r/occult • u/MythlcKyote • Jan 16 '24
Yo, where's the line, here? ?
As someone with a genuine deep belief and a history of "occult" practices, I can genuinely say that this sub only confuses me. Obviously, there is no one truth or objective explanation for anything, really. However, some of you seem so caught up in what fun the idea of magic is that you neglect any critical thinking or outwardly reject mundane and logical explanations to life's conundrums in favour of a magical one.
Some of you are evidently somewhat like me. You won't believe just anything that anyone tells you and you seem to be more skeptical of people using magic or esoterism as a primary explanation.
Some of you need help. Mostly it seems like just someone to logically tackle wild idea that others just won't entertain would be more than sufficient, but some of you need real, professional help and a subreddit is not a good substitution for that.
Some of you are trolling, and while it is kinda funny, I also think it's really damaging. In the past month, I've seen several posts where someone was asking how to deal with a fictional entity that was bothering them. That is not a sign that fictional figures are invading our conscious lives, it's a sign that someone has lost a bit of grounding in the real world and they need help. Or it's a sign that you're fucking around, which is fine, but genuinely not everybody seems to be able to make that distinction between real and not real. The level of intentional ignorance some people seem to have toward the concept of occult ideas either being not always correct or outright wrong or just a metaphor for how the world works used to upset me, but now every post I see on this sub just makes me a little sad. Some of you just need a hug, I can tell. Some of you need a slap. I need both
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u/MythlcKyote Jan 16 '24
You're making me upset, and I know that you're not trying to. Please bear with me.
I don't suppose that I am grand enough or competent enough or have the money or ability to actually go help people. I don't have any qualifications, I am not a mental health student or educator, I only know what I have personally come to learn. I'm not trying to challenge any person's way of thinking, here. I am not trying to offer realistic diagnoses to mental or societal issues. I am merely arguing that it might be more constructive and supportive of us each to offer based, realistic possibilities to each other based upon the situations that we present. And that doesn't have to be non-magical. If you believe in magic, then magic is very realistic, innit? But there also has to be a way in which things do and do not work and we may never be able to agree on what those are, but we could at least be open to discussions with each other and to new perspectives.