Posted on 11/17/2022 3:21:35 PM PST by nickcarraway
Pretty much all religions involve some sort of “witchcraft,” as they have aspects of magic (such as elemental magic, sympathetic magic, divination, etc.), and “pacts” with deities or powers.
Indeed, the oldest of all religions was some sort of witchcraft; and elements of such practices continue to the present among all religions. Because, let’s face it, all religions require faith to one degree or another: One must believe in the precepts and doctrines of one’s religion; and one must have faith that the belief is true.
The ZMan had a wonderful take on modern witches for Halloween 2021: https://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=25479
Enjoy!
What a bunch of flaming nonsense all of that is.
You can read it on dating apps.
“Spiritual, not religious.”
In other words it’s like the “queer” moniker. They want all the benefits of being completely gay or Christian with none of the commitment.
““Frankly, I think that if your witchcraft is not political, you are still asleep,” Leonore Tjia, a witch from Montpelier, Vermont, told Denny. “In a culture as racist and patriarchal and transphobic and homophobic and materialistic as ours is, if you don’t see the way witchcraft is radical and revolutionary, you have some waking up to do.””
In other words, just as with the ‘LGBTQ’ and ‘minority’ and ‘ecology’ and every other flavor of woke, it’s really about hate and political power by name-calling.
In the leftist scrawls
In the wokecorp halls
Conform or be cast out
Michigan politics has become a coven of (Soros) witches.
European witches and witches of the Americas are very different things. North, central and South American witches, before the conquest (1521), represented the professional classes of those societies.
The professional classes today are very orderly. That is, doctors as a rule don’t do plumbing or accounting or computer programming. But back then things were less orderly. For example, a “healing witch”, might also practice some degree of psychology, matchmaking, or have agricultural expertise.
After the conquest, those cultures were shattered, lost confidence, and had no interface with modernity. Their professional classes fell apart.
An example is say, a sink water faucet. You know how they work. But a person with a pre-conquest mindset would be utterly perplexed. Turning the valves would make no sense, any more than twiddling your fingers in the air.
The only people like that today are in very rural Mexico, central and South America, some tribes in parts of Africa, etc.
In any event, I read a story about a Venezuelan healing witch, who admitted that few things had changed in the way they had done business, one of which was to teach the witches the value of antibiotics. She came across as little different than a US clinician. Very strong professional sense.
Hardly comparable to European style witches.
Wait, are U.S. doctors a professional class in that regard? They prescribe antibiotics for situations they don't work and create antibiotic resistant bacteria. They prescribes drugs that are contraindicated.
Are the drug reps that tell the doctors what and how to prescribe a professional class?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UsrZSA3PPM Hillary Clinton as the Wicked Witch of Washington D.C.
It means being governor of a cold northern state.
Hyper or Super bitch?
Turn on The View and find out. :)
Lol!
A witch? You mean Hillary?
Simple! Ask Nancy....
I have often noted that doctors are *not* pharmacists. So if I ever get a prescription from a doctor, I have it reviewed by a trusted pharmacist.
A doctor’s purpose is diagnosis and treatment, so they are never “up to date” with either pharmaceuticals or therapies. Pharmacists, on the other hand, are solely focused on prescription drugs, OTCs, and alternative medicines, and how they interact and relate.
The quantity of medical research had already gone beyond what a doctor could be expected to keep up with by the early 1960’s.
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