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Summer Rush

Minnesota

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8:45 pm May 26, 2010

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Hey, everyone! Me again!
I was just thinking about ways we could possibly spread the word about Faeries, Werewolves, Vampires, and et cetera around the internet and world in general.

I set up this thread to brainstorm.

So far I have posted a discussion on a website called ' http://www.gaiaonline.com '.

It is very popular and I think it may attract attention to the existance of those listed above and more.

This got me to thinking, well, what else can we do?

If you have any ideas, please feel free to post here. :3

Thanks!
Summer<3

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Kikuyo

Ukiyo

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6:10 am May 27, 2010

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Not that I'm against getting the word out there, but in my experience with things supernatural and out of the ordinary, those who are meant to know will find their own way. On the internet you can be anyone, and in the case of vampires and werewolves (especially on popular sites) you get a lot of roleplayers who tarnish the validity of the information we try to present to skeptics and the like. The bad apples really can ruin the bunch, because they are the ones who get the attention, and generalizations become based off them.

The same holds for a lot of negative stereotypes, so its not just fae believers. I wish there was a way to present skeptics with fair information and evidence they would accept. There is this dichotomy in Belief, where skeptics generally want empirical evidence and believers insist that the skeptics aren't getting it, or not thinking on higher levels — and it's a never-ending battle. It's great to get the information out there, I guess I'm just warning be careful who you tell what to, because quality of information and their reactions** to it really do matter.

** For a personal example, everyone I knew as a kid LOVED Harry Potter, and of course we all pretended to be wizards and hoped for owls to come on our 11th birthdays. It was hard for me, when I started researching magick, to accept that it wasn't like Harry Potter and there was no Hogwarts T^T. Still, I'll run into people who insist that it has to be like Harry Potter or Charmed, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, etc for it to be real magick, because that's what it is to them, and they won't accept anything else. To them, the (our) truth is a boring let down, and they either label people who practice magick as liars and fakes, or superstitious weirdos. Word spreads, and though there is a popular increase in belief in magick and the paranormal, occult stuff, etc, and at times it feels like a battle of who can hold their temper longer lol.

With the fae, I'm not worried too much about roleplayers and non-believers, but zealots. I am worried that people will inevitably want to capture them (not that I think they ever could, but the intent is sure to send bad vibes to the fae) or insist upon videos and specimens and encounters, without fully understanding the nature of the situation. Think Mr. Crocker in The Fairly Odd Parents, lol.

Hell, even the believers are largely in the dark, so maybe it would be a good idea to wait and collect information? I'm really on the fence about trying to spread the word, and waiting to see what unfolds on its own T^T. I guess my problem really is not knowing how to get information out there in a manner that doesn't negatively provoke either side. I prefer the let-them-come-to-me approach :/

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I know you; The gleam in your eyes is so familiar a gleam.
Yes, I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem.
But if I know you, I know what you'll do.
You'll love me at once, the way you did once upon a dream.

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Athidal

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11:16 am May 27, 2010

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Kikuyo raises a lot of good points. One thing I've noticed about people over the years is that it's not so much that facts define what they believe, but that what they believe defines what facts they're willing to accept. This is even true for people like scientists, who are trained to look for emperical evidence. That's why I think there's still some groundwork that's got to be done in order to get more people to accept things like fae, magick, etc. as they really are, instead of insisting that those things be what people want them to be. (Now there's a recipe for disappointment, neh?)

One way to work with other people's beliefs is to try to slowly introduce them to new possibilities that they hadn't thought of before, but which don't conflict with their own current beliefs. For example, in a conversation I recently had with a complete stranger, we both agreed that aliens very probably do exist. (More and more people believe that these days! :) ) But she thought they were all mean and wanted to invade us and take over the earth. Instead of arguing with her, I just tried to introduce her to the idea that maybe some of them aren't mean, and might actually want to help us. I like to think of this as "the magical power of 'and'", as in 'maybe this thing you already believe is true, and maybe this other related thing I believe is also true, have you ever thought about it that way?" It's a good way to plant the seeds of ideas.

People usually warm up to ideas better if they think they've thought of those ideas on their own. So maybe you could start small, by thinking of ways to open up people's minds to the basic idea of faeries and things, and by slowly introducing more information you could work your way up to changing their ideas about those things so that, for example, they stop thinking of fae as Tinkerbell or Christmas elves and start thinking of them more the way they really are. Of course, before you do that, you probably ought to check your information first to make sure someone didn't just make it up! Like Kikuyo said, there's a lot of bad information floating around on the internet, so you have to be careful. Speaking from personal experiences is best, if you can do that. :)

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DarkFantasy

Maryland

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8:10 am May 29, 2010

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what i did at my skool is we have graphing calculators and i put 'FAERIES ARE REAL' on them every time i finish useing them.

i agree with what athidal and kikuyo say, so im not gonna say it all again. i especially think its important to not shove faeries into someones face. when i was in 5th grade one of my best friends got this book on fae and started to beleive in faeries and was pretty much obsessed, she had thses little pixie statues wearing bright colors and made up these flower fairy songs and i was like BLECK!!!!!! and i was really mean to her about it and bullyed her that year….if she had started with someting like magic or paranormal, or if she had started with differant creatures in the faery realm then i might have started beleiveing in 5th grade instead of 7th grade lol. she also got a ton of stuff wrong about fae, her source was pretty much the internet and a bunch of stuff she got messed up. im really sorry that i reacted that way Cry ……

the way i got to beleive was to google real fairies, get here, and here i am.

ill try to find that discussion on gaia……idk if ill be able to find it tho lol.

Let me stay where the wind will whisper to me, where the raindrops as they're falling tell a story.- Evanescence, Imaginary

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