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Oooooooh, Ben's been cursed!

BURN THE WITCH! BURN THE WITCH!

Yo Benny.....betcha that felt GOOOOOD dint it?? I sure enjoyed it!!

Shaaruuk

Zorro wrote:BURN THE WITCH! BURN THE WITCH!

I think you're misspelling "witch"......shunt ja be usin' a "B" 'stead of a "w"?

Shaaruuk

"Kid, what the heck are you doing?"

"Goin' after her ruby slippers!"

"Give me back my galoshes, you little brat!!"

That is just priceless!!!!

Somebody BETTER be getting pictures of this - I can see Ben showing them to his grandkids, laughing fit to fall out of his rocking chair...

She's cute when she's angry. But really I think she's just a shallow wiccan, feeling threatened for having a minority religion, and thus must quest outward to protect the small clan of 10,000+ other followers. Likely why she lashes outward at others too. This isn't only retained to wiccans, I've seen christians do it too, as well as some other religions. Usually they just want to look like the champion of the group they belong to, so they think they'll look cool. People really need to relax and just enjoy one anothers company as opposed to finding the differences between them an excuse to squabble. Is that a word, by the way?

It's funny how a lot of people have that "Everyone hates me because I'm a ___" attitude.
As far as I can tell, most of them just plain love to irritate everyone around them.

It's a great excuse. You can insult, annoy, and even threaten everyone you meet, and if they aren't friendly in return it's because they're all a bunch of narrow-minded, hate-filled bigots - which means you can then "patiently bear your martyrdom" out loud and in public.

It's refreshing to see such a person treated as (in this case -she-) deserves occasionally.

Heh - not everybody needs a reason to be mean - some people are just born that way. I worked with a guy for several years who would jump down your throat at the drop of a hat. More than once, he pitched a fit because someone in the next cubicle was 'breathing too loudly', and he had a nasty tendency to cuss out his own mother on the telephone. He drove me nuts with his constant tantrums - and I was the closest thing to a friend he had. His only good point was that he was also a coward - he'd back off when you jumped right back at him, if he thought you were sincere about beating the crap out of him if he didn't shut up.

Yeah, that's what I was getting at: This isn't about belief systems, faiths, religions, whatever...
It's about a woman who probably wants to see herself as being a reasonable person, while she is actually a complete (keeping this a family-rated comic forum) jerk. Nobody likes to think they are a jerk, so she has a smokescreen she uses to hide it from herself. In this case, that smokescreen is her imagined defense of wicca. Now she is a Righteous Defender Of The Faith. Not a jerk at all! Isn't self-deception wonderful?

Of course in doing that, she creates a bad situation for anyone else in the vicinity who truly believes as Beltane claims to believe, or possibly even believes she believes..

Your blowhard friend sounds like another leaf from the same tree, Mad Mike!

Not quite - he KNEW he was a jerk, and he took pride in it. Of course, I don't think he ever realized the true number of times that he had been inches away from a severe beating...and not just from people he knew. He would antagonize complete strangers the same way. I walked into a comic-book store one day wearing a shirt with the company logo on it, and the first thing the guy behind the counter asked me was, "Oh - you work there? You wouldn't happen to know this guy ***** by any chance - he's a real jerk!" Turns out he had once bought a pack of Pokemon cards at that store, and he stopped to open them up before he left. Another guy walks up behind him (better than six feet tall and in fighting trim) and says, "Oh! Pokemon cards - what did you get?" My 'friend' doesn't even bother to look up - he shouts out, "Get the hell away from me and mind your own d**n business!!" The storekeeper told me that the guy turned bright red and stared at him for a few seconds, then shook his head and walked off - guess he figured beating the snot out of him wouldn't be worth the jail time.

There are several thousand people that work at that company, and this storekeeper remembered the one jerk - talk about enhancing the corporate image!

Mad Mike wrote:Heh - not everybody needs a reason to be mean - some people are just born that way. I worked with a guy for several years who would jump down your throat at the drop of a hat. More than once, he pitched a fit because someone in the next cubicle was 'breathing too loudly', and he had a nasty tendency to cuss out his own mother on the telephone. He drove me nuts with his constant tantrums - and I was the closest thing to a friend he had. His only good point was that he was also a coward - he'd back off when you jumped right back at him, if he thought you were sincere about beating the crap out of him if he didn't shut up.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh I like him allready. Me and him could have a good ole time hanging out.

This isn't only retained to wiccans, I've seen christians do it too, as well as some other religions

My favorite was James Watt, secretary of the interior during the Reagan adminisration.
Personally very wealthy. A senior member of the most powerful government on earth.
And he often described himself as a member of an oppressed minority.

I should be so oppressed.

Or, from the other side, try reading "Defending Pornography".
It's NOT what you think!
The female author (former editor of the Harvard Law Review, if I remember correctly) discusses how a handful of 'feminazis' hijack the womens rights movement.
These feminists raise holy hell if anyone tries to shut them up, but if another feminist tries to disagree with them, well...

squirrelly61104 wrote:

This isn't only retained to wiccans, I've seen christians do it too, as well as some other religions

My favorite was James Watt, secretary of the interior during the Reagan adminisration.
Personally very wealthy. A senior member of the most powerful government on earth.
And he often described himself as a member of an oppressed minority.

I should be so oppressed.

Wasn't he the one who ran outta steam way back when???

Hey, I belong to a select group of individuals. Now, we're a small group, and we're proud of what we do, but it seems that no matter how we explain ourselves, mainstream society is INTENT on slandering us.

We don't get the respect that other groups do, and we're constantly belittled by others.

But, I'm proud of what I am, and what I am is a f*cktard.