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Also, don't misunderstand me. I am not saying that the whole Inquisition and other witch frenzies was
not a tradgedy, it was. It was a horrible terror that should not have been stood for by the local people (
"They Came For Me" ) and should have been stopped if only out of enligntened self-interest. No, what
I'm saying is that it's high time Wiccans stop trying to be the most persecuted group in history. It's almost
like modern Wiccans are so insecure with their own belief that they have to have the most "ancestors"
killed to feel special. Why can't they feel special because of their religion? Know what? ALL my
ancestors died, every one of them, a 100% mortality rate. But you don't see me crying about how
persecuted I am by time, do you? Stop inventing things to be martyrs for, there is more than enough
serious problems to make you feel special.
5) Reality checks bouncing.
So, you think your HPS of this group is a 40th level Werewolf who if she bites someone will turn them
into a werewolf, and you can't wait for it to be your turn to be bitten? You need a serious mental
checkup.
Let's look at a few facts:
While it is true that legends of the Wolfman and Vampires appear in mythology, there is no evidence
they actually exist. Porphyria, iron deficiency anemia, near death experiences, and some sick bastards are
all sufficient to explain why someone who goes out only at night and drinks blood from raw or rare
steaks. The rest can be explained as self-delusion. Kids with genetic deficiencies that make them grow all
kinds of body hair ( Wolfman and Gendis ) are to be pitied, not emulated. But in the past, others could
have had this rare genetic problem, and when superstition was rampant instead of scientific investigation,
wolfman stories were probably invented to explain the "freaks".
At which point, it was simply easier to go with the flow and become what everyone was saying they
were. The stories and eyewitness accounts enter the public record and we have myths of someone with
excessive body hair eating chickens by the moonlight.
Personally, if I were living in the 1400's, had a genetic disorder that made my entire body sprout hair and
keep growing it everywhere, I had been made fun of all my life because of this, I was considered a freak,
I would be in hiding, only coming out at night, eating whatever food I could steal from farmhouses (most
probably chickens) and attacking people I hated. Crud, my life is already in the toilet, why not add
murder to it and get revenge on the people who have been tormenting me all my life?
The point here is that this was NOT romantic, it was NOT good, it was NOT a fun thing, it was a
horrendous existence. If you have spent any time in school and had to deal with the herd mentality of the
average 10 year old schoolchildren, you know how cruel they can be to those who are different. And they
know about Porphyria, or they can be educated about it. How many movies have been made where the
deaf person is abused and beat simply because they can't hear; because they are different from everyone
else? And THIS is the kind of existance you want to live?
And this is what you want? You want to be a werewolf? You think it's glamorous? How many of those
myths have the werewolf going insane and killing and killing until they are killed by the "normal"
population? How many vampires do the humans hunt down once they are discovered?
How about this? Remember back in the 1968 when that teacher divided the class into the brown eyed
students and the blue eyed students, and told the blue eyed students they were worthless, to prove that
Racism is taught? (Reference)
Those kids were vicious to each other, mean, cruel, hateful and that kind of behavior would NEVER be
tolerated in most schools now, but it still goes on now, with bullies and hatred. And you want this to
happen to you? Are you out of your mind?
"Oh," I hear you say, "that won't happen to ME!" So why in the name of all that is holy are you going
around bragging about being one? Going onto lists and saying "I'm a Toreador and a Vampire! Boy
White Wolf Games got my clan right on!" Do you have to be SO SUPER special that you can't just be a
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