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Well technically you can do whatever you want, it's just that karma comes into play.

You may be interested to know that there is more to the rede The Rede

Well I think the Rede is like a warning. You may do what you like, but you must know the consequences that come with doing what you want, and you need to accept them and deal with them when karma comes in to play.

See that is most of our thoughts and the way I was taught but this guy went off on my friend and informed her she didn't know crap.... And as long as you don't get caught or as long as you do something to counter it his example every time he hexes some one he donates $50 to a charity.... To me that seemed messed up and almost make me ashamed of being pagan...


He really messed her up she came asking all sorts of questions like is he right I tried to tell her he was dark and I had never meet a "pagan" who used hexes that was usually voodoo...

Personally the darkest thing I have done is ask for the god and goddess to bring justice forth on a former friend who had backstabbed 3 of us and we got a karma a$$ kicking I admit the person who did wrong to us to what they had coming but so did we.....
I learned my lesson....

I don't think it really matters if you're directly aiming your malice at one person. If you're harming someone or something, there will be consequences. That's what the rede is basically saying. It's kind of like a mother telling her kid that if he throws rocks at other kids, the kids will throw them back. The guy who told your friend that is like a kid arguing that the kids won't throw rocks back if you're only throwing rocks in their general direction and then you go pick daisies for your teacher. The rede doesn't really work that way.