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Make your own Golem

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Make your own Golem -- comment #1 from John M. Ford

Thu, 08 May 2003 23:50:40 -0500

One of these days I will finish the tale (originally intended for the GURPS Discworld book) of Rabbi Wol the dyslexic golem manufacturer. For reasons which will be obvious to the golem cognoscenti, his products didn't work very well, but they were very nicely sculpted, and acquired a certain cachet as garden sculpture. THEME was a very popular one, MEETH being a close second

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Posted May 8, 2003 11:50 PM by John M. Ford

Make your own Golem -- comment #2 from Avram

Fri, 09 May 2003 02:19:47 -0500

I strongly suspect that Janna and I have a mailing list in common, for I sent that link in just yesterday. It can be got by googling for "golem gollum".

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Posted May 9, 2003 2:19 AM by Avram

Make your own Golem -- comment #3 from Dorothy Rothschild

Fri, 09 May 2003 05:14:14 -0500

Ooh, a project to do after I finish my thesis!

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Posted May 9, 2003 5:14 AM by Dorothy Rothschild

Make your own Golem -- comment #4 from Jon

Fri, 09 May 2003 09:31:23 -0500

Oh, good. A way to get something that can mow the lawn for me.

Do you think an art supply store will have 200lbs of purified clay? Hmm. Better go to Costco.

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Posted May 9, 2003 9:31 AM by Jon

Make your own Golem -- comment #5 from Bruce Arthurs

Fri, 09 May 2003 09:53:02 -0500

"What happens if I do something wrong?"

"I've followed all the directions correctly but it still won't work. What did I do wrong?"

"Will the golem kill me?"

"Can my golem be tried as an adult?"

Gosh, this sounds just like raising kids.

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Posted May 9, 2003 9:53 AM by Bruce Arthurs

Make your own Golem -- comment #6 from John M. Ford

Fri, 09 May 2003 10:37:06 -0500

> Gosh, this sounds just like raising kids.

True, but if the Israelites had not mastered the potty-training, there would be no Pyramids today.

Next, what happens when your Honda ASIMO has just watched -Cog- for the hundred-and-first time, and wants to know where little Accords come from.

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Posted May 9, 2003 10:37 AM by John M. Ford

Make your own Golem -- comment #7 from sennoma

Fri, 09 May 2003 11:18:23 -0500

I love the web. Oh, how I love the web!

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Posted May 9, 2003 11:18 AM by sennoma

Make your own Golem -- comment #8 from lnh

Fri, 09 May 2003 12:49:48 -0500

I like the last Q in the FAQ.

---L.

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Posted May 9, 2003 12:49 PM by lnh

Make your own Golem -- comment #9 from Stefan Jones

Fri, 09 May 2003 14:06:32 -0500

There's this guy Art Clokey who has figured out a way of creating small, friendly golems from plasticine. Too little to do useful work, although they've found employment in the entertainment industry.

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Posted May 9, 2003 2:06 PM by Stefan Jones

Make your own Golem -- comment #10 from Jon H

Fri, 09 May 2003 18:18:29 -0500

Another Jon writes: "Do you think an art supply store will have 200lbs of purified clay? Hmm. Better go to Costco."

You might want to start small, with more of a homunculus than a full-size golem. 5 pound bags of clay are cheap.
Might make it tricky to get hold of him if you need to erase the e in emeth.

I wonder if you could use polymer clay, for a more colorful golem? (Imagine a millefiori golem, 300 pounds of unstoppable force covered in a nice daisy pattern.)

Or the polymer clay-like material which contains silver; when you fire it, the binder goes away, leaving only the silver.

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Posted May 9, 2003 6:18 PM by Jon H

Make your own Golem -- comment #11 from John M. Ford

Fri, 09 May 2003 20:44:06 -0500

I can recall a role-playing fad some years ago for golems made with the ancient scriptures in one hand and the rubber bible in the other. The best (which I believe showed up in Lee Gold's A&E) was a sodium model that Evil Mr. Wizard kept in a glass tank of mineral oil. Invading gangs of player characters would inevitably smash the tank, allowing the "water" to drain away. The place was, of course, liberally supplied with buckets of actual water readily to hand. Heh heh heh, as we were all taught to say in Evil Chemistry class.

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Posted May 9, 2003 8:44 PM by John M. Ford

Make your own Golem -- comment #12 from Jon

Fri, 09 May 2003 21:53:45 -0500

You're probably right, Jon H., but I always thought Avram Davidson had the right idea when it came to golems. Besides homunculi might be at risk from our cats (altho' they could probably hide among the action figures).

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Posted May 9, 2003 9:53 PM by Jon

Make your own Golem -- comment #13 from Avram

Sat, 10 May 2003 05:28:15 -0500

We have all read Ted Chiang's "72 Letters", haven't we?

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Posted May 10, 2003 5:28 AM by Avram

Make your own Golem -- comment #14 from Yonmei

Sat, 10 May 2003 06:55:42 -0500

No.

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Posted May 10, 2003 6:55 AM by Yonmei

Make your own Golem -- comment #15 from John Isbell

Sat, 10 May 2003 17:29:22 -0500

I've created a Golem, but all he does is sit in the White House directing policy. What should I do?

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Posted May 10, 2003 5:29 PM by John Isbell

Make your own Golem -- comment #16 from Jon

Sat, 10 May 2003 20:11:46 -0500

Avram: Also no (yeah, yeah, I know...)

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Posted May 10, 2003 8:11 PM by Jon

Make your own Golem -- comment #17 from YAHrah dahVAH, W.C.W.P.

Tue, 28 Oct 2003 17:50:50 -0500

Making golems or homonculus...ect., seem GOTHIC to Me. It not something Sumer-Hebrews or those whom follows the teachings, of the Sumer-Hebrews Kings and Prophets, should be doing.

Exodus 19:21 or vice versa, states "suffer not for a witch to live." Witchcraft, is PROHIBITED, by the DEVINE LAWS, of YAHVAH-ALLAHA.
Anyone engaging in sorcery, should be PUT TO DEATH !!!

I feel very strongly, that, there's a great different betwixt the American Jew culture and The Sumer-Hebrews, of the biblical days.

Thank you,

YAHrah dahVAH, W.C.W.P.
salvation20@yahoo.com
son_of_kingdavid@yahoo.com
10-28-03 Tues. 17:45GMT

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Posted October 28, 2003 5:50 PM by YAHrah dahVAH, W.C.W.P.

Make your own Golem -- comment #18 from Tina

Tue, 28 Oct 2003 18:27:05 -0500

YHGMTPO"ML". HTH. HAND.

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Posted October 28, 2003 6:27 PM by Tina

Make your own Golem -- comment #19 from klw

Fri, 26 Dec 2003 16:08:59 -0500

How do you distinguish between this (golem making) and sorcery, a pursuit which is heavily denounced in both the Old and New Testaments? It seems this phenomenon is either some innate ability of the human being, or it is made possible from some external entities/powers that must be evil and impure if it is so forbidden. There was a recent story of Egyptian funerary figures known as shabtis in the Bergen museum 'moving' of their own accord. These can be seen as basically the Egyptian version of a golem. They were inscribed with "spell" number 6 from the Egyptian Book of the Dead that basically said if work was required of the deceased in the land of the dead, that this shabti should take the deceased place. And there is the well documented "Conjuring up Philip" phenomenon, where a group of parapsychologist types got together and invented a ghost. After a few months of trying to contact this invented ghost, they apparently succeeded. The table moved and rapped in response to their questioning. Since it was focused on the table it seems the table became a golem at the prompting of their collective Willpower. The Egyptians and these parapsychologists would not be considered as having the blessings of the Judeo/Christian G-d. Yet they seem to have had success creating golems as well, are they now sorcerers and damned? Or are they still just exercising an innate human ability that is morally neutral?

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Posted December 26, 2003 4:08 PM by klw