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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • It sounds like you may just not be knowledgeable about it, so it may help you (and your friendship) to take an open and academic view and educate yourself on the stuff your friend believes.

    Absolutely! I know very little about it and expressed interesting in being educated on the topic. I have no problem with witchcraft in itself. I would not be against participating but I told him that it would be, of course, for leisure and entertainment. My issue was him taking this into delusion, which is why I told him it to talk to his therapist about this interest. This is where his biggest issue with my statements came from. He’s been through a lot. He’s currently transitioning from F to M and it’s been putting him through a lot of stress right now too, so I don’t want to him to bear more from what circumstance it may bring from the prejudice around this. Sadly enough, I think that’s what I did with my initial reaction so I made a big mistake in handling this situation.


  • I think you are mistaking my initial disdain with his decision to explore witchcraft. It isn’t about believing in science, I don’t think I mention science once in my post but I see how it can be mistaken since I mention I come from an academic background. I have no qualms with practicing witchcraft and actually would like to participate myself, all knowing that it is just for leisure and entertainment, and it isn’t harmful. Similar to how playing a Ouija board might be. Others may believe there are actual beings controlling the position of the planchette, but we know that isn’t true.

    My initial issue was him using this newfound interest to fall into delusion and have more mental health issues by ignoring the reality around him. His biggest issue with my challenge of these beliefs came when I told him to talk to his therapist about this. I wasn’t trying to force my beliefs on him because I don’t have any beliefs regarding it, although that might’ve been what I did since a lack of belief is a belief itself. I’ve apologised and we’re okay now, I hope. It does not seem like this is harmful so I’ll be supportive of this, just as I’ve been supportive of his other personal troubles.

    Neither of us are in our teens or early twenties.









  • It appears there’s some truth to this. Threads from Kbin after the Magazine started appearing in Lemmy are now showing up there correctly, if after a bit. Even one I posted a day before the Magazine was available there. However, there are still posts from Lemmy to the Magazine I moderate that are not showing in Kbin, I have no way of moderating them. This is creating issues since there are duplicate posts (it seems to be a bot reposting threads from Reddit).