This more belongs on /x/ than /tg/, but I decided to post it

I am not convinced of any power, of course; stranger things have happened and I could easily be stretching interpretation. That’s why I need tests. Relatively foolproof things to write in this book that are also very rare. Rule boundary tests would also be useful so long as they are not dangerous.

The next quote is Rom 12:2, “Let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think.”, followed by Matt 5:9 “God blesses those who work for peace, for they will be called the children of God.”

Bonus points if the tests do not presume or suspect an absence of power, as I fear that may offend the source of that power.

Duh, you just write "I will know how the journal works." Bam, problem solved.

>>50762892
>>50762896
Try the lottery again, only write "I will win the lottery with the next ticket I buy." Then buy a ticket.

>>50762928

Excellent, unless anyone can think of any way this can be twisted to terribleness, I will write that, though replacing "the journal" with "this journal"

>>50762955
Do you want to destroy every convenience store in the country? Because that's how you do it.

>>50762964
What if I do? It's not my country anyway.

>>50762892
>I suspect that I have recently acquired a notebook which causes anything written in it to come true, within currently unknown limitations.
so the first thing you wrote was "op is a faggot".

>>50762960
And then you will know that it's a journal. You write things in it. When the page ends, you turn it. Later you can read things you wrote. That's how journals work.

>>50762960
Let's say I'm in charge of the journal (I'm not) and I'm a total tool bag (jury's out)

1. The knowledge of the exact workings of the journal are so sublimely true that they undo your very understanding of self, driving you mad.
OR
2. I make you aware of the fact that the journal doesn't answer questions about itself by not answering your question at all.

Roll the dice, I guess.

>>50763005
>that it's a journal. You write things in it. When the page ends, you turn it. Later you can read things you wrote

Dealing with omnipotent beings through a limited medium is tough. Genies are hard enough, but at least you can hypothetically say enough words to cover ever angle, contract-style. Writing on a single journal page will never be enough to foolproof myself, it seems.

Maybe this is chinese finger-trap style and the more I try to work against it, the worse it works for me. In that case, should I use it at all? After all, I don't know if it's malicious.

>>50763044
The safest way would be to just test it with small, but very specific things and gradually climb the ladder of unlikeliness.

>>50763106
Hmmm

If you're willing, I could write that I would know your name and location. Then you can confirm or deny after I write in the notebook, followed by post in this thread.

>write smaller, paper is limited
>try to influence random numbers as a test. write a string of dice results and check the accuracy.

>>50763005
How about "I will gain new insight about the specific workings of this journal."

>>50763125
Dumb test, he just can lie.

>>50763126
Oh, I like this better than the name and location thing. I could know a string of 10d6 or whatever, noting my knowledge in the same post that I make the roll.

>>50763125
You just happened to proposition a leisure time demon summoner. I ain't afraid of no book. Do it.

>>50763170
Don't be lazy, numbers are not big, do a few hundred.

Rolled 2, 4, 2, 6, 6, 3, 4, 1, 6, 2 = 36 (10d6)

I wrote that "I will know the outcome of all dice rolls, real or virtual, 30 seconds prior to observing them." on the changing the way you think page. Hope this doesn't break my brain!

5, 3, 4, 1, 2 , 5 , 4, 1 , 2 ,5

>>50763126
But if it works like the lotto thing won't his computer shit the bed?

>>50763223
Okay so either what I wrote didn't work or the book doesn't work.

Cool.

>>50763234
So what next?

>>50763262

I guess I'll do the name thing for funsies on the same page to see how the book reacts to writing more than one thing.

>>50763231
>rolling dice on a computer

>>50763231
I would have done physical.
The next numbers I will roll are, in order: [number string]

Wouldn't even open a window to my mind via "knowing" if I suspected such a thing to be real.

>>50763270
I've collected my (you)s to avoid fraudulent posting.

>>50763179

Okay, I just wrote that "I will know the first, middle, and last name of anon #50763179 from /tg/ who has posted in my thread, and also which country they are in, and this knowledge will be freely available to me to recall at any time I want, such as when I need to post about it."

You live in Denmark and your name is T(a)ylor Jessen...I can't gather a middle name, maybe you don't have one?

>>50763277
Wait, what if he used similar wording for the name and location thing? WHAT IF HE CHANGED MY NAME AND LOCATION THAT'D BE SICK.

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>>50763340
Oowee, not close at all.

>>50763359
Alright, book bunk thread over.

Fun temporarily playing with potentially cosmic powers, though!

heres the trick to these things, you end whatever you write with "exactly to my expectations"

>>50763341
that could murder you, be afraid

>>50763371
Hey, if it worked for you personally that's still super helpful. Keep trying stuff out. Maybe it only works on you?
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Oh gods, what if it's YOUR book? Like, everyone has a book and you found yours. Cue cosmic horror, keep that thing Fucking safe.

>>50763430

...I just tore out the pages where I wrote the things from this thread.

>>50763382
Of death? Hell no. COME TAKE ME AWAY, BOOK. I'M READY.

>>50763446
PUT THEM BACK. DESTROY THEM. SOMETHING.

>>50763492
Hmmm

No!

Fuck that! If the power behind the book is a tool bag then I'm fucked no matter what. If they're kind, then I'm fine no matter what. The worst that can happen is that it loses it powers, which wouldn't that untether me from fate or something? Sounds pretty cool, actually.

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>>50763544
Yeah ok, that works too I guess.

>>50763544
>wouldn't that untether me from fate or something?

>No longer affected by fate
>No longer affected by determination, so no longer affected by causality

Enjoy spontaneously ceasing to exist because some of your molecules decided they wanted to be something else.

>>50763611
That implies that my own causality can cease from the things that make up myself ceasing to be. If anything, I've obtained the truest immortality possible.

>>50763544
Hmm.
As I understand it your evidence that this thing should have powers is so far that;
>You wrote something in it and felt clarity or changed
That is sometimes what putting out thoughts on paper does, man.
>You asked for an actual miraculous event and it did not happen
The fact that the store and machine were closed tells you nothing about this book.
>Now that you have tested it, and it didn't work as you hoped, you are tearing out those pages
Look, tearing them out won't change the fact that the evidence of "magic" here is super-tenous. You can't undo your asking for shit that didn't happen by tearing these pages out. They can't detract from the already unconvincing magic nature of this thing.

>>50763847
Yeah I mean as far as the universe goes, that's probably the right answer.

Look I just like to go on flights of imagination, okay?

>>50763847
I love when people take their "you're taking this too seriously" post too seriously.

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What the fuck is this are you people for real?

Its NOT REAL

Its MADE UP

He can't do magic irl

fuckin duh

>>50765864

Shockingly, people often enjoy potentially interesting situations that make them think and use their imagination, even when only fantastical and for the purpose of their own amusement.

You know, especially on certain boards. Boards that are LITERALLY DEDICATED TO THAT.

Jesus christ, it's like you're a teenager screaming at a bunch of adults that Santa doesn't exist.

Write that you would like to learn more about a rival or dissident of yours. See what happens at work/school over the next couple of days.