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“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy then is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you’re getting this down.” ~ Woody Allen

broken wall 

Bid to gain pardons for ‘witches’ 

It is thought some 4,000 people, mainly women, were prosecuted and often put to death for witchcraft.

The last Witchcraft Act conviction was in 1944 when Scottish medium Helen Duncan was imprisoned for allegedly disclosing World War II secrets.

She told a seance a warship had sunk before the news had been released.

If you predicted that a ship was sunk in 1944 your prediction was bound to come true. Duncan might well have been insulted that some people are claiming that its ridiculous to call her a witch and having the powers that one presumes go along with being a witch. So in a strange way pardoning her does an injustice to what she believed herself to be. Government bodies on the other hand have no business promoting witchcraft as a serious phenomenon worthy of prosecution on behalf of the people.