Lighten up…laugh a little…I swear it won’t break your face

I’ve been stirring the pot..just a little.  I have a new page on facebook, “if you can’t handle this how are you going to handle the burning times”.  It has cartoons of witches in cartoons, videos as well as Halloween  funnies.  I did this for several reasons..First, I think they are funny as hell, a friend suggested I make the page, and I wanted  to tweak others noses a bit.  Why would I do that?  Well…it can be amusing and sometimes one needs the laugh, and also because there was a witchy cartoon posted and people began going off on stereotypes of the witches portrayed around the cauldron.  Dressed in black, pointed hats, ugly faces…Yeah, that depiction has been around for a long time.  Hollyweird tweaked it with their movies so now not all witches portrayed that way.  What is is that people resent about this?  As far as the cartoon is concerned, I find it funny.  Why?  well because it bears no resemblance to any witch I know.  People expect witches to dress in black and have pointed hats…know why?  Black was associated with “evil” and shadow which is where “evil” resides, so witches dressed as such according to those who proclaimed it that way back in the day.  The pointed hat?  It came about during the real burning times in which innocent people were tortured into admitting they were witches.  The hats represent the steeple of the church, and it was placed upon said victim’s head as a way of placing them back under the “protection” of the church.  But why get all twisted over cartoons that still portray witches as ugly evil beings?  Majority of them are hilarious, and truthfully since we don’t resemble that image, why get your skivvies in a knot?  They aren’t a true representation, nothing about the cartoons are real life, so why not laugh at it and move on?  Why waste energy being angry about things.  I have heard so much about how badly witches are portrayed…puhleeze.  While I will admit that to label oneself a witch can bring derision from some, religious rhetoric from others, have you ever considered that sometimes it is because of whom they are speaking about?  I’ve run into a few who call themselves witch and then toss out the most amazing fluff and glitter.  I have to laugh because they spill the “love and light” shit and refuse to practice witchcraft..Umm..just how does one justify the label witch then?  If you don’t practice..are afraid to cross an invisible line in the sand, then you are most definitely not a witch.  if you cannot curse, you cannot heal..One has to be balanced.  So instead of going off on the depiction of witches in cartoons, why not make the effort to educate others as to what that really means here in the real world. And for pity’s sake…laugh for god’s sake.. Life is too short to go nuts over a damn cartoon.

PEACE OUT