#rational thinking

Yeah, that's very true overall, and I tried to define what I mean when I say "harassment" pretty specifically in my last post. I mean, I can't imagine anyone bothered to read the whole thing cuz I was really blathering on and on, but still 😅

My only caveat is that, overall, I do kind of think it's better to avoid things you don't like - or at the very least not actively seek that stuff out in order to confront the creator. Although to be clear: that part isn't even really about ethics or anything, it's just good practical advice in general to improve your own life lol

Anyways, if I can take this opportunity to blather on even more:

Your Ask reminded me of one thing I just always wanted to say, but haven't really gotten the chance. This whole concept is what irritates me the most about people who whine about "Cancel Culture."

Because yes, there absolutely is a phenomenon of mob mentality where people gang up on someone largely because everyone else is doing it, without even knowing or caring about all the facts (ie. the whole Tori Woods situation, which I covered in a previous post). And, you know, social media probably does intensify that, sure. HOWEVER-

Similar to what you were just saying, this label of "Cancel Culture" is usually just some way for right-wingers to silence any criticism from the public. It's so baffling because it's like saying "It's good when I express my controversial opinions, but it's bad when people respond back negatively."

Well, that's insane lol. The price you're supposed to pay for speaking up publicly about a controversial topic is that strangers get to freely call you an idiot and an asshole. That's how it works.

in addition to everything that has already been said about modern pogan’, such as the fact that it is filled with mentally unstable people who are pushed even deeper into their psychosis by outright scums who convince them that everything is fine, I think that not enough attention is being paid to other issues.

1. people are so chronically lonely that their psyche has had to start inventing imaginary friends, or worse — “partners”, in order to cope with this loneliness in some way. and instead of encouraging these people to go out and seek real human connection in real life, they plunge them deeper into the abyss of loneliness and the echo chamber of other lost souls, cutting them off from society and throwing them onto the sidelines of life as it passes by. even more horrible is when this imagined reality of escapism becomes the entire basis of their identity. they do not exist apart from it, they are nothing on their own, and in their desire to become something greater than themselves, part of something meaningful, they destroy their last chance to become independent personalities, becoming merely appendages to their unhealthy fantasies, demanding that others respect and validate their imaginary world and imaginary friends, because real connections with living people frighten them, since it would be impossible to control them through their fantasies. a simulacrum of a person, to put it simply.

2. outright liars and manipulators who use this to assert their fake status and power. they know that they have no real spiritual connection with anyone, especially themselves, and decide to simply lie about it and invent self-insert fanfiction to give themselves weight in the society of like-minded cultists. everything here is based on banal narcissism and a mania for attention and adoration. they want to be the most magnificent and incredible in the eyes of everyone, they crave worship, and therefore they need to invent how to make every myth in the world about them, every deity in this world is in love with them and kisses their feet, they have 20, no, better 100 “godspouses” (the most pitiful thing I've ever heard), they put on unsuitable titles of “priests”, “oracles”, “channellers” and so on, telling about some deity what it likes and what it doesn't like. by what right? well, it's not real anyway!

and here is the cornerstone that they do not like to admit. for them, it is not real. they put on these labels not because they believe in something, but because they want to be “not like the others” among their peers. their entire “religion” ends with moodboards, games with friends on discord, yanking nonexistent “deities” that were invented by neo-nazis, imaginary stories about their “gods”, local conflicts born of the problems i described above and they call it a day. no, honey, just because you scattered some cards that fell according to probability theory and interpreted their meaning with your wishful thinking, and you will use them as a cult weapon against those you don't like, you have not received any higher connection with the gods. quite the opposite in fact, i would say. and when they are reminded that religion actually requires study and exists not to affirm their own egos and fantasies of their own importance, but to study the mysteries of existence and spiritual life, they immediately start whining and throwing tantrums all over the internet that the “elitists” and “gatekeepers” are forcing them to actually practise the religion to which they claim to belong.

by all means, create your moodboards, write imaginary self-insert fanfics, and fantasise about myths as much as you like, but call it what it is: a mythological fandom, not a religion. you have no connection to religion whatsoever, never have had and doubtingly ever will.

Babylon, parents, work, society, grocery store, gas station, apartment complex, FDA, DEA, these are all institutions designed to break you.

I am a hero. A righteous paladin of freedom. I shed. Yes, I shed my skin like a fucking snake. Everyday I wake up a new, more refined, and more preeminent version of myself.

Every bitcoin gained is more power. Every teenager I sell cannabis products to is more power. Power. I'm more powerful than anyone else I know. They failed to rob me. I rob them of their endocannabinoids.

I move like a snake, too. Slithering up and down the NASDAQ, in a heterosexual kind of way. Never had a gay thought in my life, alright? Let's just move on from this topic.

Gambling thousands away on penny stocks... But it's logical. It makes sense. Everything makes sense. It's investments, and a lot of it comes from deep reflection. Some of it comes from staying up for four days straight watching The Wire, on HBO.