Best Spam Of The Morning

[filkertom]

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[acelightning]

As a Witch myself, I'm torn between being offended because this perpetuates all the old stereotypes about Witchcraft, being amused at how ridiculous it is... and wanting to know what they're actually peddling.

[filkertom]

Rilly. I can't think of a single pagan or pagan sympathizer I know who wouldn't go through pretty much that exact sequence. (Being a pagan sympathizer, I did, but I wasn't dumb enough to click on even an amusing spam link. [The link I included above was not in the original message, but is to the Wikipedia page for Saint Kitts-Nevis, so that we can all learn a little bit of geography today.])

[acelightning]

I've occasionally seen print ads like this, generally in the back pages of astrology and/or New Age magazines. But that's the first time I've heard of them setting aside their technophobia(*) enough to turn it into spam.

(I know where St. Kitts-Nevis is... but only because I used to work at the UN.)

(*)"Why do Witches ride brooms? Because Witchcraft is a Nature religion, and Nature abhors a vacuum!"

[ardent_firesong]

But....isn't space part of nature? o,o

(/playing along)

[acelightning]

That depends on which Witch you're talking to. "If you have three Witches in a room, you've got at least seven opinions..."

[ardent_firesong]

Lol. Good point. (I think it doubles if they're Mensans, which, oddly enough, many of the Pagans I currently know were at one point....)

[acelightning]

I was one myself, a very long time ago. By the time the Craft found me, my membership had lapsed because I couldn't afford the dues while I was going to college, and I never got around to renewing it.

[ardent_firesong]

I find it amusing how well (and often) the two groups seem to mesh. It's kinda weird to think about when you spent your time growing up around one parent with a group of Pagans, and the time with the other with Mensans :P At least it is to me, anyway ^_^()

[acelightning]

I find a lot of overlap among pagans, fen, SCA, and Mensa. Most of the people I know fit into at least two of those categories at once. (Although I do have - oh, the horror! - a couple of mundane friends...)

[ardent_firesong]

Ah yes, I have noticed this overlap as well.

If I have any friends who might technically be considered mundane, I'm fairly certain that "mundane" would only be a temporary title for them until they discovered their inner nerdiness.... And yes, that is a word now :P

[acelightning]

My husband of 35 years is pretty much a mundane - he's not pagan (he's more of a "militant agnostic"), he doesn't read SF very much, he has no interest at all in dressing up in strange costumes, and, while his IQ is certainly high enough, he's never bothered with Mensa. On the other hand, he's been programming computers since big mainframes of the early 1960s ;-)

[ardent_firesong]

Well, so he's not technically a fan, but he might be considered a nerd. Sounds good to me ^_^

*whistles* 35 years. I have every aspiration to reach that and beyond with my fiancé : )

[acelightning]

...and we're going to keep at it until we get it right ;-)

[dornbeast]

At least you have a decent reason for knowing.

The main reason that I know is because I played Sid Meier's Pirates! as a kid.

[acelightning]

I wasn't anywhere near being a kid in 1987 - in fact, my son was eight years old that year. (I did, however, own a C-64, and by then I'd taught myself BASIC.) My years at UN Radio were in the early to mid 1970s.

[starcat_jewel]

One gets you ten that the real purpose of it is a phish. Most of them are, these days.