So how much I share my personal Gnosis with others has a direct correlation with how accomplished I am? I see where your priorities are. It’s the same as saying just because Kanye West has a large following and a lot of record sales means that he makes good music and is a decent person. You will find the opposite to be true.
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I think you’re missing the point and taking this out of context. It’s easy to be an armchair critic and put down the hard work of others while not bothering to try walk a mile in their shoes, and there’s no reason for us to think you have any merit at this point. You said:
I honestly think E.A is a fool that just spews stuff out that is barely half researched to anyone who throws money his way.
That’s fine, but what you have to back up this assertion? Can you put your money where your mouth is?
It doesn’t matter how well accomplished you think you are, if you expect people to take your criticisms seriously, you need to find a way for them to perceive you as accomplished. Otherwise you’re just another jealous armchair critic that doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Personally I don’t think you can have well read EA books, watched many of his videos, or followed up on the background if you think he’s not well researched.
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Now I said something I should probably respond to the OP:
I don’t think I think enough of it to dislike it. I don’t do religion at all. Somehow it’s just not a thing that sticks to me and I end up ignoring it, and only have issues when religious people start acting in ways I judge as against my code. Wiccan’s can be evil and human garbage just as much as the next human, and I don’t think people like that need the religion to give them an excuse, but hey, it’s there and it’s handy.
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I do not have to prove anything to you or anyone else. From my experience compared to his, he is a fool in my eyes. I don’t need to prove anything to anybody. That’s the beauty of religion and the like.
@Mulberry more or less read my mind with this part:
My point is that you are calling him an actual fool because of claims he does not research his stuff. He’s neither an armchair magician nor an armchair critic, he seems to take what he finds and explore it with direct spirit contact. If that occasionally contradicts something written in a book hundreds of years later (and often by someone who does not believe the spirits mentioned are real, or, who does not work with magick at all) that’s to be expected.
No, it’s the same as saying that like him or loathe him, Kanye knows a lot more about being a celebrity in the music business than you do because he’s actually doing it, and has been doing it successfully for years.
I despise Madonna and many things about her but that does not take away from her skill and accomplishments within a tough industry, and I would readily concede her knowledge of that industry and of being a performing artist and creative in her own field is vastly superior to my own. I still dislike her.
The wider cultural trend of finding someone with whom one disgarees, and instead of treating that like a mature difference arrived at in good faith on both sides, deriding that person as mad, bad, or stupid, degrades the quality of not just internet comments but the entire social and political climate, and I think you may be falling a bit into the trap of thinking he is at least stupid (a “fool”) and possibly scamming people (bad) or delusional (mad) just because, for whatever reason, you have not had the same experiences as him and therefore have arrived at different conclusions.
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I had the funniest thoughts about you last week. A conspiracy theory that your forum name is somehow involved with you dancing with madonna in one of her shows and perhaps dancing in your own at one point. But why do you hate or dislike her?
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You nothing about who I am or what I do especially in the music industry or my spiritual path. I do not hold him to very high regard and nothing you are going to say can change that. I know I would give him money for lessons or whatever.
That is a total diversion. I am assuming you don’t combine your black magick and music industry stuff with piloting a nuclear submarine?
Same concept: the people actually doing that specific line of work know more about it than any amount of onlookers, no matter how well-read.
Yep, I did that in between nuclear submarine gigs, lion-taming, and flying space shuttles. 
My forum name is my real name, a mistake I made since I had not intended to remain on the forum for long, with Lady attached because I usually strive to be one.
Because she’s a multi-millionaire who despises working class American and European “populist” movements, and lobbies for open borders, while living behind secure walls and fences with armed guards. Any more in-depth answer would disrespect forum rules.
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speaking of wiccans, i wonder if Spellsofmagic is as bad as it was a decade ago… 
Welp.
even their own Fortune teller bot says it is.
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No, that’s the beauty of stubborn ignorance. Although many religions have fallen into stubborn ignorance, that isn’t the essence of religion at all: if you can’t prove what you’re saying, it has no value.
What is your experience and why does it make you view him as a fool? I’m certainly not a fan of EA, but even a quick glance at his energy shows that he is competent. It’s one thing to say he’s an adept magician who uses good marketing to squeeze money out of those too naive to see through the act, but it’s another to call him a fool. No one capable of drumming up his kind of following with what I would argue is fairly basic stuff could ever be considered a fool.
Is he somekind of master? I’d say certainly not. Is he decent at what he does and does he have a good head on his shoulders? Certainly.
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The cringe is real.
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it was so…fun being on there back when the Twilight movies first started coming out… massive flood of little kids pining for chants and spells to turn them into a Real live vampire/werewolf.
now those times, those times were true cringe.
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I think those movies pissed off every legit vampire that I know of lol. Just give me good Ole Alucard any day.
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I have to be fair now. is BALG forum full of incredibly cool people who are all extremely sexy, knowledgeable, and downright excellent?
@demon fortune
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Yes
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Thanks bro-bot! 
We have the best fortune-telling bots, don’t we? 
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Invite the entire party with these
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He is a real Mag n he worked for it. I agree with you.
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I have bureaucrats that enforce whatever is fashionable, so I set up a curse to prevent Unethical Gender Modification. Then did combine this with Angered Witches covens that pointed to me as a Symbolic Leader of an either Real or Perceived Men’s Witches Coven, to have them echoing the same curse. I enjoy drying up men’s Testosterone Supply and supplying one of the group’s members into the opportunity to Gender Transition, so I could rub the curse’s reality into their face. At times learning can only start with the Earth-Element to cause eventual learning from the Water-Element, because of the need to enforce status symbols of Unaccountable Bureaucrats. But I am not listing names, because Applied Magick has consequences.
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Btw, I didn’t make it through 1/3 of Bucklands before abandoning Wicca lmao