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Tulpas are not golems because tulpas are made from the i m a g i n a t i o n, not magic rocks

 

As a more serious side note, I believe there was an article written about golems and tulpas, but I don't remember what the paper was.

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Sure, I'll accept that God can make golems -- and the clay for them too. Doesn't mean anyone else can/has/does.

 

Do you mean this article, Ranger? To a first degree approximation, it maintains the X-Files' golem was actually a doppelganger, while X-Files' first tulpa was actually a golem:

 

https://artifactsjournal.missouri.edu/2015/01/oy-vey-the-jewish-golem-and-the-x-files/

 

Or do you mean this more scholarly post, suggesting that tulpas and golems are different cultures' names for the same concept?

 

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/missionquestfpb/the-jewish-golem-tibetan-tulpa-t3549.html

 

I thought this thread came completely out of left field yesterday, but golems and tulpas are actually mentioned together fairly often.

 

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Or do you mean this more scholarly post, suggesting that tulpas and golems are different cultures' names for the same concept?

 

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/missionquestfpb/the-jewish-golem-tibetan-tulpa-t3549.html

 

I thought this thread came completely out of left field yesterday, but golems and tulpas are actually mentioned together fairly often.

 

I think it was the second one, I remember reading the part where the tupa-golem kills their master. I thought there was a supernatural episode too, but maybe it was just x-files.

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Tulpas explicitly appear in two episodes of X-Files. Up to five episodes of Supernatural deal with suspected tulpa-like manifestations, though only one of those is canonically a tulpa:

 

https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Tulpa

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/Tulpa

 

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In fiction and mythology, if someone creates life by unnatural means, their creation almost always turns on them. It's a hubris warning, that man should not play God.

 

But that doesn't preclude me from killing my host right? I mean if I'm a person or a golem, I can do what I want, or is there a tulpa/golem prime directive, such that if I intentionally try I'll paradoxically or ironically be killed myself. Hm. It's hard to test that theory.

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