap. But there was that tingle of suspicion...what if...what if...
One other thing of note; his interpretation of the tarot card The Tower is somewhat limited. All tarot cards have good and bad possibilites. The Tower can mean change, illumination, a sudden understanding, a catastrophic event...ect. The Tower harkens back to the tower of Babel--smote by God for its arrogance.
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