One thing that pisses me off about stupid ignorant fucking people (hereafter called fluffbunnies) is this one factor: sloth.
These little chumps are always pissing and moaning about how all those big bad Christians are being spoonfed their spirituality (which for many is true) but as soon as they break those chains, they swap one for one and ask their fellow Wiccans for the same spiritual direction.
Now, I realise that beginners are beginners, and the spiritual infant needs a parent figure. But there comes a point when the person is no longer a beginner, having been what they will for about a year or so, boasting online about how long they've been a witch, writing notes in class in the Futhark scripts yet have never researched runemal. Then in their blissful ignorance, they register on a random Witchy Message Board and ask "well, where do I find stuff on runes?"
COMMON SENSE dictates that if things are written down, go where BOOKS ARE SOLD. If things are online, then SEARCH ONLINE. It doesn't take a fucking astrophysicist to deduce that one would look in libraries, bookstores, or metaphysical shops to find occult material. You don't have to be a genius to think to throw "runes" into Google and research the results.
There is a crapload of occult knowledge out there, and researching the obvious places isn't rocket science. Granted, there's a lot of bullshit you have to sift through, but that's true of anything. Try to research Freemasonry once and see what kind of crap you have to wade through. Pagans pride themselves on following their own path (which means pioneering your own path!). Yes, trailblazing takes a lot of hard work. It's painstaking trying to clear your mind and receive the messages of the Gods, even in an intense and carefully constructed ritual. It's excruciating trying to sift the meager amount of surviving myths in various "dead" religions, trying to recover the practices of the people whose gods you've chosen to honour. It's a bitch standing in a bookstore for three hours rummaging through Borders' new age rack trying to find a book that isn't loaded with fluffbunny crap. It's a pain in the ass rummaging through a zillion websites trying to find that one little gem you've been searching for. But it's there, and you have to look for it. Not me, not Superstar Author #224-C, not Bobbi Jo Witchypoo, and most certainly not some completew stranger online whom you have no contact with.
I heard somewhere recently that paganism is religion with homework. Whoever said that should get a fucking medal. Do the homework or you won't get your degree. If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: if you can't take the heat, get out of the fuckin' kitchen. 'Nuff said.
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