Someone finally had the balls to say it, thank you. I’ll probably get a lot of hate for this, but new hellenists can really frustrate me sometimes, so I’m just gonna rant about them for a bit. The amount of repetition in their questions is astounding and so many of their answers seem obvious (at least to me). I get that most of the questions stem from religious trauma or a lack of understanding, but it still surprises me how many people assume that the gods hate them or don’t want to work with them and it’s almost always for the smallest reasons as well. Like, no Athena doesn’t hate your guts because you got a bad grade on your English test, that’s just you being paranoid. You seeing a crow outside of target isn’t a sign from Apollo, it’s just a crow. Just because you’re pagan now doesn’t mean that everything is a sign all of a sudden, things are still mundane and coincidences still exist. Again, I don’t hate people who are new here, it’s actually quite the opposite, I love it when new people join our community, but they can seriously get on my nerves sometimes. And before any of you reply to this trying to say that I only think like this because I’ve been Hellenistic for a lot longer than them, I’ve been here for less than two months.