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Sep. 21st, 2004 03:44 pmVOTE OR DIE
It pisses me off.
So I wore my pentacle necklace today, the one I got this weekend--it's a very nice pentacle, kind of a floral design around the edges and the star itself looks like a flower (it's a Goddess pentacle). I was, I admit, expecting someone to ask me about it. As much as I hate having to explain an entire damn religion, I figure explaining things is better than these people living in ignorance. Anyway, at the end of school I got into a conversation with this one girl who isn't really Wiccan or anything, but does practice witchcraft on occasion, so she could recognize it as a pentacle. So I said, "Yeah, I've been waiting for someone to ask me if it's Satanic. Cause, you know, the flowers around the edge just give that away."
And this kid sitting next to her, who's something of a friend of mine, pipes up, "But isn't that an evil symbol?" So I had to go through the whole process of explaining, "no, it's not evil, it's a pagan symbol of protection and the Goddess and the Satanists stole the symbol and flipped it so now it has a bad connotation." I'm there trying to convince this kid that I'm not evil and whatnot, and he keeps contradicting me, saying things like, "but maybe the flowers are to disguise evil" and other such things. I asked him if I looked like the kind of person who went home on the weekend and started cursing people, and he just said I don't know.
For one thing, I'm sick of people only seeing the pentacle and not even bothering to see the person wearing it. Cause yeah, I totally look like the kind of person who straps on black leather and goes to blood bars and shit like that. I'm sick of being alienated because of my freaking religion. It's funny enough when it's religious fanatics freaking out over Harry Potter--when I went to HP2 there were these religious fanatics spouting the word of god and other such bullshit, and my brother had the presence of mind to say, "oh, my sister practices witchcraft." They compared me to people in the psycho ward in prison--they're all, "oh, you know, I used to work with them and a lot of people ended up in there because they got involved in witchcraft." I just walked away.
And for another thing, I'm sick of people contradicting me when I'm in the middle of explaining my fucking religion. Don't you think that I'd know if I was doing evil shit or not? Don't you think that I would know what I'm doing and that it has nothing whatsoever to do with satanism or vampirism or any of that bullshit? I'm trying to explain the Witch's Code ("Do what thou wilt so long as it harms none.") and he's contradicting me. I try to explain that the Satanists stole the pentacle and flipped it, and he's all, "well that means it's evil, if you can just flip it or turn it and make it that way." Yeah, ok, that makes all the fucking sense in the world. Sorry, excuse me, I think I know more about my goddamn religion that you do.
I actually like this guy, too. He's a nice guy, he's funny, he's got a pretty open mind at times and he's smart. Not the kind of guy I'd date, but the kind I'd be friends with. Hell, Nate's more accepting than this guy was, and Nate's a pretty big time Mormon.
I'm sorry, this whole entry was one big rant, but I had to let it out somewhere. I feel better now. :-)
It pisses me off.
So I wore my pentacle necklace today, the one I got this weekend--it's a very nice pentacle, kind of a floral design around the edges and the star itself looks like a flower (it's a Goddess pentacle). I was, I admit, expecting someone to ask me about it. As much as I hate having to explain an entire damn religion, I figure explaining things is better than these people living in ignorance. Anyway, at the end of school I got into a conversation with this one girl who isn't really Wiccan or anything, but does practice witchcraft on occasion, so she could recognize it as a pentacle. So I said, "Yeah, I've been waiting for someone to ask me if it's Satanic. Cause, you know, the flowers around the edge just give that away."
And this kid sitting next to her, who's something of a friend of mine, pipes up, "But isn't that an evil symbol?" So I had to go through the whole process of explaining, "no, it's not evil, it's a pagan symbol of protection and the Goddess and the Satanists stole the symbol and flipped it so now it has a bad connotation." I'm there trying to convince this kid that I'm not evil and whatnot, and he keeps contradicting me, saying things like, "but maybe the flowers are to disguise evil" and other such things. I asked him if I looked like the kind of person who went home on the weekend and started cursing people, and he just said I don't know.
For one thing, I'm sick of people only seeing the pentacle and not even bothering to see the person wearing it. Cause yeah, I totally look like the kind of person who straps on black leather and goes to blood bars and shit like that. I'm sick of being alienated because of my freaking religion. It's funny enough when it's religious fanatics freaking out over Harry Potter--when I went to HP2 there were these religious fanatics spouting the word of god and other such bullshit, and my brother had the presence of mind to say, "oh, my sister practices witchcraft." They compared me to people in the psycho ward in prison--they're all, "oh, you know, I used to work with them and a lot of people ended up in there because they got involved in witchcraft." I just walked away.
And for another thing, I'm sick of people contradicting me when I'm in the middle of explaining my fucking religion. Don't you think that I'd know if I was doing evil shit or not? Don't you think that I would know what I'm doing and that it has nothing whatsoever to do with satanism or vampirism or any of that bullshit? I'm trying to explain the Witch's Code ("Do what thou wilt so long as it harms none.") and he's contradicting me. I try to explain that the Satanists stole the pentacle and flipped it, and he's all, "well that means it's evil, if you can just flip it or turn it and make it that way." Yeah, ok, that makes all the fucking sense in the world. Sorry, excuse me, I think I know more about my goddamn religion that you do.
I actually like this guy, too. He's a nice guy, he's funny, he's got a pretty open mind at times and he's smart. Not the kind of guy I'd date, but the kind I'd be friends with. Hell, Nate's more accepting than this guy was, and Nate's a pretty big time Mormon.
I'm sorry, this whole entry was one big rant, but I had to let it out somewhere. I feel better now. :-)
