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There seems to be an attitude of: "I'm have written on forums and practiced magic accoridng to my deffinition for X years therefore I should try and chastise people who accroding to me don't get it".
Could you indicate to us where this pattern of behaviour is occuring, Lord Switch? It sounds terrible. I'm sure that if you were to provide us with examples people would--
Oh fuck it, I can't be bothered.
This isn't a case where someone walked in, asked some completely innocent and unproblematic question and got harshed on for not being cool enough, as you seem to be implying. If someone had turned up and simply asked "hey guys, I was wondering what you thought the world might be like if everyone practiced some kind of magic," that person would have got a totally different response. But that's not what happened, is it?
Here's what actually happened: The topic starter made a bunch of (pretty ugly) assumptions about the people who post here, about something that genuinely matters to a lot of us, and about the world in general. Those assumption heavily informed the way the question was phrased. He got called on those assumptions.
You know what? The OP didn't get it. People who think there's some kind of big important distinction between "magicians" and "muggles" don't get it. People who assume that the Temple as a community makes or tolerates such a distinction don't get it. People who imply that we think we're all special because we practice magic don't get it. People who don't pause to think about the range and diversity of spiritual belief in the world don't get it.
It's my hope that Fable/Stable didn't walk away smarting too much from the exchange, and that ze gained something from it, but I don't think anyone here has been out of order. |
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