Amanda Sefton (
xp_daytripper) wrote2005-05-25 08:35 pm
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I, apparently, suck.
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.
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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Everyone, really. It's inevitable.