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word sums it up, laziness. She simply did not want to do the 10 minutes of work
associated with this to find out the answer to her question.
So, this needs to stop, along with not wanting to question "facts" especially when they
are highly subjective facts.
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?
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