{"id":24359,"date":"2013-08-31T16:32:52","date_gmt":"2013-08-31T16:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/31\/dear-tumblr-occultists-that-includes-all-you\/"},"modified":"2018-11-25T03:04:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T03:04:11","slug":"dear-tumblr-occultists-that-includes-all-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/31\/dear-tumblr-occultists-that-includes-all-you\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-24359 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/31\/dear-tumblr-occultists-that-includes-all-you\/attachment\/24360\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mselysjWAN1qm3ezso1_640.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mselysjWAN1qm3ezso1_640.jpg?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mselysjWAN1qm3ezso1_640.jpg?resize=150%2C150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/tumblr_mselysjWAN1qm3ezso1_640.jpg?resize=300%2C298 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 85vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong>Dear Tumblr Occultists (that includes all you pagans, thelemites, ceremonial magicians, satanists, wiccans, witches, et al., except you re-constructionists, you&rsquo;ll never learn)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a forty-two year old human being, I feel like I shouldn&rsquo;t have to do things like this anymore but obviously there&rsquo;s a need.<\/p>\n<p>Why do you waste your time telling people their interpretation of a symbol\/deity\/practice is wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Why is it wrong? Because some book told you otherwise? Because a bunch of other people believe differently?<\/p>\n<p>Could it be that what they are expressing is their own personal interpretation of the mystery? Could it be that it is no less valid than anyone else&rsquo;s?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever stopped and asked, &ldquo;why did you interpret it that way?&rdquo; Maybe they have a good reason.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the reason you are a shitty magician is that you are unable to grasp the idea that things can have multiple meanings and definitions, sometimes even totally opposite, at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>If someone has a different interpretation of something and can&rsquo;t justify their reasoning, just move on. Don&rsquo;t waste your time and look like an asshole trying to tell them the &ldquo;correct&rdquo; meaning.<\/p>\n<p>There is no correct meaning.<\/p>\n<p>There is no &ldquo;is.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing remains true. All limits change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Tumblr Occultists (that includes all you pagans, thelemites, ceremonial magicians, satanists, wiccans, witches, et al., except you re-constructionists, you&rsquo;ll never learn)\u00a0 As a forty-two year old human being, I feel like I shouldn&rsquo;t have to do things like this anymore but obviously there&rsquo;s a need. Why do you waste your time telling people their &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/31\/dear-tumblr-occultists-that-includes-all-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,234,345,263,77],"class_list":["post-24359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-magick","tag-pagan","tag-satanism","tag-wicca","tag-witchcraft","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24361,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions\/24361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}