Today In Class I Have Been Called The Devils Advocate

Today in class i have been called the devil’s advocate

My entp and aquarius mercury were EXPOSED

Anyway here's my opinion of the day:

If you only study witchcraft, you're not going to be the best witch you can be. If you're going to use herbs, study botany. If you're going to use meditation and mindfulness, study theraputic methods like DBT and CBT. If you're going to use astrology, study astronomy. If you're going to use cooking and baking and drinking, study gastronomy and mixology. If you're going to use crystals, study geology. If you're involving paganism that has its roots in a particular time and place, study their histories and cultures. If you're a technowitch, study computer science.

Science and magic aren't opposing one another, they work hand in hand. Only by truly understanding the world around you can you utilise it to the best of your abilities. There gets to a point where cutesy little affiliation lists and emoji spells on Tumblr isn't going to help you any more.

anger is a valid emotion. don’t get swept up in the “peace, love, and positivity” bs that’s forced down our throats every 5 minutes. anger is the signal that someone’s tried us and that we need to either defend ourselves or gtfo of the situation if that’s possible.

people who anger others intentionally through words (for absolutely no reason) are equivalent to people who seek out physical conflict. are you going to just take random, unwarranted, physical abuse from a random bitch on the street who clearly has issues? i hope tf not. so why do so many of us feel guilty for standing up for ourselves against the “family” or “loved ones” who seek verbal conflict with us? we’re literally made to feel guilty for stepping into survivor mode - and defending ourselves from people who were threats to us - instead of stepping into completely-helpless-victim mode immediately. that’s why people with control issues try to break down our sense of self over time. for most of us, there was a time when we stood up for ourself against these people. and then a time when we grew tired and numb to their bs. and now we’re tasked with having to find our defences again. but we’re made to feel crazy or guilty for it, just like we were made to last time.

i guess i type this to say: you’re not crazy. you’re not problematic. that problematic ass family that you have is the issue. that dysfunctional person that you have to be around is the issue. you’re expected to be fully functioning when you’re around someone who could drive anyone to madness. because they’re mad themselves. literally. low functioning narcissistic people and abusive people especially. everyone can see that they’re not “normal”. you’re around the human embodiment of dysfunction but yet you’re expected to be a fully functioning human being? i don’t fucking think so. cut yourself some slack. you’re doing everything that you possibly can right now.

One day we will look back into this whole era of "divine feminine" glamorized patriarchal gender roles and laugh at how gullible people have been to allow themselves to subscribe to dogmatic views on gender roles solely based on social media conditioning.

Vehemently implying that there are "sacred" characteristics inherent to each gender and that drifting away from these characteristics that have been established by random people behind a phone screen means you are "out of touch" with your own nature is a form of dogma. A dogma that keeps easily influenced people at bondage to the expectations and beliefs others have of what gender roles should be, demonizing women (mainly) for expressing themselves in ways that deviate from the rigid code of conduct that has been arbitrarily placed on them and the expectations that come with it. Many are not ready for this conversation.

space or attention?

Someone: do you want space or attention

entp: yes

Hot take

Everyone always talks about how much they love the “morally grey” or sarcastic side character of a book until they actually meet a person with the same personality traits

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk