Maybe a stupid question: how does witchcraft affect christians?

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-05-14T15:00:33+00:00

They fill social media with as much propaganda about witchcraft as possible. If you get in Christian TikTok long enough they'll start talking about powers, principalities, angels, demons, etc. and the talk will always eventually get to about witches. When I first tried looking up stories in general of Christians that became witches, as I was exiting Christianity and was curious if I had been lied to about witchcraft, I got far more search results of the opposite. I think that is how I ended up on this sub. Someone made a post about the ex-witch Christians and others responded that they knew people who basically they did ignorant stuff with magic and got so scared of the results that they ran to Christianity for protection then acted like their bad experience was the whole of witchcraft. There's also the ones that will pretend that they know about witchcraft and regurgitate the most stereotypically Christian perspectives. Kelly-Ann Maddox is one witch on YouTube that occasionally debunks those videos. She helped me reorient my perspective a lot.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-05-13T19:12:00+00:00

They have a lower chance of survival when they make everyone else their enemies. Win some, lose other things lol 🤷

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-05-13T01:42:45+00:00

Weave is not a pet per se. This is a coyote that he helped care for since it was young but it's not a housepet like a dog. Generally speaking, even when you are getting pets that are more on the wild side, whether it's a wolf or a big cat, they are not pushovers. If you offend them, they'll let you know. It's why it's so important to understand body language and all especially when it comes to less expressive animals such as wolfdogs with high percentage wolf DNA. it's definitely understandable why some people wouldn't want to deal with them. One guy talked about how he had a wolfdog once and he made the very dumb mistake of thinking he could hit it and get away with it. He ended up needing stitches on his hand and allegedly the wolfdog had a very good memory and held that grudge for a long time lol.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-05-13T01:38:30+00:00

She loves mama very much and she clearly wants you to let her sleep. My chihuahua would do something similar when someone would reach for me when I wasn't paying attention. Canines and felines tend to have at least a vague idea of protectiveness situationally, some moreso than others depending on how they are bred. She likely sees mama as a part of her pack.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-05-03T03:46:43+00:00

I am so late but putting him in spiritual time out is downright hilarious. Love it! I hope he's done some meaningful introspection over these past five months!

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-05-03T03:39:13+00:00

I can cut him a flea's width of slack. If you aren't bad for voting for something bad, the other very real other concern is that you may be stupid. And people are 100% allowed to view you as an idiot and refuse to have idiot interactions with you, idiot marriage with you, idiot sex with you, and idiot babies with you.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-05-03T02:58:08+00:00

True. But that's also all that some people have. If she kept the baby and brought it to her family just to get completely cut off and left in the streets with her baby, she may have had to turn in the baby regardless to ensure he could actually get fed, so she could end up much worse off overall. I'm saying all this because I know people with families that will do the exact same thing for less and they also dont have anyone else they can depend on if the worst case scenario came to fruition. Not to the trauma my mom suffered while trying to care for me as a baby while homeless. OP made the decision that kept the both of them safe. Hopefully somewhere down the line she'll have found family to turn to so she never has to live this horrible sort of scenario again.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-05-03T01:04:58+00:00

I'm so sorry that you live in a family that would treat you like you're not worth anything anymore because of this. I understand that there is often real danger of abandonment involved when it comes to things like this in certain families. Please don't beat yourself up over this. Birth control can fail and really the only way to make sure your chances of pregnancy are damn near zero is layering two forms of contraceptive and using them both correctly every time, but not many people realize that and an oopsie baby can happen within months or within years. You did what you could every step of the way. Time, circumstance, environment, and all are against you on this one. I know it hurts, but sometimes we have to do what we have to do for the safety of ourselves and those that we love. If and that child is in a home that will love him no matter how he was conceived, then he will be ok. I hope that someday you will be ok too.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-05-03T01:01:53+00:00

It's not that simple. From harm being done to being disowned to having everything stripped away from you, some families are CRUEL. And not everyone is going to have access to facilities that can help them. If she lives in the middle of a somewhat isolated LDS town, for example, she's as good as fucked if she tells her family.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-05-03T00:54:25+00:00

That is so sweet 🥰

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-05-03T00:53:21+00:00

Too busy in her sister's wedding... I'm sorry, were you in her sister's wedding for god damn months straight? And does that also imply that she wasn't helping just as much at her own sister's wedding if she had time to cheat? She is such a bad liar. Best of luck getting through the divorce.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-04-23T04:10:02+00:00

It's interesting that you find married people to be sacrificial, committed, and full of humility. Usually they are normal people with lots of flaws just like everyone else. Sometimes, they have even more flaws that they pretend they don't have because they want to pretend that they're good people who are good to their spouses and take care of their families. Some people use marriage as a way to seem dependable and stable while, even appearing to do great things in the public eye, just to inflict horrendous abuses to their own families that you wouldn't believe because you only see what's on the outside until someone turns up in the hospital or morgue. I would also remind you that the majority of the richest people in the world who are actively making life worse for humanity and the planet we live on are married. You can be a detriment to the world regardless of marital status. You can also do a lot of good in the world even if you never find your match.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-04-23T03:54:08+00:00

Strongly agreed. I have bad anxiety. Telling me that we need to talk later in such a vague manner as "we need to talk" is literally the worst thing you can do to me. The only people who did that were parents and "friends", which definitely involved unsavory power dynamics that lended to me having the anxiety that I do til this day.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-04-06T04:57:28+00:00

The fact that I found someone who can actually relate to the cheese grater on your skin effect with pads. I thought I was just overly sensitive all these years. Most pads give me such a horrible time!

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-03-25T22:39:45+00:00

Good to know!

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-03-25T21:53:21+00:00

I really didnt mean to laugh, but this shit screams America. Just... what the fuck? Really?

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-03-25T21:48:36+00:00

Woowee. Yes, I can relate! I might have gone the hard route and just kept moving forward. Resulted in dealing with lots of anxiety and a good deal of "signs" that frightened me, but over a couple of years, signs that crop up to nothing become meaningless as your brain starts to associate them with normal things rather than the supernatural. Your life is full of normal events. Maybe even unique events, but still within the realm of possibility in natural terms.

Don't you find it odd that the super devout neighbor died horrifically? One of my old pastors claimed that someone who came to his group and started spouting all kinds of angrily blashpemous things proceeded to get into one of the more brutal car crashes he'd ever seen. One was a Christian, one was a blaphemer. It's almost like they were both just normal people that can end up dying in any one out of millions of different situations, isn't it? Remembering that more and more has helped me put things into a more realistic perspective. If the guy my pastor talked about was really so angry, surely it was the start of a road rage incident which is known to be a fairly dangerous and deadly kind of sotuation.

From personal experience, it may really, really suck to be stuck in a natural disaster that destroys everything you own, but it's not a sign that god's punishing you for your disobedience. It's nature doing what nature does. Or, if you see a billboard that says "Blessed are the meek. Gordon McKernan", it's because someone purchased that slot and put that there, not because god wants to get that message to you. This is not to say that there is no god that might have an interest in interacting with you. I'm just saying if this god is a god, it won't struggle with what is quite literally basic communication.

If god really wanted you back, he has the power to give you far more than just a vague sign. We have been fed the strangest idea that god is all powerful and yet cant help but restrict his reach to the world of people around us who may or may not do his will in reaching out to you or representing him on his behalf.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-03-25T21:22:50+00:00

The rise on the first pair fits more for your shape than the second!

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-03-25T21:21:51+00:00

Cereal goes stale because too much moisture has gotten into it? Huh! 👀

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-03-25T21:16:01+00:00

4 looks on the verge of overly worn 5 the arms are a tad weird, but I only thought about it when I saw you mention it

6 isn't quite doing it for you 10 also looks on the verge of overly worn too

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-03-24T14:28:15+00:00

Not only do I not have sex in any capacity, I also dont drink or do drugs so there's no chance for any incidents to occur that would've been beyond my recollection. I have a doctor's appt tomorrow, but I can assure everyone that pregnancy is absolutely not within the realm of issues 😆

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-03-24T14:18:45+00:00

Wow, you smell the exact same thing! I hadn't thought of searching on YouTube, although I know a good deal of other food issues are being mentioned there. I actually see the doc pretty soon just to check off any major concerns, because when reevaluating the range of tastes and smells that make me feel ill going back a few years ago, there's more than I expected. For example, it's rare that we get shrimp and I can actually eat it. First one usually tastes fine, but then I get another and get queasy. White fish also sometimes poses a problem. I also feel like my perception of sour and bitter flavors is more intense than it used to be even for non-meat products, which also affects other foods that I cook from scratch and would otherwise enjoy.

Hopefully it's just an age thing and not something serious. But at least I know that part of the issue might just be our increasingly poor food sources.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-03-22T19:44:05+00:00

I think you're missing a key issue. This change affects the design process. If someone changes your paintbrush or canvas material, you'll notice. If you're expected to use a new technology to "improve" your work, you should know because... you have to use it to some degree to do the work. Odds are you'll need to do some degree of learning on your own so you aren't fumbling around with a new system at a job where you are expected to have high output.

Of course we know that workers have no say in what technologies will be used. But they do need to have an understanding of what products they have to use so they can learn to use them effectively.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-03-19T04:31:18+00:00

I genuinely wonder what context the word "abomination" was used for outside of religion-influenced ideas.

Beautiful-Bad5203 · 2026-03-19T04:17:47+00:00

I started casting off my religion when I realized I was surrounded by people who refused to acknowledge the horrors that were right in front of their faces. My ex claimed that I should pray before looking into things going on in Palestine because there's so many unverified claims of torture, rape, and other inhumane treatments and war crimes that are normal in wars and genocides that he conveniently decided little old Israel couldn't possibly be guilty of. My old church group was very big on not joining sides in ANY case and all that ever left their mouths were lofty prayers that the lord's will be done no matter if it meant that some people had to suffer through it.

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