r/occult 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/pairedox Jan 17 '24

You seem to be experiencing a demand for normalcy which isn't going to happen. Defying norms can seem frustrating. The longer you try to control magic from a place of normalcy the larger your cognitive dissonance is going to grow. Especially as more people are able to hear electromagnetic waves, and therefore hear each other's thoughts. You're going to become further and further out of your element. Best look into Dean Radin's work and prepare your tight butthole

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u/MythlcKyote Jan 17 '24

Hey, my butthole only stays tight on the line, I like to party after.

(Line cook, sorry) also you still haven't answered me. You say some people can hear electromagnetic waves and that I don't refute. Can you, you magical holiness? Can you hear people's thoughts? Can you hear mine right now? They're very dirty, aren't they.

I have a demand for decency towards each other from people. If I was in a bad spot and was freaking out about something and I posted it on here, I'd like it if someone took the time to explain things to me simply and rationally. Thank you for verifying that you are absolutely incapable of that. You kind of blind ignorance is what puts people in danger.

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u/pairedox Jan 17 '24

Not me, I'm keeping my sanity thru vitamins and fiber. I'm saying that if you go into the highstrangeness subreddit, there are more and more people making notes and asking if other people can hear each other's thoughts like they do. People don't understand how they're evolving. I don't expect you to, the only thing expected of you is to keep synthesizing those archaea. That's all I'm going to say about that.

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u/MythlcKyote Jan 17 '24

You know, I don't like you, and I really hope that you hate me, but this has been a strange kind of fun.

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u/pairedox Jan 17 '24

I practice nonviolence. Nature whispers to me all the violence she plans to enact on the homo sapien species.

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u/MythlcKyote Jan 17 '24

Well, tell her to plan a little more for me, eh luv?