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What Makes a Fluffbunny?
written by Daven
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More and more recently, there has come a term that is making more of the
serious-minded Pagan sit up an take notice: Fluff Bunnies.
There are other names, Playgan, Wicabes, Wiclets, witchypooh, **New Term** Wictim
(defined as a Wiccan Victim, or one of those who thinks the Inquisition is still going on)
and so on, all of which do the same basic thing; All these names reveal a deep-seated
dislike for those who take the religion of Wicca and Paganism less than seriously.
What are the symptoms of this dread condition, you may ask?
1) Aversion to research.
This is probably the most serious symptom. When this symptom manifests itself, the
afflicted person tends to read something in a popular book, email list, newsgroup or
website and take it as the literal truth, without checking facts. It's worse when combined
with blind trust of the so-called "elders" who have silly names like "High Lady
Stuffandnonsense" or "Lady MoonroseHaven". Their names literally sound like they
came out of a Pagan Name Generator and are begging for ridicule.
Basically, Lady Stuffandnonsense decides to write an article about the healing qualities
of Foxglove and throws down on the article all that she knows about the plant, without
ever bothering to look anything up. Thus, you have an article that talks about the
soporific qualities of Foxglove, how beautiful the flowers are, and how magically it can
be used to help the person sleep. A tea may be included in the recipe to allow the person
reading it to have a good night's sleep.
Here's the problem: Foxglove is a poison. It's known as Digitalis, and is used in minute
qualities as a way of preventing heart attacks. Does High Lady Stuffandnonsense know
this? She may, but since she doesn't write it down, the people reading this post don't
know it. Do they look up the facts on this plant? No, they trust the information Lady
Stuffandnonsense has put down and would never dream of questioning it. What happens?
Someone who actually knows what Foxglove is who reads the same list, takes it upon
themselves to correct many of the misconceptions and inaccurate statements in the
article, including that it's a poisonous substance and should only be used by someone
who knows what they are doing. The other people who are reading this list, who have not
seen this person post before, get upset at the supposed "attack" of the second poster upon
Lady Stuffandnonsense and decide to make a few dozen (thousand) cutting remarks
about the second poster.
Now, at this juncture, Lady Stuffandnonsense could dissolve the entire problem by
checking with a few ***** pharmacopoeias or herbals, and discovering that the second
poster is right, correcting her own facts and moving on. Is this what happens? No. That
would require work.
It's far easier for High Lady Stuffandnonsense to write another article making
disparaging comments about the second poster, and to cite her years of knowledge that
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