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ANTI-AGING INFESTATION
Are we really this desperate?
-a magic $10 drinking straw says YES
"Anti-Aging Infestation"
Ezra Yates, Tradition Editor
"Anti-Aging Infestation"
Ezra Yates, Tradition Editor
Don’t smile like that!
Do you want wrinkles at 20?
If you’ve heard this kind of thing-- you may be familiar with the influencers with fears of natural aging who tell you to buy some new straws to fix those lines on your face.
It is no secret that many online users are way under the age they claim to be on select platforms, most notably Tiktok. Recently, this once dance centered app has become a hotspot for projecting insecurities on unsuspecting users. These beauty related trends quickly become annoying, with every new trend making you insecure about something you once did not even know existed. Even as these trends get recycled over and over again, users still seem just as susceptible to it every single time, rushing to post a video asking strangers on the internet what they think about their looks. To many people, this is extremely strange and foreign.
There have always been and always will be trends based around what is deemed attractive to the majority. This practice dates all the way back to ancient times when people still wrote about the gods that gave us lightning and fire. But it would not be surprising if you looked at what was deemed beautiful back then and believed otherwise, and that would be widely agreed upon. However, the problem arises when those trends last maybe a few months or a year at most because of the fast moving pace of social media.
So why is it natural aging that today's so-called influencers are telling you to be insecure about?
The answer to that is money.
Whether a brand deal or a drop-shipped product, these media personas intend on making you care about your eventual wrinkles so much that you waste your hard earned cash on a straw bent sideways. These users may also convince you to stop smiling or raising your eyebrows as well, (I know, right?)
Another big question, why does this work so well? The answer to that is not as simple. For as long as many people, especially women and girls, can remember, there has always been a push to look or act a certain way for others around them. Because of how many girls are raised this way, it can make them much more insecure about how they look compared to a boy. Because this rhetoric begins at such a young age, young girls on the internet as young as 5 have begun posting their makeup hauls and ‘get ready with me(s)’ for the entire world to see. Which becomes very detrimental to them in their later years, not only because their young faces are permanently on the web, but also because they may realize that these “anti aging” products did more harm to their young faces than good.
And that's what really gives this writer wrinkles.
Sabrina Scandal! Rising popstar presents a lesson in controversy
"Sabrina Scandal"
Jaylecia Turner, Tradition Reporter
"Sabrina Scandal"
Jaylecia Turner, Tradition Reporter
This rising popstar has certainly had her ups and downs in her journey to stardom, but nonetheless was able to recover from the controversies surrounding her, surpassing even those who caused the controversy. Most of us know Sabrina Carpenter from our childhoods. Before she was a singer, she was a Disney star child actress starring in popular hits “Girl Meets World" and “Adventures In Babysitting”.
Sabrina first began singing at the age of 10 mostly posting videos of herself on Youtube performing covers of Adele and Christina Aguilara songs. In 2014, she would go on to release her hit single “Can’t Blame A Girl For Trying” followed by her 2015 debut album “Eyes Wide Open” which debuted at number 43 on Billboard 200.
Sabrina began to hit it big in her singing career when she released her song “Almost Love” on June 6, 2018. Sabrina would go on to keep writing her songs and staying out of drama, until another childhood Disney star lots of us know and love would release an album titled "Sour".
In this album Olivia Rodrigo would Express her feelings about her breakup with her boyfriend of 2 years, Joshua Bassett. Their love is said to have blossomed on the set of “High school musical: The Musical” and so their relationship began from 2019 to 2020. Olivia’s album “Sour” is speculated to have been not only about her and Joshua but even some things involving Sabrina. The album hints at his infidelity and constant building tension with Sabrina near the ending of their relationship...
Yes, the CIA Had a Secret Meditation Workbook.
Here's the basic idea. Do with it what you want.
Declassified in 2003: “The Gateway Intermediate Workbook”. Now you can buy it on Amazon.com.
Photo above "courtesy" of Amazon.com.
"Yes, the CIA Had a Secret Meditation Workbook"
Jaylecia Turner, Tradition Reporter
"Yes, the CIA Had a Secret Meditation Workbook"
Jaylecia Turner, Tradition Reporter
Imagine stumbling upon a collection of documents that hint at remarkable possibilities just beyond our everyday reality. In 2003, the CIA released a series of files, including one intriguing section titled “The Gateway Intermediate Workbook.”
The workbook delves into the untapped potential of the human mind, exploring ideas about psychic abilities and their potential uses in our daily lives. What’s waiting on these pages that might change our understanding of what we’re really capable of?
In the late 70’s and early 80’s, the CIA was very interested in studying the psychic abilities of the human mind, here are some quotes/excerpts from the document:
“To reduce emotional charge - close your eyes, inhale deeply, hold your breath for a moment, then think of the calming cleansing color green. When you do this exhale slowly, and the green energy will push all excess harmful emotional charges away. Down through your physical system and out through the soles of your feet.”
Colors are frequencies and often correspond with energy. Energy is everything when it comes to things like this, as well as visualization and colors as well. For example, the colors orange/yellow are often associated with vibrant happiness or sunshine, the color white often represents purity or innocence. The color green represents many different things, some of which being nature, relaxation, concentration, and regeneration. Which is why it is suggested in this document to visualize the color green when you are getting ready to exhale and feel the color within you (energy) and when you finally exhale, visualizing the negative emotions leaving your body, you should be able to feel this.
“How to receive new, fresh, energy for your total system - close your eyes, extend your hands outward, palms up. Then inhale deeply and hold for a moment. Think of radiant pure white energy focused from above and centering down upon the palm of your hands then flowing up through your arms and spreading throughout your total self. Exhale.”
As the color white is associated with purity and in this case beginnings, when the instructions say “extend your hands outward” they do not mean reach out as if you are trying to stretch or grab something. Just simply hold your hands out as if you are meditating or holding 2 apples. Visualize the color white above your head when you inhale and see it floating down into the palm of your hand. Your hands should feel warm from the energy. Continue to visualize this growing bigger spreading throughout your body.
“To remember - to remember any part of your life experience, close your eyes, and touch softly the fingers of your right hand to the center of your forehead. When you do this you recall and remember immediately that which you consciously desire.”
This one in particular is more difficult, I assume it would not work on the first try at all if you are attempting to remember something from very early stages of your life unless you can get into a really deep meditation session and genuinely focus on what the instructions are asking. Close your eyes, take your right hand and place your index and middle finger between your eyebrows right in the center and think about what it is you are trying to remember until the memory comes back to you.
Now of course some of these may not won't work on the first try. It takes focus, intention, dedication, and sometimes even meditation.
But through a deeper dive into these documents they go on to explain experiments that they have done on people, and through meditation. It talks about how to shut down the left side of your brain and send signals to your right side. To create whatever it is that you could get your right side to receive or understand.
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