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I'm sure Armstrong is aware of the 50% divorce rate among all married couples and she is aware of the criticism she's going to receive about the causality of this divorce. But Armstrong goes to a great length to avoid claiming causality but using the situation as a hypothetical illustration: "God saves and the devil destroys." If nothing else, this piece is a fascinating look at what occurs within witchcraft.
1 posted on 08/12/2023 9:02:51 AM PDT by Bogle
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The three women I’ve known who got into the ‘soft side’ of witchcraft (directing angels, healing people with prayers or ‘light work’ etc.) seem to do so in order to elevate their egos above all other persons in the room. “I’m special. I have special ‘powers’.” One told me she was studying in seminary and I was so supportive, until I realized it was ‘supernatural’ training and read a little of one of her ‘seminary books’ which featured ‘reading tattoos’.

It seems to start out small - almost fortune cookie level. Some where in there, there’s a swing from “I’m learning things that others never told me about” to “I have special power that others admire and need, whether they know it or not.”


2 posted on 08/12/2023 9:20:47 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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Was never aware of Brady’s occult activity with his wife.

Yeah...this never ends well (unless it’s totally uprooted, e.g. via exorcism).


3 posted on 08/12/2023 9:30:08 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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The gossip is that she used her witchery to ruin his comeback.

“South Park” could have a lot of fun with this story.


6 posted on 08/12/2023 9:38:14 AM PDT by x
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Worse than the personal aspect is the effect that this will have on thousands of young boys.


7 posted on 08/12/2023 9:44:08 AM PDT by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would have to resort to prostitution.)
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To: Bogle

50% of marriages end in divorce. But that counts people who have been married multiple times. The majority of marriages last a long time.


8 posted on 08/12/2023 9:50:16 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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People love to hate on TB12. I am sure that a very high percentage of Freeper men would have loved to have been bewitched by Giselle.


10 posted on 08/12/2023 9:51:59 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Bogle
Hmm, odd article. Hard to believe Brady was ensnared by the occult - his sister is a Christian missionary, ya' think she might have pulled him aside.

But I've seen smarter people than him fall for this stuff.

11 posted on 08/12/2023 9:53:33 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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Strange, if true. That pre-game ritual with the stones and drops sounds particularly bizarre.


14 posted on 08/12/2023 10:10:06 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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Huh, I didn’t know about the occult connection either.


17 posted on 08/12/2023 10:25:20 AM PDT by exPBRrat
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The 50% number is false because it lumps the multiple divorced into the same group as the never divorced. Example. Neither my sister nor I have ever been divorced. My brother has been married four times. So is the divorce rate among me and my siblings .33% or 133%?


19 posted on 08/12/2023 10:30:13 AM PDT by Fai Mao (Starve the beast and steal its food!)
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I'm sure Armstrong is aware of the 50% divorce rate among all married couples

Except there isn't.

It is 37%.

If you are on your first marriage it is 28%.

It never has been 50%. That was a WAG that someone said would happen and somehow it became accepted as fact.

20 posted on 08/12/2023 10:31:47 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Follow the money. Even if it leads you to someplace horrible it will still lead you to the truth.)
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There is not a 50% divorce rate. The majority marry and stay married to their first love. The minority gets divorce and remarried to only get divorced again. I know several people who have married and divorced three times. Many times they marry others who have divorced, so they account for 6 divorces for two people.


24 posted on 08/12/2023 10:43:36 AM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: We should have set up ambushes...paraphrased)
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When you’re Tom Brady you don’t have to put up with any woman’s bullshit, especially some avg looking 40 year old has-been model. You only live once. Good for him.


25 posted on 08/12/2023 11:07:02 AM PDT by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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“At first, I was like, ‘this is kind of crazy,’” Brady said. “And then, about four years ago, we were playing the Seahawks and she said, ‘You better listen to me: This is your year, but this is all the things you’re going to have to do to win,” and I did all those things, and by God, you know, it worked.”

Gee aint that quaint? Seek the Lord Tom while He can still be found!


40 posted on 08/12/2023 1:19:34 PM PDT by Bob434
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Anyone's personal life, and that includes hollywood and athletes, is no one's business.

Only the media whores who get paid to investigate and write this crap benefit..........

43 posted on 08/12/2023 1:40:00 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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50 % divorce rate is OUT OF ALL COUPLES AS X. 50% OF THE NUMBER MARRIED THAT YEAR WILL DIVORCE.

EXAMPLE 10 MILLION MARRIED COUPLES NATIONWIDE.

500,O00 MARRIED IN 2022.

250000 WOULD DIVORCE


48 posted on 08/12/2023 3:42:21 PM PDT by Chickensoup (Genocide is here. Leftist extremists are spearheading the Genocide against conservatives. )
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