Author: sashen
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Sprinting to Enlightenment
I was recently asked why I haven’t done much with the Anti-Guru blog lately. My answer was, “I think I’ve said everything… at least twice.” I’m not that interested in beating the same horse, dead or alive, over and over, repeatedly, time and time again, ad nauseum, once more. So, it’s a rare occurrence that…
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Once more, with barely any feeling
I just realized I’ve been overlooking the most blatant example of bad thinking I could possibly hope to find. It’s been right under my nose and, in the past, on my calves and hamstrings, too. I’m talking about homeopathic arnica remedies. That’s right, in the past I applied homeopathic arnica with the expectation that it…
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You’re not intuitive, you’re lazy
Another bit of dried grass just fractured a even-toed ungulate’s spine. I may have to punch the next person who tells me they’re “intuitive.” (Of course, if they’re really intuitive, they should be able to see it coming and avoid the blow… but I’m willing to bet there’s a contusion coming.) Why so anti-intuitive, Steven?…
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Now this really bugs me
First of all, another comment that my lack of blogging results from: Getting a bit tired of rehashing the same themes (there are only so many ways that thinking goes awry in the New Age and “spiritual” world, really) Being busy with things like Invisible Shoes running sandals Nothing spinning in my head loudly enough…
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Homicidal Homeopaths!
I’ve had it with homeopaths. The one group of people who could fix all the world’s problems, but, do they? Noooooooooo. How dare they hoard their knowledge and mastery over the world in exchange for the selfish act of earning a living and supporting their families? Look, I like being able to pay the rent…
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98-pound positive thinking weaklings
I’m confused. If positive thinking is supposed to be so powerful that it can bend the molecules of the universe to its will, magnetize money, eradicate disease, overpower anyone else who wants the same thing you do, and otherwise exert more control over the external world than all other forces combined… Then why is it…
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Oh, and let’s be prepared for 12/22/2012
Keeping the theme from my post about creationists co-opting reality to support their beliefs, let’s quickly visit the 12/21/2012 gang. Here’s my prediction about that upcoming non-event. Unless the upcoming movie 2012 is a documentary made in the future and sent back through a wormhole (or put in the mailbox shared by Sandra Bullock and…
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Add this to my 11 year history of alien abduction
Must be something I ate, ’cause I’m still on a writin’ roll (and using lot’s o’ apostrophes). I have a flyer that I got 25 years ago. It was for some transformational workshop. I can’t tell you what it was for because “have” means that it’s packed away in a box with other stuff I’ve…
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You heard it here first
Whattya know, even though it’s Fall, I found a bee in my bonnet today. Actually, I’m writing this post just so I have the ammunition later to say, “I told you so.” I was thinking about how proponents of Intelligent Design (a.k.a. creationism, a.k.a. religious fiction), like to look down their nose and say, “Nobody…
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The Confidence Con Game
Personal note: You may have noticed that the frequency of my posting has diminished quite a bit. In part that’s because I started this blog to have a way to get out of my head the various rants that make appearances while I’m in the hot tub or in the car. And, I’ve gotten a…
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I couldn’t care less. Really. I tried.
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, this video must be worth 1,000,000… each one better than what I could have come up with, so here it is: I’d like to hear a Homeopathic doctor on the witness stand for malpractice: “What do you expect?! I did as little as I could do!”
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Sitting in a room all alone
For years, I’ve had a fantasy about being able to write a SHORT blog post. Well, today is that day! I just saw an ad for a Law of Attraction workshop, and all I could think was: If the LOA REALLY worked, then why would the guy need to advertise? If he REALLY believed in…
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Spiritual Schmiritual
So, in my last post, I mentioned my desire to be so divorced from all things spiritual and personal development-ish, that I couldn’t even be called a critic. But before I could do that, I need to know the terrain I’m leaving. After all, if I want to get out of the game, I need…
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Do what you love and the money WON’T follow
Before I launch into whatever it is I’m about to say, a quick personal note: Been a while since I posted… lately, I’ve been feeling that I’ve said everything I really want to say, that to post more would be getting a job at the Department of Redundancy Department. And, more interesting (to me) is…
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Mantra power from Sweden
I was just remembering a scene from Ram Das’ Be Here Now. I don’t know if I’ve remembered it correctly since I haven’t read the book in over 20 years. I think most people who quote the title of that book as if it were a prescription for living haven’t read it… but that’s besides…