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You don't have to dumb down the terminology for us, you know.

Her: I read some books, and now I'm a Wiccan.
Me: Interesting... who by?
Her: *Look of confusion* I don't know. I don't really pay attention to that.

True, I just expected something to stick. To declare your beliefs is a big step in my opinion, something not to be taken lightly. Also, I don't know much about Wicca, so when someone knows less than me and claims to be a Wiccan, it irks me. As far as I'm concerned, some research should be done before you confidently state you belong to a certain religion. You're right of course, and maybe doing a large amount of research could have an affect on one's memory. She just seemed to take it all so lightly, saying she's a Wiccan so casually she could have been saying she's a redhead... and then that same confident person can't tell me more than a couple minutes worth of info, or answer most of my questions. Maybe she was just starting, I don't know. I take things like this too seriously sweatdrop

"WOW, the POSITIVE ENERGY coming off of this book is AMAZING. It's so WISE. it's telling me ALL KINDS OF THINGS about my LIFE."

(Something a friend of mine *actually* said in my presence, when I handed her my battered copy of Ann Moura's Grimoire for the Green Witch. I've grown to hate that book. She ended up taking it off my hands, swearing she would keep it by her bedside and consult it for all of her spellwork in the future.) stressed

also:

"My third eye hurts." (same girl)

"I *really* think [insert boyfriend here] has been following me from lifetime to lifetime. I've NEVER been able to CONNECT with someone this way. His ENERGY blends with mine SO WELL." (guess who?)

[and later when said boyfriend cheats on or hits her]

"There must be some sort of demon in him! I wish he'd let me exorcise it!"

and my personal favorite, from a different girl, while we were deep in conversation with a very angry, very lonely spirit, and he had just told us exactly why he was lonely and angry, and that he just wanted to be shown some compassion...

"Can we, like, talk to somebody else? this guy's really bitchy and depressing."

Here is a great one I heard Recently: There is an unknown operation of the Trismegistus Called the "Operation of Comets". It is the Practice of Tarot.... as a principle of understanding through Probability and prediction of the souls growth.




I mean, it sounded all interesting...except for it was factually wrong on its basis.

This one doesn't seem completely unreasonable.

"I am an anti-Semitic Kabbalist".

YHVH walks into a bar after The Flood. Bartender asks "why the short face?"

Alternately, "why the 72 faces?"

Contested. There are Theistic Satanist groups that aren't idiots.