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My Experiences With otherkin.com - Racism? Or Finally Accepted At Last?




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A good way to back up people who think you're a troll is to do what you just did...call people who don't agree with you "narrow minded" or some other such phrase with the same basic meaning.

Someone disagreeing with you doesn't make their opinion invalid, doesn't make them not spiritually aware, etc. At the end of the day the only thing any otherkin can prove is their humanity. The rest is all personal belief...so the sooner everyone accepts that, the better off they'll be.

The fact will always remain that the only "mythos" media "races" have are media outlets...sources created by another human being about whatever "race," "species," etc...while the otherkin community at large have heaps of mythology from different cultures to draw on...which is the main reason why "fictionkin" are questioned, not widely accepted, and occassionally ridiculed in the otherkin community at large.

child0fbalance, they are free to disagree with me. I do not expect everybody to agree with me. Disagreeing with a viewpoint is a human right. We can agree to disagree. The reason I call them "narrow-minded" is because they are openly mocking and disrepecting me for my beliefs. Now, as I said - it is okay to disagree, but it is not right to mock and abuse somebody.

Again, the people I am terming "spiritually unaware" are the people who are taking pains and going to such lengths to mock, insult, and belittle me and mine. Again, I am aware that people are free to disagree. I am human, and I am aware of this fact - human in mind and body, science and biology. I simply identify with the Na'vi. That is an abstract concept and it needs no justification or proving. I do not need to provide "evidence" or "proof". It is a personal feeling, and it needs no accepting.

You are correct, that the myths and stories of the majority of the otherkin community are cross-cultural and rooted in time and the mindsets of ancient peoples. However, I would point out that they are /still/ sources created by another human being, global or local, old or new. They were created by another human being, and the only difference is that this was done some time ago.

The ridicule is not "occasional". From what I have seen it seems quite common. The otherkin community otherkin.com, for example, have a whole subforum dedicated to it. The ridicule is what is narrow-minded. The ridicule is what is not on. I expect all otherkin beliefs to be questioned; otherwise you cannot foster a rational and intellectual community and end up with fluffy and misguided members.

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