SO YOUR FOLKS DON'T APPROVE OF TEEN WITCHES 1/22/07

So you've read Silver Ravenwolf or some of the other books out there geared towards selling to a teen audience. Maybe you joined an e-group or found a teacher. You are totally thrilled at having found something you can be a part of. It's all great except for one or two things-- your parent/s disapproval.

Forget about hiding it, sneaking around, or lieing.
Any adult who tells you that it is okay to keep secrets from your folks is not acting with integrity.

As a teen, your primary job is your school studies. Education is something to be valued and it will serve you well for the rest of your life.

As an adult, you will have the legal freedom to pursue a religious path of your choosing.

radical sapphoq

PAGAN BULLIES AND WITCH WARS 1/19/07

http://www.quizilla.com/users/SwissCelt/quizzes/How%20fluffy%20a%20Pagan%20are%20you?/
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Yeah I took a quiz to prepare myself mentally to write this post. The quiz has a warning regarding the necessity of having a sense of humor before proceeding. It was a fluffy sort of quiz, short and cute. And I made the little blinkie too, using The GIMP. So if you want the little blinkie, right-click to Save to your My Pictures. I abhor hot-linking just as a few of you claim to watch the I.P. addys of those who post or attempt to post comments to your little stake of the WWW.



We now know-- through historical research-- that almost all of the folks killed during the infamous Burning Times were not witches. And we forget that we did not always know this. We ignore any of our own lack in self-esteem. We make our own petty little wars in order to artifically inflate our false bruised egos. We fling those we don't understand into a heap labeled "not good enough." We seek a unity of those who are like-minded. Community presupposes that there is at least a smathering of unity. Unity is not conformity and that is where I think some of our difficulties come from.

Teaching someone a better way to do things is not the same as blasting their name and character to Hel. We don't have that right. The vulnerable will always be among us. The picked-on, despised, unpopular, different-from-the-average kids were easy marks for the bullies in the schoolyards. We feared those who we didn't understand. Some of us grew out of that and a few of us didn't.

Ya don't care for someone's way of being-- change the channel. Surely there are more interesting options for entertainment. If you don't have the patience or you have lost the patience necessary to give a helping hand to the struggling pagan folks around you, then don't bother. You do not have to help. You might have already done that and need a break from it. Or maybe it is just not your thing. Other people who are able to and want to will step in. You are not indisposable. Downright meanness is not called for. Those of us who are able to face our own vulnerabilities squarely can show people how to conduct research, cite sources, create their own work, and get along with others.

N.B. This post is a direct result of my own experience within the past two months learning about the differences between deserved and undeserved reputations. If you are offended by anything I said, tough shit. No one forced you to read this blog. No one is forcing you to think.

radical sapphoq



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