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(inspired by friends' dating app woes)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's a day negative 10 deal breaker. I can be casual friends with a "witch", but being in a relationship means I have to pretend I believe that stuff, and no one can keep up an act that long.

It's as fake as any religion. I mean it is kinda one, I think. I have very little awareness of it, I'm pretty sure witches and wiccans are different, but it's all beyond baloney, so I don't really care about the subtleties.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean... You don't have to believe someone else's beliefs to be in a relationship with them. It happens all the time. I work with a "witch" and she's like every other normal religious person. Wears a necklace, has a thing on her door, goes to work...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't have to pretend anything, I know quite a few couples where one partner is an atheist and the other one is a believer.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But how can you respect someone who legitimately believes in magic?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

they're also human

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Love is a chemical process, you can't really choose who you fall in love with. There are all kind of relationships, not all are based on respect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Attraction is a chemical process, long term relationships without respect are doomed to failure

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Don't forget that believing in a reality beyond the senses is a religion too. All atheists are solipsists.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am an atheist and I am not solipsistic, therefore not all atheists are solipsistic.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't believe you're an atheist, because you believe in reality. That's religious thinking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you want to believe that belief in external reality to your senses requires a similar leap of faith that belief in unprovably extant supreme beings requires that's fine, but that's not what the word atheist means. That's not how people use it. They don't use it to refer to people who refuse to believe in things requiring faith (as in believing in something that can't be proven). It is used to refer to people who don't believe in gods.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reality is god to realists. That's what they believe in. They worship it, they obey it, they demand others have the same respect for it. It's theism.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

She didn't just think she was a witch, which I was mostly OK with because religions are weird and stuff, so I thought as long as it doesn't reach the realm of life-affecting problems, it's a non-issue.

She also believed she had friends who were werewolves, she could do magic, the date of your birth determined your personality, because a planet was in retrograde good things were about to happen, vampires started the Red Cross so they could always have access to blood, and, oh yeah, along with her two mortal parents she also had an incubus second father and that she was half-demon and that's why she liked sex when she wasn't supposed to.

That... That girl needed some serious help, but claimed that she was well-adjusted and fit to help other people instead. Because, of course, she was also an empath...

Edit: I want to make something clear that it suddenly struck me I haven't; with all this craziness that she believed, that young woman had her life a hell of a lot more together than I did or do. She graduated university while I flunked out, she found a job while I'm being rejected every time that I apply, she found a low-rent apartment to live in while I'm still living with my folks. Don't get me wrong, girl had some trauma and had some problems. But she was contributing to society while I'm fucking around on the internet because I can't seem to make anything of myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's so much to unpack

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

She downloaded Tiktok into her brain. Big mistake.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Knowledge passed down from the ancient days of Tumblr...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She fell prey to one of the classic blunders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never go in against the Red Cross when blood is on the line?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Inconceivable!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What was she of you? Classmate? Friend or what?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Started out as co-workers in a university work-study job, had a short relationship.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Really depends on her definition of being a witch. For the most part, hell yeah, I'm on board.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I couldn't possibly pretend to respect someone that thinks they can do magic and is almost certainly into homeopathy and astrology for very long, but you do you.

Now, the girls who are like "I just want to make conservative Christians mad," that's something to explore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a win for me, spell me up mommy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Never Stick Your Dick In Crazy

Have Them Peg You Instead