Fluffy Websites?

[Sybil Unrest]

I have a strange, perverse desire today. I would like to visit some very fluffy pagan/"wiccan" websites.

I like to mock the afflicted sometimes. Hem. Anyway, I was wondering whether anyone has any links to said fluffy websites they would like to share? What are the worst out there?  

[MoonJeli]

Off the top of my head:

http://www.joyofsatan.com/

http://www.wicca.org/

http://www.wicca.com/

There are so many but those three pop up as winners.  

[maenad nuri]

If I ever feel the need to peruse such website, I tend to just get on stumbleupon, hit either Wicca or paganism, and just go where the stumbleupon gods take me.  

[Labores Luna]

haha, the JOS is the worst. I think that one takes the cake, at least out of those three.  

[Sybil Unrest]

Wow, the JoS is entertainingly mad, isn't it?  

[MoonJeli]

It's like an X-Files conspiracy. xd  

[With Motion]

I can't find it anymore but I remember visiting a website for "vampires", the website introduction talked about being persecuted by vampire hunters and how they coexist with human society because they choose to. I wanted to laugh, but I couldn't.

Does that count?  

[MoonJeli]

Well, there's always:

http://www.vampiretemple.com/

Also, anything that cites the discredited claim that vampire legends are based on the medical condition porphyria makes me want to peck people's eyes out.  

[Sybil Unrest]

Oh yeah, the vampire stuff is fun. I went onto Vampire Forum and their founder is a guy who claims to be 2000 years old, that was fun!

MoonJeli, I've never heard that the porphyria link was discredited before, not that I've really looked. Have you a website about that I could look at by any chance?  

[MoonJeli]

Well, the medical community never took the theory seriously in the first place. It's essentially become a part of urban legend.

It was one guy, a biochemicist by the name of Dolphin, who proposed the idea that vampires were explained by the disease porphyria. He had a basic misunderstanding of the disease. He suggested that drinking a lot of blood would somehow treat the disease, but there is no way the hemoproteins would enter the bloodstream from the digestive system, or that blood consumption would be therapeutic in any way, and people with porphyria don't crave blood. (CSI, how I despise thee.)

Also, vampires of folklore -- as opposed to fictional, modern vampires -- don't fit the model Dolphin was basing his theories on, though he claimed the disease was the "origin" of the stories.

He made the statement in 1985 at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It was quickly dismissed as unrealistic, and he never published anything on the subject. However, it was latched onto by the media, and has been published over and over again since then, and is now a part of the vampire legend.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a990507.html  

[TeaDidikai]

MoonJeli

Well, there's always:

http://www.vampiretemple.com/

What makes them fluffy?

There is also The Classic.  

[MoonJeli]

TeaDidikai

MoonJeli

Well, there's always:

http://www.vampiretemple.com/

What makes them fluffy?

There is also The Classic.

Statements like "The fiction and folklore of vampires throughout history emerged primarily as a result of our practices." and "We created human religion."

At least I think that makes them fluffy, I could be misreading. To me, it resembles "Wicca is the oldest religion and witches that were burned at the stake were really peaceful Wiccans!" Traditional, folklore vampires do not resemble the vampires of the Vampire Temple's dogma, either.  

[TeaDidikai]

MoonJeli

Statements like "The fiction and folklore of vampires throughout history emerged primarily as a result of our practices." and "We created human religion."

At least I think that makes them fluffy, I could be misreading. To me, it resembles "Wicca is the oldest religion and witches that were burned at the stake were really peaceful Wiccans!" Traditional, folklore vampires do not resemble the vampires of the Vampire Temple's dogma, either.

Okay.  

[MoonJeli]

TeaDidikai

MoonJeli

Statements like "The fiction and folklore of vampires throughout history emerged primarily as a result of our practices." and "We created human religion."

At least I think that makes them fluffy, I could be misreading. To me, it resembles "Wicca is the oldest religion and witches that were burned at the stake were really peaceful Wiccans!" Traditional, folklore vampires do not resemble the vampires of the Vampire Temple's dogma, either.

Okay.

Do you have a different interpretation? I have no experience with its members.  

[TeaDidikai]

MoonJeli

Do you have a different interpretation? I have no experience with its members.

I know the founder. I get the joke.