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but remember there is always someone better than you!"

If this is the case, this means that i am better than somebody. theres no wisdom there, only the entitlement to suppress others for one reason or another.
i dont care what you do as long as your not trying to make life worse or hurt others, thats my morality, it doesnt judge others, it's a rule. i dont care if your the sillyest person on earth or the wiseest, if your hurting others, causeing pain, then thats wrong...by saying someones better than me your saying your better than someone....supprestion.
I wont rule over others or suppress them. im not better than them and i never will be, nor was anyone else. we may not be born equal but we can have equal rights. i wont let someone be robbed and i wont let someone starve, nor kill.

this is the funny thing..it's always teh people who say they are good that are often the worst.

there is a lesson in everything...but i dont have to stick my hand in a fire to know it will hurt and burn.

true but that is why it is worded
"but remember there is always somebody better than you"
and not worded like
"but remember you are always better than somebody"
see the difference.....
the first would be likely to motivate you harder to continue practicing
the second however is likely to make you be content with what you have acheived thinking to yourself "oh well i may as well quit seeing as im better than at least somebody"

so if you look at both the positive and negative aspects of it you get two totaly different meanings so i dont see how they can be related to each other.

it can be read into many ways...but it means teh same thing. if someone is better than me, then logically i have to be better than someone. by being better this entitles me to being worth more, entitlled to more, otherwise i and others would be equal.

we sentance a man for a crime he committed, not because he's smelly or his prents made him that way, simply because you do the crime you do the time.

"witchcraft is getting weak"

i'm going to have to stop going to other forums i believe, especially those that specialize in occult related matters...questions just seem to be getting more...don't these people know how to read anymore...and they're always concerned about their parents finding out, yet don't consider the library, the sanctity of friends with unattentive parents, creative codes for writing...What's wrong with the youth of today?

Desire to comply to current standards. Fear of being the outcast. Fear of being considered the "weird witch/warlock". The usual fears, just amplified now religion/spirituality is becoming considered more and more obsolete by the younger generations that are... untainted by fanaticism. Culling the weak, really...

well according to some on certain boards, those into witchcraft and pagansim are simply only young euro goths and paganism isnt real any due to "the line being broken" and we are all running away from chrisitanty lol. apprently theres no mature witchs or druids...just lots of kids. as i read those other forums my mother starts shouting in the background since not only is she forty, but shes a hedge witch and a druidess lol.
people a re fuckheads...you just gotta wave them off with "each to their own"

actually Ae, the youth of today are embracing individuality more and more. sure they are all over teh place with it and speak mostly bollox because they wont leave their keyboards....

i've seen few youths that are embracing individuality...i mean come on...what was once considered "different" has now become commercialized mainstream...i mean, really...rolling stone is posting stories about "goth kids" murdering each other...ten years ago, my friends were being spit on for dying their hair and painting their eyes black, having the safety pins torn out of their eyebrows, because they were different...they actually had to shop at thriftstores to find their style of clothing, not pay twenty dollars for an imitation leather bracelet with rubber studs...what's so individualistic about them these days?

i can go to any mall and find them a dime a dozen...and i'm talking about the youth...

all i'm seeing weakened is their education system, a break down of family values...and their lack of inititiave to find anything out for themselves...

Yep... But the cause for that... Lies not in disinterest, but lack of proper stimulations. No youth will do anything it does not need to do, especially in these 24/7 economies where performance outranks personal wellbeing. What free time is left is spent among the collective... the social ranks. If a kid needs to spend 1/3rd of it's week sleeping, 1/3rd of it's week at school, 1/6th of it's week on a sidejob... it only leaves the last 1/6th to spend freely. It will not be spent on "spiritual improvement" if there is not a DIRECT benefit from that.

And on that keynote... Yes, todays generation is becoming more self-centered. Another factor that lines us up for another major global conflict... That killing itself does no longer shock people should be obvious by now.
Besides, the planet could use some population control.

but there's more and more youths looking to spirituality...they see it on television, or hear a friend talking about witchcraft and rather than set forth to libraries to study, bookstores to see all that's offered or even something as easily accessed by typing google.com...

why do they have to ask stupid questions...can i have too much power, can only certain people do spells, how do i make a love spell, black magick is evil...they don't bother to search the answers for themselves...

the curse of the computer age i guess..i was part of generation x, followed by generation y, this upcoming group should be named generation.com or something...

More like generat10n

Occultism and spiritualism is probably just another youth rebellion...after the hippies, the punks, the yuppies, grunge, etc, they needed to find something new. This time around its the goths, and with gothdom comes magic...

The reason they ask so much might be that they don't know where to look in libraries, or bookstores, or even online. I know in Norway at least, there are no occult books to be found, that I've found, anyway. Spritualism/occultism is limited to tarot, astrology and feng shui, with the odd new age angel conversation book here and there...and that's about it. And online it's just too big, too much to sift through...it can be hard to find the good, informative sites among all the crap. You have to know what to look for, and what to search for. It's so much easier to just ask someone else to give you all the answers.

.001 of the dewey decimal system...

The dewey what..?

http://www.tnrdlib.bc.ca/dewey.html <-

Ok...I'm really none the wiser...what's it about? He's sorted aspects of life in numbers?

Standard library archiving index.

Oh...ok.

don't judge the entire culture by the actions of dabblers, that's what creates prejudice, if your true to your path then how your judged by those actions should not be a concern, people look but they do not see and we cannot be forced into a corner because of their lack of vision. it has become weak because of people not willing to stand up and give it a true name. be proud of who and what you are.

True enough, but it might not be so easy finding your path.