Thread: Rant and Rave

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Originally Posted by Vir Sapiens

Just to play devil's advocate, self taught is not always inferior. I myself have never had a formal mentor. Most of my experiences have been gleaned from conversations with various mystics and occultists that I have encountered in my travels throughout this world. Experience and reason have taught me a great deal. I can see your point of view though.

Emma is not against self taught she is against people who read a few books and are experts, she believes in experienced to get the old skills in shape. She can't help it, she was the lady's best friend so I am told, so Emma has very strong views on certain things.

zelda is that you? lol. experience is very important, i only meant don't read one or two books, stay set in your ways and not realize there are us out there, who have worked their arses off in more ways than one, and want the truth not what they try to shove down people's bloody throats. i was not referring to any one in particular and Vir Sapiens i know of your knowledge, the lady talked about you, you had a special place in her heart.

Originally Posted by Vir Sapiens

She Devil deleted that spell I posted in the love spell section all because it called for a tiny amount of blood and that apparently went against her "belief system" and there was some kind of hubbub about kids. I recognized the liability issue inherent to a ritual where you cut yourself and so I posted this in the spell; DISCLAIMER: It is the consensus of occultforums.net that ritual bloodletting can be dangerous and should not be undertaken lightly. It is important to understand the inherent risks of infection and serious injury when undertaking ritual bloodletting. The author of this spell and occultforums.net do not recommend that you attempt ritual bloodletting but, should you choose to do so be sure to do so under the care of a licensed medical professional. The author of this spell and occultforums.net assume no liability for death or any physical/mental/emotional injury you may incur by attempting ritual bloodletting as advised in this spell.

Now one would think that would be sufficient to allay any liability issues, apparently though it is more a question of one person's belief and that that person just so happens to have the power to moderate and delete. I can respect differing beliefs but, I expect the same respect in return. Apparently though if I don't toe the line with She Devil then my threads get deleted, particularly if they deviate from her narrow world view. this sort of behavior stifles the exchange of ideas and knowledge. Honestly I'm less inclined to post things now because I don't know when I'm going to step on some toes and then that time is wasted. The phrase pearls before swine comes to mind.

This was about blood letting? I take it of one's own blood, okay I see. She has the right to make the call, and I can understand that it bothers her. We are not allowed to talk about animal and human sacrifice, but I offer my blood all the time to Kali. I am in a rock and a hard place, as I respect you and She Devil too, and have to let her make decisions even if they are contrary to mine or your opinions.

Vir Sapiens you must know you would come across this sooner or later, I don't think at this forum they have a sixteen plus tool here, we have it at other forums, but not here. We all try to add knowledge here, and we are no taxi drivers, but I have to let the individual make the call, I am thinking on how to do this so everyone benefits, I am just a bit under the weather. I think you and She devil need to have this out and come to a happy medium.

I only lock threads when it gets too heated, and I usually open them up again when asked, although I have a tendency to forget where the hell they are. I guess she should have locked it first, talked to She devil about it and worked out something, I gave her a choice and she deleted it, I thought she would lock it for now, so you can blame me also. I will be more aware in the future, I thought the no no's were in the rules, so if not looks like we need a new set. I will be honest, I see no bad thing about talking about using one's own blood in a responsible way and a disclaimer would probably be a good thing, there are donors on otherkin sites and such, so if it is one's own blood and dealt with in a responsible way, then I see no reason to talk about it. You two are going to have to work it out.

I know, I hope you too can work it out, in fact i am doing a ritual tonight with Kali Ma, sometimes I think we should have it that a kid has to get permission from their parents to come here, as it does stunt the information. I am sure you two can come to an understanding.

I guess that is up to the owner and I am not he.

my rant is it is going to be 50 degrees tomorrow and the snow is going to melt. it will be a bloody mess.

Originally Posted by Emma

my rant is it is going to be 50 degrees tomorrow and the snow is going to melt. it will be a bloody mess.

Slowly I start getting a laugh out of this. I imagine 50 degrees here, in Celsius. Not only the snow would melt, our proteins actually would too. That would be even more of a mess, so be happy your weather dude isn't from Europe and uses Celsius. You'd be advised to keep "in an oversized freezer" instead of "indoors"

My rant is the snow will never melt. Emma you got 21 inches right, it will be a mess.