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 Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:05 pm
I am a member of four guilds. One of them is just a role-play guild that a friend of mine forced me into, but this isn't about that one. I am talking about The Witchcraft Guild, Magick and Psionic Research Institute and Learning Center, and The Gaian Coven of Modern Day Vampires. I have posted this message in all three of these guilds. These guilds cater to very similar people, and have quite a few things in common (widespread belief in otherkin, a belief in psychic energy, and many others). Yet strangely, these guilds have little to do with each other socially, and in some cases they seem downright malevolent toward each other. Why not work together? Well, it seems that the psions of PRILC detest "energy leeches." It seems that the witches of The Witchcraft Guild are too good to take a look at PRILC, and TGCMDV isn't interested in ritual magick. At least, that's the impression I get from their lack of cooperation. Take this situation for example. I was browsing the Gaian Coven for Modern Day Vampires one evening, when I noticed a topic about "blinking." For the sake of the other two guilds, here is an explanation of blinking. Blinking is when one manipulates one's energy in such a way as to move at insanely fast speeds. The concept is that you can blink, and the person will be long gone. To tell the truth, the vampires were helpless. Someone wanted to know how to do it, but no one had any suggestions, aside from getting into dangerous situations in order to force it. This annoyed the Hell out of me. I had seen a technique described in PRILC that is supposed to increase one's speed. They also talk about chronokinesis all the time. Why not help them? Even the Witches Guild I found had spells for this. Surely if the guilds got together, they could find a way to make it work. That is what I propose. Not just on Gaia, either. I suggest that the communities work together. There are already many vampires who practise magick, and all psis manipulate energy. Psions could learn a great deal from vampires, I have found. Please, I ask you, for the advancement of your learning and for the understanding of other's culture, to form a Unified Path. All it takes is for you to talk to each other. Communicate, damnit! xd Start at the websites I will give you, then visit each other's guilds. Send some PMs, even if it's just to say, "Hi! I have nothing against you. I don't stereotype you, so please don't do this to me." Please take a step on the Unified Path. Here is where you can start: Psipog.netSanguinarius.orgWitchVox (Thank you to TanyaDawn for the help.) I'm going to get a lot of hatemail, and perhaps be kicked out of three guilds in one day, but it's worth it.
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 9:45 pm
It seems I have to explain the stereotype thing. Here I go.
I am a vampire. How did I first learn what I am? By wiccans. They told me that I was something broken, and that I could be fixed. I starved. I nearly died. Not a good thing. If they had known about the vampire way of life, they would not have given me (what I believe to be) false information. I don't want such a thing to ever happen again.
That is what I mean about stereotypes. Those particular witches didn't know squat about us, and I ended up paying the price for it. I just don't want it to happen to someone else, you know!?
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:02 pm
Asa_Heber Well, it seems that the psions of PRILC detest "energy leeches." Eh? By "energy leeches" I'm guessing that that was some kind of reference to energy vampirism? I have nothing against them. As for the three Guilds that you mentionned? I'm actually a member of two of them. I'm not a member of the Witchcraft guild, as I do not practice Witchcraft...Nor do I know much at all about it.. sweatdrop Though, that does not mean that I'm not willing to learn. It just means that I know nothing at all about Witchcraft, nor do I practice it.
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 10:54 pm
It's difficult when I'm already a mod/member of two guilds, and a member of a couple others, devoted to these topics. I would love to promote concord between all these groups for the sake of all, but between school, work, and modding, I don't think I would be able to play that much of an active role in all this. It sounds that you have a good start, though. I'm more than willing to invite a cultural exchange and get some information shared.
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Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 11:00 pm
Well Asa, here I am.
I decided to join up and so far I'm glad I did!
Thanks again for the info!
[/ biggrin ]
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:40 am
Okay, cool. At least the people here aren't pissed at me. Thanks, guys.
All I wanted to do was get people to work together, yanno? But they get all defensive... eh... I guess I should have done more research. I was tired as all Hell last night. I wasn't thinking straight, you know?
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 11:42 am
Asa_Heber Okay, cool. At least the people here aren't pissed at me. Thanks, guys. All I wanted to do was get people to work together, yanno? But they get all defensive... eh... I guess I should have done more research. I was tired as all Hell last night. I wasn't thinking straight, you know? Eh, no problem. I just thought that it was a little funny how you said that we here at PRILC have a strong disliking for "energy leeches", yet in the Otherkin subforum we have a thread where HLVs are encouraged to chat about whatever. But yeah, even if most of the others here couldn't stand the "energy leeches", as you put it..(Which I highly doubt that they have any real issue with them..but that's just a personal opinion..)..There are always exceptions to every rule. 3nodding But, there are other Guilds out there too. Ones that deal with similar topics but have gone without mention on your list. True Form, Otherkin United, ((On The Inside)), The Gaian Psychics Guild..There are plenty of Guilds out there if you really really looked. True Form, Otherkin United and ((On The Inside)) are all guilds dealing with Therianthropy and Otherkin. The Gaian Psychics Guild?..Well..That just speaks for itself. ..Though the concept itself may be idealistic..Wouldn't be interesting if there was ONE MASSIVE GUILD for everything paranormally related?..Though..With so many people..Things would undoubtedly be chaotic..The forums would be constantly flooded with posts..The whole Guild could possibly have an activity level to rival the Chatterbox at times because of all of its members.. eek ..That's kinda scary.. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 12:20 pm
Yagi Tessil Asa_Heber Okay, cool. At least the people here aren't pissed at me. Thanks, guys. All I wanted to do was get people to work together, yanno? But they get all defensive... eh... I guess I should have done more research. I was tired as all Hell last night. I wasn't thinking straight, you know? Eh, no problem. I just thought that it was a little funny how you said that we here at PRILC have a strong disliking for "energy leeches", yet in the Otherkin subforum we have a thread where HLVs are encouraged to chat about whatever. But yeah, even if most of the others here couldn't stand the "energy leeches", as you put it..(Which I highly doubt that they have any real issue with them..but that's just a personal opinion..)..There are always exceptions to every rule. 3nodding But, there are other Guilds out there too. Ones that deal with similar topics but have gone without mention on your list. True Form, Otherkin United, ((On The Inside)), The Gaian Psychics Guild..There are plenty of Guilds out there if you really really looked. True Form, Otherkin United and ((On The Inside)) are all guilds dealing with Therianthropy and Otherkin. The Gaian Psychics Guild?..Well..That just speaks for itself. ..Though the concept itself may be idealistic..Wouldn't be interesting if there was ONE MASSIVE GUILD for everything paranormally related?..Though..With so many people..Things would undoubtedly be chaotic..The forums would be constantly flooded with posts..The whole Guild could possibly have an activity level to rival the Chatterbox at times because of all of its members.. eek ..That's kinda scary.. sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 5:42 pm
Quote: But, there are other Guilds out there too. Ones that deal with similar topics but have gone without mention on your list. True Form, Otherkin United, ((On The Inside)), The Gaian Psychics Guild..There are plenty of Guilds out there if you really really looked. True Form, Otherkin United and ((On The Inside)) are all guilds dealing with Therianthropy and Otherkin. The Gaian Psychics Guild?..Well..That just speaks for itself. Hey, I'm only one guy. Quote: ..Though the concept itself may be idealistic..Wouldn't be interesting if there was ONE MASSIVE GUILD for everything paranormally related?..Though..With so many people..Things would undoubtedly be chaotic..The forums would be constantly flooded with posts..The whole Guild could possibly have an activity level to rival the Chatterbox at times because of all of its members.. ..That's kinda scary.. I don't know if that woould be idealistic... Wouldn't it stiffle the small differences that allow the different guilds to create techniques seperate from each other? There wouldn't be as much 'natural selection' of techniques as there could be. Then again, it would have it's advantages.
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 6:14 pm
Combining would stifle creativity... but staying apart would create ignorance of developed solutions.... ^ ^ well then. I propose a coalition of paranormal guilds, to spread all our knowledge together. ^ ^ sweet...
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:00 pm
well we have an otherkin thing for vamps...
and we haven't had enough witches here...
but I actually had no idea the other guilds existed sweatdrop
And after having your girlfriend almost being turned to a vamp cult and being forced to drink human blood... you kinda try not to talk with vamps you don't know stressed
well.. I guess we need to check out the other guilds and atleast put their guild names in our resources...
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:12 pm
LoBo_23 And after having your girlfriend almost being turned to a vamp cult and being forced to drink human blood... you kinda try not to talk with vamps you don't know stressed ..Vampire Cult?..You mean that them things actually exist? o.o;; What exactly do these Vampire Cults believe in? The closest thing to a Vampire Cult that I'd ever heard of, was this group of teens in Wisconsin who would actually hold people at gunpoint and force them to stay put while they cut them and draw blood from them..It's pretty scary stuff. But, people like that are the few who ruin it for the many. In this case, those cultists who use the word Vampire to identify themselves, have pretty much ruined it for the HLVs(who aren't necessarily cultists, as HLVs can come from any background..but HLVs still sometimes use the word Vampire to identify themselves) since most people will think of the dangerous folks upon mention of the word Vampire..Either that, or the lifestylers/LARPers..But that's neither here nor there. But anyway..At the end of the day, I guess all it takes sometimes, is a small group of people and an entire population can earn a bad reputation..
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Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:20 pm
Yagi Tessil LoBo_23 And after having your girlfriend almost being turned to a vamp cult and being forced to drink human blood... you kinda try not to talk with vamps you don't know stressed ..Vampire Cult?..You mean that them things actually exist? o.o;; What exactly do these Vampire Cults believe in? The closest thing to a Vampire Cult that I'd ever heard of, was this group of teens in Wisconsin who would actually hold people at gunpoint and force them to stay put while they cut them and draw blood from them..It's pretty scary stuff. But, people like that are the few who ruin it for the many. In this case, those cultists who use the word Vampire to identify themselves, have pretty much ruined it for the HLVs(who aren't necessarily cultists, as HLVs can come from any background..but HLVs still sometimes use the word Vampire to identify themselves) since most people will think of the dangerous folks upon mention of the word Vampire..Either that, or the lifestylers/LARPers..But that's neither here nor there. But anyway..At the end of the day, I guess all it takes sometimes, is a small group of people and an entire population can earn a bad reputation.. One bad apple can ruin the bunch. Even though I use the word as an identifier I feel that the community using the word "vampire" was probably the worst thing they ever did.
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Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 12:11 pm
Yagi Tessil LoBo_23 And after having your girlfriend almost being turned to a vamp cult and being forced to drink human blood... you kinda try not to talk with vamps you don't know stressed ..Vampire Cult?..You mean that them things actually exist? o.o;; What exactly do these Vampire Cults believe in? The closest thing to a Vampire Cult that I'd ever heard of, was this group of teens in Wisconsin who would actually hold people at gunpoint and force them to stay put while they cut them and draw blood from them..It's pretty scary stuff. But, people like that are the few who ruin it for the many. In this case, those cultists who use the word Vampire to identify themselves, have pretty much ruined it for the HLVs(who aren't necessarily cultists, as HLVs can come from any background..but HLVs still sometimes use the word Vampire to identify themselves) since most people will think of the dangerous folks upon mention of the word Vampire..Either that, or the lifestylers/LARPers..But that's neither here nor there. But anyway..At the end of the day, I guess all it takes sometimes, is a small group of people and an entire population can earn a bad reputation.. My ex-best friend tried starting a cult, which is part of the reason we stopped being friends. It was a bit more complicated than that, though, and he is either a real HLV, or a junkie.
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Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 4:29 pm
Here is another good paranormal based guild: Wolf Tears Paranormal AcademyIt is actually very good. I looked at some of the lessons. Basically it's a guild form of what I tried to do with the: Realistic Paranormal School RP in our Fun and Games Forum. Might even be people you guys know there.
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