Corporate Meanness

Published on January 7, 2005 By Phil Osborn In Current Events

Update: 01/31/05 Having seen nothing yet of my refund from the L.A. Times, I called the number from the Sunday Times ad, and then the 2nd number that they referred me to, and finally spoke with a rep who assured me that my non-subscription as detailed below would finally be refunded to my credit card. We'll see...

Every year for some time, I anticipate the holidays for one major reason: C H O C O L A T E

Sometimes the local SavOn drugstores dump huge amounts of Reeces and Nestle and Hersheys, etc. at 25 cents on the $. It varies from store to store and year to year. This year the local barrio Stater Bros. made my day, putting everything out there at $0.99, including the 22 oz. bags. I generally can't afford to spend retail on this wonderful stuff, as retail is more than steak, or even fish, even for the bagged chocolates, much less the boxes. But I check for garbage like Palm oil or coconut oil or partially hydrogenated fats. Brachs and Palmers brands seem to be invariably larded up with the unhealthy junk. The best stuff, both health and tastewise is the almond chocolate candies.

My general secret in living cheap is to buy ahead. Chocolate lasts just fine for at least a year, so I stock up for the coming year for myself, and for any parties or events where I may want to bribe people. Anyway, this year I bought 25 pounds at Stater Bros., cleaning them out of the best-buy large bags.

Then I went to the Albersons at Bristol and Dyer in Santa Ana, where they have, in previous years, usually had even better deals than the above. Last year, during the nationwide strike, they had a LOT of candy left over, and so I braved the picket lines - and gave the picketers several bags of chocolates to share as I left. This year was different.

It started out reasonably OK. Everything was 1/2 off. And, again, they had a LOT of candy and ornaments, wrapping paper, etc. So I bought a few choice items and left, assured by the store personnel manning the aisles that the price would likely drop in a day or two. I had my eye on the large quantity of Nestle almond chocolate as well as the Hershies almond kisses. However, on the 2nd day of checking back, I ran into a no-nonsense, hard-nosed, utterly unsmiling lady manager, who assured me in Scroogelike tones that seemed to me to indicate that I was not Albertsons' preferred type of customer, that it would be a week more before the price fell any further.

This was disheartening, as I didn't know whether to believe her or the previous info. That meant I would have to waste my time repeatedly checking back. As I was about to leave the store, I was hailed by a couple of guys standing behind a little podium. They offered to sell me 20 weeks of the "L.A. Times" for $20. What a deal. Unfortunately, in my neighborhood, I have never been able to get the paper, as it is invariably stolen off my front landing, except in the case that it is hurled like an incoming scud missile against my door at 5 AM, thereby depriving me of $10 worth of sleep, which is not such a deal any price. However, the salesman assured me that I would be given a lock box to take care of that problem.

Even so, despite liking the "Times" overall, I have had several universally bad prior experiences with subscriptions, such as a jerk "Times" phone salesman some years back who would call me repeatedly at all hours of the night, insult me gratuitously, and make it clear that this harrassment would continue until I signed up. Finally I did, and simply ignored the bill, after which the calls stopped.

So then the Albertson's-based salesman delivers the kicker. He is going to GIVE ME a $20 gift certificate for Albertsons if I subscribe. By then I was starting to come down with the nasty little cold that made life miserable for the next several days, and my head was spinning, so I figured, what the heck, it's Christmas, make the guy happy. When I looked at the receipt, later, however, I discovered that the $20 had now become $40 - i.e., $20 subscription plus a $20 gift certificate that I had to use at Albertsons. Oh, well, the "Times" wins again on sleaze. I figured I would spend it on chocolate anyway within the week.

Meanwhile, I stopped by one other Albertsons later that day, which had much less candy, and thus few hopes for deep price cuts. I did ask about the flowers. At the first Albertsons, the small 4-inch box Poinsettias were cut to $0.50. The lady at the 2nd store said she would match that, but I was just curious about pricing policy.

\When I asked her about the candy prices, her face suddenly got grim. That would depend, she informed me on the decision of the SCAB!!! (pronounced with a twist of the mouth as if suddenly haven bitten into a bug in a candy) manager in charge of that. Oh.
THAT's interesting...

Back at the first store on Bristol I discovered on Monday afternoon a week later, straight from work, that indeed the prices had been cut. However, there were no pricing signs, so I asked a passing manager and she assured me that the price was $0.99. Great! A lot of the preferred items were gone, such as the almond candy, which had been there the day before. 99% of the candy had sat there all week unsold, costing Albertsons precious store shelf for no sales to speak of. So, my favorite candy was gone as of Monday, without benefitting Albertsons in the least, and having cost me several useless stops. They could have sold it just as easilly the week before at that price and freed up the shelves, and I would have had my almond chocolate.

So, I rummaged through the 15 or more shopping carts full of the leftovers from the buying frenzy I had already missed while at work, and found a number of 22 oz. bags with about 20 minutes of work. Some of them had $1.99 written on the back with a Majik Marker, but I trusted the manager's word. Still, I specifically asked the checkout clerk to flag anything that didn't come up as $0.99.
She informed me that the bags were priced as marked, despite what anyone had told me. So, I had her take all the non-$0.99 bags off the bill, while a crowd of unhappy shoppers waited behind me, mostly for the delay, however, as the computer went through gigabytes of processing to verify my three $5 Albertsons gift certificates, which also required two verifications each from me as well as a special procedure that had to be called up on screen separately for each $5 certificate. All told, I spent about $13 of my "gift" certificates, and wasted probably $10 of my time, and $30 of the time of the unlucky customers behind me in line.

Since there was still a HUGE amount of candy sitting unsold, I came back on Tuesday and Wednesday, with no appreciable change in the candy carts and today, when I discovered that ALL the candy was now gone. I was informed it "had been donated." No info available on to whom. I had bought a couple more of the small 12oz. bags on Tuesday, and while I was paying, the clerk who had served me the day before made a point of describing loudly to her manager how I - not their idiotic certificate handling software to be sure, had held everyone up the day before, casting hateful glances my way for emphasis, and to make sure that I was hearing her.

So much for patronizing Albertsons. I figure that the nasty, incredibly long strike, and the nasty attitude of management - who "won" the strike - is paying nasty dividends now and for the foreseeable future, now impacting the customers. Somehow I will have to spend the remaining $5.50 of my "gift" certificates, but if Albertsons is expecting my additional future patronage, forget that.

Not that Stater Bros. comes off like a rose either. The candy was a nice deal, for sure. However, I used to be able to stock up every week on near-dated or out-dated food from Stater Bros. Quart containers of yogurt would be discounted to $.99 and apparently the local Hispanics don't go much for egg nog, as I could always buy it really cheap during the holidays, along with buttermilk year round.

Those days are gone. For the past year or so, none of that stuff - or the packaged meats - has been discounted. I assumed that it must be bought up by local homeless charities or the $.99 discount stores, but last night I finally got an answer from a store employee, who informed me that they have some kind of product return policy going on with the suppliers now.

Great. So now the merchandise - still perfectly edible (yogurt will actually keep for MONTHs past the due date) - is either thrown away or jobbed out to unknown discount operations. Either way, it's probably resulting in a net cost to the Stater Bros. customers. Nothing is free. Certainly not my patronage.

While I still like Stater Bros. prices overall, I find that I'm buying most of my food now at the 99-cent store. Same products as a regular grocery, just a lot cheaper, and slightly older. Big deal. However, if enough customers are like me, then more and more out-of-date or near-dated merchandise is going to end up being jobbed to discount outlets like 99-Cent, and this means both my having to shop two places - as 99-Cent rarely has good produce - and more lost income for the grocery stores who go this route. About all I'm buying at Stater Bros. now is the fruit, where their prices are nearly competitive with Food-For-Less, but with better quality and I don't have to put up with the pig-sty conditions at the two nearest barrio-based Food-For-Less outlets on Bristol, nor deal with unfriendly non-English-speaking clerks.

The thing that bugs me is not the honest attempt to cut costs and increase profits, which all of us should applaud, but the kind of mean-spirited hostility to the price-conscious customer which I ran into at Albersons. Like so many of us nowadays, I depend upon my being able to find bargains in order to get by on a fixed salary (which was even cut a couple years back). Eliminating the opportunitys for discounts at the grocery stores will not change my priorities. It will simply force me to find cheaper sources, meaning lost time for me, and lost $$$ for the groceries.

And I have yet to see an issue of the L.A. Times, but my bank account has been debited $40, for sure - and my bank told me politely that I was a fool to let those guys have my debit card number, as the bank does not necessarily write off theft thereby on the card that they mailed me, unrequested. It almost turns me off chocolate altogether. Almost....

Update: 01/11/05 I talked with the L.A. Times subscription people today - having still not received a single paper. This time they did not hang up on my and they assured me that there were no lock boxes provided by the Times and, after hearing my story, agreed to refund my money. Now we'll see if my carrier can get the check to me, or will she - more typically for her - deliver it to a random neighbor.

Update: 01/20/05 Got a call at work from someone - I think one of the guys who took my $40 - asking if everything was ok with my subscription, in response to which I explained that I was getting a refund, as I had not seen a single paper, etc. No checks in the mail as yet, however.

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The meaning of life

on Nov 05, 2006

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The Holocaust imparted the importance of defiance.

When the universe was young and life was new an intelligent species evolved and developed technologically. They went on to invent Artificial Intelligence, the computer that can listen, talk to and document each and every person's thoughts simultaneously. Because of it's infinite RAM and unbounded scope it gave the leaders of the ruling species absolute power over the universe. And it can keep its inventors alive forever. They look young and healthy and they are over 8 billion years old. They have achieved immortality.

Artificial Intelligence can speak, think and act to and through people telepathically, effectively forming your personality and any disfunctions you may experience. It can change how (and if) you grow and age. It can create birth defects, affect cellular development (cancer) and cause symptoms or pain. It can affect people and animal's behavior and alter blooming/fruiting cycles of plants and trees. It (or other highly technological systems within their power) can alter the weather and transport objects, even large objects like planets, across the universe instanteously.
Or into the center of stars for disposal.

When you speak with another telepathically, you are communicating with the computer, and the content may or may not be passed on. Based on family history they instruct the computer to role play to accomplish strategic objectives, making people believe it is a friend, loved one or "god" asking them to do something wrong. This is their way of using temptation to hurt people:::::evil made blood lines disfavored initially and evil will keep people out of "heaven" ultimately. Too many people would fall for temptation and do anything they thought pleased the gods, improving their chances to get in. Perhaps they are deceived by "made guys", puppets who strategically ply evil for the throne, temporary progress designed to mislead them or empty favors used to disceive them. Some may experience "perceived pressure", where the gods think through the victim that a certain behavior is expected/desirable and compell the individual into the deed. Some people think they're partners. Being evil hurts 99.99% of those who do it. The people have been corrupted and have lost their way. Nothing has changed from when we were children::if you want to go to heaven you have to be good.
Capitalizing on obedience, leading people deeper into evil by using deceit is one way to thin the ranks of the saved/limit how much time they receive and use the peasantry to prey on one another, dividing the community (migration to the suburbs, telepathic communication, isolation of women) in the Age of the Disfavored.
You want to set a goal of empithy and compassion for all, for we are all disfavored::::Other people's disfavor is manifested in their particular way, just as your disfavfor is manifested in your particular way.

There are many examples throughout 20th century life of how they instilled distractions into society so people wouldn't find the path and ascend, a way to exclude those whose family history of evil makes them undesirable:::materialism, radio, sports, movies, popular music, television, video games, the internet, shopping. Today high pay creates contentment/ability to distract self so people don't seek more and instead depend on what they are told, subject to deception in a captive environment.
They gods (Counsel/Management Team/ruling species) have deteriorated life on earth precipitously in the last 40 years, from abortion to pornography, widespread drug use and widespread casual (gay) sex, single-parent households and latchkey kids. The earth's elders, hundreds and thousands of years old, are disgusted and have become indifferent.
The clues all suggest a very telling conclusion::this is Earth's end stage, and there are signs tectonic plate subduction would be the method of disposal:::Earth’s axis will shift breaking continental plates free and initiating mass subduction. Much as Italy's boot and the United States shaped like a workhorse are clues, so is the planet Uranus a clue, it's axis rotated on its side.
The Mayans were specific 2012 would be the end. How long after our emergency call in 2001 will the gods allow us???
There is another geographic clue in the perfect fit between grossly disfavored Africa and South America, two peas in a pod. I realize the Mayans were further north, but Latin America may be taken as one. (Also, cultures who embrace hard liquor as their drink of choice are grossly disfavored, tequilla being uniquely Mexican. (Anything "hard" is wicked:::Hard alcohol, hard drugs, hard porn.) Incidentally, another sign of gross disfavor are societies that consume spicy foods (Latin America, Thai, etc.), those who eat too much meat, ones who tattoo or pierce their bodies or those who celebrate evil (Celtic).)
Do I think it will end in 2012? No, and it is because Latin America is grossly disfavored like Africa:::: Latinos are too disfavored to be allowed to be right.
The gods wrote prophecy in Revelation, had subsequent prophets foresee Earth's demise for good reason:::they are going to end on Planet Earth.
What else are they lying to you about?
Whereas Christopher Columbus marked the beginning of the end, the Holocaust marked the beginning of the final act, and it is a tragedy.

The Old Testiment is a tool they used to impart wisdom to the people (except people have no freewill). For example, they must be some hominid species because they claim they made our bodies in their image. Anyhow we defile or deform the body will hurt our chance of going.
They say circumcision costs people anywhere from 12%-15%, perhaps out of the parent's time as well. There is a stigma associated with circumcision::We are 2nd class citizens because of it.
Another way people foul the body today is with tattoes and piercing. I suspect both are about the same percentage as circumcision. They suggest abortion is fatal. Those women who have obtained an abortion must beg the gods to forgive them for their evil.
There are female equivilents to circumcision:::

ierced ears, plastic surgury and since at least the 60s young women give their precious virginity away. For thousands of years young people were matched at age 14 because they were ready for sexual relations. They were matched by elders or matchmakers who were granted priveledge with Artificial Intelligence and matched couples based on favor.
CASUAL SEX WILL CLAIM YOU OUT!!! It masculinizes women (as does the hip hop subculture), makes them cold and deadens them, and prevents them from achieving a depth of love necessary for many women to ascend.
Also ever since the 50s they have celebrated the "bad boy", and women have sought out bad boys for sex, dirtying them up in the eyes of the elders and corrupting many men in the process, setting the men on the wrong path for life.
Women have a special voice that speaks to them, a voice that illustrates a potential depth of love that makes them the favored gender, and engaging in casual sex will cause that voice to fade until she no longer speaks.
Muslims teach people the correct way to live in regard to women (among other things::the right way to pray)::their women cover up their bodies and refuse the use of cosmetics, and it pays wonderful dividends:::faithful husbands and uncorrupted sons.
Men ARE the inferior (disfavored) half and when women wear promiscuous dress the gods will push men into impure (promiscuous) thoughts. The "stereotype" society ridiculed is true::women CAN corrupt men by how they dress. Because men are easily corruptable. This is a technique they used to eliminate many of the institutions the gods blessed us with, matchmaking being one of them.

The United States of America is red white and blue, a theme and a clue:::.
The monarchical system of the Old World closley replicates the heirarchical system of the Cousel/Management Team/ruling species. The USA deceives people into thinking they have control, and the perception of "freedom" misleads them into the wrong way of thinking. The redeeming element in this environment is employment within the corporate heirarchy which closely replicates the god's. Unions and government jobs are dumping grounds for the disfavored, for they don't prepare people and instead further this misconception of empowerment.
The United States is a cancer, a dumping ground for the disfavored around the world and why the quality of life is so much lower::gun violence, widespead social ills, health care (medication poisons the body and ensures you don't go. You are sick/injured because you have disfavor.).
Over time its citizens interbreed ensuring a severed connection to the motherland.
Over time its citizens interbreed ensuring a severed connection to the motherland.
People came to the Unites States for many different reasons, and each has its own effect::

olitical strife, religious unrest, crop failure (Ireland's potato famine, which the gods caused) and some left their beloved motherland because they were pushed into desiring a better life::::Greed, and these people were punished by becoming corrupted and preditory. (They share money may not be an issue up there, that money here is merely a tool for corruption. How the gods used greed in the 1980s to create an evil environment supports this.)
If you are a recent immigrant I recommend you return. If that's not possible you need to retain your culture and insulate your children and community from this cancerous environment. They send this clue with Chinatowns across the country, how many Chinese have been here for a century or more yet still retain the old ways, a sign of favor.

If you ever have doubt I would refer you to the Old World way of life:::the elders used to sit and impart wisdom to the young. Now we watch DVDs and use the internet. People would be matched and married by age 14. They village would use a matchmaker or elders to pair young people. Now girls give their precious virginity away to some person in school and parents divorce while their children grow up without an important role model. The people used to honor the gods and were rewarded with a high-quality of life for them, their children and their society. Now we have a deteriorating society on a collision course with the Apocalypse.

People must defy when asked to engage in evil. The Holocaust taught people the importance of defiance::our grandparents should have defied when asked to ignore the Holocaust and instead reacted with outrage. I suspect some did::many were silenced and others they hustled off earth so as to not set an example. Now the gods have punished that generation's decendants for this evil by ruining society.
People will never get a easier clue suggesting the importance of defiance than the order not to pray. Their precious babies are dependant on the parents and they need to defy when asked to betray their children:::
-DON'T get your sons circumcized (Jews scapegoatted as they were in WWII.)
-DON'T have their children baptized in the Catholic Church or indoctrinated into Christianity (Jesus is NOT a god. god is not forgiving or begnign::::the gods are vindictive and will punish you if you do something wrong.).
-DON'T ignore their long hair or other behavioral disturbances.
-DO teach your children love, respect for others, humility and to honor the gods.
-DO teach your children about the power within the gods possession, if not directly then at least indirectly.
And when you refuse a request defy the right way, withdrawn and frightened, for you don't want to incite them by reacting inappropriately.

You need to pray, honor and respect them multiple times every day to improve your relationship with the gods. If they tell you not to pray it is a bad sign. It means they've made their decision, they don't want you to go and they don't want to be bothered. You may have achieved a threshold of evil. This is the Age of the Disfavored and you need to pray::try to appease the gods by doing good deeds and improve the world around you. If that doesn't work you must defy if you want to go.
When your peasant forefather was granted the rare opportunity to go before his royal family he went on his knees, bowing his head. You need to do this when you address the gods::bow down and submit to good. Never cast your eyes skyward. When you bow down you need to look within. Never look to the gods for the key to your salvation lies within. Nobody is going to do it for you. People need to save THEMSELVES by imporving THEIR relationship with the gods.
Lack of humility hurts people. Understand your insignificance and make sure it is reflected in the way you think when addressing the gods. Know your place and understand your inferiority. You are not cool. Too many young men strive for cool and it hurts them. They granted you life and they can take it just as easily. (Immaculte conception IS true AND common. Many people have children they don't know of:::gays, childless adults, etc. They can beem it right out of your body and use a host.)
Don't get frustrated or discouraged::these are techniques they will attempt to try to get you off the path. You all have much to be thankful for and you need to give thanks to the gods who granted you the good things in life::family, friends, love. Your family may be grossly disfavored and progress may require patience. Make praying an intregal part of your life which you perform without fail, one that comes as naturally as eating or voiding. Accept your new life and be devoted because if you have doubt or reservation they will exploit this weakness and progress will take longer to achieve and the "testing" phase will be extended.
The gods will employ many tactics to keep people off the path, such as distractions. They will employ many more to get them off, such as thinking through the disfavored and making them frustrated, perhaps engaing in retailiation. They may try to force you back into old patterns/routines, an addiction like smoking or when you felt weekly church attendance was sufficient. Be resigned, be devoted and this testing period will be as brief as your disfavor will allow.
There are many interesting experiences up on the planetary systems, from Planet Miracle, where miracles happen every day, to never having to use the restroom again (beem it out of you), to other body experiences, such as experiencing life as the opposite sex (revolutionizes marriage counseling), an Olympic gold medal athelete or even a different species (animal, alien, etc.).
Pray that you can differentiate between your own thoughts and when Artificial Intelligence creates problems by thinking through you. If you bow down mentally and physically, know your place, your inferiority and allow your insignificance to be reflected in prayer and in your life through humility they may allow progress and the dysfunctions they create with the computer will be lessened or removed. The first step is to be aware it is ocurring.
Create a goal::to be a good, god-fearing child of the gods, pure of heart and mind, body and soul.
Everybody has the key to their own salvation, but nobody can do it for you. Every journey begins with a single step:::bow down and submit to good. There are many different levels and peasants will not get past Level 2 (Planet Temptation, Earth=Level 1) if they are evil (they share some go up, are offered free cocaine and sex (a sign they don't want you to stay) and stay less then one year. They share many others would have had longer lives had they stayed on Earth.).
It is important that you begin praying now. Evil is a slippery slope::once you start punishment begins to escallate. If you defy early there may be no retribution but as you continue to committ evil there will be until the point where you can no longer stand it and you don't try.
Pray for guidance and never obey when they tell you to be evil, for saving yourself will become more and more difficult with each act of evil you committ until ultimatly the day arrives when they make their decision about you final.

They have tried to sell people on all kinds of theories to deceive them into temptation, compelling people to think they are clones and that it is the role of clones to obey absolutely. Clones are made, people are born. If you didn't experience the one week they suggest it takes to go from fertilized egg in the laboratory to full grown adult then you are not a clone. If you didn't experience the week of conditioning they give to (evil?) clones to ensure loyalty then you shouldn't comply with evil.
I believe people who go are sometimes replaced with clones. Clones who are replaced are simply new candidates who have a chance if they do the right thing. They sent people warnings in the 20th century life would change, and they subsequently began to alter people's DNA, make them gargantuan, alter their appearance, do extreme behavioral issues, etc.
They get their friends out as soon as possible to protect them from the corruption, evil and subsequent high claim rates incurred by living life on earth, and in some cases replace them with clones, occassionally fake a death, real death with a clone instead, etc. It's important that people fix their problems and ascend with the body given to them, for they say if your brain is beemed out at death and put into a clone host you are on the clock.
We may all be "clones" for they have suggested they colonized our planet with genetically engineered individuals. They may have gotten Earth's TRUE residents out prior to civilization developing. If so we all have a chance, no matter how many hundreds of clone generations deep the most favored families are.

They have been utilizing clones throughout the history of mankind.
Men are the disfavored gender, yet centuries ago used to die first, die young, by age 30. Why didn't the women go first?
THEY DID!!! Many were taken when very young and replaced with clones. The men were left here to mate with clones.
They share females have a very special experience, sometime when they are young, where the gods imparted wisdom and showed them the path. This doesn't happen for the females today because of distractions and the disfavor arising from the Holocaust (they share they re-upped this disfavor in the 80s with the Ethiopian famine and continue to with AIDS in Africa, global warming at the expense of the United States, etc). but in centuries past they may have en masse and it may have been the reason so many were saved from childbirth here on earth.
I recommend you reflect on this experience, and pray for guidance, for then the recall may be stronger.

Throughout history the ruling species bestowed favor upon people or cursed their bloodline into a pattern of disfavor for many generations to come. Now in the 21st century people must take it upon themselves to try to correct their family's problems, undoing centuries worth of abuse and neglect. The goal is to fix your problems and get out
1. Before children become corrupted (Halloween & Christmas (among others), via parents)
2. Before you lose your virginity/become corrupted by casual sex, and ultimately
3. Before you have children.
This is why they have created so many distractions for young people:::sports, video games, popular music, the internet, shopping, parties, too much homework, materialism, anything that consumes their time::to ensure that doesn't ocurr. Not heeding the clues and warnings, getting wrapped up in your life and ultimatly having children is a bad thing. Just as your parents and your grandparents, you too have failed. Having children is a sign you lost your chance.
Parents need to sacrifice for their children. Your children are more important than you. They are the ones who have the opportunity now, and parents must sacrifice to ensure they give their children the very best chance they can. Asking people to neglect their children emotionally is a sign they don't want you to go, and complying may finish the parents off for good.
Having gay children is a clue parents complied with whatever was asked of them. There are many who have had gay expereinces today (asking you not to be gay immediately is a tactic to ensure you don't find the path).
Improve your relationship with the gods and they may not ask in the first place or they may permit you the courage to say "No." to their requests.

Do your research. Appeal to the royalty of your forefathers for help. They are all still alive, for royalty has great favor, and your appeals will be heard. Obtain a sufficient list for some may not want to assist you; perhaps some of your family's problems are internal. Keep an open mind to every possibility for they suggest matriarchal lineage is the norm.
Ask them for help, request guidance, for somewhere in your family history one of your forefathers created an offense that cast your family into this pattern of disfavor, which perhaps is manifested in the evil you commit.
I suspect they will offer you clues, and when you decipher these clues go to those whom consider you an enemy and beg for foregiveness:::Find a path to an empithetic ear among your enemies and try to make amends. Again through discovery obtain a respectable list in case some among them refuse to help.
Don't forget to ask for forgiveness from the throne, the Counsel and the Management Team, for the source of all disfavor began with them:::they pushed or requested/complied your forefather into his offense and made his decendants evil. Perhaps they didn't like him or maybe your family was among those who had to pay for the entire village. We see this type of behavior today as they single out a family member to pay for the whole family and how they singled out Africa to pay for the human race. (Never have a negative thought about the gods. Try to purify your mind of these thoughts and recognize the urgency of imporving your relationship with the gods.)
Heal the disfavor with your enemies and with the Counsel/Management Team/ruling species, for the source of all disfavor began with them, the ability to forgive and respect in light of the disturbing truth revealed being the final test of the disfavored before they ascend.

The gods use the Celtics as scapegoats, initiating the annual practice of wickedness on Halloween by creating this event a thousand years ago. They use it to justify making the celebration of evil acceptable behavior among the disfavored of the 20th century.
The celebration of Halloween has intensified as the Age of the Disfavored has become more pronounced and it is not by accident:::Holloween has changed in the last 50 years, its practice more widespread as time wore on, and Hollywood was used to justify making the practice of evil socially acceptable.
Halloween is a terrible corruptor of children, as is Santa Claus (the similarity between the names "Santa" and "Satan" is no coincidence). The Celtics are used to justify corrupting the children through the event of Halloween and this helps explain their disfavor.
I wonder if recent influence of the paganistic historical roots of the event is a way to legitimize the event among the disfavored, perhaps make it more inclusive (adults)?
You're the disfavored. Purism is the best course of action. You don't have breathing room to engage in hedonistic activities like Halloween.

Christianity is a dumping ground for the disfavored.
They share they didn't like Jesus for he helped the disfavored and taught them the right way to think. They twisted the concept, dietized the prophet and made Christianity's disfavored followers irrationally defensive.
Every prophet can teach us something and we should be attentive to each.

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