Samhain (SOW-in) or Sauin is a Gaelic festival in Ireland that falls on the Mexican Day of the Dead, Nov. 1st, marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year [1].
It is also the Irish and Scottish Gaelic name for November. Celebrations begin on Halloween, the evening of October 31st, since the Celtic day began and ended at sunset [1].
This is about halfway between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice. It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals along with Imbolc, Bealtaine, and Lughnasa.
Historically it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. Its Brittonic Celtic equivalent is Calan Gaeaf in Wales. More
The Citizens of Halloween: "This is Halloween" (from Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas")
(DisneyMusicVEVO) Oct. 14, 2021: Stream “Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas” on Disney+, the only place to stream favorites from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and more [because there's absolutely nowhere else to stream. All hail the Disney Corporation!]
(BbaGumpSkrimp) The Making of The Nightmare Before Christmas
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!
It was a time of innocent childishness and evil.
Remember waiting all October for Linus to see the Great Pumpkin? This Halloween classic wasn’t just wholesome—it changed American (and Canadian) TV forever. From hidden gags to production secrets and the real reason it almost got banned, here are 10 wild facts about It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! most people didn’t know. Relive the magic of a simpler time. More
You’ve been accused of a crime you did not commit. It’s impossible to prove your innocence. If you insist that you’re innocent anyway, you’ll likely be found guilty and executed. But if you confess, apologize, and implicate (accuse) others, you’ll be set free and they will be arrested. Hmm, what to do?
This was the choice facing those accused by killer Christians of "witchcraft" in Salem, Massachusetts in the 17th century. How did it happen? Brian A. Pavlac investigates.
Hollywood giveth, and Hollywood taketh away. Movie makers and TV show runners create our image of "witches," warts and all. Thanks, Disney! *Sarcasm* But there's a serious his-story of oppression being promoted behind the scenes. No cat ladies allowed, no herbalists, healers, doulas, or "warlocks."
Fine and proper Christians go on rampages they say are ordered by the genocidal tribal god they worship and praise. Why do the war-god's bidding? It's very sad. Living in Judeo-Christian culture, it's difficult to recover what it meant to be "pagan."
What accoutrements do I need to get started?
Those Old Ways, which served us for many pre-Christian centuries, deserve to be preserved. The Wisdom of the East contributed to that wisdom.
It seems "Christians" (Cretins, Yahoos), imperial Romans promoting Ceasar's Messiah, just could not stand any competition of ideas, even if the main character in their narrative traveled to the mystic East to gain his realization and bring his healing gifts to the surface. All this to ask, sexy sponge cake The Craft, helpful or harmful?
Lesson by Brian A. Pavlac, directed by Lucy Animation Studio (silviaprietov.com); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY
Repent, sinners! God's sick and tired of the USA, so it's killing time.
Aleister Crowley
Seven years ago, God gave the USA a warning of "peace" (Salem), but Americans didn't listen. Seven years later, He (the tribal Jewish god of the Israelites and Christian creator of the universe, Yahweh, Jehovah, YHVH, Zeus, Shiva, whatever His name is) is giving another sign, Nineveh, an Old Testament city, hinting at Jonah and destruction. And just when everyone thought it was 666, it's actually 777 (like the book Liber777 by "the most evil man in the world" Aleister Crowley wrote about in his Jewish mysticism book).
You've deceived the world long enuff! - No, you
Seven years apart, seven American cities named Salem (2017) and seven American cities named Nineveh, it's got to mean something. So we put the data into the Language of Q and, shazam, it means our world is about to end. We regret everything, love you Mom, and brace yourself for the Apocalypse...or we may have 40 days from Monday for the Ascencion, or it's Rapture time just like the Protestant Christians have been going on about for the last 100 years or so in a great conspiracy theory that everybody better drop everything else and start believing as Christians believe.
God is hate and here to kill everybody at any moment, oh but just the sinners, ah aah, just the unrepentant sinners. So start groveling, begging for mercy, and praying to the one true god of Palestine and His wife Asherah, and his mom, Miriam, and their only begotten son. Or send in your tithe and get a receipt. It's time to smite creation again like the last time Dad killed everyone with a flood, but it'll be a fire this time, so sayeth the Lord.
Oops, Mercury is in retrograde, so it's a time to check and re-check things, according to astrologer Yasmin Boland
Scientists had previously plotted a ‘path of totality’ that identified the key cities and towns that were expected to see the Moon [or Rahu] directly covering the Sun on Monday. However, John Irwin, an amateur astronomer, recently released an updated version of the map charting the eclipse’s 115-mile journey, from East to West across the USA.
[Surely, the map shows the shadow of the solar eclipse moving from West (Texas) to East (New York), which should be impossible given that we are told the Earth is constantly revolving from West to East (giving the illusion that the sun is rising in the East) so that an eclipse shadow could only ever move in one direction]. And his calculations show that its original path could be altered by about 2,000 feet (609m). More
Map of eclipse's path of totality shows shadow going in wrong direction for our cosmology.
Is the width of the zone of totality 113 miles? That would mean the object casting the shadow is a 113 miles wide, depending on how close our Sun is. The width was 72 miles in 2017. Test it. Take a ball or disk and put a flashlight behind it. If you put the flashlight close, it distorts the shadow of the object and makes the shadow bigger. But no matter how close you bring the light, it can never make the shadow any less wide than the object casting the shadow. It's just a fact of light, the way things stay the same size in a mirror even if we get closer or step back. (Hold a phone, draw a square around it with a marker on the surface of the mirror, and back up. You may feel you are getting smaller, but the phone stays the same size to fit perfectly within the box). We are told our moon is how wide? It's certainly not a mere 72 miles or 113 miles wide. We are told it's much bigger (about as wide as Australia) and much farther away (239,000 miles) than it truly is. We are further told that our Sun is much bigger and 93 million miles away. Nonsense, that's demonstrable nonsense. Our eyes are not fooling us, as we have been told.
Good Christians between rockhead and a hardplace
Good Christians don't like Trump; it's just that Biden is even worse (more senile, less biblical). Trump may lie, but at least he's telling the right lies so one could fool oneself that God is using him to do good, whereas Genocidal Joe is just between in Looneyville and Lalaland:
Theo Wolmarans, fundamentalist Christian Sunday School terror teachings; Eds. Wisdom Quarterly
The soon to be POTUS Nikki Shanahan, after RFK's election and predictable "elminination"
In a bio-pic after her or RFK's assassination, Aubrey Plaza can play her (legal-mag.com)
"I did not pick her for her looks," RFK Jr. may claim, "but rather her connections to Silicon Valley, California, her boat loads of money, and her paramour Elon Musk," he might confess when he's safely in the White House. Nicole Shanahan: wiki, bio, age, parents, ethnicity, net worth
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Jon Stewart deconstructs Trump’s "victimless" $450 million fraud | The Daily Show
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March 25, 2024: Jon Stewart examines Don John Trump's deadline to come up with the $454 million bond in his civil fraud case and deconstructs investment talking-heads like Kevin O'Leary calling Trump's actions a "victimless crime." #DailyShow #JonStewart #Trump
Hey, Everybody, let's be a "woke" police state
Breaking news (3/26/24)
Angry, angry Mark Levin, Super Jew
Jew on Jew violence: Uber Jewish conservative Mark Levin, who's on TV (Fox) on Sundays and on AM hate radio (Salem Network) most of the rest of the time, was pouring the invective on fellow Jew Jon Stewart, whom he calls "Jon Liebowitz." Levine says Jon's lying for laughs, that he knows better than to say such things about MAGA Fuhrer Trump. He did it while playing clips of this episode on his afternoon drive show on 3/26/24, while bragging that he (Levine) has better ratings than Bill Maher but that the mainstream media won't report it, not even the radio trade magazines.
Trouble in Israel with US Ambassador to Israel, CIA-
installed PM Bibi Netanyahu, the Rebbe's (or Rabbi's)
vision for the pre-messianic leader of Jewish homeland.
RFK Jr. chooses multi-billionaire ex-wife of Google co-founder as his running mate, Nicole Ann Shanahan, an Asian from Oakland, California, who cheated on her husband with stud Elon Musk allegedly (though he reportedly denies it). All about Nicole Shanahan, RFK Jr.'s VP pick and Sergey "Google" Brin's ex-wife (people.com) Just when we got all excited about a real alternative to Joedon Triden, or is that Donnyjo Birump, RFK Jr. chooses a rich insider with no experience. Was it her looks, accomplishments, or insider status with Google that decided it for him? He could have chosen Gov. Jesse Ventura
Aubrey Plaza on SNL impersonating?
The Daily Show; Aubrey Plaza; History of Bibi Netanyahu and the Rebbe; SNL; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
(DW History and Culture) Premiered April 23, 2023. Whether in Macbeth, Harry Potter, or Hansel and Gretel, witches have a long tradition in literature and film, often celebrated as strong, independent women, or portrayed as the incarnation of evil.
In a recent global study, over 40 percent of those surveyed said they believe in malevolent witchcraft. So witches are not just the stuff of fantasy nor a phenomenon of some distant medieval past.
As the descendant of a family that lost several members to witch hunts, DW-reporter Karin Helmstaedt goes searching for clues, speaking to experts and digging through archives in southern Germany.
From the beginning of the Great European Witch Hunts in the 15th century to witch hunts in present-day Africa and Asia, this episode of Arts Unveiled goes after the truth about why they really happened, and why being singled out as a witch can still be deadly today.
00:00 Intro
01:18 The True Story of a Witch Hunt
03:59 The Origins of the European Witch Hunts
05:17 The "Hammer of Witches" and the History of Witch Hunts
09:11 Debunking Common Witch Myths
13:46 The Fate of Margarethe Kröber
14:53 Witch Hunts in the New World and its End in Europe
15:51 Belief in Witchcraft Today and its Cruel Traces
22:34 Witches in Pop Culture and Political Activism
On the Divided Dial: Christian rightwing radicalism and hate talk (Michael Brennan)
The most influential Christian talk radio network you've probably never heard of
In 2016, Christian talk radio host Eric Metaxas begrudgingly encouraged his listeners to vote for then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
By 2020, he pledged his life to fighting the “stolen election” while talking with Pres. Trump on the air. Ahead of the midterm elections, Metaxas and many of his fellow talk radio hosts made sure the falsehood of massive 2020 election fraud was top of mind — on the airwaves and beyond.
And while election-denying candidates didn't do as well as many on the right had hoped, at least 170 such candidates have been elected to state and national offices, some of whom will be in charge of future elections. More
This week, reporter Katie Thornton introduces us to the company whose hosts never backed down from the lies of the stolen 2020 election: Salem Media Group, the largest Christian, conservative multimedia company in the country – and perhaps the most influential media company you’ve never heard of.
Thornton traces the company’s rise to power from its scrappy start in the 1970s to the present day — a growth that paralleled and eventually became inextricable from the growth of the Religious Right.
This episode is an adaptation of On the Media's latest series, The Divided Dial. You can listen to the full series HERE.
The Divided Dial is reported and hosted by journalist and Fulbright Fellow Katie Thornton. Follow her work on Instagram or on her website. The Divided Dial was edited by On the Media's Executive Producer Katya Rogers with production support from Max Balton and fact-checking by Tom Colligan, Sona Avakian, and Graham Hacia. Music and sound design by Jared Paul. Jennifer Munson is the technical director. Art by Michael Brennan. With support from the Fund for Investigative Journalism.
Hosted by Katie Thornton and Brooke Gladstone. Produced by WNYC Studios.
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