Diseased Neo-Pagans / Witches on the Internet / Witchblr - SMT IRL, but with fatties

[Coffee Druid]

The interesting thing I have noticed is a lot of the "spell work" these Neo-Wiccans are doing seems an awful lot like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with a witchy veneer. It's using action to change thoughts or emotions.

Which really goes to show these people just need a good therapist.

That's one reason why, even though I find neo paganism to be a bit silly, it could be used in a self care or self help way. Therapy and actual medical help are the first avenue of course. But if doing harmless but silly rituals, meditating to focus, using nice smelling candles, and looking at pretty rocks helps you calm down and focus on what you want to do then sure, go ahead. When it gets into expecting your "spells" to just do things for you, then that's lazy and doesn't work. It's a fine line.

One of my friends is into this stupid stuff. She even took online courses to become an "apothecary". It just seems really dumb to me,

If you actually take in depth classes about how to grow, identify, preserve, and understand the uses of medicinal herbs I guess it's not that bad. But, exactly what legitimacy would an online course have for that sort of thing? I might be wrong, but I recall an English university offering an actual course on it. It reminds me of how Harvard (I think) has a course on being a pirate. It could be fun if you have the spare time and money to learn about skills of the past. But they don't have as much use today in real applications.

 

[Coelacanth]

One of my friends is into this stupid stuff. She even took online courses to become an "apothecary". It just seems really dumb to me,

To be fair having extensive knowledge involving medicinal herbs and wildflowers is an extremely useful skill to have even if you're not into the witch stuff.

 

[latter day taint]

To be fair having extensive knowledge involving medicinal herbs and wildflowers is an extremely useful skill to have even if you're not into the witch stuff.

Wildcrafting is one of those skills I learned that has been strangely useful.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

There's actually a prominent community of 'witches' on TikTok of all places.

Spoiler: Current Generation Can't Tell Video Games From Reality

Ladies and gentlemen, TikTok's 'Universal Cheat Codes'!

The jist is, put these numbers anywhere (password, write them on a post it, shout them out while rubbing one out) and you will be granted what you desired by the Universe(?).

Why is it that it's mostly white women that do this shit?

 

[A Very Big Fish]

Why is it that it's mostly white women that do this shit?

Raised on a steady diet of Percy Jackson books, and a desperate need to feel special I'd imagine.

 

[Shaka Brah]

Raised on a steady diet of Percy Jackson books, and a desperate need to feel special I'd imagine.

Probably more like Harry Potter and daddy issues.

 

[themotherflippin480]

If they claim to be witches, why hasnt a single one of them successfully cast magic yet? Mayhaps their pagan gods hath abandoned them

 

[LTO Data Cartridge]

If they claim to be witches, why hasnt a single one of them successfully cast magic yet? Mayhaps their pagan gods hath abandoned them

They probably do have examples of their magic working from their perspective. Most magic practitioners believe that the material results of a magical act will typically manifest through a synchronicity; things just seem to work out in a way that gives you what you want. Things which can't come about through a synchronicity, like talking to a deity, can manifest any number of ways, like in a dream, under the effects of drugs, or even having a plain old hallucination. None of them are throwing fireballs from their finger tips but for the most part that's not what they're trying to do.

 

[A Very Big Fish]

If they claim to be witches, why hasnt a single one of them successfully cast magic yet? Mayhaps their pagan gods hath abandoned them

Probably because the ol' Pagan gods wouldn't be very impressed with Tik Tok rituals. Burnt offerings are much better.

But let's be real. If Odin were real, he's too busy planning to get killed in Ragnarok than to sort out your acne.

 

[NoReturn]

But they don't have as much use today in real applications.

Even the pirate stuff could be useful if it helps you figure stuff out in a new way or gives you new ways to think about a problem.

Spoiler: Reminds me of these old tumblr posts

Why is it that it's mostly white women that do this shit?

Because you're looking in the wrong places, my friend.
(Everything below is in groups of three so I don't kill the page)

Spoiler: Lipstick ally

Spoiler: Black Witches of TikTok

Spoiler: Black male witches of TikTok

Spoiler: #mixedwitch

Spoiler: #asianwitch

Spoiler: #latinxwitch

Spoiler: Native American witches

No one gets a race-pass today!

 

[Small-arms Supremacy]

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You were really ahead of the curve posting about this guy earlier in the thread. The memes about him took off months after the fact.

 

[NoReturn]

You were really ahead of the curve posting about this guy earlier in the thread. The memes about him took off months after the fact.

The fact that I saw it meant I was energetically aligned.

 

[RazorBackBacon]

"Ash"
Bitch you fucking ruined it.

The interesting thing I have noticed is a lot of the "spell work" these Neo-Wiccans are doing seems an awful lot like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with a witchy veneer. It's using action to change thoughts or emotions.

Which really goes to show these people just need a good therapist.

So what you're saying is, it's all a cope?

TikTok: GrandRisingApp steals child, gives actually decent mental health advice

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Fucking JoJo villain out here dispensing pretty good life advice.

Harvard (I think) has a course on being a pirate.

Maybe a college education *is* worth the money...

Why is it that it's mostly white women that do this shit?

Because the black ones do voodoo and the hispanic cholas get pulled into Santeria. Both of which have built-in tenants of secrecy, by sheer coincidence.

 

[Coffee Druid]

"Ash"
Bitch you fucking ruined it.

So what you're saying is, it's all a cope?

Fucking JoJo villain out here dispensing pretty good life advice.

Maybe a college education *is* worth the money...

Because the black ones do voodoo and the hispanic cholas get pulled into Santeria. Both of which have built-in tenants of secrecy, by sheer coincidence.

I’m not sure if it’s “racist”, or just an observation but it seems like white neopagans are more “fluffy bunny” and more like nature loving hippies. At least with Wicca it’s stressed that you should harm no one. That’s not true across the board, but it just seems like non-white fringe spiritualities are more okay with curses, using bones and hair, etc.

Speaking of curses, I always find it stupid when 1.) people leave voodoo dolls or spell jars in random places in public and 2.) when someone finds it, posts it online and everyone tells them “nooo don’t open or touch it you’ll get cursed or die!” Unless it does contain bodily fluids in which case gross.

 

[Shaka Brah]

I’m not sure if it’s “racist”, or just an observation but it seems like white neopagans are more “fluffy bunny” and more like nature loving hippies. At least with Wicca it’s stressed that you should harm no one. That’s not true across the board, but it just seems like non-white fringe spiritualities are more okay with curses, using bones and hair, etc.

Speaking of curses, I always find it stupid when 1.) people leave voodoo dolls or spell jars in random places in public and 2.) when someone finds it, posts it online and everyone tells them “nooo don’t open or touch it you’ll get cursed or die!” Unless it does contain bodily fluids in which case gross.

You're correct. African spiritualism is more authentic to the brutal roots of most pagan tribal beliefs, whereas White shitlib spiritualism is mostly New Age Orgonism/Thelema draped in the trappings of the Celts.

 

[Coelacanth]

Forgot I'd posted this to the youtube autism thread. Anyone here wanna see a "witch" put a curse on someone by lighting a pussy candle and shower it in herbs, spices, rusty nails and lemon juice from her kitchen?

 

[Baloney Face]

Because the black ones do voodoo and the hispanic cholas get pulled into Santeria. Both of which have built-in tenants of secrecy, by sheer coincidence.

I’m not sure if it’s “racist”, or just an observation but it seems like white neopagans are more “fluffy bunny” and more like nature loving hippies.

Both are right.

Add to that in recent times a general culture of broadcasting everything you do on social media.

Pre-internet the only Wiccans you knew about (if you were non-Wiccan) were the ones in your immediate vicinity. Which very likely would be zero, unless you were in college or happened to live in certain neighborhoods.

 

[MLK Ultra]

These people all have faces of a bad trip. Like when you look in the mirror on acid. I'm disgusted.

 

[NoReturn]

Unless it does contain bodily fluids in which case gross.

And that's exactly why you don't pick them up. Sometimes the curse isn't real. Sometimes the curse is hepatitis.

I’m not sure if it’s “racist”, or just an observation but it seems like white neopagans are more “fluffy bunny” and more like nature loving hippies. At least with Wicca it’s stressed that you should harm no one. That’s not true across the board, but it just seems like non-white fringe spiritualities are more okay with curses, using bones and hair, etc.

I fully deserve a hat for this, but I was listening to a podcast recently (one I actually like, no less) and they said druidism was "iffy" and "Stuff like that attracts white supremacists". So maybe that perception is part of that as well. If people already feel guilty for being into European spirtual traditions because they don't want to be seen as "bad", then they'd also want to avoid anything that might make the situation worse.

 

[Coffee Druid]

And that's exactly why you don't pick them up. Sometimes the curse isn't real. Sometimes the curse is hepatitis.

I fully deserve a hat for this, but I was listening to a podcast recently (one I actually like, no less) and they said druidism was "iffy" and "Stuff like that attracts white supremacists". So maybe that perception is part of that as well. If people already feel guilty for being into European spirtual traditions because they don't want to be seen as "bad", then they'd also want to avoid anything that might make the situation worse.

Contrary to my username (played one in D&D when I made my account), I still don’t know a lot about historical or “modern” druids. But what I have seen, I don’t recall seeing much white nationalists in Druidism. The few people I have seen were pretty grounded and interested in scientific inquiry. But, I could be missing them.

If any “white” neopagan group is known for white supremacy it’s obviously Asatru or other Norse stuff. Funnily enough, the neopagans I’ve seen who ride hardest on the “woke, ban anyone who doesn’t agree with my feelings” train are also asatru.