No. You were cursed by bullying and rather than break the curse, you embraced and visited it upon others. I tried both and everything in the middle. We're all in it together, and only as string as the weakest links, and that lesson is about to be revisited to us in a massive way.

Bullying is weak and showcases our own insecurities, our own lack of self worth. Ayn Rand was a charleton and hypocrite, and harking back to the reply about this being year one and all that other pseudo - Crowley, pseudo-Laveyan, pseudo -Rand nonsense, so was Lavey.

The real strength is in forgiveness, compassion for self and others, because as the Buddha (who said not to make a religion of his words but test them ourselves): resentment is like swallowing poison and expecting the resented to die.

Projection "only changes the appearance of reality," (and usually only to ourselves and the weak minded, those who can't lead themselves but would lead the world right into utter destruction).

"The real magic is changing reality by changing ourselves." But I get it. That's hard, dirty work and involves a lot of "digging up corpses" of our past, dealing with them, then giving them a proper burial. Eeew! Shadow work is messy, painful, stinky and ugly. The effort yields it's own rewards.