They are not gods wearing a mask trying to teach you some kind of lesson for their own benefit They aren't a blind force of entropy or some kind of tricksy alien consciousness or a hungry predator you wandered into the territory of They HATE Knowingly and intentionally
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Like Gaiman's story about the Cat Who Fought the Devil "It was not a pagan god misunderstood by Christian prejudice, it was not Milton's Lucifer caught in tragic noble rebellion It was the Devil"https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1291631028700766209?s=19 …
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Arthur ChuVerified account @arthur_affectMy hot take is that "bullying" is a term associated with childhood and something we think of as "childish" not really because adults do it less but because we actually make more excuses to protect adults who do it https://twitter.com/dreamingnoctis/status/1291584154958798850 …Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Anyway what you were talking about with power being something external you have to appease probably applies more to the Acanthus Like all of these Paths are still arguably New Age shit about having your head up your own ass, Warlocks in particular
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You can never prove for a fact the Supernal Realms actually exist and aren't your own psychodrama shaped by cultural preconceptions etc But man is it a wild contrast with the sheer hippy-dippy optimism of MtAsc and its paradigms and "Just believe in yourself"
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The MtAw paths are all kind of about believing in yourself, the messiah-complex hubris of the Obrimos especially But for a Warlock believing in yourself means believing that the world hates you and is against you and wants you to suffer
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Feeling threatened and afraid and angry is the power of a Warlock Your power is in not being okay If you get therapy and start to feel better ("disrupt universalizing and catastrophizing patterns") your power starts to go away
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You can't fight what you can't see If you stop seeing demons all around you, if you escape Carl Sagan's "demon-haunted world", then how can you oppose them And if you aren't there to oppose them... who knows what they might do
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I've really never felt so seen by a White Wolf splat And I'm pretty sure this applies to
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@BootlegGirl and@loudpenitent are obviously Obrimos, even if@BootlegGirl has fallen from the Path3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Hrm. Really? I don't quite see it from what you describe...
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Obrimos' pain and angst, which they do have a lot of despite Mastigos stereotyping them as the "Easy Mode Awakening", comes from having seen Paradise and earnestly believing a better world is possible but not knowing what to do to bring it into being here
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And this is indeed very painful and angsty for them, even if the way they talk about it really makes Mastigos want to kick their ass
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Like the thing in Buffy about how Buffy's torture is not that when she died she went to Hell but that she went to *Heaven* and, because of that, being alive on Earth is now Hell
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