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Just got a batch of links from my mate Charlie. Seems the Burning Times is another one of those myths, like that Pope Joan. Yes, witches [1] were tried and burned and tortured, but it wasn't a wholescale genocide sort of thing. At least, not during the times courts kept records. Of course, that only goes back to the age of the printing press and doesn't cover what happened to the Druids when Britain was invaded by the Romans, but then again, unless I work out how to summon the ghost of Magic Users Past, that's probably just another myth too.

So, you're all right, I'm wrong (again) and I'm going to stop attempting to be clever and go play with Meggan.

Edit: The links, since you lot obviously don't understand the words "I got it wrong":

http://www.cog.org/witch_hunt.html
http://www.wiccaweb.com/suck_misconceptions.php
http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_burn.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/wic_burn1.htm

There.

Edit 2: [1] or perfectly non-magically adept people who for whatever reason were called witches.

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Semantics aside, aren't the people who should be insulted by being told that what they suffered was 'not that bad' long dead?

All right, so that was more or less a rhetorical question. As I see it, what you're asking for here is for people to have more respect for your emotional involvement with history. Which is fair enough, and I'm inclined to respect it - I think at the very least I've cluttered Amanda's journal enough tonight - but perhaps it would be best not to try and couch it in intellectual terms.

As I see it, what you're asking for here is for people to have more respect for your emotional involvement with history.

Mine, and Amanda's too. Amanda posts, admitting that she's been wrong about something she's long believed and has as much of an emotional tie to as I do, then gets pounced on for not being wrong enough without any consideration for the fact that it's not just an itellectual, factual question for either of us.

As I see it, what you're asking for here is for people to have more respect for your emotional involvement with history. Which is fair enough

I officially will claim this as validation that no one has any call ever to drag me out of the lab again. "Emotional involvement with history". I seriously hope you were being sarcastic.

I am willing to not jump down your throat for that, but I would very much like to know what you mean by that, Forge.

Simple - history's just information. If it didn't happen to you, why are you upset by it? I honestly don't get it. It's like Dani and her occasional crusade to take the Evil White Men to task for stuff that happened hundreds of years ago. No reason to it at all.

I am ignoring you.

Wow. For a genius, you sure are a fucking idiot.

Well, I suppose I should have expected that from the guy who thinks of himself as an entire country instead of an individual.

It's from the guy who sees himself as one part of a family, a culture, an empire. (Well, a democracy, but we still have an Emperor, even if he is a figurehead.) You should read Confucius. Maybe you'll be enlightened.

I get that - but I can't help but see that as restrictive. I know that it gives you a sense of identity, but I've always had that just from being myself. Different strokes, and all that.

I am just myself. But my self also includes the selves of the others who came before me and paved the way for me. They do not restrict me. They are me, so I establish my own boundaries.

There're times that I wish everyone thought like that.

And then I think about what we'd lose if they did.

Who or what inspires you, Mr Forge? Who do you want to grow up to be like? Or surpass?

Who or what inspires you, Mr Forge? Who do you want to grow up to be like? Or surpass?

Everyone, really. It's inevitable.

I, apparently, suck.

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