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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7774413" data-attributes="member: 4937">I know exactly what I said.  IIRC, the anecdote about the neo-Druidic membership form was related to me as a funny story by an active neo-pagan.  I've never had the form in my hand to verify that, but seeing as I have first hand experience with people who got into paganism or Satanism (in most cases for a short while) after first exposure in D&D, the story was believable.   I prefaced that I could not in fact verify it, in case it was an urban legend and because knowing that there is an active pagan community on EnWorld, I thought I could possibly get confirmation.   There is no need to tell me not to get my hackles up.  It's quite obvious to anyone reading the thread that I first got your hackles up before you got mine up.You don't know what I'm saying or thinking, because I haven't given you my take on the death of my first cousin (or on Jack Chick for that matter).  I'm just addressing the idea that I'm making statements based on hearsay, which was the main thrust of your challenge to me.That the suicide of my first cousin was connected by his family to his playing D&D is not something you are in a position to gainsay.  Whether that diagnosis is accurate is not something you have the information to comment on, because regardless of your claims to be an expert in mental health you are wholly and completely unfamiliar with the details of this particular case.   How I connect the two is not something I've talked about, because seriously, I don't consider EnWorld the sort of place where you can carry on serious conversations with any expectation that they'll be seriously thought about.   Though, I think it's probably fair to guess that as an avid RPer, I probably don't have the same take my family has nor that I agree with Jack Chick about much of anything.The truth is not that my hackles are up, so much as soon as someone offered an opinion that diverged even slightly from your world view, you took it as carte blanche to be insulting.</blockquote>

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