[Elspode]

This particular piece has made the rounds for awhile, and it is essentially correct (or rather, I should say that it is essentially applicable to my particular path). I would only disagree with the part that says:

"There are evil people in the world, and there are people who chose to work with the forces of nature in a way that harms others; those people are NOT witches.
The central law of being a witch is:'if it harms none, do as you will.' "

There are people who are indeed witches, but who do not follow the Wiccan Rede, which is "And it harm none, do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.", which is essentially the same as that which is quoted by the writer. However, saying that those who do not follow the Rede are not witches is presumptuous and incorrect. As I stated before in the thread over in Quality Images, not all witches are Wiccan, in much the same way that not all Christians are, say, Baptist.

Saying that an evil person who uses the forces of nature to do bad stuff is not a witch is simply untrue. They are probably not a *Wiccan* witch, but a witch they may indeed be. They just aren't a witch like me, or like the writer of the piece, and they aren't a witch whose methods and practices would fit within my ethics and morals. That, however, does not give me the right to say that they aren't a true witch, because they are...they're just not a Wiccan witch.

The rest of the stuff is pretty much right on, from the point of view of the path which I follow. Others may have varying opinions.