I don't often poke my head out of my hidey hole to have a look at what Pagandom in general is doing.  I find it's better for my blood pressure that way (not to mention that it keeps my eyes from rolling out of my head), but every once in awhile I see something on FB or G+ that catches my eye.  This time it was a woman having doubts that magic or anything she believed in was real.  Now, I'm not tempted in really any way to boost her confidence in the unseen.  That is a journey that folks need to take on their own.

What caught my eye was someone else trying to explain magic and timing by using a farming analogy.  The analogy was basically that if you plant in winter (specifically corn), then you will be disappointed with the result, but if you plant in late summer, then you will have the result you are looking for.  

I could assume that the blind leading the blind issue has gotten a lot worse considering that it's pretty clear that this person has not studied the WOTY, nor seems to have any kind of concept of the seasons.  I checked, just to make sure, but I'm pretty sure that even in Arizona, you don't plant crops at harvest time.

I think I should consider myself lucky that I have been out of the community long enough that my first instinct is to just roll my eyes and move on.  Ah, well.  Maybe this means the fad is dying off?

 ... but shouldn't you already know how to stop a spell before you start casting them for all and sundry??   Isn't that a little like asking where the brake pedal is after you're already barrelling towards a stop sign at 50 klicks?  Just because you didn't know ahead of time that it would be there doesn't mean that you never need to know where the damn breaks are!

*headdesk*