It's Amazing How Little Effect NewAge Cults Have Had (On Influencing The World)

Happy Valentine, everyone! "Some of these irritating skeptics claim that so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) is useless. They are wrong, of course! SCAM’s incredible uselulness is never more obvious that on Valentine’s Day." That might explain why The anti-Valentine’s Day movement is gaining strength. You've never heard of 'Galentine's Day'? The most romantic day of the year.

If you've got cancer.

Winger-with-no-black-friends Nikki Haley predicts "unhinged chaos" if Trump wins, even though other wingers warn about The Left and Chaos, so - no matter who wins - we got chaos. The Left has gone bonkers, and authoritarian after 2016, so there's that. Chaos. 

But more like on Get Smart, than anybody actually getting any smarter

I thought I’d found my soulmate. Then she scammed me out of £20,000. But maybe your 'soulmate' was destined to scam you out of $20,000. Did you ever think of that? You're too limited in your 'thinking.' Gah. The Duchess of Sussex joins podcast company that wants to make life ‘suck less’. 

See? Pure destiny.

Should a Florida man's church confession be evidence in a criminal case? It was a confession, wasn't it? Can you get 'em to confess into a tape recorder? Can you get 'em to confess into a rape recorder? 

Taylor Swift, call my agent. 

  ‘Are We Really Still Doing This?’ Jared Kushner Whines When Asked About the $2 Billion He Got from Saudi Government That Killed Khashoggi. And, apparently, we are. IDF Let Israeli Civilians Film Torture of Palestinian Detainees, so there. They're doing it, too. 

Happy now?

The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth, review: a painstaking account of how Nasa failed its astronauts. If you've ever needed evidence, that the rich know they'll keep screwing things up, here it is: 'Bible prophecy is coming true' as billionaires build huge underground bunkers. Just to be clear: I don't know where underground bunkers are mentioned in the Bible, but OK. White House Spox John Kirby Claims Israel Is Taking Actions to Protect Civilians That ‘I’m Not Sure Our Own Military Would Take’ so it all makes sense. 

In a meta kind of way.

America, take note: Thailand is set to REVERSE weed legalization after spike in cannabis-related mental health issues and crime - with government calling pot 'a big problem'. And, if you've never smoked Thai Stick in the '70s, then you have no idea what they're talking about. Here's 11 Local Cults You Might Run Into in Oregon. They might know something, though Oregon's no Thailand. 

And no Thai Stick.

Cognitive Dissonance: India takes the divine path to boost tourism as Three killed in India after madrassa demolition triggers religious clashes. Meanwhile, here in America, the Documentary "God & Country" dives into threats of Christian nationalism to democracy. 

And we do yoga more than they do.

And a Family who left bride in vegetative state by force-feeding her pills when she ‘failed to meet expectations’ are jailed as Steve Wright says ‘sometimes people want you, sometimes they don’t’ in heartbreaking last video before his death aged 69 that just seemed to say it all. Until I read The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage, and then it all started up again. You explain it. 

Use your Third Eye.

If the economy is so great, why are evictions soaring? But then, the Man credited with inventing the Pop Tart dies at 96, so, you think, how bad can life really be, right? Especially if Sinners Relieved To Learn Jesus Gets Them And They Don't Have To Repent Or Change Their Lives In Any Way? It's fine, right? 

Right?

And finally, "Is the Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?/Ads are scarce, search and social traffic is dying, and readers are burned out. The future will require fundamentally rethinking the press’s relationship to its audience."

Good luck with that. Haven't you heard? Her mind is gone.

 

If It Wasn't A Magazine We'd Surely Ask It Out

This is wild:

Much to our surprise, The New Yorker is continuing Lawrence Wright's coverage of the Scientology cult, with proof from L. Ron Hubbard's military files that - in the words of Scientology spokesman Tommy Davis - "Scientology is based on a lie.”

A lie that proves the cult of Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Juliette Lewis (above) Anne Archer, and a whole host of other Hollywood residents, is most definitely NOT a religion - but IS a scam!

Now that's what we call a Valentine's Day present!

Oh, we love you, too, New Yorker! And not just for the movie reviews this time! We mean it:

We really, really love you!

Man, Hallmark’s Gonna Be Pissed

Britain's Roman Catholic Church is advising lovelorn singles to direct their 14 February requests for love to St Raphael, rather than St Valentine…

Clare Ward, spokeswoman for the Catholic Enquiry Office, the official body providing information on Catholic life, said that while the distinction between the saints has always been clear within the Church it has, over the years, been blurred outside.

"Saint Valentine passed a note to his jailer's daughter, whose sight he is thought to have cured," she said.

"The note had no romantic content, but it's from this story that the tradition of sending notes of appreciation has come from"…

-BBC

If you must be gullible and foolish, at least don’t waste it on the wrong saint. But…

Where the church misses the whole point; the only real praying on Valentines Day is by guys anticipating a drubbing for giving the demanded gift by today’s women, who will find something wrong with it, and him, anyway.