We really need a /c/magick

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      geordi-no Wiccanism as a ritual fetish or lifestyle brand, entirely obsessed with spiritualist tropes and magical thinking.

      geordi-yes Wiccanism as a philosophical belief and value system that leverages the core animist tendency to encourage empathy with all living things.

    • HiImThomasPynchon [des/pair, it/its]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      The ongoing collapse of organized religion is a positive thing, but we didn’t make anything to fulfill the needs that religion used to. Rational materialism + consumerism just isn’t doing the trick anymore, and that might have something to do with the uptick in stochastic terrorism.