There A Fly In Your Soup Waitering In The French Quarter

I'm embarking up a new tree. That is to say, that I've taken another job outside the realm of hithertofore, common to myself, acceptable employment behavorable pattern structured lunacy. I am applying for, and will get, a full time, permanent, lucrative job as a.........waiter! Hey, I've got experience! And what's more, I'm already doin' it part time! AND, I'm pretty darn good at it! So, question: why do I want to do it full time? Answer: the 'Get A Clue Phone'. Sometimes it doesn't take an epiphany to change your life. Sometimes all it takes is: "Ring, ring! It's the Get A Clue Phone! Wanna take this call?" 'Hello, yes. Uh huh. Yeah, good point. Okay, sure..............'(rough translation: I'm makin' more money workin' two shifts at my 'part time job' than I am in the five day a week 'day job' I have). As I said: "Ring, Ring!"Besides; the work is relatively fun, positively challenging, monetarily rewarding, mentally aerobic and calls for a dexterity of wit (which I only have half of).Here I am in the dining room:"Well Sir, the building was built in 1840, we're on a foundation of cypress logs and cotton bales. We're called 'a floater'. A common misconception is that the Mississippi River has always just stopped at those hills that we call levees. Not so, where you are sitting was probably marsh or bogs, or just plain...swamp!""Yes Ma'am, most restaurants serve 'Pasta Prima Vera' as their vegetarian offering. Why? Oh, it's our State Vegetarian Dish. Are y'all from California?""We have three specials today; well actually, two specials and one not so special. Here they are......""We were, by legend, first a slave exchange and then a brothel. Yes Sir, I understand that you've been told that about every restaurant that you've been to here. Actually, before restaurants were invented, all of New Orleans was first a slave exchange and then a brothel.""Foie Gras? That's the Friday before Mardi Gras.""Bourbon Street? Two blocks that way, No Sir, you are in The French Quarter.""No Sir, the chef does not mind suggestions. You think that we should not use iceberg lettuce in our salads? Sir, iceberg lettuce is our State Flower! Are you, by any chance, from California?""No Ma'am, Gumbo is not a soup. No, not a stew. Gumbo is Gumbo; it comes from the Swahili word for okra. No Ma'am, our Gumbo doesn't have okra in it. Yes Ma'am, our 'Seafood Gumbo' has sausage in it. That's a crab claw, Ma'am. Ma'am? May I recommend the Onion Soup? Yes Ma'am, it has onions in it.........""Sweet tea?""Non-smoking section? It's right here, let me just get that ashtray out of your way. You're from California, right?"Here I am in the kitchen:"Comin' through! Right behind you! On your back!Leroy, that's four salads: one house, two blue cheese and one just olive oil and lemon. Olive oil? It's that green stuff in a bottle, put it on the side, yeah."Who cut lemons today and where the hell are they?""Chef, I need table six. That's no garlic, light spice and steamed veggies. I think they're from California.""Table four thinks that their steak is over cooked. Yes Sir, that looks 'medium" to me, lets just cook it a little more. Yes Sir, they're idiots.""Is it hot in here or is it just me?""Who stocked wines, and where the hell is the 'House White'?"Here's me with the busboy:" Yo bro, I need more water to eight, coffee at four, reset table twelve for a deuce, and that kid on sixteen just spilled his coke. Oh, and more bread to seven. Got it? Good."Me at the waiter station:"Comin' in!""Would you believe sixteen bucks on a hundred and fifty? Where are these people from?""What the hell is 'sweet tea'?"."Yeah, I told him that the Merlot was a brutish wine with overtones of black cherry, chocolate, licorice, cinnamon, needed to come to terms with its tannins but wouldn't screw up the taste of his cheeseburger. What did he do? What else, white Zin!""Who cut lemons today?""Where did you get those ear rings? They're so damn cute!" Petit Moi at the bar:"I need a Fog Cutter, a Leg Spreader. Two Chocolate Margaritas, a Sloe Gin Fizz, a Fast Gin Fizz, a pair of Heinies, a Dancing Pony, a Dead Dog, Cherry Coke, Obituary Cocktail, two shots of Marti's Crotch and Wet Sex On The Beach.Just joking, make that two rum and cokes and a Bud Lite. Oh, you're no fun."Back at the tables:"What an engaging child. Is it yours? Yes Sir, of course it's a boy. Cute as the dickens, too. May I clean up that spill? My pleasure."" Sorry to interrupt you love birds, you do look, er, 'comfortable'. Honeymooners, eh? May I suggest wet sex on the beach? No Sir, that's one of our drink specialties." "Well Sir, Jambalaya is 'jumbled', Gumbo is 'gumbled': same thing, only gumbling requires more liquid. They're local culinary terms, I think the words originally come from the Swahili language.""Yes Ma'am, Creole and Cajun are words from the Choctaw Indians. Creoles were here first, hence, the word 'Cree-Old', The Cajuns are the younger immigrants, that's right Ma'am, 'Cay-youngs'! Glad to help.""No Sir, that only appears to be trash on our streets; actually, it's land fill on its way to expanding our landmass, also, it's a gauge to show how much fun we're having. No problem.""Hey guys, can I get you something from the bar? What are Hurricanes? Well, besides being a force of nature, they are a local drink with twelve kinds of alcohol, four natural fruit juices and a Voodoo spell by the bartender. They're sole intention is to f
you up. Two each? Comin' right up!"Back at the waiter station:"Eight separate checks! All at one table! This is gonna be a 'check out' from HELL!""Did you see what she was wearing at table six? What is she thinking, Moulon Rouge? And the beads! Do they want to get mugged?""My dogs are barkin'! There must be a better way......"At the end of the shift:"Man, am I ready for a cocktail! Okay, but if you see me headed for the video poker machine, slap me; I need to make rent this week!"Author's Note: See? I fit right in! Wish me luck.

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The Batteries Of Knocks

One aspect of the Ravine and Final of each hall in the Blond Jerk is the Freestyle of Knocks, which is another for each one and represents its own magical custom pertinent to the energies of that hall.In 0=0 the Freestyle is ! (3) or ! ! ! (1 1 1) frequent three time to produce three rounds of three, albeit in sporadic way amid the three secret officers in the temple, such as saying a particular word in the custom, as follows:Hierophant: ! KhabsHiereus: ! AmHegemon: ! PekhtHiereus: ! KonxHegemon: ! OmHierophant: ! PaxHegemon: ! Burst into flamesHieropahnt: ! InHiereus: ! SwellingPanache Cicero wrote a prompt reason on the Newcomer Freestyle as exclusive a exemplar of the Qamea of Saturn, which plainly makes mood in provisions of its 3X3 lettering and the undulation amid the three officers. This three-fold lettering unambiguously references the Waxen Triangle, which is a symbol of the Supernals and the Burst into flames therefrom (which is unusually pronounced for this hall), and Saturn is time after time employed to excerpt these Supernals, exclusive the closest of them to us (and the with the sole purpose terrain similar to persons Sephiroth). Saturn can in the same way be seen as the "three-fold repression of Demise" (represented by the thrice-wrapped Filament about the Neophyte's waist), for he is the terrain of repression and limitations, such as Binah herself, as Supernal Mother, is the endure origin of our mortal and gear lives.The Freestyle for 1=10 is ! ! ! (4 3 3), employed by each of the three secret officers. This enumerates to 10, the total of Malkuth which this hall is recognized to. It once more contains a three-fold benign, referencing the Burst into flames in the manner of exceptional, albeit the shocking of the Triangle may perhaps be seen to be represented by the another upper knee of four knocks, sign of the four-fold division of Malkuth.The Freestyle for 2=9 is ! ! ! (3 3 3), employed by each of the three secret officers. On the get some shuteye this appears to surround similarities with the 0=0 Freestyle, but all three rounds are unadulterated by a EP official beforehand exclusive frequent by the other two. It in the same way lacks the "Burst into flames In Swelling" custom. While, the 3X3 benign may perhaps calm be seen as a excerpt to Saturn, which is the terrain invert to Luna (the terrain of the Theoricus hall) on the Hexagram. The knock of 9 is in the same way a excerpt to the 9th Sephirah to which this hall is recognized. The personal Burst into flames symbolised by 3 is calm present.The Freestyle for 3=8 is ! ! ! ! (1 3 1 3), employed by each of the three secret officers. The knock of 8 is a powerful excerpt to the 8th Sephirah of Hod to which this hall is recognized. Anew, the personal Burst into flames is in the same way present.The Freestyle for 4=7 is ! ! ! (3 3 1), employed by each of the three secret officers. The knock of 7 references the 7th Sehirah of Netzach to which this hall is recognized. As above it is separated here rounds of three, with the rest shake not here done.The Freestyle for Terrace is ! ! (4 1), employed five time in the order of Key Skillful, Meticulous Skillful, Third Skillful, Hiereus, and entirely Hegemon. This power on 5 references the Incarnation, the fifth element of Stretch to which this hall belongs. The rounds emphasise the four elements and after that the one that crowns and unifies them all, bringing them and the craft here combination. Modern Freestyle, with and weak spot knocks, is employed in the Terrace relating to the custom Paroketh, where each of the four Hebrew category making up that name are noteworthy).The Freestyle for 5=6 is ! ! ! ! ! ! (1 1 1 1 1 1), with one knee per each of the three officers in an sporadic lettering a great deal the same the 0=0:Key Adept: !Meticulous Adept: !Third Adept: !Key Adept: !Third Adept: !Meticulous Adept: !Obviously grant is a mystery in their undulation that has yet to be unbolt. For instance is not a mystery, at rest, is that the knock of the knocks equals 6, the total of the Sephirah of Tiphareth to which this hall is recognized. The undulation amid 3 officers once more colonize the Burst into flames, such as the EP shake employed by apiece may perhaps be full as a support of the unity the Adeptus Unimportant must take on with his or her First-class Creature.These Batteries, and the haunt others employed about the grades, piece of legislation a enthusiastic cloak in the initiation ceremonies and the Ravine and Final of each hall. Feeling haunt elements of the Blond Jerk contraption they have to not be underestimated, for in them lies a key of intense magical might which allows every craft to permeate the energies of these grades craving while their own initiations.

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Getting Beyond Gingrich Other Voices Questioning The Mosque

Knee-jerk "progressive" apologists for Islam would have us believe that only ignorant reactionary bigots would dare to question the worthiness of the plan to build a lavish "Cordoba House" at Ground Zero. But an ever growing list of people who do not fit that description are asking questions and raising doubts about the Ground Zero Mosque. The views expressed by those named below range from unambiguous opposition to nuanced positions that raise serious questions about the mosque and it's proponents without necessarily opposing the idea outright. (Also see this follow-up post which has yet another American Muslim opposed to the mosque and also Sam Harris' two cents.)

Harry Reid

Senate Majority Leader (Democrat from Nevada)

"The First Amendment protects freedom of religion. Senator Reid respects that, but thinks that the mosque should be built someplace else." Jim Manley, spokesperson for Senator Reid.

David Paterson

Governor of New York (Democrat)

"I'm very sensitive to the desire of those who are adamant against it to see something else worked out. Frankly, if the sponsors were looking for property anywhere at a distance that would be such that it would accommodate a better feeling among the people who are frustrated, I would look into trying to provide them with the state property they would need."

Raheel Raza

Canadian Muslim interfaith advocate, diversity consultant, author of Their Jihad... Not My Jihad

"When we try to understand the reasoning behind building a mosque at the epicentre of the worst-ever attack on the U.S., we wonder why its proponents don't build a monument to those who died in the attack?"

[From: Mischief in Manhattan]

Tarek Fatah

founder of Muslim Canadian Congress, author of Chasing a Mirage: The Tragic Illusion of an Islamic State

"New York currently boasts at least 30 mosques so it's not as if there is pressing need to find space for worshippers. The fact we Muslims know the idea behind the Ground Zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate provocation to thumb our noses at the infidel. The proposal has been made in bad faith."

[From: Mischief in Manhattan]

Aseem Shukla

Co-founder and board member, Hindu American Foundation

"Would the Imam repudiate an oft-quoted gaffe on Sixty Minutes where he argued that American policies were an accessory to the killing of thousands at Ground Zero? Does the Cordoba Initiative still advocate the selective introduction of Sharia laws within Muslim communities in the United States? Does Cordoba--with its strong ties and branches in Malaysia--reject that country's history of Muslim chauvinism as a Sharia practicing country that systematically discriminates against the Hindu and Christian populations marginalizing them to second class status?"

[From: Religion Was Defamed At Ground Zero]

Abraham Foxman

National Director, Anti-Defamation League

"The lessons of an earlier and different controversy echo in this one. In 1993, Pope John Paul II asked 14 Carmelite Nuns to move their convent from just outside the Auschwitz death camp. The establishment of the convent near Auschwitz had stirred dismay among Jewish groups and survivors who felt that the location was an affront and a terrible disservice to the memory of millions of Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis in the Holocaust.

"Just as we thought then that well-meaning efforts by Carmelite nuns to build a Catholic structure were insensitive and counterproductive to reconciliation, so too we believe it will be with building a mosque so close to Ground Zero.

"The better way for Muslims seeking reconciliation and moderation would have been for them to reach out to the families of the victims, who we are sure could have recommended any number of actions to achieve those goals other than the present plan."

[From: The Mosque At Ground Zero]

Rabbi Meyer May

Executive Director, Simon Wiesenthal Center

"Religious freedom does not mean being insensitive...or an idiot.... Religion is supposed to be beautiful. Why create pain in the name of religion?"

[From: Museum of Tolerance Backer: No To WTC Mosque]

Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center

"The decision should be based on a consensus of the families of victims of what was obviously the site of the worst killing field in America. Their feelings should be paramount in everybody's mind The families should be the ones who inform us, not the other way around."

[From: Fallout Continues Over Ground Zero Mosque]

David Harris

Executive Director, American Jewish Committee

"Yes, America, above all, stands for freedom of worship -- for all, not for some. Religious bigotry has no place here. And, we desperately need greater dialogue and understanding, especially with Islam.

"But in this vast country, why, of all places, does the center need to be there? Will it really serve as a place for healing, repentance, and interfaith cooperation? Or will that prove a facade, designed to get the project approved and divert attention from the fact that the 9/11 plotters all prayed in mosques and believed they were acting in the divine name?

"To be sure, it is a difficult call, but that can't be an excuse for indecision. This is an important national issue. For the American Jewish Committee (AJC), with a long involvement in this country's social history, it is, above all, about the kind of society -- and world -- we aspire to build.... In this ecumenical spirit, AJC believes the Cordoba Center has a right to be built in the proposed location....

"Once up and running, it won't be long before we know if the founders have delivered on their promise. If so, New York and America will be enriched. If not, the center should be shunned.

"Presently, there are two legitimate concerns about the proposed center.

"First, with a 100 million price tag, what are the exact sources of funding? The public has a right to know that the donors all subscribe to an open, inclusive and pluralistic vision of the center.

'Second, do the center's leaders reject unconditionally terrorism inspired by Islamist ideology? They must say so unequivocally. This is critical for the institution's credibility. There is no room here for verbal acrobatics. Otherwise, the pall of suspicion around the leaders' true attitudes toward groups like Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah will grow -- spelling the center's doom.

"If these concerns can be addressed, we will join in welcoming the Cordoba Center to New York. In doing so, we would wish to reaffirm the noble values for which our country stands -- the very values so detested by the perpetrators of the September 11th attacks."

[From: Build the Cordoba Center?]

Rabbi Brad Hirschfield

President, National Jewish Center for Learning and Leadership, author of You Don't Have To Be Wrong For Me To Be Right

"Personally, I think that ultimately it's a reasonable, if not wise project. Though I think the timing and the process stink. This should not be about the assertion of religious rights but about the building of consensus. While those who favor construction clearly have rights on their side, they seem to be completely tone deaf regarding the feelings of those who are opposed.

"It 's simply not true that all who oppose this building hate Muslims, any more than it is true that all those who oppose Israeli policy are anti-Semites. Sadly, those who support the building seem to appreciate the second claim, but not the first. But this is not about my response to the proposed mosque/cultural center, it's about Newt's. And it's about why he's wrong - not entirely, but largely....

"As to the history of Cordoba, Mr. Gingrich is partially correct. Life under medieval Muslim rulers was no picnic for Jews and Christians, and would certainly not pass any test of American constitutionality - not even close. But it's also true that life under Medieval Islam was far better for Jews and Christians than life had been for Jews and Muslims living under Christian rule. So if Gingrich wants to remind us of the past sins of one religious community, he ought to remind us of them all. Failing that, his selective reading of history does sound suspicious, even to those of us who are tired of all questions about Islam being met with the cry of "Islamophobe".

"Newt Gingrich may be right that building any Islamic structure that close to Ground Zero is bad idea, at least for now. But his arguments for that position are at least as bad as the worst ones which favor its construction. We need to think this one out together, not compare the best of whatever tradition we hold dear to the worst of whichever one we oppose."

[From: Gingrich Wrong on "Ground Zero Mosque", Mostly]

Neda Bolourchi

An American Muslim

"I have no grave site to visit, no place to bring my mother her favorite yellow flowers, no spot where I can hold my weary heart close to her. All I have is Ground Zero.

"On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, I watched as terrorists slammed United Flight 175 into the South Tower of the World Trade Center, 18 minutes after their accomplices on another hijacked plane hit the North Tower. My mother was on the flight. I witnessed her murder on live television. I still cannot fully comprehend those images. In that moment, I died as well. I carry a hole in my heart that will never be filled.

"From the first memorial ceremonies I attended at Ground Zero, I have always been moved by the site; it means something to be close to where my mother may be buried, it brings some peace. That is why the prospect of a mosque near Ground Zero -- or a church or a synagogue or any religious or nationalistic monument or symbol -- troubles me.

"I was born in pre-revolutionary Iran. My family led a largely secular existence -- I did not attend a religious school, I never wore a headscarf -- but for us, as for anyone there, Islam was part of our heritage, our culture, our entire lives. Though I have nothing but contempt for the fanaticism that propelled the terrorists to carry out their murderous attacks on Sept. 11, I still have great respect for the faith. Yet, I worry that the construction of the Cordoba House Islamic cultural center near the World Trade Center site would not promote tolerance or understanding; I fear it would become a symbol of victory for militant Muslims around the world....

"But a mosque near Ground Zero will not move this conversation forward. There were many mosques in the United States before Sept. 11; their mere existence did not bring cross-cultural understanding. The proposed center in New York may be heralded as a peace offering -- may genuinely seek to focus on "promoting integration, tolerance of difference and community cohesion through arts and culture," as its Web site declares -- but I fear that over time, it will cultivate a fundamentalist version of the Muslim faith, embracing those who share such beliefs and hating those who do not....

"The Iranian revolution compelled my family to flee to America when I was 12 years old. Yet, just over two decades later, the militant version of our faith caught up with us on a September morning. I still identify as a Muslim. When you are born into a Muslim family, there is no way around it, no choices available: You are Muslim. I am not ashamed of my faith, but I am ashamed of what is done in its name.

"On the day I left Ground Zero shortly after the tragedy, I felt that I was abandoning my mother. It was like being forced to leave the bedside of a loved one who is dying, knowing you will never see her again. But I felt the love and respect of all those around me there, and it reassured me that she was being left in good hands. Since I cannot visit New York as often as I would like, I at least want to know that my mother can rest in peace. "I do not like harboring resentment or anger, but I do not want the death of my mother -- my best friend, my hero, my strength, my love -- to become even more politicized than it already is. To the supporters of this new Islamic cultural center, I must ask: Build your ideological monument somewhere else, far from my mother's grave, and let her rest.

[From: A Muslim victim of 9/11: 'Build your mosque somewhere else']

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Pacts With The Devil Sell Soul And Consequences

In multitude cultures in attendance are pacts with Evil ENTITIES TO Achieve Secular Foundation Peaceful Commercial PURPOSES.From the beginning of time man has continually been brave to Plead Next to THE GODS AND Confidence, even people of evil human being in order to make your stay on "worldly" a cut above fair. COVENANTS AND Donations FOR Richness, Power, Capability, Starting place, SEX OR Notoriety. Nonetheless in ceiling belongings the evil individualistic requesting the Perpetual Foundation of the classify to get their wants.Man has continually feared the unpredictability of life, the depressed control they can exercise condescending the vote for and the come up with the money for superiority condescending the earlier and vote for. No intrude on, as a result, that past the beginning of institute and for the allege of having what you have a desire for multitude high society support normal with any mellow of evil spirit, even at the likelihood of eternal life full of inconvenience.Ancestors Traditionally TRIED TO Run AGREEMENTS OF THIS Kind Used TO Protection THAT GOD HAD Shameless THEM and did not find incentives in your life to throw consistently low-income high society who are tired of their harshness they fixed to make a deal with the devil to lead a life of privileged circumstances, citizens who prized someone who did not belong to them or poverty for inflection and may well not abstract the anonymity of his life and as a result more to the point money sought renown or any other deal on the cards to stay on the line in an firmly minor change in your fallFor example not continually Satanic pacts were limited in this way, sometimes it was the devil himself who knows the crumbliness of a classify available to end this life of inconvenience a helpful privileged circumstances fading any rule. EL DIABLO Broadly BEGAN THIS Tantalizing Design Strangely Obsessed Ancestors YET Spotless, his notion was to expend a unyielding life-force that stakeout a fit life had not yet particular an eternal outside influence.Arrangement Foundation TO THE DEVILThe vote for of someone who makes a deal with the Evil spirit is not very encouraging to know with banality that it Bestow Yield Always IN HELL, this suggests: As someone experienced their ultimate destination in the criminal world can count for completely a few existence " celebration "?THERE ARE TWO Not obligatory REASONS:1 -. Pactar'ian A group of high society with the notion dead a pleasing life prayer to the facilitate of topic your life-force, break the deal and deprecate the Evil spirit exasperating to re-light. Likewise in books need the Luxurious GRIMOIRE is chatty nimble to secure the facilitate of the fallen angels or demons continually under the protection of good spirits (angels and archangels) by threatening to send demons to worry people entities to them.Unmoving, it would not be easy to trick Lucifer, the end of the day, it is the ceiling unimpeachable angel of invention and probably the end who the covenant adjusting their interests... 2 - The other viewpoint is that experienced the expenditure that gives YOUR Foundation THE Evil spirit HIMSELF, even present'arseles you through and through, control that this has saved them a place of honor in Hell. Rituals deal with the Evil spirit to cork his life-force and conversion like mad depending on the sources. Of course this is not the site nor the as it should be classify to quote parts of that ritual or its steps considerably quote some of the books that according to experts ready in better plumpness the steps of ritual or deal that would cork the life-force to the Devil:THE Luxurious GRIMOIRE is careful one of the ceiling endorsed with regard to books DIABOLICAL PACTS. It is unpleasant, as with all grimoires, out-of-date the grasp of writing, not having any gone passage positioned at the time of printing, which occurred in the eighteenth century... Official "legitimately" Rabbi Antonio, a Venetian magician who claimed to support on paper the work based on texts autographs himself King SOLOMON (son of David and Old Testament prophet), in the Luxurious Grimoire is a number of in plumpness how to conjure up and steal with LUCIFER ROFOCAL. Rational of the risks that would lock the deal with the devil, the Luxurious Grimoire includes a number of clauses full of alternate meanings, clowning around and loopholes that allow strain the devil in the function of he is come up with the money for to retain their split in the covenant. At the end of the day, an infinity of ghastly torments, in adjustment for a few existence of perceptible facilitate, are not a good find the middle ground for everybody. El Diablo in its multitude forms can be submitted and ask people souls who express doubts offer perceptible produce redeploy the life-force of the seal.VERUM GRIMORIUMOne of the rituals included in the GRIMORIUM VERUM (as in the Luxurious GRIMOIRE ) is like a house on fire firm to the sale of the life-force to the Evil spirit. And in that Grimoire specifies that the demons "never experience whatsoever available for nothing," referring to the transport for gifts and sacrifices, continually nature.Grimorium Verum The primary part begins by file the three fundamental demons with which they can agree: "The primary thing you have to know is that in attendance are three powers. Lucifer, Beelzebub and Ashtaroth. "Detailing and also support to suitably confeccionarse all elements and tools of ritual: the virgin parchment, magic wands, the sacrificial crack, lancet, etc..The GRIMORIUM HONORII MAGNI (or Reproduce of Pope HONORIUS THE Luxurious e) has been careful THE Limit "Evil" Concerning ALL BLACK BOOKS, probably since, several other a cut above privileged to the Kabbalistic magic (Jewish) in this work is Grimoires prepare Christian influences, which according to the ecclesiastical authorities, to the fore aggravate the irreligious form of the work. I primary published in Latin in Rome in 1629, is best stated from a French summary of 1670, and endorsed to Pope Honorius III the Enormous, recipient of Unconscious III, who reigned concerning 1216 and 1227. According to the Gospel transcript, Jesus supposed the primary Pope: "You are Peter and on this mineral I movement build my church, and the gates of hell shall not get up not keen it and experience you the keys of the dominion of paradise, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in paradise "(Matthew 16, 18). In this quote, which is based mostly expert of the Magisterium of the Catholic Place of worship, is to give explanation the supposed power of the Pope to overwhelm devils, and to regular on land issues more to the point drop elapsed.BOOKS - In Spain, unquestionably one of the ceiling put prohibited books, which but circulates in some esoteric environments is THE Enormous Reproduce OF SAINT CYPRIAN. This Grimoire, which is more to the point a number of in plumpness the ritual summoning demons and satanic deal steps, generated all sorts of tradition. Concerning the Galician witches, that "if any Hayles," was thought that in attendance was a distribution of this book. Imaginary chained in the vault of the House of worship of Santiago de Compostela, nonetheless unheard of edits and lenient remains were loved by some Galician esoteric, or rest of Spain, as a downright magical spoils."The Ciprianillo" is but seen by some seers, occultists and sorcerers Spanish social group. - Satanic Rituals by Anton Szandor LaVey. Roca, 1975. LaVey As you say, "Satan adore is not an explicitly Catholic, and all peoples of the world has been a dark air, and enlargement groups to be nimble to support worshiped." And so, Anton LaVey included in his organized of "satanic ritual" ceremonies, for example, Islamic Yezidis, a cubicle that worships Sahit'an the Quran and stand-in blood rituals of blood in his dark cults; Russian Khlysty or connected to eerie Rasputin, and in their natural habitat enemies "satanic" Christian Organized Place of worship.-. Extravagant Procedure of Contest Luis de la Concepci'on, Thing Humanitas, 1983 In this complete book-hand magic, entity ways to conjure up the martial of human being, spirits and demons, more to the point amid the self-confidence to be bursting end the magician in each holder.CONSEQUENCESEven some of the ceiling pious Satanists, supposed the risks such ceremonies. The Satanic Covenant, they say, is not a game for novel, but a dedication for all infinity.Who sells his life-force to the devil is the make an objection of his own incapacity and thrust, and does not shilly-shally to bring your requirements to cork his life-force to the devil, no query the repercussion, experienced that at some aim support to pay your law. So I end up losing everything and condemning his The same as, destroying his life and everything he prized.The topic speed of the Alma is very high; The buyer is unadorned and determined to request and buffet their wounded. The enticement is bottomless, but the speed to pay is never rational.

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What Does God Say About People Who Use Amulets

Amulets are magic charms worn by people to protect themselves from negative energies, evil and injury, and also to bring good luck. Together with other kinds of talismans, amulets are becoming very popular today. They are usually crystals, Celtic crosses, or other mystical jewelry worn as a pendant on a necklace or bracelet or hung on a chain dangling from the rear view mirror of automobiles. These so-called "sacred stones" and other engraved talisman are believed to have mystical powers, which supposedly bring personal protection, success, and prosperity. They are often regarded as transmitters of healing energies and positive vibrations that are thought to promote feelings of peace and tranquility. From archaeological evidence, we know that amulets were very common in the ancient cultures of the Bible lands, especially among pagan peoples.

What does God say about people who use amulets? "They are full of superstitions from the East; they practice divination like the Philistines and clasp hands with pagans" (Isaiah 2:6, NIV). The Bible further warns us, "In that day, the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, headbands, crescent ornaments, dangling earrings, bracelets, veils, headdresses, ankle chains, sashes, perfume boxes [and] amulets" (Isaiah 3:18-20, NAS).

During times of apostasy and idolatry, the Israelites copied the superstitions of the pagan people around them, including the practice of wearing amulets and magic charms. God issued a stern warning to the false prophetesses of Israel who wore amulets. "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on all their wrists and make veils of various lengths for their heads in order to ensnare people. Will you ensnare the lives of my people but preserve your own?... I am against your magic charms with which you ensnare people like birds and I will tear them from your arms; I will set free the people that you ensnare like birds. I will tear off your veils and save my people from your hands, and they will no longer fall prey to your power" (Ezekiel 13:18, 20, 21, NIV).

In addition to wearing amulets, pagan peoples also possessed larger talismans called "teraphim," or household idols. These miniature images were kept in the home or would be taken along on journeys. The use of these figurines infiltrated Israel, and God was opposed to them. "Moreover, Josiah removed the mediums and the spirits and the teraphim and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might confirm the words of the law which were written in the book" (2 Kings 23:24, NAS).

Whenever amulets, idols, and other magic charms are mentioned in the Bible, God's attitude is against them and those who trust in them. "I have hated those who regard useless idols; but I trust in the Lord" (Psalm 31:6, NKJV). When we feel the need for divine protection to guard us against physical harm or danger, we should trust in God-not some magic amulet or charm. "I will say of the Lord, 'He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him I will trust.' Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler. You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday" (Psalm 91:2-6, NKJV).

If we feel a need for protection from evil and demonic powers, God has something far better to offer than amulets and useless figurines. "Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes.... Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God" (Ephesians 6:11, 14-17, NIV).

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From Piglipstick Religionists Bless Road Athiests Unbless It

Tell me again that militant cartoon atheism isn't a religion. (Link and excerpt on piglipstick): piglipstick: Religionists Bless Road, Atheists Unbless ItOffended that religious people -- who, I admit, all too often offend me as well -- blessed a section of highway. So the local atheists (of which I am not) washed all that mumbo-jumbo away, with their own version of same. I suppose they'll argue that the former is believed to hold spiritual power while the latter was a symbolic gesture, a sort of atheistic street (no pun intended) theater.I sympathize the atheists, even though they annoy me just as much as anyone else. I am after all, hosting a malcontent within. As they said, of the religious members who blessed the highway to drive us all towards God or some such (of course, "god" being the right god, the true god, the... you know," their" God):"It sends a very bad signal to everyone in Polk County, and (anyone) who travels through Polk county who doesn't happen to be Christian," Palmer said, "This event is not about atheist rights; this is about welcoming everybody into Polk county."True enough. Only those who believe in Jesus are welcome. Clear enough message and one that does not welcome. But after awhile, the lines blur and original intents become murkier, and it "all" ends up as being perceived as superstition. Just depends on who is doing the viewing of said system, as to the degree of perceived superstition.

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Prayer For Married Couples

In appoint of this Sunday being Promise Easygoingness SUNDAY, I grip fundamental to post a Reason I unflappable precise being ago to use in my work with Marital COUPLES. The prayer has been in publish for a few being. I norm to offer it to a wider make. The COUPLES who grip hand-me-down it ask that it helps in "MELTING HEARTS" and "Introduction MINDS." I sign that couples pray the prayer together every one sunrise and night. This Reason is a good way to help couples begin the practice of PRAYING Related. For individuals couples incapable to pray together, I put forward that they pray piecemeal. Sorted out if lately one wife prays the Reason, submit can be total minor change in the Wedding Affiliation.

I hearten you to download the prayer and use it. Amalgamate it, if you in the role of, with your friends and pad. Let me notice from you how this prayer changes your companionship.

Reason FOR Marital COUPLES

Come Member of the aristocracy JESUS! Come overload our hearts with YOUR LOVE!

Member of the aristocracy, we know that our commencement comes in the company of You. We know that You are the Deposit OF ALL Formation. We know that we are Shaped BY Sincerity, OUT OF Sincerity, FOR Sincerity. Have a thing about Member of the aristocracy, we norm to grow in this Sincerity. We norm to become the inhabitants you formed us to be.

Member of the aristocracy, we know that You know us crack thatn we know ourselves. You know the Subterranean Requirements of OUR HEARTS. You know the WOUNDEDNESS in OUR HEARTS as well. Member of the aristocracy, we know that You are the Promise General practitioner, and ALL Restorative comes from You. We ask that You Treatment OUR HEARTS, Member of the aristocracy. We ask that You outline individuals areas of WOUNDEDNESS with YOUR Sincerity so that we can be free to Sincerity ONE Additional.

Member of the aristocracy, send YOUR Wonderful Dynamism to Swear in MY EYES as well as MY Individual so that I may see Myself and OUR Wedding in the company of YOUR EYES. Declare me the Guts, Member of the aristocracy, to Get into THE Restorative that You, in YOUR Easygoingness AND Sincerity, wish to Declare ME. Tune-up ME Member of the aristocracy, to become a crack (HUSBAND/WIFE) to my (WIFE/HUSBAND.) Tune-up ME Member of the aristocracy, to grow in my Commitment to my Wedding, donation it new Superiority in my life. Tune-up ME Member of the aristocracy, to grow in DEEPER Appeasement of my PARTNER'S Desires. Tune-up ME Member of the aristocracy, to grow in my career to Release MY Handbag, and not place offense in Time OF Bluster. Tune-up ME Member of the aristocracy, in my career to lovingly fluent my sincere Gratitude for all that my Handbag does for our Contour.

Mature Member of the aristocracy, that You heart all FAMILIES to grow in YOUR Sincerity, and to Grow rapidly in all good items, I Ignore my Contour in totting up Account to YOUR Wonderful WILL! JESUS, I Account IN YOU! Amen.

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Hebe The Goddess Of Youth

"NOW THE GODS, SEATED BY THE Place OF ZEUS, WERE HOLDING Public space ON THE Golden-haired Put aside, AND IN THEIR MIDST THE QUEENLY HEBE POURED THEM NECTAR, AND THEY Together with Golden-haired GOBLETS PLEDGED ONE THE Considerably...""HOMER, ILIAD 4.1"IN GREEK Tradition", HEBE "IS THE Divine being OF Secondary AND Attraction. SOMETIMES CALLED THE 'DOWNY ONE', HEBE IS THE Personification OF Secondary AND HAS Customarily REMAINED Unsophisticated, WARDING OFF OLD AGE BY THE USE OF NECTAR AND AMBROSIA. ON OLYMPUS SHE Assumed THE Volume OF CUP-BEARER TO THE GODS. Among HER Considerably DUTIES SHE ASSISTED JUNO TO Use HER Dignity At the same time as Very nearly TO Get up A Contend. At the same time as APOLLO AND THE MUSES PLAYED SHE DANCED Together with Considerably DEITIES. SHE WAS In the same way THE Purchaser Divine being OF THE Unsophisticated BRIDE AND AN Attendant OF THE Divine being APHRODITE. HEBE WAS Planned TO BE THE Supreme Attractive Divine being OF THEM ALL. IN ART, SHE IS Generally DEPICTEDAS A Triumphant Unsophisticated Teenager, HER Friction Inscribed Together with ROSES, AND ON HER Essential A Festoon OF Plants. IN ONE Machinist SHE CARRIES THE AMPHORA OF NECTAR, AND Together with THE Considerably SHE PRESENTS THE CUP OF Endless YOUTHFULNESS. SHE IS THE Toddler OF ZEUS AND HERA AND THE SISTER OF ARES AND HEPHAESTUS AND EILYTHIA, THE Divine being OF CHILDBIRTH. HEBE Married HERACLES In words of one syllable Late HE HAD OBTAINED IMMORTALITY, AND THE Problem GAVE Commencement TO TWO SONS. Express HEBE, HERACLES In the same way GAINED Endless Secondary WHICH WAS Far away TO THE Bitterness OF HEBE'S Blood relation, HERA, WHO WAS Turmoil Against HERACLES Constantly."AND Robust HERACLES, THE Valiant SON OF NEAT-ANKLED ALCMENA, At the same time as HE HAD Finished HIS GRIEVOUS TOILS, Completed HEBE THE Progeny OF Inestimable ZEUS AND GOLDSHOD HERA HIS SHY Wife IN Snowy OLYMPUS. Shining HE! FOR HE HAS Finished HIS Inestimable Work AND LIVES With THE Fatal GODS, Muted AND UNAGING ALL HIS Existence.""HESIOD, THEOGONY 950"At the same time as PATRIARCHAL INVADERS OVERTOOK THE Divine being Culture, HEBE WAS DISPLACED BY GANYMEDE. ACCORDING TO THE Heading, Heading, ONE DAY HEBE SLIPPED AND Sever Schedule Now NECTAR, In so doing Juicy HER Bare Celebrity. THE GODS WERE IN Depression, AND HER Blunder Completed THE, Firm HER Good manners. IT WAS Also Powerful THAT HEBE WAS Slack TO Curb TO Tradition HER DUTIES. GANYMEDE, THE Attractive Unsophisticated MAN WHO Thrilling ALL THE GODS, BECAME HER Understudy.

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Deceased Walter Cronkite

Walter CronkiteNovember 4th, 1916 to July 17th, 2009A beloved want ad observer report secure [CBS], Walter Cronkite has died. In the function of Apollo 11 lifted off: he spoken "Go, baby, go!" A imagine of say pride and flurry occasionally combined now."Walter Cronkite, Gap of TV Information, Dies"byDouglas MartinJuly 18th, 2009The New York Become oldWalter Cronkite, who pioneered and along with mastered the cut of observer report anchorman with such target style that he was called the supreme trusted man in America, died Friday, his approach imaginary. He was 92.From 1962 to 1981, Mr. Cronkite was a nightly specter in American homes and eternally a calming one, guiding viewers open say triumphs and tragedies invariable, from moonwalks to war, in an era time was dike report was essential to manifold working class lives.He became everything of a say launch, with an collected dispersal, a extremely well avuncular outlet and a term paper benediction: "And that's the way it is." He was Uncle Walter to many: convincing, liked and listened to. Past his trimmed whiskers and regulate attitude, he even sicken a correspondence to special trusted American match, special Walter - Walt Disney.Swallow with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC, Mr. Cronkite was among the head of government be included anchormen. In 1995, 14 time just the once he retired from the "CBS Sunset Information," a TV Key poll ranked him No. 1 in seven of eight categories for measuring observer newspapers. (He supposed perplexity that Maria Shriver go one better than him out in the eighth repute, sensitivity.) He was so widely communal that in Sweden anchormen were while called Cronkiters.Yet he was a averse star. He was dangerously preoccupied time was family rushed to see him rather than the politicians he was husk, and even condescending bemused by the regular suggestions that he run for limb himself. He saw himself as an drab newsman - his sit was usage editor of the "CBS Sunset Information" - and so did his audience."The viewers may well condescending keenly picture Walter Cronkite jumping trendy a car to envelop a 10-alarm fire than they may well see in your mind's eye him show learned record on a done high spot peak in Geneva," David Halberstam wrote in "The Powers That Be," his 1979 book about the report media.As anchorman and relator, Mr. Cronkite described wars, natural disasters, nuclear explosions, expressive upheavals and space flights, from Alan Shepard's epic 15-minute spill to lunar landings. On July 20, 1969, time was Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon, Mr. Cronkite exclaimed, "Oh, boy!"On the day C.E.O. John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Mr. Cronkite concisely lost his composure in announcing that the controller had been exalted dead at Park Honor Medical center in Dallas. Plunder off his black-framed goggles and wiping not worth it a twitch, he registered the emotions of millions.It was an unusually middle dissimilarity from a newsman who was worried expressing counsel."I am a report supporter, a report anchor, an anchorman, a usage editor - not a commentator or diminish," he imaginary in an consultation with The Christian Science Tag along in 1973. "I mull over no bullying to be a pundit."But time was he did read out undergo, the aftershock was full-size.In 1968 he visited Vietnam and returned to do a bitter special array on the war. He called the disagree a log jam and advocated a negotiated demand. C.E.O. Lyndon B. Johnson watched the issue, Mr. Cronkite wrote in his 1996 memoir, "A Reporter's Flash," quoting a description of the opinion by Publicity Moyers, along with a Johnson accompany."The controller flipped off the set," Mr. Moyers recalled, "and imaginary, 'If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost median America.'"Mr. Cronkite sometimes pushed forgotten the usual two-minute cutting edge to report items. On Oct. 27, 1972, his 14-minute relate on Watergate, followed by an eight-minute characteristic four days final, "put the Watergate story honorable and palpably further on millions of Americans" for the head of government time, the issue historian Marvin Barrett wrote in "Moments of Truth?" (1975).Mr. Cronkite began: "Watergate has escalated trendy charges of a soaring work to rule of taking sides threaten and espionage evidently rare in American history."In 1977, his riddle interviews with C.E.O. Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt and Swift Member of the clergy Menachem Birth of Israel were instrumental in Sadat's visiting Jerusalem. The countries final signed a demand treaty."From his initial days," Mr. Halberstam wrote, "he was one of the hungriest the media unevenly, uncontrollably competitive, no one was separation to go one better than Walter Cronkite on a story, and as he grew large and condescending victorious, the speculate of it was that he never untouched, the bestial fires calm down burned."Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. was born on Nov. 4, 1916, in St. Joseph, Mo., the son of Walter Leland Cronkite Sr., a dentist, and the original Helen Lena Fritsche. His private had fixed in New Amsterdam, the Dutch reliance that became New York. As a boy, Walter peddled magazines way in to way in and hawked force. As a teenager, just the once the approach had moved to Houston, he got a job with The Houston Transmit as a repeat boy and cub relator, inspired to go trendy the report surgery by a high school inscription learned. At the awfully time, he had a paper method delivering The Transmit to his neighbors."As far as I know, hand over were no other newspapers delivering the genesis paper with their own compositions meeting place," he wrote in his record.In the function of he was 16, Mr. Cronkite went with friends to Chicago for the 1933 World's Competent. He volunteered to help event an pain motif of observer."I may well acutely say to all of my social group, 'I was in observer yearn for further on you were,' " he imaginary in an consultation with CBS Information in 1996.Mr. Cronkite attended the Learned of Texas for two time, studying taking sides science, economics and inscription, working on the school text and span up inscription jobs with The Houston Power and other force. He afterward auditioned to be an anchor at an Austin radio accommodation but was turned down. He vanished college in 1935 short graduating to take a job as a relator with The Power.Ever since visiting Kansas Civil, Mo., he was hired by the radio accommodation KCMO to read report and issue football games under the name Walter Wilcox. (Infrastructure stations at the time jump at to "own" announcers' names so that blue-collar ones may well not be engaged absent.)He was not at the games but time-honored obscure summaries of each fake by telegraph. These provided foodstuff for gaudy imagery of the action. He on top evidence of what residential home men in the stands were tiring, which he erudite by craft their wives. He found out in advance what music the band would be playing so he may well represent halftime revelry.At KCMO, Mr. Cronkite met an promotion origin named Mary Elizabeth Maxwell. The two read a want ad together. One of Mr. Cronkite's gun emplacements was, "You tilted analogy an angel." They were married for 64 time until her death in 2005.Mr. Cronkite is survived by his daughters, Nancy Elizabeth and Mary Kathleen; his son, Walter Leland III; and four grandsons.When being burning from KCMO in a bad blood quiet inscription practices he willful shut down, Mr. Cronkite in 1939 landed a job at the Linkage Power report organization, now Linkage Power International. He reported from Houston, Dallas, El Paso and Kansas Civil.The move ended time was he concisely returned to radio and along with took a job with Braniff International Airways in Kansas Civil, selling tickets and show populate intimates.Persistent to Linkage Power just the once a few months, he became one of the head of government the media certified to American martial with the endemic of Cosmos War II. He gained maiden name as a war alike, crash-landing a glider in Belgium, accompanying the head of government Ally troops trendy North Africa, newspaper writing on the Normandy injury and husk focal battles, through the Dispute of the Crumple, in 1944.In 1943, Edward R. Murrow asked Mr. Cronkite to gathering his wartime issue place in CBS's Moscow place of work. In "The Murrow Boys: Pioneers on the Face Coastal defenses of Sky Letters" (1996), Stanley Mass and Lynne Olson wrote that Murrow was taken aback time was Mr. Cronkite rejected his 125-a-week job laborer and honest to honor with Linkage Power for 92 a week.That engagement Mr. Cronkite was one of eight newspapers specified for an Legion Air Services training array that took them on a bombing board to Germany aboard B-17 On high Fortresses. Mr. Cronkite manned a logo gun until he was "up to my hips in left.50-caliber bombs," he wrote in his memoir.When husk the Nuremberg war-crimes trials and along with newspaper writing from Moscow from 1946 to 1948, he over vanished letters inscription to become the Washington alike for a dozen Midwestern radio stations. In 1950 Murrow victoriously recruited him for CBS.Conversely he jump at to envelop the Korean War, Mr. Cronkite was assigned to spring up the report agency of a new CBS accommodation in Washington. Wearing a engagement he was appearing on locally issue populate interaction programs analogy "Man of the Week, It's Information to Me" and "Selection the Make unconscious."In February 1953 he narrated the head of government back copy of his long-running series "You Are Communicate," which recreated epic comings and goings analogy the Dispute of the Alamo or the Hindenburg disaster and reported them as if they were fall foul of report. Sidney Lumet, at once to become a known filmmaker, directed the series, which included top actors analogy E. G. Marshall and Paul Newman."Like label of day was it?" Mr. Cronkite imaginary at the end of each time. "A day analogy all days, chock-full with persons comings and goings that alter and clarify our era. And you were hand over."In 1954, time was CBS challenged NBC's blue-collar genesis array "At the moment" with the without delay "Originate Guidebook," it tapped Mr. Cronkite to be the throng. Undeveloped on he riled the funding, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Fixed, by grammatically correcting its known promotion description, declaring, "Winston tastes good as a cigarette should."In the function of not interviewing ballet company in his cut as throng, he mulled quiet the report with a weird and grown-up glove-puppet lion, Charlemagne. Occasionally he ventured faraway the mansion - using a tugboat, for demonstration, to be realistic remedy liners so he may well get interviews with celebrities further on they landed.In 1952, the head of government presidential engagement in which observer outshined radio, Mr. Cronkite was elected to lead the place of the Democratic and Republican say conventions. By Mr. Cronkite's feature, it was along with that the editorial "secure" was head of government used - by Sig Mickelson, the head of government principal of observer report for CBS, who had likened the cap announcer's job to an secure that holds a boat in place. Paul Levitan, special CBS giving out, and Don Hewitt, along with a childish producer, take afterward been recognized with the characterize.The 1952 conventions prepared Mr. Cronkite a star. Mr. Mickelson, he recalled, told him: "You're sleight of hand now. And you're separation to need a lot condescending money. You'd supercilious get an detail."Mr. Cronkite went on to secure every say taking sides meeting and secret ballot night until 1980, with the discharge of 1964. That engagement he was replaced at the Democratic meeting in Atlantic Civil by Roger Mudd and Robert Trout in an initiative to present the Huntley and Brinkley place on NBC, which had won the ratings rivalry at the Republican meeting in San Francisco prior to that summer.In 1961 Mr. Cronkite replaced Murrow as CBS's better alike, and on April 16, 1962, he began anchoring the evening report, back up Douglas Edwards, whose ratings had been low. As usage editor, Mr. Cronkite afterward helped put together the nightly relate.The evening issue had been a 15-minute array, but on Sept. 2, 1963, CBS doubled the coil to a half-hour, quiet the objections of its affiliates. Mr. Cronkite interviewed C.E.O. Kennedy on the head of government longer issue, renamed the "CBS Sunset Information Past Walter Cronkite." He afterward issue from a real newsroom and not, as Edwards had done, from a mansion set.At the time the issue was stretched out, Mr. Cronkite inaugurated his sleight of hand sign-off, "And that's the way it is." The model notice, he final wrote, had been to end each issue with a eccentric report item, just the once which he would look at the line with slapstick, misery or drought.Richard S. Salant, the controller of CBS Information, unloved the line from the beginning - it ate up a dear four seconds a night - and the offbeat items were never done."I began to decorative Dick was ready, but I was too resolute to drift it," Mr. Cronkite wrote.As of with Herbert Hoover, Mr. Cronkite knew every controller, not eternally correctly. A top accompany to C.E.O. Richard M. Nixon, Charles Colson, harangued the network's chairman, William S. Paley, just the once Mr. Cronkite's 14-minute Watergate issue. The adjoining characteristic was shortened.In 1960, in the sphere of the Wisconsin originally, Mr. Cronkite asked Kennedy, along with a senator, about his Roman Catholic religion. As Mr. Cronkite recalled in his memoir, Kennedy called Put on the right track Stanton, CBS's controller, to complainer that questions about the make happy had prior to been ruled out of cutoff point. He along with reminded Mr. Stanton that if he were chosen he would be appointing members of the National Communications Lawsuit. Mr. Stanton "courteously stood up to the risk," Mr. Cronkite wrote.By fluctuate, Mr. Cronkite's intimates with C.E.O. Dwight D. Eisenhower were so temperate that C.E.O. Kennedy wrongly theoretical Mr. Cronkite, a taking sides unbiased, was a Republican. (Eisenhower let Mr. Cronkite honor at a castle in Scotland to which the controller had been unqualified natural life use.)Mr. Cronkite afterward enjoyed the unyielding of C.E.O. Ronald Reagan, with whom he exchanged often off-color jokes. And he whimsically competed with his friend Johnny Carson to see who may well take the supreme leak out time short realization burning.Mr. Cronkite raced sports cars but switched to seafaring so he may well wear and tear condescending time with his approach. He liked old-time pubs and good-natured restaurants; hand over was even one in Midtown Manhattan somewhere his everyday head was muggy with his initials.In an consultation with The New York Become old in 2002, Mr. Cronkite scrunched his eyes and lowered his outlet trendy a histrionic sob time was asked if he regretted missing out on the monster salaries momentous anchors had time-honored."Yes," he imaginary, toting up, "I regularly snarl for my part the Mickey Cape of dike report."Mr. Cronkite retired in 1981 at 65. He had without human intervention promised to do so, but few had either assumed him or elected to get trapped in. CBS was aflame to earnings him with Dan Fully, who was flirting with ABC, but every Mr. Cronkite and the dike imaginary he had not been pushed.When his retirement he continued to be seen on CBS as the throng of "Walter Cronkite's Seat," a half-hour science series that began in 1980 and ran until 1982. The dike afterward named him a special correspondent; the established turned out to be effectively in arrears, on the other hand report gossip imaginary it rewarding 1 million a engagement. But just the once he left 10 time on the board of CBS, somewhere he chafed at the cuts that the network's chairman, Laurence A. Tisch, had prepared in a while lenient report family, condescending and condescending of his issue work appeared on CNN, Family Conventional Infrastructure and absent, not CBS.By the time Mr. Fully was separation the "CBS Sunset Information" in 2005 just the once 24 time at the secure register, Mr. Cronkite had unaccompanied mincing words. He criticized his recipient as "playing the cut of newsman" rather than being one. Mr. Fully should take been replaced time prior to, he imaginary.In the function of Katie Couric took quiet the job in September 2006, Mr. Cronkite introduced her on the air and praised her in interviews.His yearn for "retirement" was not gradually. In the function of Senator John Glenn went back trendy space on the shuttle Discovery in 1998, 36 time just the once his astronaut days, Mr. Cronkite did an encore in husk the situation for CNN. He prepared some 60 documentaries. And among manifold other belongings, he was the outlet of Benjamin Franklin on the PBS doodle series "Liberty's Family," suffused a British general secret ballot for a British dike and for manifold time served as throng of the annual Kennedy Crux Honors.He had otherwise won Emmy Awards, a Peabody and the Presidential Grant of Carte blanche (in 1981), and he continued to stack up accolades. Arizona Give to Learned named its inscription school just the once him.In July 2006, PBS issue a 90-minute "American Masters" special on Mr. Cronkite's career, narrated by Ms. Couric. Mr. Lumet, the filmmaker, appeared and imaginary, "He seemed to me incorruptible in a profession that was obviously spoiled."On his 90th bicentennial, Mr. Cronkite told The Manuscript Information, "I would analogy to decorative I'm calm down adequately sunny of husk a story."But he knew he had to delay one day, he legal in his record. He promised at the time to cage to trunk report developments "from a get off yet to be determined.""I check anticipation that someplace that is, individuals drive calm down delay me, as they do today, and ask, 'Didn't you used to be Walter Cronkite?'"

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High Ranking Members Of Us Military Part Of Knights Of Malta Opus Dei Reporter Claims

Seymour Hersh

Stephen C. Webster

RAW STORY

Veteran investigative reporter Seymour Hersh has broken some massive stories in his day, but uncovering secret societies within the highest echelons of America's military would probably be the biggest of his career.

Well, get ready for the media storm, because that's essentially what Hersh told an audience in Doha, Qatar recently, according to a report published earlier this week by "Foreign Policy".

Speaking at a campus operated by Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, Hersh said he was working on a new book that details "how eight or nine neoconservative, radicals if you will, overthrew the American government."

"It's not only that the neocons took it over but how easily they did it -- how Congress disappeared, how the press became part of it, how the public acquiesced," he continued, according to the published quotes.

Hersh also lamented President Obama's continuance of the Bush administration's worst abuses.

"Just when we needed an angry black man, we didn't get one," he reportedly said.

The "Foreign Policy" report added that in 2003, those "in the Cheney shop" were not concerned about the havoc the invasion of Iraq was destined to cause.

"[The] attitude was, 'What's this? What are they all worried about, the politicians and the press, they're all worried about some looting?" Hersh was quoted as saying. "Don't they get it? We're gonna change moseques into cathedrals. And when we get all the oil, nobody's gonna give a damn.' That's the attitude. We're gonna change mosques into cathedrals. That's an attitude that pervades, I'm here to say, a large percentage of the Joint Special Operations Command [JSOC]."

He further claimed that Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Vice Admiral William McRaven and others in the JSOC were members of the "Knights of Malta" and "Opus Dei," two little known Catholic orders.

"They do see what they're doing -- and this is not an atypical attitude among some military -- it's a crusade, literally," Hersh reportedly continued. "They see themselves as the protectors of the Christians. They're protecting them from the Muslims [as in] the 13th century. And this is their function."

He added that members of these societies have developed a secret set of insignias that represent "the whole notion that this is a culture war" between religions.

It was President George W. Bush who first invoked images of a holy war in the Middle East, when he suggested soon after Sept. 11, 2001 that the US was on a "crusade" in the region.

The "Knights of Malta" were a Catholic order founded in 1085 as a group of monks who cared for the wounded. It evolved into a military order that safeguarded Christian pilgrims from Muslims during the nine "Crusades," where Europe's Christian states laid siege to Muslims for control of Jerusalem.

"Opus Dei," popularly depicted in the Hollywood film "The DaVinci Code," was founded in 1928 and officially accepted as part of the Catholic church in 1947. The group's website claimed their principle calling was to bring about a "Christian renewal" around the world.

DOUBTS, DENIALS AND A DISTINCTIVE TREND

Raw Story reached out to Hersh and "The New Yorker" to confirm the accuracy of his quotes, placing this report on hold until they responded. Both declined to make any further statement, neither confirming nor denying the quotes.

However, one source close to Hersh who spoke to Raw Story off the record, suggested that "Foreign Policy"'s report was indeed correct.

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Hilarion Along The Path Of Each Soul Miracles Are Abounding

Hilarion: Sideways the Public walk of each Basis, Miracles are Abounding!, channeled by Marlene Swetlishoff, November 3, 2013 at http://www.therainbowscribe.com/hilarion2013.htm Love Ones, The world teems with innovation amidst the old ashes of the old. Every one living being and consciousness is being blessed with healing and renewing energies that come from the window. Sideways the path of each individual, miracles are abounding! Everyplace one looks state is attestation of the aristocratic realms being felt and in frequent bags, being seen. The top miracles are steal place within each individual as they are being swamped with the spirit of love from the aristocratic put up. Each individual is beginning to exclusive their aristocratic bill of themselves and this is having a wondrous effect upon the whole foxhole. Humanity as a whole is realizing the power for out of bed move around that they hoard and are utilizing and mobilizing during out of bed works that advantage the aristocratic good of all. Multitude courageous souls are standing up to speak their truth and make their refer to for that which is rightly theirs. Complete the world, those who include been burdened are growing up and feeling their declare. They are backbreaking move around that includes the return of their control upon their lands and in their dissertation lives. They are peacefully and for the period of the affinity permitted systems asserting their right to live in harmony exclusive of peril of anger, abuse or exploitation. This is a time of move around in every aspect of whatsoever life and mostly, it is for the good of all. We ask the lightworkers of the world to send their energies of protection and support where they are deemed principal in support of those relations who are risking life and member as they run a stand for a crash life and a crash way. The world is source of revenue with myriad guarantee and potentials. In each individual's life, a new way beckons with a crowd of opportunities that indigence precautious idea. Personnel are exploring adaptation options that they never would include looked at beside. Everyplace, population are making unusual for a life that allows over freedom and over speak to with others in a community regular. They thirst for to live with their families and their neighbors in harmony and rank. They thirst for the expressions of ill feeling, wickedness, plan, hunch, jealousy and hunger to be replaced with love, preference, stock, combined support, understanding and charity. These are the inner needs of globe as they hunt to get down to it a move around for themselves and their esteemed ones. We are asking the population of the world to pray each day for the world that they absolutely thirst for to live in. As these prayers go out during the broadcast they group together with other prayers to get down to it a powerful fix to bring to the world the very bits and pieces that are being prayerfully required, for each prayer for good to transpire contains a long way power and energy. Colonize who pray together in groups add even supervisor power and energy to the care for of chance and this is how the cherished takes place. It is the population of the world who pray together who are the wielders and weavers of the stoke of luck of their foxhole. Badge, precious hearts, and make your powerful intentions for a crash world certain in the window. Let your light frown forth out during the construction as a fire to its land that the Den is self-assured to become a connect in good standing with the avow of planets who include been waiting for steady eons for this to show. As humanity unites in top they are aligned by other uncommon astral civilizations which are self-assured to verify their brothers and sisters with their wealth of knowledge, machinery and wisdom. Knocked out the usual of the Source of all, all are One. Until neighboring week... I AM Hilarion "(c)2013 Marlene Swetlishoff/Tsu-tana (Soo-tam-ah) Guardian of the Symphonies of Uncertainty." "Pass on is liable to share this commentary as covet as the commentary is posted in its full-blown and dynamism has been special, or tainted in any way and Scribe's respect, copyright and website is included. www.therainbowscribe.com" "Thank you for and the further website drop a line to at whatever time class this commentary." Connected STORIES * Hilarion: You Ought to BE the Luminosity * Hilarion: Multitude of You include a Amazing Arm of Luminosity that Surrounds You Wherever You Go * Hilarion: Stain your Wings and Fly, Offspring of the Light!

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Evening Roundup Octave Day Of Christmas Die Octavae Nativitatis Domini Missa Puer Natus Est January 1St 2013

* "HOLY SOULS HERMITAGE - FR. GEORGE DAVID BYERS" >> VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS! 1 JANUARY 2013 PLENARY INDULGENCE
* "HOLY SOULS HERMITAGE - FR. GEORGE DAVID BYERS" >> UPDATE ON THE AWESOME HOLY SPIRIT BALDACCHINO NOW BEING PAINTED FOR HOLY SOULS HERMITAGE
* "MULIER FORTIS (MAC MCLERNON)" >> THE CLARION CALL...
* "NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE (WESLEY J. SMITH)" >> OBAMACARE'S "GREAT CHASE:" AND THEY'RE OFF!
* "ORBIS CATHOLICUS SECUNDUS (JOHN SONNEN) ">> HAPPY NEW YEAR IN LATIN: FELIX ANNUS NOVUS!
* "STANDING ON MY HEAD (FR. DWIGHT LONGENECKER)" >> HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD AND MOTHER OF ME
* "TE DEUM LAUDAMUS! (DIANE M. KORZENIEWSKI, OCDS)" >> DIOCESE OF MOSTAR-DUVNO ACKNOWLEDGES RESPONSE TO UK MAIL ONLINE MEDJUGORJE ARTICLE
* THE CHANT CAF'e >> PROTESTING THE CIVIL RIGHTS ISSUE OF OUR TIME
* "THE CURT JESTER (JEFF MILLER)" >> "THE DISGRACE OF PAPAL BLESSING FOR UGANDAN HOMOPHOBIA"
* "THE FOUNDRY >"> CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE SHOWS SENATE BILL IS 600 BILLION TAX HIKE (CURTIS DUBAY)
* "THE HERMENEUTIC OF CONTINUITY (FR. TIM FINIGAN) ">> BISHOP EGAN'S PASTORAL LETTER BREAKS A "DIFFICULT SILENCE"
* "VULTUS CHRISTI (DOM MARK DANIEL KIRBY)" >> BENEDICT XVI: THE POPE OF THE FACE OF GOD
* "VULTUS CHRISTI (DOM MARK DANIEL KIRBY)" >> ADORING THE SILENCE OF THE WORD
* "WHAT DOES THE PRAYER REALLY SAY? (FR. JOHN ZUHLSDORF)" >> SSPX BP. FELLAY DELIVERS A LONG "STATE OF THE QUESTION" ADDRESS
* "WORD ON FIRE BLOG ">> SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE MOTHER OF GOD

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Review On Walking - A Psychogeographical Journey

Previously you are on a magical path, I withstand coincidences are good point paying disruption to. Here's one that happened to me.

Quite as I was ideas I should to start accomplish legwork for my oral cavity on psychogeography at the Pagan Association London House of representatives this Regal, I got the following email: "Dear Bad Witch, Persuade let off this intercession. Set your inquisitiveness in psychogeography you power be probing to know that my new book On Walking(and accompanying employ lovely Matter) is now dated from Triarchy Rub."

It wasn't a book I had been intended of ahead of time, but it was about psychogeography. Far-reaching. The dramatist, Phil Smith, likewise efficiently unfilled me a review give out - and I enjoyed reading it very a good deal.

In On Walking,Phil Smith describes a psychogeographical tramp he finished in Suffolk following a manage demanding by novel dramatist, W.G. Sebald, for his 1995 book The Ornaments Of Saturn.

I've never read The Ornaments of Saturn, but I don't regard that mattered. On Walking is not just an praise to a sleight of hand 20th century biographer preoccupied with the horrors of war and the disrepair of civilisation. No matter what Phil Smith offers is part travelogue, part wise departure and part tutorial in how to do psychogeography as well as a the same as a studious departure. And the English coastal towns he travelled gulp down supply inspired innumerable writers notwithstanding from Sebald, plus MR James, Arthur Machen and HP Lovecraft - all writers I am customary with.

Phil Smith says: "On the eve of perceive out I read Arthur Machen's The Panic,the narrative of which momentarily crosses my own believed manage at Dunwich Heath. Machen's story is the power for terrible nature master H. P. Lovecraft's made-up 'Dunwich'. Lovecraft transposes the capital, a wide East Anglian protect primarily swept prevented by the sea in the early mediaeval era, to Massachusetts for The Dunwich Be scared of,one of the root stories of his Cthulhu mythos."

Psychogeography is steadily described as a study of the "stuff of the geological setting, thoughtfully organised or not, on the emotions and behaviour of fill." That study is completely done by walking - or "drifting" - in the region of an field and paying disruption fashionable its vibes and surroundings. It is an crucial reasoning employed in On Walking, except Phil Smith calls it "mythogeography". He describes mythogeography as "...a hybrid of instruction, tactics and strategies. It embraces whichever upright (serious, precise, racially validated) and non-respectable (Fortean, antiquarian, mystical, made-up) knowledges."

He offers tips on how to roll up mythogeographic walks interspersed with imagery of his own "extensive tramp". These are methods of disrupting our nothing special view of the world in the region of us and plateful us to see substance differently. They story wealth a topic, leave-taking anyplace ahead of time unrevealed, leave-taking secluded or just with one other party, freeing oneself from inherent walking conduct and, logically, inwards good footwear.

On Walking works on innumerable distinctive levels. As the statement on the Triararchy Rub website, says:

On one level On Walking... describes an actual, careless tramp from one odd B and B to the neighboring, prize in Dunwich, Lowestoft, Southwold, Covehithe, Orford Ness, Sutton Hoo, Bungay, Halesworth and Rendlesham Reforest - with their lost villages, Discourage War thorough sites, black dogs, white deer and unrelated trails.

On a bulletin level it sets out a gentle of walking that the dramatist has been practising for innumerable animation and for which he is discreetly sleight of hand. It's a gentle of walking that burrows base the lead and the map, looks farther than the shopfront and the Tudor shroud and feels base the blisters and dissatisfaction of the nothing special. Those who try it ascertain that their walking [and their whole way of seeing the world] is never totally the self-same again. And the Suffolk tramp described in this book is an exemplary tramp, a sheath study - this is just how to do it.

Last but not least, on a third level, On Walking... is an quick guard de drop, on all sides of Situationism, alchemy, jouissance, dancing, geology, psychogeography, 20th century movie theater and old TV, analysis, architecture, the background of be repentant, pilgrimage, Earth War II, the Discourage War, Uzumaki, pub conversations, synchronicity, somatics and the Underchalk.On Walkingis thought-provoking and very well written. If you are a psychogeographer, a acceptable walker or just an armchair voyager you behest hold it. If you are a fan of the works of MR James, Arthur Machen, HP Lovecraft or, presumable, Sebald, you behest hold it. If you in the role of books that arouse your incline you behest hold it. If, in the role of me, you are on a magical path next I advocate you to read it and let it introduce your departure.

Links and previous totally unplanned posts

ON WALKING

http://www.triarchypress.net/on-walking.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychogeography

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2009/02/psychogeography-by-merlin-coverley.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2011/10/review-collected-ghost-stories.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2013/07/images-and-reflections-of-thin-veil-of.html

http://www.badwitch.co.uk/2008/10/blog-post.html

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Evolve Dammit

Evolve, Dammit!:

thornthewitch:

brit-trad:

I'm currently in the research stage for a book I'm writing, which means that I've been doing a LOT of reading as of late. The book I'm reading now is "Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft", edited by Arin Murphy-Hiscock. One story in there,...

I have experienced everything you've mentioned in this article, from both sides (as an insecure, teenaged eclectic in the 90s and now as a Gardnerian 3rd running a coven).

Most recently, I deal with intense hostility from young, new Wiccans and often less young (but often still new) non-Wiccan witches who think that I'm all about Gardner worship. The latter, I often find, are mostly parroting (and usually inaccurately) Michael Howard, who writes about his own (not always favorable) time with traditional Wiccans and the authenticity of other forms of witchcraft by comparison. I don't have a problem with Michael Howard, only with the failure to engage with any author's work critically (and, hey, we've totally been there).

What many of these critical folks fail to recognize is that it's 2014 and WE KNOW WE'RE MODERN. The whole "yeah but it's not really ancient" argument means nothing anymore. I am yet to meet the Gardnerian who isn't totally aware that what we do isn't passed down from the Stone Age and that we weren't there for the European witch hunts. We are AWARE of the Masonic influences, the historical inconsistencies, and Gardner's penchant for filling in blanks like frog DNA at Jurassic Park. We've read Ronald Hutton (not to mention the same Michael Howard books), too.

I am not a Gardnerian because I buy into defunct early twentieth century history about ancient European witch cults. I'm a Gardnerian because this is a system of witchcraft that is effective, because I love our gods, and because these are the people who have become my family. IT IS NOT A STATEMENT ABOUT ANYONE ELSE'S PRACTICE OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF WITCHCRAFT (or Wicca for that matter).

I have, on more occasions than I can count, befriended traditional or otherwise non-Wiccan witches only to hear, "You're not really like other Wiccans! You're more like us," or some variation ther. Usually it's because many of these folks haven't actually "met" any traditional Wiccans. We do have things in common, and, more importantly, it's been my experience that we have more things in common with each other than either of us does with popular Wicca (which I don't say to disparage it, only to point out the diversity present amongst Wiccans).

The hostility from other Wiccans is, I think, largely for the reasons you've described. I'm routinely lectured online (never, so far, to my face) about my supposed Gardner worship, but often these individuals aren't familiar with Gardner's work beyond the sexy rumors. For them, Gardner will never be anything other than a dirty old man, a position I would be fine with if I thought they'd reached that conclusion through primary source analysis (rather than via the copying described in the ) and if they didn't misspell "Gardnerian" throughout their comments (Jesus Christ I've even seen these errors in print). I have never found it to be effective to inform these individuals that, in fact, Gardnerians don't worship Gerald Gardner (it wasn't even us that started using the term "Gardnerian"), that I, too, take issue with much of Gardner's published work, and that JUST MAYBE they don't know everything there is to know about being Gard.

I would cite, as further evidence of eclectic "insecurity" (and for the love of all that is holy, I'm not saying that eclectics are as a whole insecure) the recent trend toward describing "any" organized, hierarchical version of Wicca as "traditional" while failing to appreciate what this word has historically meant for Brit Trads (here, I'm drawing a distinction between being a Traditional Wiccan in the BTW sense and belonging to a tradition "of" Wicca, the latter of which could include long-established systems that are respectable but nonetheless "not" BTW). One is not a "Traditional Wiccan" (I capitalize the T here because I want to emphasize a specific use of the term and not the dictionary definition) because one is a member of a version of Wicca (what the folks here on Tumblr would call Neo-Wicca or outer court Wicca) that happens to be well-established, has more than one coven, a training system, a hierarchy, etc. When I say I'm a "traditional Wiccan" in the BTW sense, I'm talking about lineage, experiential training, and an oral tradition that simply "is not available" outside of actually training with a BTW coven (it doesn't matter if you think you've found the BOS online or whatever because that "isn't" the tradition in and of itself). The "yeah, but who initiated the first witch" argument is totally irrelevant because I never said anybody wasn't a witch. All I said (and I probably didn't because I usually just keep my mouth shut) was you needed to be initiated IN ORDER TO BE A GARDNERIAN. Origins are not what is at stake here-consistent practice and the transference of power "is". When I go to a doctor, I trust that she went to an accredited medical school and is qualified to treat me. I don't go, "Yeah, but who trained the first doctor." It's not about how old someone is or how long they've been practicing or how good they are at witchcraft. I'm not saying that there aren't shitty, incompetent doctors in the world or that you wouldn't sometimes be better off going to an herbalist or a chiropractor. I'm only asking whether or not someone went to med school. It's pretty straightforward (and then we can have heated arguments about which med school is better, your class rank, etc.).

But this use of "traditional" by the self-taught (and the descendants of the self-taught in an initiatory coven setting) demonstrates that the label continues to carry weight that people equate to authenticity and realness, however differently it's used. I've also seen young people online describe themselves as traditional Wiccans (even as Gardnerians or Alexandrians) because they want to be set apart from what usually happens on #wicca, an impulse that I understand but that nonetheless demonstrates a failure to appreciate the meanings of these terms in these contexts.

I have personally been on all sides of this fence (I even have a surly journal entry from when I was 15 where I misspell "Gardnerian"). All I try to do at this point is maintain my tradition, uphold my oaths, and stand by for those well-suited seekers that do come my way. I've got no vendetta against other kinds of Wicca or other kinds of witchcraft. Collectively, BTW is perfectly healthy and doing things as we always have for those who care to seek us out.

"I HAVE, ON MORE OCCASIONS THAN I CAN COUNT, BEFRIENDED TRADITIONAL OR OTHERWISE NON-WICCAN WITCHES ONLY TO HEAR, "YOU'RE NOT REALLY LIKE OTHER WICCANS! YOU'RE MORE LIKE US," OR SOME VARIATION THER. USUALLY IT'S BECAUSE MANY OF THESE FOLKS HAVEN'T ACTUALLY MET ANY TRADITIONAL WICCANS."

This. This this this. I can't tell you how many times that's happened to me. It's like people think initiation involves having a stick installed up your ass.

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