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The idea of a four-day workweek is catching attention. Young workers in particular see it as the wave of the future, while others worry it will undermine America prosperity. Economists have pondered the viability of a four-day workweek since research by Janice Hedges in 1971. Recently, though, a magical idea has come to the fore: Let employees work one fewer day per week at the same hours per day and same pay, and they will accomplish just as much as in a standard five-day workweek. All the fuss prompted us to ask several hundred American business executives and several thousand...

The Renaissance was the beginning of a great falling away from Jesus Christ (John 1) and the Christian faith. Apostates did not fall away into nothing but into the ancient Mysteries, Hermeticism, mystical Eastern pantheism and evolution and reincarnation, alchemy, magic and more. Coming out of the Renaissance were many occult and diabolically occult secret societies and alchemical magicians such as Hegel and Karl Marx in performance of the Great Work of fusing opposites. In his own time, Teilhard de Chardin also performed the Great Work.Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was an occult evolutionary scientist, New Age Hindu-style pantheist, occult Hermetic...

Former President Donald Trump has all but dropped a key word from his vocabulary: Republican. He didn’t say it when he met with supporters — including a Jan. 6 defendant — at the Red Arrow Diner in Manchester, New Hampshire, late last month. During remarks to a packed ballroom at the DoubleTree hotel earlier that day, he said it only in praising some GOP governors’ work during the Covid-19 pandemic. Since he hit the campaign trail in early March, according to an NBC review of Trump’s speeches, interviews, video posts and face-to-face interactions with voters, the front-runner for the Republican...

Today a majority of Westerners, especially the corrupt Luciferian rulers of our post-Christian nations, accept that the Christian God is dead, that science, Darwinism, and revolutionary Enlightenment philosophers disproved His existence long ago.

A Dutch researcher predicted that an earthquake would hit the region, highlighting with almost exact precision the epicenter of the quake that would soon strike. A Dutch expert published a tweet on his Twitter account three days before the earthquake in Turkey on Monday, predicting that a powerful earthquake would happen imminently in Turkey. He even attached an aerial photograph and marked the area where the disaster would happen. Dutch seismologist Frank Hoogerbeets, who works for the Solar System Geometry Survey (SSGS) in the Netherlands, predicted the earthquake in Turkey on February 3. The prediction On his Twitter account, the...

According to Radio France Internationale, Cameroon's national soccer team and the soccer federation are using spells and magic. The October 6 report alleges that most Cameroonian footballers rush to remote villages deep in the equatorial forest, in search of traditional healers. Cameroon's Football Association President Samuel Eto'o has described the allegations as ridiculous and defamatory. Eto'o, a football legend, added that the such reports are not in keeping with a renowned media house and that it was both disrespectful and unpleasant. He added that he believes in freedom of expression but that he does not believe in defamatory articles. Eto'o...

Walt Disney World used to be the place where memories were made and dreams were realized. But has the magic faded away? Park-goers are increasingly complaining about dirty facilities, broken-down rides, and prices that seem to come from a galaxy far, far away.“Some rides are just a straight mess,” wrote one reddit user. “Rides are also down a lot. It’s been lacking since they reopened and I don’t expect it to change anytime soon.”He’s not the only one—in fact, there’s an entire reddit channel called “Disney lacking” where visitors go to complain about the state of the park. Here’s another...

TikToker Ethan Keiser is begging online to be cursed by witches — all in an effort to debunk their so-called “powers.” “Magic isn’t real,” he says in a clip with nearly 170,000 views. “I’ve asked every single witch on TikTok that claims they have powers to hex me. “A lot of people are saying that I am playing with fire. I am sacrificing myself to show all of you this is nonsense because I don’t want you to spend money on these people and get scammed,” added Keiser, who touts 1.2 million followers on the app, claiming they’re all “lying”...

Nazi Mind Control Amidst the subtle cerebral circumvention of the gullible populace, through a multitude of manipulated mediums, lies one of the most diabolical atrocities perpetrated upon a segment of the human race; a form of systematic mind control which has permeated every aspect of society for almost fifty years.To objectively ascertain the following, one may need to re-examine preconceived ideologies relating to the dualistic nature of mankind. . . . . .This exposition is substantiated by declassified U.S. government documents, individuals formerly connected to the U.S. intelligence communities, historical writings, researchers knowledgeable in mind control, publications from mental health...

Oct. 25, 2021 -- People who have been vaccinated against COVID-19 are not only less likely to die from the virus, but they’re also less likely to die from any cause in the months following vaccination, according to a new study.The study team, which included researchers from the CDC and health care groups across seven states, found the results while studying the safety of the three authorized COVID-19 vaccines.The results were published Friday in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.“COVID-19 vaccines authorized in the United States have shown again and again to be safe. This study also confirms their...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he wants to “harness the magic” of President Trump’s “America First” movement. During an interview with Axios on Sunday, Graham stressed the best way forward for the Republican Party is a party influenced by President Trump. Graham cited the 45th President’s electoral success and said no other Republican candidate has garnered as much support from American voters. Additionally, he hopes Republican leaders will work with President Trump to continue implementing policies that make America strong. “Sort of a cross between Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and P.T. Barnum,” the Republican senator said. “I mean, it’s just...

MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Monday reacted to Senator Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) interview with Axios in which he said he wants to “harness the magic” of former President Donald Trump to help strengthen the GOP. Scarborough questioned what Graham meant by “magic,” arguing Trump’s violent rhetoric is more like “fascism” and “sedition.” The host said such rhetoric is “your Republican Party” now.

London’s The Magic Circle informed that was organizing a ‘Special event’ this Sunday to commemorate the magicians history Selbit created 100 years ago.On January 14, the Magic Circle of London celebrated the 100 years since English magician named Percy Thomas Tibbles painstakingly cut out a sealed wooden box into two, splitting a woman lying inside into halves. British stage magic of ‘sawing into halves’ originated after P. T. Selbit, synonymous with iconic magical illusion performed the trick in the presence of the audience as he cut a woman in half and miraculously reassembled her. On January 17, the magic circle...

Michael Berry In NY-22 GOP Challenger Leads By 12 Votes Then 55 Ballots Were "Discovered" Dec 2, 2020 Republican Claudia Tenney is currently leading incumbent Rep. Anthony Brindisi by a dozen votes. Then suddenly & miraculously Chenago County “discovered” 55 uncounted ballots nearly FOUR WEEKS AFTER THE ELECTION. ... The Republican Tenny had led the Democrat incumbent by more than 28,000 votes after early and in-person voting and that lead has gone down to just 12 votes.

In all the excitement among objective journalists for Joe Biden’s declared victory, reporters are missing how extraordinary the Democrat’s performance was in the 2020 election. It’s not just that the former vice president is on track to become the oldest president in American history, it’s what he managed to accomplish at the polls this year. Candidate Joe Biden was so effective at animating voters in 2020 that he received a record number of votes, more than 15 million more than Barack Obama received in his re-election of 2012. Amazingly, he managed to secure victory while also losing in almost every...

Must read thread from Tracy Beanz: We are in the midst of something absolutely unprecedented. So take everything you thought you knew about how things work and toss it to the side. Things won’t happen in your way and on your timeline. Things are going to happen exactly as they should and when they should. . @SidneyPowell1 has put everything on the line for this. If you think for a second she’d do that without the goods you’d be crazy. The evidence will be presented in a COURT OF LAW. The time for the court of public opinion to judge...

Peter Kreeft, a philosophy prof at Boston College, has the charism of talking across normally impenetrable borders, so, he's a Christian who talks to Atheists, and respects them. He's criticizing George Lucas' 'Star Wars' philosophy. This is at a podcast at http://peterkreeft.com/audio/44_star-wars/peter-kreeft_star-wars.mp3 queued to about 23:05. He's talking about classifying magic, technology, religion and science, in terms of either a structuralist or a functionalist, a static or a dynamic perspective. The ordering of the list of 4 things above is an attempt to be agnostic about which of the 4 things are put into pairs.A standard, static-structuralist arrangement is for...

By now regular readers know that I am a fan of C.S. Lewis, and I was a fan of him before becoming Orthodox. In fact, I consider him one of the influences that led me to Orthodoxy, though I would not have thought of it that way before I became Orthodox. You see, it was not until I became Orthodox that I realized just how much of C.S. Lewis’ thinking reflected a more “Eastern” viewpoint, or perhaps, I had better say a more “universal” or catholic viewpoint.One of his statements has to do with the whole issue of theosis or...

Here is Hollywood, where the young, the beautiful and the inspired come to live lives of disappointment marbled with betrayal. They spin gold into flax, striving to placate the unworthy sufficiently so as, one day, to be admitted to their number. Who might be immune? Only a philosopher. Ricky Jay came to Hollywood as an acolyte in 1972. He was 26 years old, and had been practicing magic since childhood. He was a world-class card manipulator and thought to be the youngest performer ever to play “The Ed Sullivan Show.” He came to study with the masters of close-up. They...

From the close of the Medieval Age on through to our own time, God-haters have been waging war against the God of Revelation. The reason for this unrelenting attack upon the Triune God, but especially Jesus Christ, is mankind's sinful fallen condition. God-haters desire suppression of the knowledge of their own sin, which they hope will stifle the gnawing pain of a guilty conscience