(inspired by friends’ dating app woes)
She didn’t just think she was a witch, which I was mostly OK with because religions are weird and stuff, so I thought as long as it doesn’t reach the realm of life-affecting problems, it’s a non-issue.
She also believed she had friends who were werewolves, she could do magic, the date of your birth determined your personality, because a planet was in retrograde good things were about to happen, vampires started the Red Cross so they could always have access to blood, and, oh yeah, along with her two mortal parents she also had an incubus second father and that she was half-demon and that’s why she liked sex when she wasn’t supposed to.
That… That girl needed some serious help, but claimed that she was well-adjusted and fit to help other people instead. Because, of course, she was also an empath…
She downloaded Tiktok into her brain. Big mistake.
Knowledge passed down from the ancient days of Tumblr…
She fell prey to one of the classic blunders.
Never go in against the Red Cross when blood is on the line?
Inconceivable!
and that’s why she liked sex when she wasn’t supposed to.
At the risk of shallow psychoanalysis I think we found the root cause. She was taught sex is a bad thing so she constructed an elaborate fantasy world to justify it
That was one part of a whole that a never got anywhere near finding out the entire story. With that and her stories of being damn near abandoned as a child, it really worried me as to what might have happened to her that she never felt free enough to tell me.
I tried to explain, “Like, no, that’s normal.” And she was just insistent that it was not. I didn’t know about the believing herself to be half-succubus until later, but when I found that out, it kind of clicked into place that something happened to her and she just cannot believe that a normal person should enjoy sex the way she does. And that is… Really troubling.
As someone with a twin with a completely different personality the idea of horoscopes has always been sily
If you think horoscopes don’t make any sense, you’re really going to be boggled by its sister, numerology.
Well to be fair your post does have 10 likes at the moment
That’s amazing!
That’s so much to unpack
What was she of you? Classmate? Friend or what?
Started out as co-workers in a university work-study job, had a short relationship.
That’s a day negative 10 deal breaker. I can be casual friends with a “witch”, but being in a relationship means I have to pretend I believe that stuff, and no one can keep up an act that long.
It’s as fake as any religion. I mean it is kinda one, I think. I have very little awareness of it, I’m pretty sure witches and wiccans are different, but it’s all beyond baloney, so I don’t really care about the subtleties.
I mean… You don’t have to believe someone else’s beliefs to be in a relationship with them. It happens all the time. I work with a “witch” and she’s like every other normal religious person. Wears a necklace, has a thing on her door, goes to work…
You don’t have to pretend anything, I know quite a few couples where one partner is an atheist and the other one is a believer.
But how can you respect someone who legitimately believes in magic?
they’re also human
Love is a chemical process, you can’t really choose who you fall in love with. There are all kind of relationships, not all are based on respect.
Attraction is a chemical process, long term relationships without respect are doomed to failure
Don’t forget that believing in a reality beyond the senses is a religion too. All atheists are solipsists.
I am an atheist and I am not solipsistic, therefore not all atheists are solipsistic.
I don’t believe you’re an atheist, because you believe in reality. That’s religious thinking.
If you want to believe that belief in external reality to your senses requires a similar leap of faith that belief in unprovably extant supreme beings requires that’s fine, but that’s not what the word atheist means. That’s not how people use it. They don’t use it to refer to people who refuse to believe in things requiring faith (as in believing in something that can’t be proven). It is used to refer to people who don’t believe in gods.
Reality is god to realists. That’s what they believe in. They worship it, they obey it, they demand others have the same respect for it. It’s theism.
No.
Yes.
This is a win for me, spell me up mommy.
Never Stick Your Dick In Crazy
Have Them Peg You Instead
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Really depends on her definition of being a witch. For the most part, hell yeah, I’m on board.
I couldn’t possibly pretend to respect someone that thinks they can do magic and is almost certainly into homeopathy and astrology for very long, but you do you.
Now, the girls who are like “I just want to make conservative Christians mad,” that’s something to explore.
Deal breaker for me. Real or no, I don’t fuck with magic.
It’s the magic that turns you off? Not the crazy? Don’t fuck with crazy.
I mean, both? Both is good.
Well I guess it depends on if they were calling themselves a witch because they’re Wiccan, or if it was genuine delusion
Is there really a difference?
It’s a spectrum, Wicca is somewhere between believing in the healing power of certain plants (certainly true) and full on “I can make spells that can hurt you because I watched The Craft.”
I recently went to a “Witchcraft Fair” and there were so many people from every little niche thing. Tarot readers, crystal girls, candle spells and intention prayers, sex magic, literally dozens of different specific ways people did their thing.
Is the “healing power of certain plants” about how like yarrow contains a natural antibiotic and you can chew it and put it on a wound if you don’t have access to first aid … Or about how overpriced arnica salve will cure your bad feelings?
Certain plants really do have healing powers, but in my experience every time someone is talking about it they’re just trying to sell snake oil.
Tell me more of this “sex magic” you speak of
sure. there are secular witches and they are generally accepted.
you probably can’t be a secular Christian
It’s all of a kind to me whether someone is into crystals or crucifixes. Honestly, I prefer the crystals folks. They’re less likely to actively and vocally prefer my non-existence. But to be honest, I really don’t see a difference between casting a spell to get a job and praying to jesus to get a job. The more it becomes a major focus of one’s existence, the more problematic it is, but I suspect that both numerically and by percentage, there are fewer fundamentalists on the witchy side.
Wiccans are deluded though.
Most reasonable people have decided that everyone gets to have an unsubstantiated belief system that goes into the “Religion” slot and it’s not a big deal as long as no one makes it a Big Deal. Reasonable people have decided this because trying to proactively eliminate it is way harder and god-awful than just letting it ride (once again, as long as no one makes it a Big Deal).
This was the best fucking ELI5 of religion I’ve ever read. Bravo.
Reads like Douglas Adams
As in an esoteric freak? Then yeah, dealbreaker.
I support her right to identify as whomever she wants to be.
Also, that’s a really cute outfit.
I have yet to see a witch call someone a slur or cut me off in traffic so it’s all good
Don’t you mean Sandwich?
Because of the aluminium foil…
This meme is more “when you realize she’s serious about being an MMA fighter” but still absolutely not a deal breaker.
As a ceremonial magician myself, I see this as a plus.
What happened to sexy sci fi?
Being a witch is a green flag. It probably means she’s woke
Still not particularly impressed by someone engaging in magical thinking
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