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Christmas shopping in the U.S. has been a reliable source of anxiety and stress for well over a century. "As soon as the Thanksgiving turkey is eaten, the great question of buying Christmas presents begins to take the terrifying shape it has come to assume in recent years," the New York Tribune wrote in 1894.
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That surely doesn't only apply to the U.S. - its so very common here in Eurpe as well (except for the turkey, but I'm a vege anyway). And WOW, its been like this for already over 122 years now!

Incredible, to what an enormous extend people seem to be able to ignore their own feelings and join in to this commercial hysteria - or, from a different perspecitve (possibly a magician's), - how they allow the big money and the media to dictate that YULE is about commerce instead of connection.

And most of us, if they listen to their intuition or their divination card or their gods or whatever speaks inside of them, already know after some years of experience that most of the money spent for the X-Mess gifts is lost anyway.

How good that science already found evidence for this and a way to measure it:
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Since the early nineteen-nineties, Joel Waldfogel, an economist at the University of Pennsylvania, has been doing a series of studies in which college students are asked to put a value on the presents they receive. Waldfogel's main finding is that, in general, people spend a lot more on presents than they're worth to those who receive them, a phenomenon that he calls "the deadweight loss of Christmas." A deadweight loss is created when you spend eighty dollars to give me a sweater that I would spend only sixty-five dollars to buy myself. Waldfogel estimates that somewhere between ten and eighteen per cent of seasonal spending becomes deadweight loss, which means that billions of dollars a year is now going to waste.
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Seems like many people try hard to buy sentiment with piles of money and who are somehow unable to realize that it works miserably bad (if not at all). But this of course will not get the media coverage it deserves, cause it doesn't support the matrix and the powers that be.

To some extent, magick works with emotions (that is, some magick does) and if we would apply the same idea there (using money or other material bases instead of our own emotions) and continued to try that for an extended period of over 122 years without satisfying results, how good a magickian would we be?

I think that magick as a path of power (and self empowerment) and as such a path of self determination will most propably lead oneself to question this commerce hysteria (and much more of corse) and to join it only deliberately - and definitely not for the sentiment of it - if at all. And to me it is quite obvious that magick leads oneself to choose the red pill.

But as always, there are so many reasons to do the Great Work that some magickians may find that hysteria about X-Mess fully in compliance with their paradigms. And there are always some who will choose to take the blue pill.

Anyway, all those others who keep applying the same old miserable commerce bound way to reach and touch their loved ones seem to pay the deadweight toll happily year after year - and what a huge price for such an illusion: billions every year! And what a huge gain for those who promote it.

Cheers to all of you!
BlackPete

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Both quotes are from SOTT's Economic Comentary for Dec, 2th 2006>

A nice comic on celebrating yule and some ignorant neighbors...: http://www.e-sheep.com/Saturnalia/

heheeeeee

THX 2 Syath 4 tha link

cheers and all the beast,
BlackPete

Great, there is now an interview with two British Isles Section members on the Illuminates of Thanateros available for download:

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Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 3:12 PM
Subject: [World] Onetribe podcast correction!

Dholcey M'Dears

The podcast of the interview 
with Sor Res 369 and myself 
is available for download from:

http://www.onetribe.me.uk/

CHOYOFAQUE
Axis 777s

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the media file is at http://www.onetribe.me.uk/onetribe022.mp3

Hail to AXIS 'nd RES for doing that.
Thanks and gobchurinor fouija
(iotspeak for lots of love)!