Shopping: Be Wary

Written by Ken McIsaac


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Working withinrepparttar law or self styled guidelines is not good enough, retailers must use strategies that are morally good. An old retailing axiom used to be ‘The customer is always right’. From what I have perceived, ‘The customer is always ripe for picking’ often seems more appropriate.

Unfortunately it does not help a great deal to complain torepparttar 130044 corporations asrepparttar 130045 processes are deeply rooted and are not there by accident. 'We aren't breaking any laws', or 'We strictly conform to guidelines set out by our association', are typical responses I have received.

But we must complain, to governments, consumer associations and everyone who will listen, or we will be unable to blame anyone when all truth is gone fromrepparttar 130046 marketplace.

© Ken McIsaac is author of www.32keys.com a free online book about life. He is also concerned about marketing and consumerism at www.axiom.ws/unethical/


Impractical Magic

Written by Sam Stevens


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Also there's nothing more embarassing than having some kind of love talisman, like a potato carved inrepparttar likeness of your lover and stuck with pins, fall out of your purse in front of him and to have to explain that. Also, many spells that you find in self-help witch craft books onrepparttar 130042 market such as those by Scott Cunningham, Anna Riva and The Supermarket Sorceress often ask you to create some really disgusting object, like a melon filled with raw liver or an orange stuck with needles and cloves and hide it in your house for a full cycle of a moon. No wonder witches houses often smell -- they've got all this rotting food lying aroundrepparttar 130043 house.

Of course,repparttar 130044 main reason witchcraft is so impractical is that people tend to ignorerepparttar 130045 3X3X3 rule: whatever you wish upon another will come back on you three fold. This of course does not jive with human nature and I don't know a single witch, who didn't just once, wish something bad on someone else while thinking "It's O.K. Whatever comes back I can take it."

The next thing you know you're spending all your free time, trying to reverse and fix curses that you have sent to others that have rebounded on you threefold. Not too practical! Just like in that movie Practical Magic whererepparttar 130046 Nicole Kidman character manifests a lover and ends up with a rapist. If witchcraft could be practiced with a certain Zen detachment instead of a desire for control, I guess we'd probably haverepparttar 130047 perfect religion. Inrepparttar 130048 meantime, watch out for dangerous amateur magicians.

Finally, I am Queen of My Domain!

Sam Steven's metaphysical articles have been published in many high-standing newspapers and she has published several books. You can meet Sam Stevens at http://www.psychicrealm.com where she works as a professional psychic. You can also read more of her articles at http://www.newagenotebook.com where she is the staff writer. Currently she is studying technology's impact on the metaphysics.


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