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Twenty Things You Probably Didn’t Know about Marianne Williamson
NRO ^ | 1 July 2019 | Jim Geraghty

Posted on 07/02/2019 9:25:35 AM PDT by Rummyfan

One: Marianne Williamson told New York Jewish Week late last year that “had she received a better Jewish education she might have become a rabbi.” She was born in Houston, Texas, to a Jewish family. Her father, Sam, was a “Russian immigration lawyer who’d changed his name from Vishnevetsky.” She “grew up in Houston attending Congregation Beth Yeshurun, a Conservative synagogue that was hit hard by 2017’s Hurricane Harvey. She went to Hebrew school there while attending local public schools and recalled joining a Jewish sorority while at Bellaire High.”

Two: Williamson majored in theater and philosophy at California’s Pomona College, but dropped out in her junior year, 1973, moving to New York City to pursue a career as a nightclub singer. “I didn’t leave thinking I wouldn’t be back,” she told the college paper in February. “I thought I was just leaving for a semester or two, and then life just sort of took [me] elsewhere.”

Three: Those early adult years were a tumultuous time in Williamson’s life, but she was on the verge of what she came to see as a life-defining spiritual breakthrough:

She returned to Houston in 1979, opened a new-age bookstore, got married and divorced almost immediately — a “15-minute mistake,” she says. She was in therapy five times a week and nearing a nervous breakdown when she turned to the book that changed her life.

It was A Course in Miracles, the thousand-page new-age bible. A Course in Miracles was written in the ’60s by the late New York psychologist Helen Schucman, who maintained she was merely taking dictation from an inner voice that urged her to “write this down . . . this is a course in miracles.” The inner voice, Schucman came to believe, was Jesus.

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KEYWORDS: 2020demprimary; marianne2020; mariannebio; mariannewilliamson; williamson2020; williamsonbio
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To: SeekAndFind; Rummyfan

I agree with her that our chemical/additive/gmo laden food supply has much to do with why there’s so much illness in this country, and that corporations like Monsanto must be implicated in the court of law.

But I don’t see how being pro-Abortion and supplying healthcare for illegal immigrants at the expense of citizens already here, promoting gender dysphoria to young children, among other destructive policies, is ‘harnessing Love’ as she puts it.


21 posted on 07/02/2019 10:08:33 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Rummyfan

There are worse lulus in the race.


22 posted on 07/02/2019 10:12:04 AM PDT by karnage
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To: Jane Austen

She knows Oprah so that explains it.


23 posted on 07/02/2019 10:55:21 AM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

That would do it. Somebody else said that they wanted to deflect accusations of anti-Semitism and thus put on a silly Jew who would pose no competition to the “Chosen One.”


24 posted on 07/02/2019 11:09:04 AM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: Rummyfan

20 things really don’t care to know about Marianne Williamson.


25 posted on 07/02/2019 11:13:45 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: Rummyfan

I gave her $10 last night. Want to see more of her in the debates!


26 posted on 07/02/2019 11:16:42 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
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To: Rummyfan

My new-age sister is bonkers over her.


27 posted on 07/02/2019 11:21:53 AM PDT by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: SeekAndFind
“If it were up to Williamson, President Clinton would have summoned a group of new-age leaders, say, even Williamson, to talk to David Koresh in spiritual terms, to encourage a peaceful solution”

That would have made more sense than sending the Federal Bureau of Incineration to kill everybody ...

28 posted on 07/02/2019 11:25:06 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

RE: That would have made more sense than sending the Federal Bureau of Incineration to kill everybody ...

She will probably use the same technique to charm Kim Jong Un and the Iranian Mullahs.


29 posted on 07/02/2019 11:38:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

David Koresh was sane, reasonable, and rational … in comparison to the Ayatollahs and Fat Little Kim.


30 posted on 07/02/2019 11:39:45 AM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: faithhopecharity
i’ve never seen a worse bunch of candidates...

Yes, it's truly frightening isn't it? And some of them already hold an elected office, which is even more frightening.

31 posted on 07/02/2019 2:37:37 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Jane Austen
That would do it. Somebody else said that they wanted to deflect accusations of anti-Semitism and thus put on a silly Jew who would pose no competition to the “Chosen One.”

Who is the Chosen One?!

32 posted on 07/02/2019 2:43:18 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: Rummyfan

i keep thinking that SorozNazi will want a DNC candidate who can win

he’ll want to find someone who is at least a credible candidate, somewhere

not a Fake Injun Squaw who can’t even be truthful about herself. not another ineligible individual like Obama/Harris again, would have double-trouble selling to the voters after Obama. nobody named Buttplug or anything like it. Not an 80 year old serial groper, either.

he’d be better off just picking a candidate at random out of the phone book


33 posted on 07/02/2019 2:47:55 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Rummyfan

At this point, I’m guessing its Kamala. MSM sure praised her even though her performance consisted mainly of crude interruptions and a few cute comments.


34 posted on 07/02/2019 3:23:20 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
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To: Rummyfan

She comes across as a social justice cult leader, given the leaked video of her leading a prayer where all white people in the audience personally apologized for systematic oppression and the evil of being white.

Marianne Williamson started speech by asking white people apologize to black people
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/marianne-williamson-started-speech-by-asking-white-people-apologize-to-black-people


35 posted on 07/25/2019 9:22:24 AM PDT by tbw2
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To: tbw2

She’s been around since the early 90s anyway. New Agey.


36 posted on 07/25/2019 9:23:20 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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