I have to give credit where credit is due, and shame where shame is due. First off there are good wiccans out there. People that have been part of a coven and learned a tradition and have a great deal of structure into there belief system. I didn't say that in part one, and I should have.
Part two is about politics in paganism. How paganism is not a group of happy everybody gets along with everyone else. Pagans generally have many different views that reflect the many different branches of paganism. And it is these different views can cause a tremendous amount of anguish in a group of people, Online or in Real life interactions.
So Part one was posted in the group in question. Many people changed there views about me. Some people apologized for their actions and we moved on. I watched for a few days from the sidelines as events unfolded, and then I was allowed back into the group. One person struck me as a massive drama queen. One of the Admins posted that they were called Nazis. In my previous blog I made a reference to how people like me were treated compares to how Hitler treated the Jews. I even used the word totalaristic, but I never used the word Nazi. This person was playing victim. Though she was one of the people seeking to delete posts and remove people, the moment someone commented about her actions in a manner she didn't like, she tried to make everyone believe that she was unjustly attacked. The only person that called her or any of the other admins Nazis, was herself. Shortly after I returned this person made a post." Post deleted 3.2.1" . Because she knew that I was posting on the group. I saw this post and asked her why she felt the need to make a post, and she refused to comment. Miss Atwell can't play victim if she is caught causing troubles.
The group leader had numerous times told people that they need to take there negative ways out of the group. Mrs. Muck posted many times that she thinks there is too much hostility and that people need to take it outside of the group. Yet there was a young man that decided to take any outside issue and vent about it in the group. He was complaining about someone "playing Pagan". In a post he later said that the person he was complaining about was not in the group, and that he was just venting. Mrs Muck posted on that very thread, but never told him to keep his outside troubles outside of the group. I guess that was one of those selective rule enforcements.
Upon my return to this group I made a comment about how the admins for the group were set-up. Would you believe that they had someone that was actually an online store account as an admin. So I made a comment about maybe adding some of the ones that were on the other side of the fence as admins to help get things balanced. It wouldn't change how people acted, but then someone wouldn't have to worry so much about being alienated. This idea resulted into a messed-up election process. Two polls were created, the first one I had people supporting me, I guess that didn't sit well with the admins and they deleted the first poll and created a second one under a different person's account. They were adding names, removing names. and turned it into a circus. The dumbest part I see was the current admins added there names to the list of people. This was about adding different people and they turned it into a way to see who likes them and who doesn't. Because with the wonders of facebook you can see who voted for who. I made a comment about giving everyone a week to vote on who they wanted, the current admins gave it just a couple days. talking about controlling a vote. And the final straw for the supposed elections was so corrupt, I felt that the republicans had taken over the pagan group. Mrs. Muck disclosed after the "election" that one of the 2 people SHE promoted to admin was her husband. After the fact, and she had the nerve to ask if anyone had any problems with it... with people knowing that at least 2 people were banned from the group on the same day. It is like having the Republicans controlling the election and saying that Obama has a fair chance of winning.
So I was one of the people banned from the group. But I was able to see the posts still and watched as the darkness swept across this group. The two new admins made posts stating that they were going to remove the negativity from the group, deleting negative posts and the people that posted them. Wow complete and total censorship has been installed. But you would have to hope that these new anti-negativity rules would be enforced on everyone equally. But alas they aren't. I seen new admin Ryan have a conversation with people calling me a "hatemonger" . I never called people a name like that in any form, I was viewed as negative because I would disagree with some of the posts people made. Now the last time I checked Hatemonger was a negative insult. Did Ryan do anything to stop such posts? No he allowed them to continue. I watched a long thread in which a different member called a person several negative names, 3 of the 4 admins were active in this long thread, and they did NOTHING. So these admins are not against negativity, they are only against select people that do it. One thing that I remind myself is this fact. "The battle between right and wrong is lost the moment that you allow your friends to do something that you wouldn't allow your enemy to do." Selective rule enforcement is corruption. How can they claim to be positive and just people when they act in such a corrupt manner.
Leaders need to lead, they need to follow a set line of rules. In parenting you have to be consistent when disciplining the child or they will not learn. You can't say one day that it is all right, then the next spank the child for the same exact situation. You can't make two sets of rules for two children, that will cause nothing more that hate and fighting. Honor and integrity are needed if you want to be someone people can look up to. There are times we have to make the not so nice decision. And this transfers to many of these eclectic wiccans, They are lacking structure and consistency with their beliefs. They want to be surrounded by love and light, they will shun darkness, and anyone that doesn't will face all the darkness that they hide beneath their supposed good nature.
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