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Where did you get this marvellous picture?
Or you know, from the old (and current) French "Parent", which itself came from the Latin "Parentem". But I guess making a quick search isn't as fun as making shit up.
Pair rent ‘em
I hardly know 'em!
Nah man, that doesn't sound right. See "pair rent" is much more believable. Everyone knows that these conspiracy things always need to rhyme or sound similar or have the same letters but rearranged. Not be the same word in another language, that's just bunk.
They even titled it "word magic" lol.
It's appropriate since they believe that words are magic and as long as they say the right words, the "spell" will be cast and they will become immune to laws.
I do not ~~understand~~ stand under!
I see your stand under, but I am immune to it because I overstand.
That’s probably the most sane part about It.
I think they are saying that those Words where chosen specifically because they can subconsciously affect the words users perceptions.
Not magic nor a conspiracy but there is psychological truth that different words with identical meaning can effect us differently.
No, they mean literal magic. I started reading the book, and they're talking about "Dark Magicians" on the first page.
For the simple minded its understandable how anyone with psychological knowledge could be confused with magicians.
Just look at fortune tellers and the likes.
Its a perversion of the truth that any sufficiently advanced enough science can only be interpreted as magic. For some, common knowledge seems sufficient enough.
Sovcits are true believers in the magic. Anyone smart enough to do as you are suggesting is stealing from the true believers.
different words with identical meaning can effect us differently
Other than puzzling us when a different word is not known because it stopped being used in that sense in the twelfth century?
I am not sure that there are studies that found anything statistically significant. It's like saying that there are 'selling slogans' when in fact no matter how selling you slogan is, no one will buy if the product is bullshit
An example of what i mean:
Crippled -> handicaped -> disabled -> person with disability.
They all essentially mean exactly the same Thing. They all where the proper terminology at some point in time. But the emotional effect is different.
Also some political examples:
Global-warming and climate-change. Pro-life and anti-abortion
I assume most people are smart enough not to let Terminology cloud judgement but we are talking about the kind of people who read and believe the stuff like in the book above.
Fake etymology conspiracy theories (aka "word magic") are one of my biggest pet peeves.
Same people who think that a winamp visualization is actually "seeing the music".
Wow. A lot of talk about magic in there. Way more wiccan hippy than right wing sovcit but I guess you go far enough down the rabbit hole and they converge.
Pdf also seemed to make my CPU spike like crazy, wonder what else is embedded in there... Probably not magic
As a Wiccan, please don't bring us into this. That book has nothing to do with common Wiccan beliefs. Just because someone's using the word magic does not mean it has anything to do with wicca. That text has as much in common with Wicca as a Mr. Clean magic eraser.