"Tulpamancy" and other terminologies

[Guest Anonymous]

Tulpashaping?

[Lacquer]

I remember hearing that before, too. Yep. People come up with a lot of weird words when dealing with something like this. Hell, looking back at my progress report, I started to do this sort of thing towards the end. Things like "metamind". I think that was a replacement for the word "tulpa", but I'm not sure. I mean, you can see that I definitely have an abnormal inclination to care about which words we use here, considering how much I blabbed about it in my PR and that this is the second time I've made a thread about the terminologies used here.

[Vulkan]

The "-mancer" always bothered me, as someone who doesn't believe in metaphysical stuff. It just feels like people are trying to associate tulpas with magic.

[Lacquer]

The "-mancer" always bothered me, as someone who doesn't believe in metaphysical stuff. It just feels like people are trying to associate tulpas with magic.

 

I hate that people use the justification that "it sounds cool" for things like "tulpamancy" and pluralizing it "tulpae", because it gives off the opposite impression.

[Guest Anonymous]

To be honest, the word "tulpamancy" seems weird to me to.

Sure, sounds unscientific and makes it seem like I'm talking about something related to magic - which, no, sorry, I don't believe tuppers have anything to do with anything supernatural.

But it also implies that I'm somehow doing something special that makes me a tuppermancer.

 

... well, I talk to Esterina.

It's not like I do anything else in particular... I learn to hear her better and experience her projection more realistically, but that's all I do.

She lives autonomously and separately from me, and could even give two sh*ts about the usual "tuppers live from our attention"; I don't do anything for her to be able to exist and do what she wants to do, she just is.

 

That's why I sort of can't really... "be friends" with calling myself a tuppermancer.

I don't do forcing sessions with her, I don't actively do imposition, I don't do visualization training and other stuff with her in our wonderland, none of that.

She's simply there, and we hang out.

Might as well call myself a hangoutmancer or tupperfriender - you get my point. ^^

 

And even then, like I said, it still sounds like a word that describes something supernatural.

And that's simply false. I guess you could combine tupper stuff with supernatural things if you believe in that and want to, but tupper stuff itself isn't magic. ^^

 

 

Greets,

AG

[Luminesce]

It's not like there's a real word for "the action of having a tulpa." You have a tulpa. If you had to say "I practice _____", you'd say tulpamancy, but you don't. No one says "I practice imaginary frienddom" when they have an imaginary friend. Internally the term is fine, but outside the community it probably gives weird impressions sure. So don't use the term if you don't want to.

[Nageki]

I've honestly never liked the terms "tulpamancy" or "forcing", not because they sound unscientific but because of the implications behind such words. I understand how both words came to be and I use them for ease of understanding in the tulpa community, but I dislike how it sounds like we're coercing a tulpa to life whether it wants to or not (I mean like. I guess we are. But "tulpamancy" and "forcing" make it sound a lot more unpleasant than it usually is). Outside of the community I just say things like "tulpa development" or "spending time with Arro".

 

Just my two cents. I doubt the commonly used terms will change anytime soon if at all.

[Lacquer]

It's less about actively trying to change the terms and more just having an open conversation about it. Closer to food for thought than anything else.

[Nageki]

Gotcha. Guess that's what I get for skimming lol.

[NoneFromHell]

I've honestly never liked the terms "tulpamancy" or "forcing", not because they sound unscientific but because of the implications behind such words. I understand how both words came to be and I use them for ease of understanding in the tulpa community, but I dislike how it sounds like we're coercing a tulpa to life whether it wants to or not.

 

I always understood it as forcing your brain to create a tulpa, not as forcing your tulpa to come to life.

 

Tulpamancy would be the art to create sentient beings out of (basically) nothing, so it feels somewhat fitting for me, since the whole process itself isn't all that scientific. It is more like alchemy, where a lot of knowledge is based on experience and speculation, without certified ways to prove what really is going on. So I like the blurriness of this term.