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I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

The numbers call tonight 503-225-0-860. That's 503-2-2-5-0860.

That's 503-2-2-2-5-0-8-60.

I'll bet you go through your day.

You don't even think about how narratives play a role in how you plan your day.

By the weather report, the news report, the traffic report, whether or not the kids need to go to

school, you need to take them to school.

I mean, it's words and phrases that you resonate with.

I love you or help me or, I mean, narratives are crucial to our existence.

They can be political, they can be religious, they can be raised in the court of public opinion

or relegated to propaganda, capable of mesmerizing and changing the way you think.

Some say that the way narratives are being used now are the same way narratives

would be used by shaman and magicians to cast spells on unsuspecting marks. Narratives are hidden

in songs, repetition of a chorus, rap music, literature.

They can be used as triggers, as powerful as a magician calling out a braxus saying abracadabra.

Now, the old alchemist would say that men and women, indeed, become strange when they participate

in magic, when they find words and sentences, men as spells to be indistinguishable from prayer.

See, curses are the anti-prayer. Curses are prayers as well as curse of his reverse, saying prayers in reverse, saying mass in reverse is satanic.

That's why we have to point out that men and women act more peculiar when seeking devils.

The narratives they invest or the narratives they create have all the sinister charm of something uttered by Bella Legosi in an Ed Wood film.

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