No I have to agree OP is writing a great many assumption that I wouldn’t see as true, about How nature works, about members at balg and our approaches, about how magick works.
It’s difficult to address all of these and I think we don’t need to. It’s for the OP to research if he wants to, or remain with opinions that don’t match reality if that’s what he prefers.
I notice, the OP attacks peole’s personalities based on opinion, telling them how they feel instead of asking… you only addressed behavior and ideas and you backed up your opinions with facts. You are fully in line with the Terms of Service, it’s OP that is actually not. But he didn’t descend into insults and we’re all adults so I’m letting the conversation go on.
I don’t propagate anything, merely pointing out flaws and lack of logic in thought process, as well as straight forward misinformation. The concept of “alpha wolf” as an actual member of a pack was never disapproved by zoologists and behavioral researchers that actually work with animals that utilize hierarchical bonds. It is simply a position. Pejorative meaning of “alpha wolf” came from many misunderstandings among people that based their knowledge on random internet texts and bizarre TV “documentaries” as well as their own emotions that made them disregard science to embrace own-made fantasy, never on real facts. Hierarchy is a thing among many species and wolf, like a dog, elephant, monkeys, many species of birds, city cats even, is one of them. Hierarchy, mind you, not humanized tyranny that you obviously imagine. I myself had more than enough encounters with specific animal “emotions” and logic and still I know very well that all these aside, main goal of an animal is to survive. How it survives, in what ways it strives to sustain itself, is not a topic of this discussion, or even forum. The animals can mourn (elephants are well known for this) but this doesn’t take away the fact that they can kill their own if situation requires it. Most humans are way too soft to understand it because that’s the culture that was created.
If presenting something based on my knowledge and experience is “propagation” then I sadly must remain disappointed with how “open” this form was supposed to be.
BALG is not a monolith and you’re part of this forum too
We’re overall a mixed bag and we all have our own opinions, and we’re allowed them. There’s no rule that we have to agree, only be civil about disagreeing.
I’m seeing that this thread has drifted off topic though and we’re just nit picking at this point, so I’ll close this out.
