Be open minded, help thouse who comes to you in best you can. No teacher give up on their students after a day or two of shcool. They go on and help them find their ture potential, no matter how imaginative the students are.
Well for me its hard to do magic when your brought up in a christian home(I'm stil christian too) that's against it. My mom is 73 an old school. lol I don't no how to get around it I'm trying to look for my own place but its hard.
Re: too many wannabes on here By: AwakeTooLong / Knowledgeable
Post # 14 Oct 06, 2011
To want to be something is not wrong.
Perhaps you should consider that the modern conception of magic wherein "black magic" is so prohibited is a rather new invention, and born of older methods wherein magic used to smite your enemies was a part of most practitioners' understanding.
If there is a whole spectrum of color within magic and you only look at the "white" side, you only perceive half of the entirety of magic. If you view the "black" side as well, even if you do not practice it, you develop a better understanding of the nature of all things.
To "wannabe" understanding of this seems noble.
However, wanting to run around and proclaim yourself the spooky master of the underworld and all things evil... Ah, well, that suggests a developmental problem. :P
Re: too many wannabes on here By: Nekoshema / Novice
Post # 16 Oct 07, 2011
true with the colour, but to be fair, it's a good guideline when starting out, after about a year [two at the most] they should have determined what type of magic they want to use, and the fact that magic isn't colour coated and they should stop.
magic has no colour. it is about balance. take me i am pagan..........
Paganism is a nature baised religion, Since nautre-based religions veiw the concept of daity in a more polytheistic and/ or pantheistic way, the separations of creative / distructive forces are not as well- defined. the deities take on aspects of nature or human idea, not just one omnipotent being, we have deities of love, war, beauty, the sun, the moon, the sea, and lots more. Each deity inherently contains both the creative and destructive forces. it is though the many aspects of the gods and goddess that we come to understand the universe and ourselfs. to shun the aspect we fear inhibits our growth
first here is what a wannabe is... It is someone that wants to be inside a group, but the people inside that group dislikes them and do not accept them. They keep on trying until more wannabes build up to form a mirror group of your group.
I don't see The Dark Arts as wannabes, because since you don't do it (as far as I saw) they are not trying to be in your kind of witch group.
The reason that people go for The Dark Arts because they think it is cool, they are most likely in their teen years, and think it is easy. Those are the type of people that would message a random person on here to learn The Dark Arts, and to that of someone that doesn't know anything about it like you.
Surely a 'wannabe' is someone 'who wants to be'. Isn't that 'ambition'? I find it juvenile that a person looks down on others who haven't reached the same level as them selves. Do such people consider their own children 'wannabes'? Given that children are 'wannabe' adults? Really, such people could check their own responsibility to learners, and remember that everyone starts somewhere, just as they did. As the origimal post catergorises "spellcraft/witchcraft/wicca" as one thing, perhaps they are not as far along their path as they might believe themselves to be. So, in answer to the original question, yes, it is just you!
Re: too many wannabes on here By: Davorus / Novice
Post # 20 Oct 09, 2011
wanna be, someone maybe coming to this site with a misinformed intent to what magick is really all about maybe and as adult or more experienced in what should be done we should try and guide them in to the right place, saying that yes we do get a lot of people who don't want to learn the truth and want to stay in the place of fantasy so patients I have found in my short time here is a big must. I have also learned the is no color but that which the user's intent is when casting, cursing or what ever may be done. Like before coming on here I was told blood magic was a big no no, completely evil and someone will hunt me down for using it. Well that's my thoughts on this thread and what Rashnu said on the first page sums it all up for the original question asked.
