It’s Easier to Fool People
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled
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That Legendary Magician, Mr. Willy Wonka
From all over the globe, people have gathered here waiting for the hour to strike, waiting to catch a glimpse of that legendary magician Mr. Willy Wonka.
That Made Me Wonder If He Wasn’t Ahead of His Time
Just a month before, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceship Columbia and walked on the moon, beating by five months President Kennedy's goal of putting a man on the moon...
Source: My Life by Bill Clinton
How Do You Balance Science with Science Fiction?
How do you balance science with science fiction? They're both the same.
Source: Astronomy magazine asks William Shatner about science
They Are Metaphysicists Rather Than Scientists
"The theory," he said, "wraps all these errors and fallacies and clothes them in magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people...
A Mass of Error and Deceptive Ideas
The theory of relativity he described as "a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.
Rolling Round the Central Sun
In his chapter of the antiquity of Masonry, [Captain George Smith] makes it to be coeval with creation, 'when,' says he, 'the sovereign architect raised on Masonic principles the beauteous globe, and commanded the master science, Geometry, to lay the...
Source: The Origin of FreeMasonry
Those Who Are the Most Captivated by Its Spell
The study of cosmology shows how our relationship to the universe and our fellow humans is inextricably conditioned by our underlying belief systems and mythologies. As every thoughtful person realizes, the life of each civilization-and every individual-is influenced by underlying...
Source: Jesus Christ, Sun of God by David Fideler
No One Has Ever Seen It
Even figures associated with the rise of modern science and the modern world—Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton—were profoundly influenced by Hermetic ideas. Kepler, who discovered the laws of planetary motion, made a living as an astrologer, and Newton wrote more...
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World by Gary Lachman
CIA Funding Was Involved
The CIA's intrusion into the foundation field in the 1960s can only be described as massive. Excluding grants from the "Big Three"- Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie--of the 700 grants over $10,000 given by 164 other foundations during the period 1963-1966,...
The Use of Philanthropic Organizations
The use of philanthropic organizations was a convenient way to pass funds, in that large amounts could be transferred rapidly, and in a form that need not alert unwitting officers of the recipient organizations to their source. In addition, foundation...
🎼 Song Excerpts
The Little Tricks You’ve Played
If you think that I don't know about the little tricks you've played - And never see you when deliberately you put things in my way
Source: I Can See for Miles by The Who
There’s Magic in My Eyes
I know you've deceived me, now here's a surprise I know that you have 'cause there's magic in my eyes
Source: I Can See for Miles by The Who
When You Cast Your Spell, You Will Get Your Way
You know darn well, when you cast your spell, you will get your way - When you hypnotize with your eyes, a heart of stone can turn to clay
Source: You Can Do Magic by America
Did You Feel You Were Tricked
Did you think that your feet had been bound by what gravity brings to the ground? Did you feel you were tricked by the future you picked? Well, come on down.
Source: Down to the Earth by Peter Gabriel
Greatest Magic Trick Ever Under the Sun
It happened so quickly, so quick, by surprise, right there in front of everyone's eyes - Greatest magic trick ever under the sun, perfectly executed, skillfully done
Source: Murder Most Foul by Bob Dylan
I’m Playing My Jokes upon You
I'm playing my jokes upon you, while there's nothin' better to do
Source: Breakfast in America by Supertramp
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High Time We Made a Stand
Read it in the books, in the crannies and the nooks, there are books to read.
It Was Always Burning Since the World’s Been Turning
And I’m trying to believe in things that I don’t know. The turning of the world, the color of your soul.