I, apparently, suck.

[xp_daytripper]

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.

Comments

[xp_daytripper]

Thanks, Kit. Bad enough that I have to basically take back everything I've ever said about that, but people have to keep arguing with me and make me look even more stupid than I feel? Fuck this for a lark.

Good thing I already know I'm going to fail my finals, isn't it?

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

And it's rather doubly harsh for being stuff that's important. Finding out your wrong about little stuff doesn't matter so much as stuff like this.

[xp_daytripper]

*nods* Yeah. I've already been called a bigot once today, and now I'm a moron. Maybe by the end of the night they'll have me stating magic doesn't exist either and I'm just a delusional reality-warper or something. Since I'm on a run with the whole taking back everything I've always been taught.

Kit? You couldn't do me a favour and take Meg for an hour? I'm going to go for a walk, pollute my airspace and try and calm down.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Absolutely can do, and Lockheed will be glad of the excuse to get me away from my books as well as the chance to play.

[xp_daytripper]

Thanks, Kit. You're a mate.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Any time.

[x-cable.livejournal.com]

Hey, stop by the suite - with Meg - when you get back? Want to show you both something. Plus I still have gifts for you two. A few things for Meggan, actually.

[xp_daytripper]

Yeah, all right. Be there in a bit.

Sorry to lose my temper.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

How exactly is it important again? I wasn't aware anyone was trying to burn or exterminate any of us these days. Irrelevance to the extreme. History is sentimentality, nothing more. And if you're going to be sentimental, couldn't it at least be about something positive?

[x-beast.livejournal.com]

I take it, Forge, that you are unfamiliar with the axiom 'those who do not remember the mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them'? Were it not for history, every generation would have to reinvent the metaphorical wheel, and civilization would never progress. The progress of civilization, like that of science, consists of standing on the shoulders of those who came before us.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Axioms are not fact. History's good for an object lesson. No more reason to be emotional about things that didn't involve you than there is to be about a calculus problem or a chemistry equation. It's just information.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Newsflash, Forge: not everybody thinks the same way you do, or reacts to things the same way you do.

But hey, thanks for belittling how Amanda and I feel. Good job there. I particularly like the bit where the fact that there are only two branches of my entire family left in the world is irrelevant in the extreme.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Not belittling it - I can't change how you feel, I'm not Manuel. And your family situation isn't irrelevant - the HOW of it is, since you can't change or affect it. Being bent out of shape about it doesn't make any sense to me.

I'm not saying it's contemptible or trying to mock it. I don't understand it.