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Wiccan/Pagan? That's not enough for you? You have to be some sort of elite group within Wicca to
make yourself feel special?
Let me clue you in for a moment: Even when you identify yourself as a Witch/Druid/Vampire who can
go out in the Sunlight and not die, you still won't feel special. You'll still have to look around and find
more things to identify with to make yourself feel good. All you will find is that most people will want to
be FAR away from you, and those that DO want to be around you will only want to be there to feed your
delusion that you are a vampire.
There is nothing wrong with taking a piece of truth you find in a game or in a myth and adding that to
your spirituality. There are many who think Loki is Chaotic Neutral, and that use the Advanced
Dungeons & Dragons (tm) alignment scale to rate people. Does that mean they thing that Paladins exist
here and now, and that the planes are labeled as AD&D says they are? Probably not. It's that the symbol
of the alignment made sense to them, and they use it to represent how this person strikes them in a soul
state. It's an attempt to quantify with words something that is beyond description, nothing more.
So, if you are a fan of White Wolf, more power to you, you will find a lot of people who will be more
than willing to talk to you endlessly about the games they had in the past. They will talk to you about
how the energies of the Moon feel different during a Waxing Gibbous Moon than they do during the
New Blood Moon. But when you call yourself a Wererider, expect to become persona non-gratta fairly
fast. Wake up and smell reality. Or as I heard in one game when someone was getting too into their
character "Get real, this is fantasy!"
6) "I am a Priest(ess) of the God(dess)! I know everything!!!"
This is one of those statements that make people cringe, the real practitioners that is. Just because you
have done some reading does not mean you know everything. It does not even mean that you know
everything on a given subject; there is always more to learn.
Let's take ONE area that the fluffies love to say they know everything on, the Runes.
First question: Which Runes? Elder Futhark? Younger Futhark? Anglo-Saxon? Seax-Wica (as invented
by Buckland)? Which rune set are you talking about when you say you know everything? Each of the
above sets of runes is VERY different from the others, and each of them have nuances that don't appear
in others. It's like working with alphabets, there is English, Finnish, Dutch, Cyrillic, Spanish, German
and Chinese. You can't substitute one set of alphabets for another without some work.
But let's stipulate that you are working with the Elder Futhark Runes. Which interpretation are you
using? Blum's, Peschel's (the set I use actually), the Icelandic rune poem, the Norwegian rune poem or
the Old English rune poem? If you know everything about the runes, you should know what I'm talking
about here. If you don't you need to do some more studying.
What? You are using your own interpretation, based on what the Gods told you they meant? Well WHY
didn't you say so? That's fine, but don't claim that YOUR interpretation of the runes is what everyone
knows, because it's not. Blum has a set of interpretations, Peschel has a different interpretation, and both
of them are based on the Germanic rune poems, of which there are three different sets, all meaning
different things. And that is just one set of runes, there are about 20 different runic alphabets out there
that can be used for divination, the most common alternate being the Ogham of the Druids. But saying
that you got inspired to write your own set of runes and interpret them THIS way will get you looked at
as an honest person rather than some damned fluffy by most people in the communities you want to
interact with.
And by being a Priest/ess you have to have a Church or Coven. But what is wrong with being a
worshiper? Nothing. Most people I know of simply like to go to the rituals, sing the songs, do the
drumming, chant the chants, and don't care about being the leader of a ritual. They will gladly say that
they are a worshiper, not a priest. But you get on some lists, and the fluffies come out of the woodwork
to say that EVERYONE is a priest or priestess and that you can't avoid it.
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